You can go along, repairing the damages from past encounters with counter-intention, or you can focus on creating a future where intentions are focused on expansion and joyful accomplishment.
The decision is up to you, focusing on past disappointments or on future accomplishments. Either choice is valid, but the secret to happiness is knowing what choice you are making and how long you are going to go in that direction.
I see far too many people flailing about in untenable situations where they are looking for the environment to give them directions. Essentially, they are waiting to see what happens next, rather than deciding what they will cause to happen.
If you find yourself in this state, I may be able to help you. Send me an email at srtcounseling@gmail.com explaining your situation, and I will give you a free session to see if I can assist you in resolving your indecision with therapeutic spiritual counseling.
Harnessing is the present participle of harness, which means to control something, usually in order to use its power.
The only reason anything happens is because there is an intention to make it happen. When you intend something to happen, it happens, unless you allow other intentions to take over. The only reason we reached the moon in 1969, or became separate from England in 1775 was because there was enough intention to make that happen.
When you have enough intention, you make it happen for yourself, and if you intend it to happen for others, you can make that happen also if your intention is great enough to influence them.
Intention is a spiritual ability and depends on how aligned you and your spiritual companions are at any given time. If you are aware of your spiritual companions and are operating in alignment with them, all of your intentions are aligned and you make things happen easily and consistently.
If you and your spiritual companions are not aligned, you will find yourself being constantly distracted and unable to get things done the way you want. Aligning your intentions and the intentions of your spiritual companions takes an effort of will and an understanding of what you are all doing.
When you and your spiritual companions are operating in alignment, magic happens and you and they will experience unbelievable joy and satisfaction. In the attached image, Jake has been able to become his calm and beautiful self again.
Join us tomorrow, 8-24-25, on Zoom for a workshop that may change your life. If you are interested, log in at 12 noon EST US time, using the usual link.
If you don’t have the link, send me an email at srtcounseling@gmail.com and tell me why you want to join us at the workshop.
I have the feeling that being at peace with yourself was not on your list this year, but if it was, you can help guide the rest of us while we discover the steps that will lead us to that goal.
What I have been seeing, and I include myself in that group, is people working diligently to get things done and to lead a better and more productive life. I realized this evening that my ultimate goal is to be at peace with myself and to help other to achieve that state also.
I also realize that I can’t quite state what I have to do in order to achieve that state and to keep it once attained. There have been moments in my life when I have achieved that state and I can’t remember now what I did that started that state, nor what happened that ended that state.
In tomorrow’s workshop we will explore the creation and destruction of that state, with the intention of being able to achieve repeatedly in the future.
Join us on Zoom at 12 noon EST, US time, using the usual SRT Workshop link. If you do not have the link, send me an email at srtcounseling@gmail.com and tell me why you want to participate in our workshop.
There are plenty of reasons to feel uncertain and anxious about your life, but there are rational solutions for all of them. Meekly enduring disapproval or any kind of hostility is not a winning solution, no matter what you have been told.
“Turning the other cheek” is not an edict for submission, it is a suggestion for non-violent resistance, according to many scholars. A vengeful response to insult and hostility leads to a cycle of retaliation, where a creative solution to the basic issue causing the hostility can lead to a lasting and meaningful relationship.
When someone is demonstrating counter-intention to you as disapproval or hostility, they are being threatened by your appearance or actions. If you are not hostile to them, and your actions have been well-intentioned, you have the opportunity to demonstrate your good intentions through calming and reassuring actions. If you have a calm certainty that you are present for helpful purposes, your demeanor will indicate that you are not dangerous and this gives the other person no counter-intention to respond to.
If this is not sufficient to reduce the hostility being directed toward you, no matter how well you present your case, your best solution is to disconnect from that person or group and find one that is aligned toward your goals and purposes.
If your behavior or ideas are the cause of the disapproval being directed at you, you have the opportunity to change them to be more acceptable. You need to examine whether what you have been doing is more important to your survival than approval from the person or group that disapproves of you. You may find that you can change your ideas or your behavior without compromising your integrity.
If you can change to match the person or groups ideals and feel good about it, you made the right decision. If you are compromising your integrity by agreeing with the criticism directed at you, you will not be happy and you will be better off elsewhere.
You will know when you are taking charge of your life because you will be happy and truly productive. Join us Sunday for a free workshop on Taking Charge of Your Life.
The workshop will be hosted on Zoom at 12 noon EST using the usual link. If you don’t have a link, send an email to srtcounseling@gmail.com and ask to join the workshop.
