The Direction of Intention

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Our lives are busy. Especially this time of year.

We move through life but rarely live in the present moment. When caught in this fast moving river we rarely allow ourselves the spaciousness necessary to see why we do what we do and why we think what we think. We belief that our thoughts – our narrative – define who we are and our thoughts are most often out of control. We don’t recognize the story we live as the story we choose to live. We are moving too fast to see the patterns and habits and are too used to seeking our answers in others. We convince ourselves that something “out there” will fill the gap we fill inside.

When we begin paying attention to the story we tell ourselves, when we begin to see how we locate ourselves, the roles we play, the ways in which we negate our selves and others, we have the capacity to tell a different story; we create the opportunity to unblock our impulses and become present in our lives. We place our focus on the cultivation of relationship in the present moment and it is in the relationships that we rediscover the essential meaning of our lives. We begin to tell a different story.

We have the capacity to harness the force of our attention and focus it on our participation – on what we bring to the immediate moment. We have the capacity to become present and attentive. We have the opportunity to know ourselves as distinct from our circumstance and to release what is holding us back, which is most often our own stories about ourselves, stories we – and only we – have the capacity to change. We have the opportunity to step out of the river and breathe.

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