TECHNIQUES OF WILL

Will is the process by which one deliberately chooses or decides upon a course of action.  It is the power to arrive at one’s own decision and to act upon it independently even in the face of opposition.  It involves deliberate intention in making a firm choice.  Will also requires granting oneself the freedom to take action in caring out choices.  As you can see, techniques of will are of vital importance in using ones power, the ability to participate knowingly in making changes in one’s life.

Intention is directed will and is essential to all healing work, as well as making other powerful changes.  Intention is concentration without effort while having no regard for the outcome.  It is involved in using various techniques of will.  Some of the approaches I use are reversing exercises, including stopping techniques, such as stopping obsessional thinking, or stopping behaviors such as smoking.  Reversing is the process of turning around habitual attitudes, feelings, perceptions, conceptions, and relationships to life.  It is involved in many of the Power Prescriptions in some manner.

Techniques of will often require belief that one can make powerful changes.  If one accepts the premise that belief participates in creating experience, then we can say that we become what we see, so we need to see what we want to become.  We don’t see only with out eyes; we see with our whole being.  In other words, in the new way of thinking, believing is seeing, rather than the old paradigm view that seeing is believing.  Frank Lloyd Wright put it this way: “The thing always happens that you really believe in, and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”  Henry Ford said, “Think you can, think you can’t.  Either way, you’re right.”  Yet, since we know reality is created through a mutual process with the universe, there is no control and there are no absolutes in what I and others are saying about the power of belief.  However, if you think that this makes sense, you will want to use techniques of will to participate in creating your world.  Here is a Power Prescription that you can say to yourself once a day for 21 days, the length of time it is believed that is required to create a habit.  You can write it out and put it in several places in your home to remind yourself.  Give it a try and see what happens.  Here goes:

“I am free to choose with awareness how I participate in changes I intend to create.”