by Wayne Dyer
When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter. It's
through others that we either find or love our self. For you see,
nothing is accomplished without others. A Course in Miracles says this
so well:
Alone we can do nothing,
But together our minds fuse into something Whose power is far beyond the power of its separate parts.
The kingdom cannot be found alone, and you who are the kingdom cannot find yourself alone.
When you eliminate the concept of separation from your thoughts and
your behavior, you begin to feel your connection to everything and
everyone. You'll begin having a sense of belonging, which enables you
to scoff at any thought of being separate. This feeling of
connectedness originates with and helps you process all of your
interactions from the point of view of equality. By recognizing others
as co-creators, you match up with your Source and move into a state of
grace. If you're seeing yourself as either inferior or superior,
you've disconnected from the power of intention. Your desires will be
frustrated unless you connect with and support other people.
How you interact with your universal support team is significant. How
you view others is a projection of how you view yourself. Consistently
seeing others as worthless means that you're erecting a roadblock for
your potential allies. See others as weak and you're simultaneously
attracting weak energies. Persistently viewing others as dishonest,
lazy, sinful and so on may mean that you need to feel superior.
Constantly seeing others critically can be a way of compensating for
something you fear. But you don't even need to understand this
psychological mechanism. All you have to do is recognize how you view
others. If there's a pattern of seeing others as failures, you only
need to notice the pattern as evidence of what you're attracting into
your life.
It's so important to see interactions as holy encounters, because this
sets in motion an attractor energy pattern. In a holy relationship,
you attract the collaboration of higher energies. In an unholy
relationship, the attractor pattern exists, too, attracting low
energies and more unholy relationships. By bringing higher spiritual
energy to everyone you encounter, you dissolve lower energies. When
the energies of kindness, love, receptivity and abundance are present
in your relationships, you have brought the elixir of spiritual
Creation or the love of the Creator right into the mix. Now those
forces begin to work on everyone in your environment. The right people
magically appear. The right materials show up. The phone rings and
someone gives you the information you've been wanting for months.
Strangers offer suggestions that make sense to you. These types of
coincidences are like mathematical angles that coincide or fit
together perfectly. Treat others as co-creators and have divine
expectations for them. Don't view anyone as ordinary, unless of course
you wish to have more of the ordinary manifest into your world.
From Ordinary to Extraordinary --
If your expectations for yourself center on being normal, just getting
along, fitting in and being an ordinary person, you'll resonate to
ordinary frequencies and you'll attract more of normal and ordinary
into your life. Furthermore, your impact on others as potential allies
in co-creating your intentions will also revolve around ordinary. The
power of intention occurs when you're synchronized with the
all-creating universal force, which is anything but ordinary. This is
the power that's responsible for all of creation. It's ever-expansive
and thinks and creates in terms of endless abundance. When you shift
to this higher energy and resonate more in harmony with intention, you
become a magnet for attracting more of this energy into your world.
You also have this kind of impact on everyone and everything you're in
contact with.
One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving
into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and
eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say
yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers and
your business. Ordinary says, "No, I don't think I can do it. No, that
won't work out. No, I've tried that and it's never worked before. No,
that intention is impossible for me." With the idea of no, you attract
more of no and your impact on others whom you could help and on whom
you could rely for help is also no. I urge you to adopt the attitude
of the poet Hafiz.
I rarely let the word No escape from my mouth because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! to every luminous movement in Existence...
Shout yes to everyone as often as you can. When someone seeks your
permission to try something, before saying no, ask yourself if you
want that person to stay at ordinary levels of living. When my son
Sands wished to try out a new surfing area last week, my first
inclination was to say, "Too dangerous, you've never been there
before, you could get hurt" and so on. But I reconsidered and
accompanied him on a new adventure. My yes impacted his life and mine
in a positive manner.
Making yes your inner mantra allows you to extend yes outside of
yourself and attract more of yes into your own personal intending. Yes
is the breath of Creation. Think of a drop of rain merging with a
river at the moment it becomes the river. Think of the river merging
with the ocean at the moment it becomes the ocean. You can almost hear
the sound of yes being whispered in those moments. As you merge with
the universal force of Creation extending yes wherever feasible, you
become that force of Creation itself. This will be your impact on
others. No more ordinary nos in your life. On to the extraordinary.
Ordinary implies being stuck in a rut much like Ivan Ilyich. While in
the rut, you'll attract other rut-dwellers and your mutual impact will
be to stay in your ordinary ruts - complaining, finding fault, wishing
and hoping for better days. The universal force of intention never
complains; it creates and offers its options for greatness. It judges
no one and isn't stuck wishing and hoping that things will improve.
It's too busy creating beauty to be so foolishly engaged. As you move
your own energy level up out of a rut mentality, you'll have an
uplifting effect on all of the rut-dwellers in your life. Moreover,
you'll help many of them have a similar impact and create new allies
in fulfilling your own intentions. Become aware of your identification
with normal or ordinary and begin to vibrate to higher and higher
energetic frequencies, which constitute a shift upward into the
extraordinary dimensions of pure intent.
Excerpted from The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your
World Your Way
