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Barbara Stahura
Freelance Writer
Freelance Writer
themselves, I’m not going to feel bad, no matter what. I know I can’t feel bad enough to make anyone who is feeling bad feel good. And I can’t get sick enough to make one person who is ill get well. So I think that’s it’s really incumbent upon us, even if we do see these events around us in the world, to feel good in those moments. Because then you can do something about it. It’s in feeling good that you’ve joined God consciousness, and you start to radiate that out. But by feeling bad, you become what you’re opposed to. Other people are blowing up trains because they feel bad, and now you feel bad, so you want to retaliate against them, and before you know it, we’ve created this force-counterforce that goes on and on and on.
Science of Mind: On your PBS special, The Power of Intention, you talked about how no one can be poor enough to relieve anyone else’s poverty. That’s intriguing for those of us who worry about having too much abundance, yet it’s also very logical when you think about it.
Dyer: There’s a lot of guilt associated with abundance, but abundance is there for everyone. People who don’t have it haven’t selected it, or don’t understand it or why they’ve opted for scarcity in their lives. It doesn’t mean you can’t go out and serve and promote abundance for other people, but by being poor, you’re not going to make another person wealthy. And by your being sad, you’re not going to make another person joyful. It goes back to that prayer of St. Francis: Where there is injury, let me bring pardon. Where there is hatred, let me bring love. And darkness, light. If you’re in a dark room and you’re about to light a candle, you don’t have to warn the darkness when you bring light, higher energy, to the presence of darkness. You not only remove the darkness, you convert it to light. All of us can do that by connecting ourselves to the highest possible thing and not feel guilty about any abundance we’ve attracted into our lives.
Science of Mind: Be what you want the world to be, in other words.
Dyer: Yes. And want it more for others than you want it for yourself. If you have a problem in a relationship with someone, wanting them to be at peace with the relationship with you, more than you want it for yourself, is a way to create it. I think it’s also true for ending poverty and things like that. People living in poverty who have been conditioned to believe there’s nothing they can do about it are the people who need to hear this message more than anyone. They came from the same Source that all of us did.
It’s like the best way to get children out of their anger. It’s not to join them in anger but to present to them a loving response. I always say what St. Francis said when he wanted peace in his life. He didn’t go to God and say, I don’t have any peace; please bring me some peace. He said, please make me an instrument of thy peace. Let me be what I came from. Let me be my Source. And that’s what the power of intention is really about. It’s about connecting to Source.
Science of Mind: When did you first understand the power of intention in your own life?
Dyer: I’ve been practicing it for as long as I can remember, but I didn’t really begin to understand it until I wrote a book called You’ll See It When You Believe It ten or twelve years ago. This book was really guided through me. I would hold it in my hand and couldn’t believe it didn’t exist a year ago. It came from that space where all things originate from. I didn’t resist it.
Intention is about allowing and resistance. Anything that isn’t allowing is resistance, and everything that is resistance isn’t allowing. Allowing is nothing more than allowing yourself to be connected to Source, then accepting the guidance that comes with it and matching yourself up. It’s all about matching up. If you believe you can’t do something, or it won’t work for you, it never has before--the minute you have those thoughts, you have resistance. I always tell people, try to imagine a Source energy that is responsible for everything showing up in the world of form and saying I can’t do something. Or I can’t create this, or I’m too tired, or I’m too sick. Every time you have a thought that’s inconsistent with that God-realization, you are resisting. You are creating obstacles to having it show up in your life. For me, now, I have no resistance, or minimal resistance. Even if I feel sick to my stomach, I know that it’s resistance. Every single thought that I have is either one that is allowing or resisting. Every thought. Every moment of our lives, we can ask, am I in harmony with, am I in rapport with Source energy, what it feels like, what it sounds like? Or am I not?
The interesting thing is that if you accept that God is everywhere--that this Source is everywhere--that means that there’s nowhere that it is not. So first of all, you have to accept that it is within you, and then you also have to accept that it’s in all the things that are missing in your life. If it’s everywhere, and it’s in you and whatever you perceive is missing from your life, all you have to do is realign yourself in such a way so you can reconnect yourself to that thing to which you’re already connected to. As Castaneda says, it isn’t that we’re not connected by a link to this Source, it’s how dirty is the link? How corroded is it? How hidden is it? How much do we really believe that I’m the one who is doing this? That’s why I say God writes all the books and builds all the bridges and conducts this conversation.
Science of Mind: On your PBS special, The Power of Intention, you talked about how no one can be poor enough to relieve anyone else’s poverty. That’s intriguing for those of us who worry about having too much abundance, yet it’s also very logical when you think about it.
Dyer: There’s a lot of guilt associated with abundance, but abundance is there for everyone. People who don’t have it haven’t selected it, or don’t understand it or why they’ve opted for scarcity in their lives. It doesn’t mean you can’t go out and serve and promote abundance for other people, but by being poor, you’re not going to make another person wealthy. And by your being sad, you’re not going to make another person joyful. It goes back to that prayer of St. Francis: Where there is injury, let me bring pardon. Where there is hatred, let me bring love. And darkness, light. If you’re in a dark room and you’re about to light a candle, you don’t have to warn the darkness when you bring light, higher energy, to the presence of darkness. You not only remove the darkness, you convert it to light. All of us can do that by connecting ourselves to the highest possible thing and not feel guilty about any abundance we’ve attracted into our lives.
Science of Mind: Be what you want the world to be, in other words.
Dyer: Yes. And want it more for others than you want it for yourself. If you have a problem in a relationship with someone, wanting them to be at peace with the relationship with you, more than you want it for yourself, is a way to create it. I think it’s also true for ending poverty and things like that. People living in poverty who have been conditioned to believe there’s nothing they can do about it are the people who need to hear this message more than anyone. They came from the same Source that all of us did.
It’s like the best way to get children out of their anger. It’s not to join them in anger but to present to them a loving response. I always say what St. Francis said when he wanted peace in his life. He didn’t go to God and say, I don’t have any peace; please bring me some peace. He said, please make me an instrument of thy peace. Let me be what I came from. Let me be my Source. And that’s what the power of intention is really about. It’s about connecting to Source.
Science of Mind: When did you first understand the power of intention in your own life?
Dyer: I’ve been practicing it for as long as I can remember, but I didn’t really begin to understand it until I wrote a book called You’ll See It When You Believe It ten or twelve years ago. This book was really guided through me. I would hold it in my hand and couldn’t believe it didn’t exist a year ago. It came from that space where all things originate from. I didn’t resist it.
Intention is about allowing and resistance. Anything that isn’t allowing is resistance, and everything that is resistance isn’t allowing. Allowing is nothing more than allowing yourself to be connected to Source, then accepting the guidance that comes with it and matching yourself up. It’s all about matching up. If you believe you can’t do something, or it won’t work for you, it never has before--the minute you have those thoughts, you have resistance. I always tell people, try to imagine a Source energy that is responsible for everything showing up in the world of form and saying I can’t do something. Or I can’t create this, or I’m too tired, or I’m too sick. Every time you have a thought that’s inconsistent with that God-realization, you are resisting. You are creating obstacles to having it show up in your life. For me, now, I have no resistance, or minimal resistance. Even if I feel sick to my stomach, I know that it’s resistance. Every single thought that I have is either one that is allowing or resisting. Every thought. Every moment of our lives, we can ask, am I in harmony with, am I in rapport with Source energy, what it feels like, what it sounds like? Or am I not?
The interesting thing is that if you accept that God is everywhere--that this Source is everywhere--that means that there’s nowhere that it is not. So first of all, you have to accept that it is within you, and then you also have to accept that it’s in all the things that are missing in your life. If it’s everywhere, and it’s in you and whatever you perceive is missing from your life, all you have to do is realign yourself in such a way so you can reconnect yourself to that thing to which you’re already connected to. As Castaneda says, it isn’t that we’re not connected by a link to this Source, it’s how dirty is the link? How corroded is it? How hidden is it? How much do we really believe that I’m the one who is doing this? That’s why I say God writes all the books and builds all the bridges and conducts this conversation.
