REFLECTIONS YARO BLOG MAY 2022
EARTH DAY
Dear
Reader,
I am
reflecting on the topic that celebrates EARTH DAY. I cannot imagine a more
appropriate topic for all of us. In these days of global crises like the invasion of
Russia on Ukraine and devastating the whole country, the Covid pandemic crisis that
is still raging in some countries like China, and the most devastating crisis
is the destruction of the planet Earth by human development.
As a
gestalt therapist, I am constantly practicing AWARENESS – HERE AND NOW. That practice
is not only a theory but a real experience that we all can practice every
minute of our day.
Having practice
the experience of AWARENESS, I find that all ideas, information and insights emerge as if
from a deep pool of knowledge. To be more specific, I have discovered at least
three sources, that I know of people that inspired me while their ideas just appeared
for me recently in some writings and podcasts. They are: Matt Belcher, Carlos
Castaneda and Wayne Dwyer. All three authors were in my library for many years
and only this week, I found them in my hands as I was looking for my May reflections to write this blog. All authors have inspired me (again) in
reflecting about EARTH DAY.
When we
observe our planet, be it from a telescope, an image of a TV report, we see a shining
globe just floating in space. Few people, busy with daily work and life
challenges, stop and reflect what is this planet and why is it floating like a spaceship
populated by millions of manifestations?
So, I do
not have any answers but do relate to the three writers that inspired me to
reflect on this topic. The essence of what I discovered by reading and
reflecting is the word INTENT.
All three authors, in their own manner, have discovered this phenomenon, but in their own specific way. Matt
wrote a small book that is entitled: THE LITTLE BOOK OF BIG CHANGE; Carlos
Castaneda, THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN (he also authored several books on the
theme of INTENT from a Mexican sorcerer); and Wayne Dyer THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION.
In summary,
Don Juan the Yaki sorcerer, states that we humans are not aware of the endless
possibilities we must and can create. The key is INTENT. “In awareness the energy
fields of the Universe are in sync with the human self.” This manifesting all of abundance.
Wayne Dyer
writes with amazing clarity, and I am going to quote from his book. I suggest you
read it!
Wayne Dyer - The Seven Faces of Intention
1.The face
of creativity. The first of the seven faces of intention is the creative
expression of the power of intention that designed us, got us here, and created
an environment that’s compatible with our needs. The power of intention must be
creative, or nothing would come into existence. It seems to me that this is an
irrefutable truth about intention/spirit because its purpose is to bring life
into existence in a suitable environment. Why do I conclude that the
life-giving power of intention intends us to have life, and have it in
increasing abundance? Because, if the opposite were true, life as we know it
couldn’t come into form. The very fact that we can breathe, and experience life
is proof to me that the nature of the life-giving Spirit is creative at its
core. This may seem obvious to you, or in fact it may appear confusing, or even
irrelevant. But what is clear is: You are here in your physical body; there was
a time when you were an embryo, before that a seed, and before that formless
energy. That formless energy contained intention, which brought you from
nowhere to now here. At the very highest levels of awareness, intention started
you on a path toward your destiny. The face of creativity intends you toward
continued creativity to create and co-create anything that you direct your
power of intention toward. Creative energy is a part of you; it originates in
the life-giving Spirit that intends you.
2. The face
of kindness. Any power that has, as its inherent nature, the need to create and
convert energy into physical form must also be a kindly power. Again, I’m
deducing this from the opposite. If the all-giving power of intention had at
its core the desire to be unkind, malevolent, or hurtful, then creation itself
would be impossible. The moment unkind energy became form, the lifegiving
Spirit would be destroyed. Instead, the power of intention has a face of
kindness. It is kind energy intending what it’s creating to flourish and grow,
and to be happy and fulfilled. Our existence is proof to me of the kindness of
intention. Choosing to be kind is a choice to have the power of intention
active in your life. The positive effect of kindness on the immune system and
on the increased production of serotonin in the brain has been proven in
research studies. Serotonin is a naturally occurring substance in the body that
makes us feel more comfortable, peaceful, and even blissful. In fact, the role
of most antidepressants is to stimulate the production of serotonin chemically,
helping to ease depression. Research has shown that a simple act of kindness
directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and
stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness
and the person extending the kindness. Even more amazing is that persons
observing the act of kindness have similar beneficial results. Imagine this!
Kindness extended, received, or observed beneficially impacts the physical
health and feelings of everyone involved! Both the face of kindness and the
face of creativity are smiling here.
3. The face
of love. The third of the seven faces of intention is the face of love. That
there’s a life-giving nature inherent in the power of intention is an
irrefutable conclusion. What would we name this quality that encourages, enhances,
and supports all of life, if not love? It’s the prime moving power of the
Universal Spirit of intent. As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it: “Love is our highest
word and the synonym for God.” The energy field of intention is pure love
resulting in a nurturing and totally cooperative environment. Judgment, anger,
hate, fear, or prejudice won’t thrive here. So, were we able to actually see
this field, we’d see creativity and kindness in an endless field of love. We
entered the physical world of boundaries and beginnings through the universal
force field of pure love. This face of intention that is an expression of love
wishes only for us to flourish and grow and become all that we’re capable of
becoming. When we’re not in harmony with the energy of love, we’ve moved away
from intention and weakened our ability to activate intention through the
expression of love.
Thoughts
and emotions are pure energy, some higher and faster than others. When higher
energies occupy the same field as lower energies, the lower energies convert to
higher energies. A simple example of this is a darkened room that has lower
energy than a room bathed in light. Since light moves faster than non-light,
when a candle is brought into a dark room, the darkness not only dissolves and
disappears, but it seems magically converted into light. The same is true of
love, which is a higher/faster energy than the energy of hate.
4. The face
of beauty. The fourth of my seven faces of intention is the face of beauty.
What else could a creative, kind, and loving expression be, other than
beautiful? Why would the organizing intelligence of intention ever elect to
manifest into form anything that’s repugnant to itself? Obviously, it wouldn’t.
So, we can conclude that the nature of intention has an eternal interaction of
love and beauty and add the expression of beauty to the face of a creative,
kind, loving power of intention. John Keats, the brilliant young romantic poet,
concludes his Ode on a Grecian Urn with: “’Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ that
is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” Obviously, truth exists in
the creation of everything. It’s true that it shows up here in form. It’s now
here in a form that’s an expression of the invisible creative power.
5. The face
of expansion. The elemental nature of life is to increase and seek more and
more expression. If we could sharply focus on the faces of intention, we’d be
startled. I imagine that one of the faces we’d see is a continuously expanding
expression of the power of intention. The nature of this creative spirit is
always operating to expand. Spirit is a forming power. It has the principle of
increase, meaning that life continues to expand toward more life. Life as we
know it originates from formless intention. Therefore, one of the faces of
intention looks like something that’s eternally evolving. It might look like a
tiny speck in a continuous state of duplicating itself, and then enlarging
itself, and then moving forward, all the while continuing its expansion and
expression.
6. The face
of unlimited abundance. This sixth face of intention is an expression of
something that has no boundaries, is everywhere at once, and is endlessly
abundant. It’s not just huge, it never stops. This marvellous gift of abundance
is what you were created from. Thus, you too share this in the expression of
your life. You’re actually fulfilling the law of abundance. These gifts are
given freely and fully to you just as the air, the sun, the water, and the
atmosphere are provided in unlimited abundance for you. From the time of your
earliest memories, you probably were taught to think in terms of limitations.
My property starts here. Yours over there. So, we build fences to mark our
boundaries. But ancient explorers gave us an awareness of the world as potentially
endless. Even more ancient astronomers pushed back our beliefs about an immense
dome-shaped ceiling covering the earth.
What all
this means is that there are no limits to our potential as people, as
collective entities, and as individuals. This is largely true because we
emanate from the unlimited abundance of intention. If the face of the power of
intention is unlimited abundance, then we can know that our potential for
manifestation and attracting anything into our lives is the same. The face of abundance
has absolutely no limits. Imagine the vastness of the resources from which all
objects are created. Then consider the one resource that stands above all
others. This would be your mind and the collective mind of humankind. Where
does your mind begin and end? What are its boundaries? Where is it located?
More important, where is it not located? Is it born with you, or is it present
before your conception? Does it die with you? What colour is it?
7. The face
of receptivity. This is how I imagine the seventh face, the receptive face of
intention. It’s simply receptive to all. No one and no thing is rejected by the
receptive face of intention. It welcomes everyone and every living thing,
without judgment—never granting the power of intention to some and withholding
it from others. The receptive face of intention means to me that all of nature
is waiting to be called into action. We only need to be willing to recognize
and receive. Intention can’t respond to you if you fail to recognize it. If you
see chance and coincidence governing your life and the world, then the
universal mind of intention will appear to you as nothing but an amalgamation
of forces devoid of any order or power.
The face of
receptivity smiles on me, as what I need flows to me from the Source, and the
Source is receptive to my tapping into it to co-create books, speeches, videos,
audios, and anything else that I’ve been fortunate enough to have on my résumé.
By being receptive, I’m in harmony with the power of intention of the universal
creative force.
