The Direction of Intention

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I can’t help it – it is what I’m writing today so it is dominating my thoughts. More writing from the CreateNow Workbook. This is from what I’m writing for week 3 of the course:

Where are you? On what mountain are you standing? From what point of view are you asking questions about your life?

Before reading further do this exercise: On a piece of paper draw a pyramid. What themes, labels and judgments do you layer on yourself (good enough or not good enough, lacking or abundant, resilient or fragile,…). Write the labels, themes, and judgments in the pyramid. Now, draw a small stick figure (this is you) standing on top of the pyramid. What you wrote in the pyramid is your point of view; it is the screen through which you sift your experiences.

If you believe that you are standing on a mountain of deficiency, a pyramid of worthlessness, your fulfillment will look like a distant meadow. It is some other place. Every question you ask will be asked from a place of deficiency and reinforce the idea that what you want is some other place outside of you. What you see is separation. The story structure that you buttress holds the notion that there is an arrival place, another mountain or meadow – some other place called creative or happy or fulfilled. In this story your focus is on an outcome or result that resides somewhere out there in the distant future.

Look at the words in the pyramid. Are any of the labels absolute? Are you always good enough, not good enough or just sometimes? Are you poor every moment or just when you think about it? Are you abundant all the time or is it passing? Is it true that you are not creative enough? Why is this label your statement of being, your identity of choice? Do you even know what perfect is? Why is any of it fixed, absolute, or true?

None of the labels, themes, or self-accusations matter; what matters is that the labels locate you in a story of resistance; resistance to being where you are. Do you think you need to be some other place or some other person in order to find fulfillment? Your point of view, the mountain upon which you stand is called separation. You’ve separated your self from your self; in this story you will always look somewhere else for your answer and your fulfillment.

There is another way but it requires you to stop resisting where you are, cease trying to be something that you are not. It requires you to shift your focus from outcomes and investments in control. It requires you to focus on process and creating quality relationships. What would it look like to show up without justification, explanation, masking, hiding, or apology? How can you show up alive and 100% in?

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