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  Step 9: Allow health to stream into your life. Become conscious of resistance, which interferes with the natural flow of healthy energy to you. This resistance is in the form of your thoughts. Any thought that’s out of sync with the seven faces of intention is a resistant thought. Any thought that says that it’s impossible to heal is a resistant thought. Any thought of doubt or fear is a resistant thought. When you observe these thoughts, note them carefully, and then deliberately activate thoughts that are in energetic, vibrational balance with the all-providing Source of intention.

  Step 10: Stay immersed in a state of gratitude. Be grateful for every breath you take . . . for all of your internal organs that work together in harmony . . . for the wholeness that is your body . . . for the blood streaming through your veins . . . for your brain that allows you to process these words and the eyes that allow you to read them. Look in the mirror at least once every day and give thanks for that heart that continues to beat and the invisible force on which those heartbeats depend. Stay in gratitude. This is the surest way to keep the connecting link to perfect health clean and pure.

  One of the messages of Jesus of Nazareth is apropos of all that I’ve presented in this chapter on having a healing intention:

  If you bring forth what is inside you,

  what you bring forth will save you.

  If you don’t bring forth what is inside you,

  what you don’t bring forth will destroy you.

  What is inside you is the power of intention. No microscope will reveal it. You can find the command center with x-ray technology, but the commander in the command center remains impervious to our sophisticated probing instruments. You are that commander. You must allow yourself to be in vibrational harmony with the greatest commander of all and bring it forth to serve you, rather than allowing yourself to be in a state of disrepair.

  IT IS MY INTENTION TO:

  APPRECIATE AND

  EXPRESS THE GENIUS

  THAT I AM

  “Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”

  — Buckminster Fuller

  Consider that all human beings have within themselves the same essence of consciousness, and that the process of creativity and genius are attributes of human consciousness. Therefore, genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is. Perhaps you created something absolutely astonishing and you even amazed yourself. Then there are the moments when you make exactly the right shot in a round of golf or a tennis match and you realize with immense pleasure what you’ve just accomplished. You are a genius.

  You may never have thought of yourself as a person who has genius residing within. You may have thought that genius is a word reserved for the Mozarts, Michelangelos, Einsteins, Madame Curies, Virginia Woolfs, Stephen Hawkings, and others whose lives and accomplishments have been publicized. But keep in mind that they share the same essence of consciousness that you do. They emanated from the same power of intention as you did. They have all shared the same life force animating them as you do. Your genius is in your very existence, awaiting the right circumstances to express itself.

  There is no such thing as luck or accidents in this purposeful universe. Not only is everything connected to everything else, but no one is excluded from the universal Source called intention. And genius, since it’s a characteristic of the universal Source, must be universal, which means that it’s in no way restricted. It’s available to every single human being. It certainly can and does show up differently in every single one of us. The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention.

  Changing Your Energy Level to Access the

  Genius Within You

  In his illuminating book, Power vs. Force, David Hawkins wrote: “Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It is not something that a person has, nor even something that someone is. Those in whom we recognize genius commonly disclaim it. A universal characteristic of genius is humility. The genius has always attributed his insights to some higher influence.” Genius is a characteristic of the creative force (the first of the seven faces of intention) that allows all of material creation to come into form. It is an expression of the divine.

  No one who’s considered a genius—be it Sir Laurence Olivier onstage as Hamlet; Michael Jordan gracefully gliding toward a dunk on the basketball court; Clarence Darrow speaking to a jury; Joan of Arc inspiring a nation; or Mrs. Fuehrer, my eighth-grade teacher making a story come alive in the classroom—can explain where the energy to perform at those levels came from. Sir Laurence Olivier is said to have been distraught after giving one of the greatest stage performances of Hamlet ever seen in London. When asked why he was so upset after the thundering ovation from the audience, he replied (I paraphrase), “I know it was my best performance, but I don’t know how I did it, where it came from, and if I can ever do it again.” Ego and genius are mutually exclusive. Genius is a function of surrendering to the Source or reconnecting to it so dramatically that one’s ego is substantially minimized. This is what Dr. Hawkins means by accessing higher energy patterns.

  Higher energy is the energy of light, which is a way of describing spiritual energy. The seven faces of intention are the ingredients of this spiritual energy. When you shift your thoughts, emotions, and life activities into these realms and deactivate the lower energies of the ego, the God force within you begins to take over. It’s so automatic that it travels faster than your thoughts. This is why your thoughts about how you did something are so bewildering. The higher energy level actually transcends thought, moving into vibrational harmony with the Source energy of intention. As you release ego-dominated thoughts (which convince you that you’re doing these amazing things and are responsible for these unbelievable accomplishments), you tap in to the power of intention. This is where the genius that you truly are resides.

  Many people never get acquainted with this inner world of their personal genius, and think that genius is only measured in intellectual or artistic endeavors. Genius remains in the shadows of their thoughts, unnoticed during their occasional forays inward, and may even be padlocked and chained! If you’ve been taught to avoid thinking too highly of yourself, and that genius is reserved for a handful of select individuals, you probably resist this idea. You won’t recognize your genius aspect if you’ve been conditioned to believe that you should accept your lot in life, think small, try to fit in with normal groups of people, and not aim too high in order to avoid disappointment.

  I’d like you to consider what may seem like a radical idea: Genius can show up in as many ways as there are human beings. Anything in any field that anyone has ever accomplished is shared by you. You’re connected to every being that has ever lived or ever will live, and you share the exact same energy of intention that flowed through Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, the Virgin Mother, and Jonas Salk. You can access this energy. At the deepest level, all things and all people are composed of vibrations organized into fields that permeate the entire structure of the universe. You share these vibrations, and you are in this field.

  The starting point is knowing and understanding that this level of creativity and functioning called genius resides within you. Then begin to deconstruct doubts about your role here. Make a commitment to raise your energy levels to vibrate harmoniously with the field of intention despite attempts by your ego and others’ egos to dissuade you.

  Dr. Valerie Hunt in Infinite Mind: Science of Human Vibrations of Consciousness, reminds us: “Lower vibrations exist with material reality, higher ones with mystical reality, and a full vibrational spectrum with expanded reality.” To fulfill this intention of appreciating and expressing the genius that you a
re, you’re going to have to strive for that full vibrational spectrum. This is the idea of expansion, which is crucial to knowing your true potential. It’s what you signed up for when you left the formless world of spiritual intention. You co-created a body and a life to express that inner genius, which you may have locked away in an almost inaccessible chamber.

  Expanding Your Reality

  The universal force that created you is always expanding, and your objective is to achieve harmony with that Source and thereby regain the power of intention. So what is it that keeps you from expanding to the mystical reality and full vibrational spectrum that Dr. Hunt refers to? I like this answer from William James, who is often referred to as the father of modern psychology: “Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” To expand your reality to match the expansiveness of the all-creating field of intention, you have to peel away your old habits of thought. These habits have pigeonholed you to a point where you allow labels to be attached to you. These labels define you in many ways.

  Most of the labels are from other people who need to describe what you are not, because they feel safer predicting what can’t be than what can be: She’s never been very artistic. He’s a tad clumsy, so he won’t be an athlete. Mathematics was never her strong suit. He’s a bit shy, so he won’t be good dealing with the public. You’ve heard these pronouncements for so long that you believe them. They’ve become a habitual way of thinking about your abilities and potentialities. As William James suggested, genius means making a shift in your thinking so that you let go of those habits and open yourself to possibilities of greatness.

  I’ve heard the stereotype about writers and speakers since I was a young man. If you’re a writer, you’re introverted, and writers don’t make dynamic speakers. I chose to shift from that programmed and stereotypical way of thinking and decided that I could excel at anything I affirmed and intended for myself. I chose to believe that when I came into this world of boundaries and form, there were no restrictions on me. I was intended here from an expansive energy field that knows nothing of limits or labels. I decided that I’d be both an introverted writer and a dynamic extroverted speaker. Similarly, I’ve broken through many socially imposed habitual ways of labeling people. I can be a genius in any area if, according to the father of modern psychology, I learn to perceive in unhabitual ways. I can sing tender songs, write sentimental poetry, create exquisite paintings, and at the same time in the same body, excel as an athlete in any sport, build a fine piece of furniture, repair my automobile, wrestle with my children, and surf in the ocean.

  Pay attention to yourself in ways that allow the expansion of the infinite possibilities that you’re potentially capable of. You may decide, as I have, that repairing an automobile and surfing in the ocean aren’t what you enjoy doing. So leave those activities to others, and use your genius to engage in pursuits that please and attract you. Expand your reality to the point where you pursue what you love doing and excel at it. Involve yourself in the high-energy levels of trust, optimism, appreciation, reverence, joy, and love. That means love for what you’re doing, love for yourself, and love for your genius, which allows you to immerse yourself in any activity and enjoy the process of experiencing it fully.

  Trusting your insights. The process of appreciating your genius involves trusting those inner flashes of creative insight that are worthy of expression. The song you’re composing in your head. The weird storyline that you keep dreaming about that would make a fabulous movie. The crazy idea about combining peas and carrots in a seed and growing parrot vegetables. The new car design you’ve always contemplated. The fashion idea that would become the next fad. The toy that every child will yearn to have. The musical extravaganza you’ve seen in your mind. These ideas and thousands like them are the creative genius within you at work. These ideas in your imagination are distributions of God taking place. They’re not from your ego, which squashes them with fear and doubt. Your insights are divinely inspired. Your creative mind is how your higher self vibrates harmoniously with the field of intention, which is always creating.

  Banishing doubt regarding those brilliant flashes of insight will allow you to express these ideas and begin the process of acting on them. Having the thoughts and squelching them because you think they aren’t good enough or they don’t merit any action is denying the connection that you have to the power of intention. You have a connecting link to intention, but you’re allowing it to be weakened by living at ordinary levels of ego consciousness. Remember that you’re a piece of God, and the inner spark of genius in your imagination—that intuitive inner voice—is really God reminding you of your uniqueness. You’re having these inner insights because this is precisely how you stay connected to the all-creating genius that intended you here. As I’ve said earlier, trusting in yourself is trusting in the wisdom that created you.

  Never, but never, regard any creative thought that you’re having as anything other than a worthy potential expression of your inner genius. The only caveat here is that these thoughts must be in vibrational harmony with the seven faces of intention. Inner thoughts of hatred, anger, fear, despair, and destruction simply don’t foster creative insights. The low-energy, ego-dominated thoughts must be replaced and converted to the power of intention. Your creative impulses are real, they’re vital, they’re worthy, and they crave expression. The fact that you can conceive of them is proof of this. Your thoughts are real. They’re pure energy, and they’re telling you to pay attention and get that connecting link to the power of intention polished through living at different levels than you’ve accepted as normal or ordinary. At these levels, everyone is a genius.

  Appreciating the genius in others. Every person you interact with should feel the inner glow that comes from being appreciated, particularly for the ways in which they express their creativity. A core theme, which strengthens the flow of the power of intention, is wanting for others as much as you intend for yourself. Appreciating the genius in others attracts high levels of competent energy to you. By seeing and celebrating the creative genius, you open a channel within yourself for receiving the creative energy from the field of intention.

  My 15-year-old son, Sands, has a unique way of riding a surfboard unlike everyone around him in the ocean. I encourage him to do what comes naturally and express it with pride. He also created a unique language of communication, similar to my brother David, which others in the family and close personal acquaintances emulate. Creating a language that others use is the work of a genius! I tell Sands this, and my brother, too, whose unique language I’ve spoken for over half a century. My daughter Skye has a distinctive one-of-a-kind singing voice that I love. I tell her so, and point out that it’s an expression of her genius.

  All of my children, and yours as well (including the child within you) have unparalleled characteristics in many of the ways they express themselves. From the way that they dress, to the little tattoo, to their signature, to their mannerisms, to their unmatched personality quirks, you can appreciate their genius. Notice and appreciate your genius, too. When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.

  Take the road of seeing the face of God in everyone you encounter. Look for something to appreciate in others, and be willing to communicate it to them and anyone who’s willing to listen. When you see this quality in others, you’ll soon begin to realize that this potential is available to all of humanity. This obviously includes you. Recognizing genius in yourself is an integral part of the dynamic. As Dr. Hawkins tells us in Power vs. Force: “Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.”

  Genius and simplicity. Begin to realize the intention of this chapter by uncomplicating your life as much as possible. Genius thrives in a contemplative environment, where every minute isn’t filled with obligations or hoards of people offering advice and insisting on your constant participation in ordinary, mund
ane endeavors. The genius in you isn’t seeking confirmation from others, but quiet space for its ideas to blossom. Genius isn’t as much about achieving a high IQ on a standardized test, as it is the exceptionally high level of plain old savvy in any given field of human endeavor. Genius-at-work may be the person who finds tinkering with an electronic gadget for hours on end exhilarating, and also can be entranced by puttering in the garden or observing the communication patterns between bats on a starry night. An uncomplicated life with fewer intrusions tolerated, in a simple setting, allows your creative genius to surface and express itself. The simplicity establishes a link to the power of intention, and your genius will flourish.

  Making Your Intention Your Reality

  Below is my ten-step program for putting this intention to appreciate and express the genius within you to work.

  Step 1: Declare yourself to be a genius! This shouldn’t be a public pronouncement, but a statement of intention between you and your Creator. Remind yourself that you’re one of the masterpieces that emanated from the universal field of intention. You don’t have to prove that you’re a genius, nor do you need to compare any of your accomplishments to those of others. You have a unique gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.