The Direction of Intention

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Elana couldn’t wait to speak about her experience of the exercise. I couldn’t see her because the class is conducted over the phone but her excitement was palpable. Somewhere in the world she exclaimed, “Oh, oh! I can’t believe it!”

“What did you discover?” I asked.

“I’m never separate from my potential. There is no future potential that I can’t inhabit right now! Actually, all I’ve ever been and all I will ever be is available to me, now!” And then she said, “It is so simple.”

This was not a strange class on time travel. It was a coaching class and our exploration was on bridging separation. Each of us carries a set of assumptions, we see the world through a frame of reference and it is through this frame that we make meaning. Alan calls this our “conditioned awareness.” You engage the world based on the context that you impose on your experiences. Most of your life you are dealing with what you think is there, responding to your narration of events, not what is actually there. That is the separation.

The separation not only applies to what is immediately in front of you, it also applies to your future. For instance, when you think, “someday I will be happy/fulfilled/successful/healthy…you separate yourself from happiness/fulfillment/success/health simply by how you construct the thought. “Someday I will be…,” “When I have enough money I will be…,” “I will be whole when…;” it is a meditation on separation: the fragmentation of self from self.

Elana imagined her future self standing before her, healthy, happy, whole, potential fully realized, and she discovered this: she only need claim it, own it and be it – and it is hers already.

Happiness/fulfillment/success/health is a process that you create, not an outcome that you chase.

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