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Select Your Thoughts, Dear Readers

april published on October 25, 2010 in zeitgeist. 2 Comments Tags: , , , .

Dear SuperForest,

The following is a great find from Intent.com. It’s about choosing your thoughts and how, in instances where you have ones you really wish you hadn’t, you can decide to merely view them from afar, like a person standing at a train station, yet not necessarily hopping aboard for the ride.

Take it away, Patricia Moreno!

‘You have to learn to select your thoughts the same way you select your clothes every day… Now that’s a power that you can cultivate.’ Richard from Texas.

This is a line from Eat, Pray, Love that is in complete alignment with the practice of intenSati.  In intenSati, we are encouraged to replace our negative thoughts with positive ones. In class, we get to actually practice acknowledging the negative thoughts and fears and doubts that come up for us, but then choose not to believe them.  Thoughts are not real!  Just because we think something doesn’t make it true.

I love this line from Eat Pray Love because it demonstrates something practical we can do to overcome our negative fears.  Literally, like how we choose our clothes everyday, or how we choose what we are going to eat, or how we choose what route we are going to take to get somewhere, we can choose to believe or not to believe our thoughts. We can begin practicing being aware of the thoughts that come up telling us we can’t do it, or we’re no good, or whatever negative fears and worries come up, and just noticing them, and letting them float on by without selecting one to believe.  I encourage you to try it.

When the negative thought, doubt, fear, or worry comes up (which it will!) just see if you can sit with it and observe it. Watch it like you are watching a billboard. And as you are watching it you can just choose not to believe it. Really, it’s that simple!  Give it a shot …”

You can find the article in full here.

April

Your Path To Wellness – Intent.com

april published on February 1, 2010 in zeitgeist. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Good day, SuperForest!

SuperForester Lizza has just introduced me to Intent.com – an online forum that lets you send your intentions out into the universe (via the web-iverse) and thus solidify your goals and focus your energies into achieving them. What’s great is that others read your intentions and offer their encouragement and support. It’s a great way to “put your intent out there” and committ, and at the same time give you the sense that we humans are all working together to love, grow and achieve. Deepak Chopra and his daughter Mallika are avid intent sharers.

If I’ve sparked your interest at all, here’s what to do:
1. Click on “create an account” in the top right hand corner of the intent.com homepage. This took me roughly 2 minutes.

2. Click on “intents”. Then type in your intention in the box as pictured below. Then click on “add my intent”.

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3. You can then check out the most recent posts and offer your support to others in their journey. I found it lovely to browse through the intents of others. So many run parallel to what I hope to achieve too.

Tools such as this make me so grateful for the internet. It allows us to share in a far bigger way than ever before. Our words are now far-reaching and people are really listening. In short: If you want support, you got it.

Love,
April