The Power of Intention Part 7 of 10: Directing Your Inner Voice
March 10, 2009 by dr. lam · 8 Comments
An obstacle to intention is any manifest conflict that exists with our internal dialogue. Dyer likens this to the old Match Game in which newlyweds would try to guess what his/her partner thought or felt on a particular subject. We need to match our intention with our goal. As examples:
No Match: I hate my spouse who always acts rudely to me.
Match: I will see only love in my spouse and radiate that love to him or her.
No Match: I am poor and need money badly.
Match: I will attract abundance and be without want.
If our inner dialogue is filled with doubt, anger, despair, fear, we are holding onto a deep level of negativity that we need to let go so that we can be attuned to the universal condition of positive intention. We must achieve a peaceful inner voice and one that attracts abundance, love, creativity, i.e., in short the 7 faces of intention talked about over the past 2 weeks.
One way that Dyer talks about reaching a desirable inner voice is to meditate. We can start with the affirmation, “I want to feel good” and say it as we slowly breathe in and out and with our eyes fully closed. I have calmed nervous patients with a similar technique. I had a gentleman who came from Michigan for a scar revision and a lip reduction last week who was flustered and nervous given the fact that he had bad permanent lip injections and repeated scar revisions that failed. I don’t blame him. I put my hands onto his forehead and slowly spoke the words, “You are okay. I am right here. I want you to slow your breathing down and start to focus on the present moment.” I performed an exercise and asked where he wanted to be. He said the Maldives so we went there for a few minutes. When I came back into the room after the anesthetic had been fully in place, I asked him how he was doing. By the tone of his voice, I could tell he was already calm. He said, “I’m doing fine, doctor.”
Calm your inner voice. Feel your peace now. Exit your anxiety. Focus on abundance, love, creativity, and gratitude. Focus on where your spirit will take you. Focus on directing that inner dialogue toward a future that is bright and calm and, of course, a present time that is equally so. If you have 5 minutes right now, close your eyes and start to breathe slowly and deeply and focus on the Power of Now. Focus on gratitude and abundance. Focus on peace.