Effectively Helping Others or "Am I doing this right?"

Many visitors and new members of the site, invariably ask the question “Am I doing this right?” when it comes to reading other people’s intentions.  

Well, I will be the first to tell you I don’t have a definitive answer to that question.  Yes, I have some insights into a few common techniques.  But before I share those and tell you my actual process that I follow, please know that if you have a technique that you use, you are encouraged to keep on using it.  You are also encouraged to share your techniques in the member’s forum here.    

Scientific studies on remote (long distance) healing, have given us a few clues to what is the best way to use our thoughts to help others.  The book, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World by Lynne McTaggart, compiles a long list of scientific experiments that were designed to test the power of our thoughts on the physical world and on other living things.  (The results of some of these experiments are quite remarkable and well worth the read.)

The participants in the scientific experiments discussed in McTaggart’s book range from known healers, Tibetan Monks and Qigong Masters, to everyday college students, identical twins, and lovers.  McTaggart combines the most commonly used techniques by the most successful experiment participants into an Intention Program for the reader to follow.  She suggests using this Intention Program for manifesting intentions of your own and for helping others.

I have not listed all the steps of her Intention Program here but a few of her steps are:

• Power up through meditation. (Use meditation to quiet and slow the mind.)
• Get onto the same wavelength by focusing on compassion and making a meaningful connection.
• State your intention and make it specific.
• Visualize, in vivid detail, your intention as established fact.
• Move aside – surrender to the power of the universe.

Personally, I have combined a few of McTaggart’s techniques with some of my own for use on 10,000 Thoughts.  Below is my suggestion for effectively reading another member’s intention. 

Let me preface by saying that some people find sitting in front of the computer distracting.  If you find it difficult to focus, please write down or print out the intention and follow the steps below in another location.

First, read the entire intention, the background information and even the member’s profile information.  Take it all in.  Try and get a feel for the person, a sense of who they are.

Now, spend a few moments clearing your mind and relaxing.  Take a few deep breathes, maybe even close your eyes for a moment.

Once you are relaxed, focus on someone you know well – a family member or close friend.  Picture someone you love dearly and visualize them happy, laughing and doing well.  Now, focus on how good that makes you feel to see one of your loved ones in such a wonderful state of joy.  Feel the warmth and happiness bubbling up inside you as you picture your loved one getting all they want out of life.  Realize how strongly you desire to see them succeed.  It is an unselfish, loving desire.

Now project that warmth and happiness for your loved one, onto the author of the intention you are reading.  Direct that unselfish, loving desire for another to succeed onto the author of the intention.  Picture them living the life they have told you they want to live, and feel how good it feels to see them in that state. 

Enjoy this feeling for a few moments, and then ask yourself if there is anything else you can do to help this person get what they want.  If you get the urge to take action, please do.  Write a comment, send a private message, forward the intention to a friend of yours who may be able to help, or take some other action that your heart is telling you to take.  

Have the courage to be the person your heart wants you to be. 

But, don’t force it.  Let your emotions be your guide.  Once you have done what feels right at that moment, let it go.  Surrender your thoughts to the powers that be and let go of the outcome.  You’re done!

Hope this helps,

Bart