Book Review: "The Power of Intention" by Dr. Wayne Dyer

Forget making resolutions for 2009. Instead...focus on "Intending" a New Life for 2009! Here's how!

Yes. This is another book from my favorite author.

I almost by-passed this one, too. But the universe had better “intentions” for me, if you can pardon the pun.

I came across the book while browsing in a thrift shop. This hardcover version was new and was selling for $2.99, less 30 percent off. (See Dec. 14 blog). I couldn’t pass it up, though I’d decided back when the book first was released that I would not read it. I thought it would offer the same information as his many other books.

Well, I was very wrong.

“Power of Intention” is mind blowing, if you take the information Dyer presents as TRUTH!

Start with telling yourself, “I’m not from here.”

Do this now, quietly. Repeat it as many times as you need to get the message: “I’m not from here!”

Then begin to think of the implications of that.
(This theme of "not from here," "life is just an illusion" keeps re-occurring in all my recent readings, including by Neale Donald Walsh, whose book,"Communion with God," I'll review in February, "The Course in Miracles" and in Leo Tolstoy's writings.)

You begin to wonder who the “I” is and who is “not from here.”

Then you begin to wonder, where did “I” then come from.

These are just a few of the mind-altering exercises Dyer leads you into with this book!

Image, too, that you are on “ the active side of infinity” and not on the inactive side.

This means that your energy level is high and you’re vibrating at a higher frequency, thus able to connect and stay connected to the Presence within you.

Vibrating at a high frequency level comes from a decision you make to set your intentions on becoming 1. Creative. 2. Kind. 3. Loving. 4. Beauty. 5. Expanding. 6. Abundance. 7. Receptive. These are “The Seven Faces of Intention,” Dyer repeatedly refers to throughout the book.

By setting your intentions on these seven attributes, and manifesting them, you are able to stay at a high-energy vibration, thus perpetually in a state of Divine essence.

When you begin to express the low-frequency vibrations, it’s because you’re probably manifesting: fear, doubt, anger, hatred, bitterness, lack of forgiveness or some other negative trait.

Just think about the implications Dyer offers us here: We can change our lives by INTENDING it!

And we can INTEND OUR LIVES by moving to a higher level in our behavior and key attributes.

Just doing those things...just staying in the presence...will give you ALL THE POWER you need to Intend anything you want in your life!


Imagine that!

Just think about the truth of what Dyer offers.

When we are low in “Spirit,” we seem to attract problem after problem into our lives.

When our Spirit is high, we are unstoppable!

We all live this all of our lives.

Shift from high to low energy and you attract the lowest elements in life.

Shift from low to high energy and life begins to change very positively!

The “Active Side of Infinity” are those people walking in the light of Spirit. Those who are on the inactive side have not woken up to their divine essence and potential and have lives that manifest that separation.

There are heavy doses of meditation and visualization throughout the book. Dyer also introduces us to a technique, called Japa, that he swears works miracles in our lives.


Japa is the connecting power to God by repeatedly saying his name. To get into Japa, you create a gap in your thoughts, then focus on God through the “AH...h...h” sound present in all the names of God, regardless of language: Allah, Krishna, Jehovah, Ra, God (ah). By repeating this AH sound, while in the gap, and visualizing desires you’d like to see manifested, you will be able to realize all your desires.

I can tell you this about Japa.*

I began the practice on Oct. 28. Within a month, many of the things, very simple things, I wanted to see manifested showed up easily and without any delay. I’m now on my way to “intending” new desires at a much higher level. In the next year, I’ll let you know how I’m doing.

This is a thorough and profound book, in that it covers every area of your life and relationships, and I recommend it to anyone wanting to change their lives for the “GOOD” in 2009!

You will not only be empowered to manifest all your desires, but you’ll also be on your way to practicing living your life in a new way.


Dyer offers us powerful stuff in this “Power of Intention!”

So, I recommend that before the year is out, pick up a copy so that you can INTEND a new life, new dreams and new ways of being in 2009!

Be Blessed, as I was blessed!

Namaste’,

Che’
NOTE: Since you’ll want to know more about Japa and getting into the Gap, I also recommend that you pick up Dyer’s, “Getting into the Gap” with a CD, that walks you through step-by-step into the “GAP!”This is a new technique for meditating, and it will change your meditation forever in a more powerful way.