The Direction of Intention

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I was rereading the text of Amy’s thesis research and was taken (again) by this thought: there is no correlation between belief in your abilities and creative output. There are countless world-class artists and performers that do not believe in their talents, they have no faith in their capacity to create, they become violently ill every night prior to taking the stage. But, what they do have is a potent moment of “Aha!” They have a star that they must follow and they will follow it through the swamps of doubt and the deserts of despair. All that is required is to act and to keep acting on the “aha.” No belief required!

At what point does experience become belief? How many times do you need to get up on the stage and perform to great applause before you believe in your capacity to perform? How many experiences do you need to catalogue before you change your construct?

The short answer is, “none.”  In asking the question I recognize that experience has nothing to do with it. How you story the experience is what matters. It is more relevant to flip the question and ask, “At what point does belief become experience?”

If your point of view is built upon the idea that you are incapable, then you will see success as a fluke. If your point of view is that you are broken, then you will find fragments no matter how beautiful the day. If you have embraced the point of view that you are fat, then you are very capable of starving yourself to death; you will always see what you believe.

For most of us, the moment of “aha” is the notion that we can be whole. And, so we follow that idea through doubt and despair and fleeting moments of fulfillment. What matters is that we act on the “aha.” And keep acting on it. Practice the “aha.” And then one day, if we are lucky, we see that wholeness is not something we find, it is not something we give, no amount of experiences will prove it or contradict it. Wholeness is a birthright. Wholeness is.

No belief required.

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