The Direction of Intention

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When rooted in fear the mind will try to control the body’s experiences. That is akin to trying to reverse the flow of a river.

Actually, as I understand it, in a fear-story the mind confuses the body’s needs with its own. The body is not concerned with hiding or masking or changing itself. Mind will create outlandish arguments for control, lots of rules, and tales of lack and shame and need. It will tell you to eat even if you are not hungry (it will tell you not to eat even if you are starving!). It will convince you that fulfillment will be yours if you buy one more pair of shoes. It will wrap stories of good or bad around the most natural of impulses. It will have you rejecting yourself, ashamed of yourself and have you snarled in a collision of justifications, comparisons and judgments. All of those stories are about mind’s need not bodies experience.

A mind rooted in fear needs constriction and the illusion of control to preempt an impulse and predetermine an experience. My friend Roger is a great studier of people and he once told me that denial is among the most powerful human characteristics. Denial of what you feel, denial of what you see, denial of what you need,…. Robert Fritz writes that identifying a goal is the easy part, the tough part is identifying with any reality where you are in relation to where you want to be because we deny so much of our experience. We seem incapable or unwilling to see, “what is….”

How can you possibly know where you are if you are denying what you feel, what you see, what you need? How can you possibly create fulfillment in the future if you are unwilling to stand fully in the present? How can you support the fulfillment of others if you are denying yourself the fullness of your experience?

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