Actions, Words, and Intent

Actions speak louder than words.

I think everyone has heard this before. When you are working with consciousness to create reality, actions are necessary. They are the final step after thought and feeling.

However, there is a real difference between actions, and intentional actions.

Actions It’s very easy to take actions for their own sake. I can’t just sit on my ass and do nothing. However, when there is little to no intent behind your actions, you’re pretty much just spinning your wheels.

Let’s say I get onto the highway. I intend to drive from where I am to a new place. That’s an intentional action. If I just get on the highway and drive…that’s lacking in intent. Yes, I am going to get somewhere…but because I haven’t set an intention for the where, it’s a mystery.

This is not to say that this is always a bad thing. Sometimes just getting on the road is the important part. Maybe your intent is to go somewhere, but you don’t know just where. You’ve still got intention, and that is reflected in the actions you take.

The problem is when you get on that road, and just drive, but totally aimlessly. Sure, you will likely arrive somewhere…but without intent, it might be the middle of nowhere, the worst part of town…or of course it could be the perfect paradise. But without intent, your actions can be as detrimental as they can be useful.

The problem I have been experiencing of late is that I have the thoughts. From there I am working on assembling the necessary feelings. But, because that’s where I tend to fall flat, I am getting stuck and not taking any actions I should be. At least that is how it feels to me.

Actions are not always obvious to feelings

Consciousness creates reality. This is the Law of Attraction. I have read or listened to a rather large number of books and seminars and programs on this topic. There have been several examples in my life of this proving itself to me. Yet I feel like I just cannot get it right.

Why? Fear. I have this deep-seated, decades old fear that I will wind up being abandoned if I fail, if I succeed, if I sneeze too hard or breath wrong or choose-your-own-irrationality-here. Because I KNOW, intellectually, that this is utterly irrational. Yet I have a VERY difficult time shaking it.

This has been a rough week for me. I am not writing this for sympathy, I am writing this because I am feeling off. I’ve not gotten my ass out of bed any morning this week to go for a walk. Yes I got to fencing on Wednesday, but skipped Tuesday. I have only meditated a couple of days, and no more than a few minutes.

Overall it feels like I have been inactive. However, I know this is not true. I have been blogging on my schedule. Despite multiple false starts, I have a draft of the podcast ready for editing. Every day at work I take the four flights of stairs both up and down, because it’s better for me than taking the elevator, and I know it.

Sometimes actions oppose reactions

The problem is that my feelings are all over the place. Because I am an empath, I am also feeling inundated by my friends and loved ones’ feelings, too.

Let’s face it, what’s happening in the world around us is rage inducing. That guy is just about the last person they should consider putting onto the Supreme Court, and yet the blatant privilege, selfishness, lack of human decency and disregard is astounding. The US Congress is too full of misogynistic, self-absorbed, out-of-touch assholes, which is why that guy is far-too-likely to get this job. And just to add insult to injury, they are not doing a damned thing about our mentally unstable President…which is becoming increasingly surreal

Actions So many of my friends have spoken up and shared their #MeToo and #whyIdidntreport stories, and I feel for you all. It is a combination of sadness, anger, helplessness and hopelessness, coupled with almost a week of grey and rainy weather and unusual back pain, that’s leaving me feeling off.

Ok, so that’s where I am at. Oversharing? Might be. However, in sharing this all with you I am taking actions. How so? Because rather than hold onto this and let it continue to make me feel down, sharing it is an action that processes it, and releases it.

I write a lot about needing more positivity in the world. I’ve also written that there are going to be times we are going to feel negative. The choice comes in how long we decide to hold onto it. So I can continue to allow myself to feel this way…or I can acknowledge it, vent about it, release it…and move forward.

Intentional actions onwards!

I have to stop beating myself up when I do not live up to my own self-expectations. Time to put this out there, and take some other necessary actions today.

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