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The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way

The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Most excellent.
Review: I bought this book after seeing Dr. Dyer's boost for public broadcasting. I woke up one Sunday morning, put on the TV and there he was trying to raise money for those airwaves. I've always been a big fan of NPR and public TV so I gave it a chance and listened for 15 minutes or so. I was amazed at how much sense he made. When I got the book I was not disappointed. It is so "commonsensical" that I was almost shaking my head saying to myself "I already knew that" when I was finished. The book was almost like the slap I needed to remind myself. He taps into all of our souls...all of our innate knowledge. It is a very good book and one that will benefit those who have become "disconnected" as well as those who may have just forgotten what we already know deep inside us, and ones who already "remember". I read it in a week only because I was busy at work, otherwise I think I would have devoured it in 2-3 days. It is a welcome addition to my home and heart and its lessons won't soon be forgotten. I've already shared it with many friends as I feel that it is one of those "life lessons" manuals--everyone should read it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Teaching us to be smart
Review: I find that Dyer's work has had a huge impact on how I think and feel and really how I behave as I walk this earth. When I bought this title I also bought the recommended title, The Emotional Intelligence Quickbook. I'd love for Dr. Dyer to write about this concept. It is AMAZING and really related well to his work.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The Power of Intention
Review: In The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer he does a goof job of describing a power he calls "The Source". However, the author doesn't do a good job of explaining how to obtain it. This book is filled with nice sounding platitudes, but it is a bit overly simplified.

I have however read a book recently gave me a lot of answers concerning the inner struggles I have been battling with for years. It is laid out in a question and answer format that helped make it a quick and easy read as well. It dealt with such subjects as different religions, the Christ Consciousness, DNA, reincarnation, and much more. It is called "The Book of Thomas," by Daniel Aber and Gabreael.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Dyer Is Confused
Review: As I have indicated before, I have read and enjoyed numerous Dr. Dyer titles. However, I do feel that in this book and the previous There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem, Dr. Dyer has become increasingly vague and unsure of what he wants to say. When he attempts to talk about "higher energy", he never really comes to the point, or how it might be applied to our lives. I really think he is confused. And the sources he cites, such as Hawkins and Hunt, are spurious at best.

My advice is to stick with Your Sacred Self and You'll See It When You Believe It.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Great Help As A Parent
Review: The Power of Intention was of great help to me as a parent. Dr. Dyer's concepts and ideas brought a certain amount of clarity to my thinking that allowed me to see through some of my "baggage" as a parent. If you have ever seen Dr. Dyer on PBS or cable, you know that he challenges your beliefs about the simple things we do in life. When I came to Amazon.com to buy this book, another reviewer suggested I get Matt Pasquinilli''s book, The Child Whisperer at the same time. The two are not alike in many ways, but very complimentary in their seperate messages. I feel like I am a better parent because Dr. Dyer taught me specific ways to apply the co-creating principles of intention, and Pasquinilli taught me how to communicate directly and intentionally with my children.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wayne Stops The Noise & Let's The Silence In
Review: I have read the book, watched the DVD and have been able to put ego in it's place and within the silence, hear what matters most. Ego is something that needs to be worked on everyday, as there are always challenging moments that can easily bring that ego or need to be right into play and thus, in a moment, we disconnect from Source. Trusting in the Source is truly an awakening. Letting go and letting God, needs to be a daily discipline until it becomes a natural path without thought.

My daughter said to me when she was only 7 .. "Dad, I don't want to grow up ... why don't you grow down" .. here was a child in a happier spiritual place than I was. At age 7 she became one of my mastermind teachers and I the student.

The Power of Intention is a book that should be reread many times, it's just that good. I personally have a great respect for Wayne's endless research, sense of humour and amazing ability to communicate a thought so clearly. He is genuine in every way.



Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Good Teaching
Review: I really enjoyed learning about the "seven faces of intention"--creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, abundance and receptivity.
Dyer teaches from a wealth of knowledge about getting out of your low-energy beliefs. This is an excellant book that will give you some ideas on how to co-create your life, make your life better, and move on to more positive things.
I listened to the audio version, and it was really well done.


Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A RECOMMENDATION WITH RESERVATIONS
Review: I'm going to end up recommending this book with one major and two minor reservations. If you can get past the reservations (which I will explain), I believe there is something here that might make a difference in your life and mine. You'll notice that the majority of reviews give the book 5 stars, but a significant minority give it 1 star. I'm guessing that the wide disparity of reactions is based on how surmountable or insurmountable the reservations were to each reviewer. My purpose is to help you decide whether for you it would be worthwhile shelling out the $18-$25 price of the book

Here's the major reservation: in Calvinism, you could tell who was saved and going to heaven by how successful and prosperous they were. In Social Darwinism, successful people were evidence of survival of the fittest. In the Power of Intention, people create the lives they want based on being "aligned with Intention". The implication is that if they are poor, diseased, homeless, or victimized, they are not aligned with Intention. They may not be sinners (Calvinism) or unfit (Social Darwinism), but they are unenlightened and somehow responsible for their unhappy fate. I wonder what advice Dyer would have had for the victims of the recent tsunami.

If Dyer's theories are correct and universal, should we be translating his book and dropping it into distressed areas like Darfur in the Sudan or perhaps in the Sunni triangle? Personal responsibility is a powerful and often overlooked factor in the human condition, but Dyer seems oblivious to the possibility that there might be other factors at work, as well. His five words "I want to feel good" would be a tough sell for the sole survivor of a family that has just been murdered.

The first minor reservation is, pardon the big word, epistomological: how does Dyer know what he says he knows? For example, how does he know that there are precisely seven "Faces of Intention"? Why not six or eight or ten? Is he the Chosen Receiver of Spiritual Truth with his own private Mount Sinai, or more likely, is he simply inventing a systematic break-down of Intention or figuring out what Intention should include? The system and the seven faces are plausible and useful, but where and how did he get them?

The second minor reservation is that Dyer does not really share with us how alignment with Intention has made a difference in his life. For example, how did it help him overcome addiction to cocaine or alcohol? How did it help make his second marriage better than his first? These stories would help him connect his theories with his life and help the reader do the same.

All that said, I still think Dyer is onto something. I have a vague awareness of the power of Intention in my own life, and after reading the book, I now intend to pursue it in a conscious way and see what turns up. The possible benefits of this experiment far exceed any conceivable costs. And this is why I end up recommending the book to you, IF you can get past the reservations.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Gratitude
Review: My husband and I went to see Dr. Dyer speak in San Diego. We sat down and saw that there was a line of people waiting to speak to him personally. My husband asked me if I wanted to stand in line. I said no, mostly because I didn't want to idolize him. But now I regret it. I just want to thank him for all the tapes and books that he has created. I haven't listened to all of them. But the ones that I have listened to have inspired me to be the best person that I can be. And for that I am grateful. The Power of Intention can be a wonderful book to those that need to listen and are ready to listen.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Rise above the Ego
Review: I read each and every one of the reviews on this book, and detect an underlying defense mechanism being sprung by those who gave this book a bad review. From misspelling the author's name, to endless Biblical quotes from those too fearful (or myopic) to envision any other kind of spirituality than their own, the ego is speaking in these people. You are the ones who need to reread this book!

I have been reading Dr. Dyer's works since my teens, and there have been books I have liked, and those I could do without. It seems like those who dismiss his works as New Age Trash are those who probably need the most work on their inner realms. Yes, the terminology is different than a Jude Devereaux novel, and you won't read much about these things in your local newspaper. But that doesn't mean that Dr Dyer's premise of living a life of love, forgiveness and gentle kindness doesn't deliver the truth. He quotes Jesus as well as other prophets with nothing but reverence and respect. Sages have come in all shapes and sizes, and from various parts of the world. ("And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold" John 10:16).

For those who have read Dr. Dyer's works before, The Power of Intention is one of his most succinct, value-rich and life-changing works yet. He FINALLY got me to meditate on a regular basis (call it prayer for you die-hard can't-see-another's-point-of-view Christians), and I DID manifest those things in my life that I had been desiring for years. Through careful, focused thought, you can change your own world, all the while giving back to it in equal or greater quantities. That, in EVERY religion, is how the world works.

Remember, people, that we are only humans, and not one of us is perfect. To dismiss another's views as garbage is only defining yourself. Remember what those unwilling to listen did to Jesus, to Martin Luther King, to Gandhi, to all those who dared speak out against the common beliefs of their times. And look where their words have taken us now.


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