The Direction of Intention

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There are 3 foundation principles for all forms of the work that I do as The Circle Project with Patti Digh and in my own work as a coach and artist. I reviewed them again this morning in preparation for our September classes:

1) What you think is what you create. The story you tell yourself about yourself is a creative act – it is not happening to you. What you think is what you see is what you create. We talk a lot in the classes and in coaching relationships about where you choose to place your focus: what you choose to see. A great skill for an artist to develop is the capacity to see beyond what they think. There is more color and possibility in the world than your intellect will allow.

2) You are always in choice. Building upon the first principle is the understanding that you are always in choice. You may or may not have any control over the circumstances in your life but you have ultimate control over how you are within your circumstance. One of my favorite practices is to control your control-ables and let the rest go. Most people try to control what they can’t control (for instance, what other people think) and refuse to control what they CAN control (like what they think).

3) You are not broken; nothing needs to be fixed. It is an unfortunate tendency in our self-help world to treat all behavior as pathology, as if something in you is missing or broken. If you work from the basic assumption that you are broken you will forever seek answers that are outside of you. Assume that you are whole; believe that you are the source of your answers. Assume wholeness and your work will be about learning and expansion. Assume wholeness and you will of necessity have to take full responsibility for your choices.

What you think is what you create. You are always in choice. You are not broken. Can you imagine it?

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