[Neurons] 2012 Meta Reflections #16

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2012  #16

March 12, 2012

Empowerment Series #8

 

 

 

THE POWER OF INTENTIONALITY

 

 

If there's a secret driver behind your personal power and your feeling level
of empowerment, it has to be intentionality.  Intentionality?  And what is
intentionality?  It is your intent-the thoughts in the back of your mind
about what you are wanting to do and to achieve.  It is the direction that
you set regarding where you want to go.  It is your motive and of course,
from your motive comes your motivation, your agenda, and your purpose.

 

Your intention stands in contrast with your attention.  So in Neuro-Semantic
trainings, and especially the APG training, we run an Intentionality Pattern
as part of the Accessing Personal Genius pattern in order to facilitate the
development of a laser-beam focus.  And why?  So that you can get your
attentions at the primary level to be aligned with your intentions at the
highest levels of your mind.  And when you can do that, you have the
foundation for another facet of personal empowerment, namely,
self-discipline, the ability to get yourself to do what you say you're going
to do and what you intend to do.

 

These two facets of consciousness (intention and attention) describes what's
on our mind (attention) and what's in the back of our mind (intention).  To
live attentionally is to live only in the moment and only in reference to
whatever is happening right now in sensory awareness around you.  This is
valuable for being in the moment and yet it has its downsides.  To live
attentionally is the life of an animal or small child and the downside is
that you tend to respond / react to whatever or whoever gets your attention.

 

Choosing to shift to being fully present attentionally is a great choice.
And to do so implies that you are living intentionally- living by your
choices and intentions and to do that is a much higher level of
consciousness.  Now you direct these forces rather than being the subject of
them.  Living intentionally enables you to develop a laser-beam focus and
then to move through the world responding to what matters and to what's
relevant, rather than to the plethora of stimuli around you.

 

Your intentionality operates like a secret power behind your
thinking-feeling and other fundamental powers.  There's a reason for this.
It's because by your intentionality you set your direction, you decide on
your values, you choose your meanings, your understandings, and so on.  It
is with your intentionality that you step up to your highest executive
functions and become the CEO of your own life and inner world.  It is here
that you make your executive decisions.  It is with your intentionality that
you operate at choice point and become the author (authority) of your own
life.  Pretty powerful, wouldn't you say?

 

Question:  If intentionality is so powerful, then why do we not see
everybody accessing and operating from this power?

 

Part of the answer is that the challenge of requires the development of your
intentions and intentional powers.  It is far, far easier to live
attentionally than intentionally.  Attentional living is passive-simply
react to whatever or whoever gets your attention.  Just bounce off of the
stimuli around you.  Let others, let the media, let your environment
determine what you think, what you talk about, what you focus on.  It is
easy to live this way, it is passive and reactive.

 

Conversely, to develop your intentional powers, you have to think.  You have
to exercise your mind and your mental-emotional powers.  You have to
decide-what's important, what's truly valuable.  You have to think through
where things could go, you have to think consequently about directions and
the costs that will occur.

 

Then once you set intentional desires, objectives, and values, you have to
set your intentions and use them as your guidelines for what's relevant and
what's not relevant.  The challenge here is the courage to be yourself, to
be independent, to choose your own way, to resist the forces of conformity,
to go against the current, to stand up for what you truly value and for the
talents you want to develop.

 

It is easier to go along with the crowd, with media, with your immediate
environment and let all of these influences define you, describe your world,
and plot your pathway.  It is easier and it is also less satisfying.  That's
why people living attentionally eventually start asking, "So where am I
going?  What's it all about?  What do I want to accomplish?  Why don't I
ever stay with something and become highly skilled with it?"

 

Living attentionally feeds ADD- constantly shifting attention here and there
until it becomes a habit of mind.  Then people wonder why they don't follow
through, why they can't concentrate, focus, have a laser-beam
intentionality.  Most often, they just have not developed their intentional
powers.  If you're ready to develop your intentional powers for your own
personal empowerment, see Secrets of Personal Mastery (1997) or get yourself
to an APG Training as soon as possible (see the list of APG trainings on the
website).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Neuro-Semantics Executive Director  ----   <http://www.neurosemantics.com/>
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