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Intention Exercise/ Forgiveness Exercise
WARNING: Folks with a history of mental illness, trauma, or panic are urged not to use these techniques without a trained energy therapist. If you decide to do these processes you will agree to absolve the webmaster, his server, and Steve Mensing of any responsibility for the application or misapplication of these processes. Although there are many safety features built into these processes and they have been tested and evaluated, there is always in any process the fraction of possibility that someone could experience some discomfort. So proceed with this warning.
INTENTION
Based on a conscious choice,intention is the active preference and commitment to do something. Examples: "I strongly desire to master clearing." or "I intend to fully feel my feelings and allow them to be there--I will neither try to get rid of them or keep them." Soon this will submerge itself in the unconscious.
When an intention is completely installed at the gut level it becomes an attitude in the background that runs the show. It is truly the "Power behind the Throne". In resides deep in the unconscious to be effective. It is often out of everyday consciousness unless we have access to our unconscious through trance and revery. Intention gets everything moving--it is the key being inserted in the ignition. As we can well imagine it is extremely important that we have control over these committed preferences. They run our life. Having strong intentions will decide whether or not we have a happy and meaningful life--whether we can clear or experience consciousness in novel and useful ways.
Intentions are the governing force behind our will.
With control of our intentions we have our hands firmly on the steering wheel of our lives. Yet this steering now is turned over to the unconscious and the deeper emotions.
Weak intentions are of little service and may help to create challenges for us on the behavioral and emotional levels.
Good and strong intentions empower our lives. They are the very basis of all clearing and healing. What we strongly intend pushes the ball up the court.
Bad intentions create emotional challenges and negative feedback from others and the environment.
Our lives unfold through our intentions. Our behavior is dictated by our strongest unconscious intentions. If you post on this page it will have been your intention that got those keys struck. However you may not have been aware of your intentions. They are just in the background of awareness.
We can have an enormous effect on our thought forms, emotions, and physical sensations as well as our health with strong and focused intentions dwelling at the gut level. There are some who maintain that healing can take place at a distance through powerfully focused intentions and intentional prayers.
Having strong intentions is key in every area of our lives.
KNOW YOUR INTENTIONS EXERCISE
Allow yourself to become very relaxed while you do this exerice. Utilize left nasal dominance breathing: Here you simply breathe though your left nostril by pinching your right nostril closed. Breathe this way for at least the first few minutes of discovering your unconscious intentions.
What are your most important values? Jot them down and see what your unconscious intentions are in this area. Write down your intentions. Be clear and specific.
Core values might occur in these areas: Health, survival, personal growth, spirituality, basic needs, hobbies, major interests, family life, etc. These reside in our depths.
Also take a look at your long-range and short-range goals. These can be clues to your intentions. List the intentions you have around your goals. List your most important intentions.
Are there any intentions you do not want? List them.
What feels like your most important intentions?
Are your intentions positive and life affirming? If not--list those for potential clearing.
Are there any intentions you wish to make stronger and less conflict with other intentions?
With your weak intentions, list any doubts, counter intentions, negative feelings, and yes buts that come up. These will be targets for clearing.
CHANGE AND CREATE YOUR INTENTIONS EXERCISE
Here is a model for stating intentions:
I strongly prefer or desire to ___________________.
If you experienced any counter intentions, yes buts, doubts, or negative feelings around your intentions and want to clear them, simply use any Emoclear clearer or any other clearing process to trim around your intention. Keep stating your positive intention with conviction and clear any of those doubts, counter intentions, yes buts, or negative feelings until you are left with a very powerful intention. This will shortly fall away from your awareness and inhabit the world of your unconscious. You will know it though a felt sense.
Ask yourself these questions to further test your unconscious intention:
(1) Does my intention feel believable?
(2) Is it strongly felt with no competing feelings or intentions.
(3) Does it lead to a deeper sense of enhanced living?
(4) Does this intention support my deepest preferences and cherished values?
(5) Does this intention have a basic sense of goodness?
If the intention fails these tests, either replace it or do any required clearing until you have a strong, positive, and believable intention. These will gradually be integrated into your nature and fall away from your nature. You will experience their guiding force at the gut level.
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FORGIVENESS
Accepting ourselves, others, and circumstances negatively impacting on us is a fairly challenging task for many of us. To remain accepting, loving and open often doesn't come easy. Hate and resentment can feel natural, yet as we mature these qualities often reveal who they really hurt the most: us.
Unless we act out our hate and resentment toward others, we never really touch others with those emotions. To believe otherwise is a form of magical thinking. We feel those feelings not the persons we hate or resent.
The process of overcoming hate and resentment and drawing on forgiveness can open us to pain and free our spontaneous acceptance and love.
THE FORGIVENESS EXERCISE
(1) LEFT NASAL DOMINANCE BREATHING. For the entirety of this exercise gently pinch your right nostril shut and breathe through your left nostril only. Place your right thumb on over your right nostril and insert the next two fingers into the notch between your nose and upper lip. This will facilitate imagery and feeling.
(2) Is there a person(s), yourself, or an event you would desire to forgive? Jot down who or what it is on a piece of paper. What beliefs about this person(s), myself or event create my feelings of hate and resentment. Examine those beliefs you jotted down and then move to the next step.
(3) If another person(s) were involved, what were the influences of their beliefs, feelings, and behaviors on the circumstances that led to my chosing to hate or resent these persons?
Would I have acted the same as that person(s) if I had the exact same beliefs, motivations, and feelings as they did under mirror conditions? Would I have made the same choices given their inner life and external circumstances? Basically we are stepping into another's shoes here and assuming their viewpoint. Spend some time with this step.
(4) Can I find other elements to blame other than myself, somone else, or circumstances?
Jot down a potential list of other potential targets for blame. Weather. Bad food. Gravity. Having wrong information. Turns in highway. Can you blame the entire universe or just let go of blame altogether?
(5) Was the transgression that the person or yourself did--was it intentional or unintentional?
(6) Suddenly an alteration in time occurred to your surprise. You are looking back from 10 years in the future and you are noting you have already accepted and forgiven yourself, others, or circumstances which you once hated and resented. What would you notice first about your accepted and forgiven self, other, or circumstances? What other positive things would you notice? How might you feel better?
(7) If you abruptly experienced forgiveness and acceptance for another or yourself, how long would that take before it felt natural? How would you know the forgiveness felt natural?
(8) Take your palm and gently percuss 30 times the webbing between your thumb and next two fingers while you say aloud with conviction: "I forgive _____________."
(9) If there is any stuck hate or resentment they can be targets for clearing.
Copyright Steve Mensing
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