The 7 Faces of the Power of Intention

1. Be Creative
The first face of intention is creativity. Creativity is essential to living an intentional life because it allows you to begin to see connections and opportunities that you were not conscious of before.

The face of creativity intends you toward continued creativity to create and co-create anything that you direct your power of intention toward.  Creative energy is a part of you; it originates in the life-giving Spirit that intends you.

The universe does not work in a linear, logical manner. Synchronicity will emerge from unexpected and seemingly ‘random’ places, when you are prepared for it. By training yourself to become more creative, and allowing your natural expression to flow forth, you can begin to tap into more of this energy.

2. Be Kind
Kindness and compassion are cornerstones of any true spiritual practice. Being kind in all circumstances requires you to gain a higher perspective and begin to see the world from another’s point of view.

Choosing to be kind is a choice to have the power of intention active in your life. Imagine this!  Kindness extended, received, or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved!

When you are kind, you emit a radiant, positive energy, and let the universe know that peace and well-being are important to you. This sets your intention and clears the way for the manifestation of more positive experiences in your life.

3. Be Love
Love is a quality that you create for yourself. When you emit a vibration of love, you prepare to receive more of that same energy from those around you. In other words, when it comes to love, you get what you give.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it:  ‘Love is our highest word and the synonym for God.’ If you aren’t doing what you love and loving what you do, your power of intention is weakened.  You attract into your life more of the dissatisfaction that isn’t the face of love.” He also quotes St. Francis: “‘Where there is hatred, let me sow love.’  What he is saying is the power to dissolve and ultimately convert hate into the energy of love.”

Dyer writes that you were intended from a state of a love, which is why you must love in order to create intentions for yourself, and that the key to doing this is to focus on a spirit of loving cooperation, rather than competition over others.

4. Be Beauty
Beauty is everywhere around you. It doesn’t matter whether you are at the beach, on a mountainside, or staring at an urban construction site: if you look for it, you will find beauty.

Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul.  As you become receptive to seeing and feeling beauty around you, you’re becoming attuned to the creative power of intention within everything in the natural world, including yourself.

Learning to appreciate this beauty everywhere is an essential aspect of awakening into your divine nature, and as you begin to see it even in unexpected moments, it will become more and more prevalent for you, forming a stronger and stronger part of your vibration.

5. Be Ever-Expansive
The key to intention is to balance an appreciation for the joy, beauty, and abundance that is already before you with a desire to continue to grow and expand.

The power of intention is the power to expand and increase all aspects of your life.  No exceptions!  It’s the nature of intention to be in a state of increased expression, so it’s true for you, too.

Wherever you are, at whatever stage in your growth you may be (whether physical, intellectual, material, or spiritual) there will always be more you can desire of yourself. Learning to create these desires and expand joyfully, without invalidating where you are right now, is a powerful practice.

6. Be Abundant
We live in an abundant, thriving universe. At the core of your being, you are, in essence, part of an infinite field of energy. This energy births you and everything in your world and, since you are a part of this energy, you can tap into it to create anything you choose for yourself.

You don’t have to have an intellectual understanding.  It’s enough to silently know and proceed to live with your awareness of this face of endless abundance.

We restrict ourselves when we think of abundance only in terms of money. In truth, it is everywhere, from the leaves on the trees around you, to the love you can feel for others. Become attuned to this abundance, and you will attract more of it – in all forms – into your life.


7. Be Receptive
Lastly, Dyer writes that the key to receiving your intention is to become more receptive to it. When we try to outline specific ways in which our desires will unfold, we limit ourselves, and often miss the very unfolding we seek.

Receptivity enables you to remain curious, excited, and open about your desires, so you can experience them more fully.

You must not only become receptive to having guidance available to you to manifest your human intentions, but you must be receptive to giving this energy back to the world


References: 

The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way - Dr Wayne Dyer

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19793.The_Power_of_Intention

https://thejoywithin.org/authors/wayne-dyer/the-7-faces-of-intention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ddZl6ONWQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnbBXGXrEBY

Six Ego Beliefs

Ego is made of six primary ingredients that account for how we experience ourselves as disconnected.  By allowing ego to determine your life path, you deactivate the power of intention.

These six ego beliefs are:

1. I am what I have.  My possessions define me.
2. I am what I do.  My achievements define me.
3. I am what others think of me.  My reputation defines me.
4. I am separate from everyone.  My body defines me as alone.
5. I am separate from all that is missing in my life.  My life space is disconnected from my desires.
6. I am separate from God.  My life depends on God’s assessment of my worthiness.

References: 

The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way - Dr Wayne Dyer

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19793.The_Power_of_Intention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ddZl6ONWQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnbBXGXrEBY

Seven steps for overcoming Ego's hold on you

Here are seven suggestions to help you transcend ingrained ideas of self-importance. All of these are designed to help prevent you from falsely identifying with the self-important ego.

1. Stop being offended.

The behavior of others isn’t a reason to be immobilized. That which offends you only weakens you. If you’re looking for occasions to be offended, you’ll find them at every turn. This is your ego at work convincing you that the world shouldn't be the way it is. But you can become an appreciator of life and match up with the universal Spirit of Creation. You can’t reach the power of intention by being offended. By all means, act to eradicate the horrors of the world, which emanate from massive ego identification, but stay in peace. As A Course in Miracles reminds us: Peace is of God, you who are part of God are not at home except in his peace. Being is of God, you who are part of God are not at home except in his peace. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place and leads to attack, counterattack, and war.

2. Let go of your need to win.

Ego loves to divide us up into winners and losers. The pursuit of winning is a surefire means to avoid conscious contact with intention. Why? Because ultimately, winning is impossible all of the time. Someone out there will be faster, luckier, younger, stronger, and smarter-and back you’ll go to feeling worthless and insignificant.

You’re not your winnings or your victories. You may enjoy competing, and have fun in a world where winning is everything, but you don’t have to be there in your thoughts. There are no losers in a world where we all share the same energy source. All you can say on a given day is that you performed at a certain level in comparison to the levels of others on that day. But today is another day, with other competitors and new circumstances to consider. You’re still the infinite presence in a body that’s another day (or decade) older. Let go of needing to win by not agreeing that the opposite of winning is losing. That’s ego’s fear. If your body isn’t performing in a winning fashion on this day, it simply doesn’t matter when you aren’t identifying exclusively with your ego. Be the observer, noticing and enjoying it all without needing to win a trophy. Be at peace, and match up with the energy of intention. And ironically, although you’ll hardly notice it, more of those victories will show up in your life as you pursue them less.

3. Let go of your need to be right.

Ego is the source of a lot of conflict and dissension because it pushes you in the direction of making other people wrong. When you’re hostile, you’ve disconnected from the power of intention. The creative Spirit is kind, loving, and receptive; and free of anger, resentment, or bitterness. Letting go of your need to be right in your discussions and relationships is like saying to ego, I’m not a slave to you. I want to embrace kindness, and I reject your need to be right. In fact, I’m going to offer this person a chance to feel better by saying that she’s right, and thank her for pointing me in the direction of truth.

When you let go of the need to be right, you’re able to strengthen your connection to the power of intention. But keep in mind that ego is a determined combatant. I’ve seen people end otherwise beautiful relationships by sticking to their need to be right. I urge you to let go of this ego-driven need to be right by stopping yourself in the middle of an argument and asking yourself, Do I want to be right or be happy? When you choose the happy, loving, spiritual mood, your connection to intention is strengthened. These moments ultimately expand your new connection to the power of intention. The universal Source will begin to collaborate with you in creating the life you were intended to live.

4. Let go of your need to be superior.

True nobility isn’t about being better than someone else. It’s about being better than you used to be. Stay focused on your growth, with a constant awareness that no one on this planet is any better than anyone else. We all emanate from the same creative life force. We all have a mission to realize our intended essence; all that we need to fulfill our destiny is available to us. None of this is possible when you see yourself as superior to others. It’s an old saw, but nonetheless true: we are all equal in the eyes of God. Let go of your need to feel superior by seeing the unfolding of God in everyone. Don’t assess others on the basis of their appearance, achievements, possessions, and other indices of ego. When you project feelings of superiority that’s what you get back, leading to resentments and ultimately hostile feelings. These feelings become the vehicle that takes you farther away from intention. A Course in Miracles addresses this need to be special and superior: Special ness always makes comparisons. It is established by a lack seen in another, and maintained by searching for, and keeping clear in sight, all lacks it can perceive.

5. Let go of your need to have more.

The mantra of ego is more. It’s never satisfied. No matter how much you achieve or acquire, your ego will insist that it isn’t enough. You’ll find yourself in a perpetual state of striving, and eliminate the possibility of ever arriving. Yet in reality you’ve already arrived, and how you choose to use this present moment of your life is your choice. Ironically, when you stop needing more, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life. Since you’re detached from the need for it, you find it easier to pass it along to others, because you realize how little you need in order to be satisfied and at peace.

The universal Source is content with itself, constantly expanding and creating new life, never trying to hold on to its creations for its own selfish means. It creates and lets go. As you let go of ego’s need to have more, you unify with that Source. You create, attract to yourself, and let it go, never demanding that more come your way. As an appreciator of all that shows up, you learn the powerful lesson St.Francis of Assisi taught:”…it is in giving that we receive.” By allowing abundance to flow to and through you, you match up with your Source and guarantee that this energy will continue to flow.

6. Let go of identifying yourself on the basis of your achievements.

This may be a difficult concept if you think you are your achievements. God writes all the music, God sings all the songs, God builds all the buildings, God is the source of all your achievements. I can hear your ego loudly protesting. Nevertheless, stay tuned to this idea. All emanates from Source! You and that Source are one! You’re not this body and its accomplishments. You are the observer. Notice it all; and be grateful for the abilities you’ve accumulated. But give all the credit to the power of intention, which brought you into existence and which you’re a materialized part of. The less you need to take credit for your achievements and the more connected you stay to the seven faces of intention, the more you’re free to achieve, and the more will show up for you. It’s when you attach yourself to those achievements and believe that you alone are doing all of those things that you leave the peace and the gratitude of your Source.

7. Let go of your reputation.

Your reputation is not located in you. It resides in the minds of others. Therefore, you have no control over it at all. If you speak to 30 people, you will have 30 reputations. Connecting to intention means listening to your heart and conducting yourself based on what your inner voice tells you is your purpose here. If you’re overly concerned with how you’re going to be perceived by everyone, then you’ve disconnected yourself from intention and allowed the opinions of others to guide you. This is your ego at work. It’s an illusion that stands between you and the power of intention. There’s nothing you can’t do, unless you disconnect from the power source and become convinced that your purpose is to prove to others how masterful and superior you are and spend your energy attempting to win a giant reputation among other egos. Do what you do because your inner voice always connected to and grateful to your Source-so directs you. Stay on purpose, detach from outcome, and take responsibility for what does reside in you: your character. Leave your reputation for others to debate; it has nothing to do with you. Or as a book title says: What You Think of Me Is None of My Business!


References: 

The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19793.The_Power_of_Intention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ddZl6ONWQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnbBXGXrEBY

Documentaries

1. The Game Changers - A revolutionary film on Netflix about meat, protein and strength. It's a documentary about the benefits of being vegan for athletes.

https://gamechangersmovie.com/

2. What the Health - It's a 2017 documentary film on Netflix which critiques the health impact of meat and dairy products consumption, and questions the practices of the leading health and pharmaceutical organizations. Its primary purpose is to advocate for a plant-based diet.

https://www.whatthehealthfilm.com/

3. Heal - A documentary film on Netflix that takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that by changing one's perceptions, the human body can heal itself from any dis-ease.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5239942/

https://www.healdocumentary.com/

4. The Secret - This is The Secret to everything - the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted.

English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3isjlvccc0

Hindi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btA72o0rBhE

5. Limitless - This documentary on Netflix follows eight women in India who struggle with self-confidence and society's expectations but rediscover themselves through running.

https://www.netflix.com/title/81191254

6. Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru - This documentary on Netflix profiles hugely popular motivational speaker Tony Robbins as he holds an annual seminar known as "Date With Destiny" in Boca Raton, FL. During the event, Robbins encourages attendees to confront their issues and take charge of their lives.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80102204

The types of Intelligence

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner

CATTELL-HORN’S TWO TYPES OF INTELLIGENCE
In Psychology, there are two types of intelligence, as identified by American psychologists Raymond Cattell and John Horn: fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence.

Their theory holds that an individual’s overall intelligence is a result of different skills and abilities mixing and interacting together.

Fluid intelligence
Fluid intelligence is described as the “general ability to think abstractly, reason, identify patterns, solve problems, and discern relationships”. It is something that depends mainly on one’s native ability, and not something that can be obtained or acquired through education, training, or even experience and exposure to various environmental factors.

This type of intelligence is often used when you are solving puzzles, answering riddles, or coming up with strategies to solve a particular problem. If you are a person with “street smarts”, that’s one way of saying that you have high fluid intelligence. Navigational skills, for example, means your ability to use your sense of direction, even in a city that you’ve never been to, or you’ve only visited once before.

One way to clearly identify this type of intelligence is its flexibility and how adaptive it is, in the sense that it can be applied or used in different ways, depending on the situation.

Crystallized intelligence
This type of intelligence is the opposite of fluid intelligence in the sense that it is about having knowledge and skills that are obtained through education, learning and experience. While fluid intelligence basically remains the same throughout a person’s life, crystallized intelligence can actually increase.

An example often cited is vocabulary knowledge. As you go to school every year, your vocabulary knowledge will definitely increase. Taking math exams is another example. At first, you learn about algebraic and mathematical theories.

As you take more advanced math subjects or courses, you’ll learn more about the application of those theories, until your mathematical skills crystallize.

GARDNER’S NINE TYPES OF INTELLIGENCE

Cattell and Horn’s position that there is more than one type of intelligence was affirmed a decade later when fellow American psychologist Howard Gardner introduced his Theory of Multiple Intelligences in 1983.

His theory suggests that there is more to being intelligent than simply being proficient in languages or being good in math.

Let us go over each of the nine types of intelligence identified in Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences, and try to find the one that you are best in.

Types of Intelligence

1. Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
Usually, one of the most obvious gauges used in determining whether one is intelligent or not is his logical ability or his ability to solve mathematical problems. That type of intelligence falls under this category.

This type of intelligence describes superior inductive and deductive reasoning and calculating ability, so that anyone who possesses it is able to think conceptually and abstractly. In any given situation, they find it very easy to spot trends and patterns and understand relationships. Order and sequencing figure greatly in your thinking processes.

You have high logical-mathematical intelligence if:

• you are good with numbers and various tasks that involve quantifying things, such as mathematical operations and arithmetic problems
• you enjoy performing experiments and conducting investigations in order to prove the hypotheses that you’ve formulated earlier
• you enjoy playing logic and strategy games, and you do it often to further hone your intelligence
• you enjoy the challenge of unraveling mysteries and solving puzzles
• your curiosity makes you ask cosmic or deep questions
• The learning style for people with logical-mathematical intelligence involves acquiring theoretical knowledge of concepts first, before they can get down to dealing with the finer details.

People with high logical-mathematical intelligence are best suited in occupations such as mathematicians, detectives, investigative journalists, and scientists.

2. Linguistic Intelligence
Linguistic intelligence refers to a person’s ability to use words effectively. Some people think that if you know more than two languages, then you have superior linguistic ability.

That is correct, but that is not all there is to being linguistically intelligent. You see, you may only know one language and still be deemed to have superior linguistic intelligence if you prove that you can use that single language very well.

In other words, linguistic intelligence is seen in your ability to find the right words to express what you mean.

You have high linguistic intelligence if:

• you have a way with words, and can use it to achieve an objective, such as persuasion or convincing someone to do something or act in a certain manner
• you have a rich vocabulary, and you know what words to use, and how and when to use them
• you like to read a lot, and you may also want to write a lot
• you enjoy playing word games, or other similar games that involve word use
• you have an easy grasp of other languages or dialects, even if fluency is not required

People who demonstrate high linguistic intelligence include authors, novelists, poets, journalists, public speakers, and motivational speakers. To a great extent, politicians are also deemed to be linguistically intelligent.

3. Visual-Spatial Intelligence
Believe it or not, there are people who have difficulty viewing or visualizing the world in its three dimensions. When we talk about being able to think in 3D, the following capacities are involved:

• Mental imagery, or the capacity of the person to draw up, in his mind, an image or picture as representation of the physical world. Whether it is from a past memory or an actual previous experience with that object, he can easily “see” in his mind’s eye that object, even if it is not physically present within his line of sight.
• Spatial reasoning, or the capacity to perceive and think about objects in 3D, even despite having limited information about it. It also covers the capacity to draw generalizations from the limited information available. Mention a cube, and he will immediately think of an object with six sides. Mention a pyramid, and he will have an image of how a pyramid will look like when viewed from the front or from the top.
• Image manipulation, or the capacity to view an image and picture how it will look like when tweaked or altered. Some people have trouble picturing the end result when an image’s appearance is changed, while there are those who have no issues seeing how it will turn out when the proposed changes have been effected.
• Artistic skills, or the ability and skills in creating fine art. Graphic skills also fall under this category. Essentially, being visually and spatially intelligent often go hand in hand with creativity, especially in several professions or lines of work.

Let us not forget that visual-spatial intelligence also involves having a very active imagination. Most of the time, you will be drawing on your imagination when putting this intelligence to use.

You have high visual-spatial intelligence if:

• you have a high awareness of your surrounding environments
• you have very good navigation skills and a sharp sense of direction
• you enjoy playing with jigsaw puzzles and games that involve maps and mazes
• you like to draw and work with pictures and images
• you tend to daydream a lot, creating scenarios in your head

A person with visual-spatial intelligence will become highly lauded as painters, sculptors, architects and designers. Those who are working with distances are also known to possess this type of intelligence, and the prime examples are pilots and seafarers.

4. Naturalist Intelligence
Being able to “read” and understand nature, and all the living things in and on it, is also a type of intelligence. Having sensitivity for all living and non-living elements in nature makes you “nature-smart”.

You have high naturalist intelligence if:

• you love nature, and enjoy spending time outdoors
• you are able to connect easily with animals
• you have a knack for raising animals or making plants grow (what people call “green thumb”)

People with naturalist intelligence work best as botanists, agriculturists, forest and park rangers.

5. Musical Intelligence
Can you carry a tune? Do you have a talent for dissecting the elements and details of sound? Then you should count yourself as one of the intelligence ones when it comes to musicality. If you are very sensitive to rhythm and sound, then you possess this type of intelligence.

You have high musical intelligence if:

• you can discern sounds and break them down – their pitch, rhythm, tone and timber – easily
• you love – and can recognize, create, and/or reflect – on music
• you are comfortable with music or sound playing in the background even when you are doing other things
• you are highly sensitive to even the smallest sound, so that you can hear sounds that others miss

People with musical intelligence find their niche as musicians, composers, vocalists, composers, conductors, sound mixers and sound engineers.

6. Existential Intelligence
This may sound too deep for some, but tackling existentialism issues and questions is also a form of intelligence. This denotes a deep sensitivity and a high capacity to tackle very serious questions, combined with a passion to pursue the answers to these questions.

You have high existential intelligence if:

• you are genuine in your curiosity to the answers of questions the likes of which include “why do we live?”, “why do we die?” and “what happens to us after death?”, to name a few.
• you demonstrate high sensitivity when it comes to matters related to human existence

People with existential intelligence are most suited in jobs in psychology and theology. Motivational speakers are also expected to possess this type of intelligence in great amounts.

7. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
Have you ever heard of hand-eye coordination? Usually, people who have superior hand-eye coordination make a killing in the field of sports. However, it is rare for us to hear athletes being described as “intelligence” by virtue of their athleticism.

Well, there is also such a thing as mind-body coordination, and this is what bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is. Mainly it is about physical skills, and how you are able to use your physicality to manipulate objects and other elements around you.

You have high bodily-kinesthetic intelligence if:

• you have a keen sense of body awareness, knowing what you are capable of and recognizing your physical limits
• you can communicate well using body language, with gestures and actions that can convey the message you intend to deliver to the recipients
• you have no issues with physical contact, since you are comfortable touching other people or being touched
• you have, at least, a very good sense of timing when it comes to performing physical tasks and activities
• you are good with your hands, such that you can handle tools and machines with a high degree of deftness, combined with an economy of movement
• you like making or creating something with your hands

People who possess bodily-kinesthetic intelligence are usually athletes, dancers, acrobats and stage performers. Craftsmen, or those who create highly detailed crafts and products, are also known to demonstrate impressive mind and body union.

But perhaps the best example of somebody who is good with their hands is a surgeon, whose every action – no matter how small – inside the operating room, will dictate how a patient’s life will go.

8. Interpersonal Intelligence
Your emotion also has very close links with your intelligence; we even have what is known as “emotional intelligence” or EQ. In this case, interpersonal intelligence refers to your ability to sense other people’s feelings, as well as read their motives.

They say that you have above average interpersonal skills if you possess good to very good communication skills – both verbal and non-verbal. That is usually the first thing that you will notice in a person with high interpersonal intelligence.

You have high interpersonal intelligence if:

• you can easily spot distinctions or differences among people, and you also find it easy to recognize them even in a large crowd
• you have a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, and you are comfortable spending time with other people
• you are sensitive to the moods and temperament of other people
• you are able to look at things from various points of view or perspectives, instead of just sticking to your own angle

People with high interpersonal intelligence will do great as teachers, social workers, and politicians. Stage and film actors also use their interpersonal intelligence to essay or portray any character.

9. Intrapersonal Intelligence
Self-awareness is also a form of intelligence. If you understand yourself, if you know what you are feeling and why you are feeling it, and if you know exactly what you want and need, then you can confidently say that you possess intrapersonal intelligence.

But wait, doesn’t that make you sound like a self-absorbed narcissist? If we leave the description at that, it definitely does make you appear like one.

However, having intrapersonal intelligence also involves possessing an appreciation and respect for human condition, in general. This means that you will also view yourself with respect to that of other people.

You have high intrapersonal intelligence if:

• you are self-motivated, meaning you tend to put yourself first when assessing various situations you come across
• you are strong-willed and independent, and have no issue learning by yourself
• you are fully aware of your feelings, and you take action to planning and directing your life, without primarily depending on others to dictate what you should do
• you tend to be shy and introverted, preferring to keep to yourself and have solo moments for self-reflection

People with high intrapersonal intelligence are those who would be most comfortable as spiritual leaders, psychologists, guidance counselors, and even philosophers.

Is it possible to possess all nine? Yes, there is definitely a high probability of that. In fact, some even claim that we all have, to a certain degree, all of the nine types of intelligence. It’s just a matter of some types of intelligence being higher or more apparent than others.

Now, have you found the type of intelligence that you possess in greatest abundance?


References:
https://www.cleverism.com/types-of-intelligence/

https://www.verywellmind.com/gardners-theory-of-multiple-intelligences-2795161

https://www.edutopia.org/video/howard-gardner-multiple-intelligences

https://www.tecweb.org/styles/gardner.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2QtSbP4FRg

Book: Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences