BP = Be Positive? An Intention Experiment Worth Trying
I haven't written much about the Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. In part, I've been silent because I didn't know what to add to the conversation that a thousand others weren't already saying. In part, I was at a loss; how could I describe my sick feelings of sadness that this planetary disaster had happened in the first place and my deep-seated fear that the damage done would be so great as to defy comprehension for decades to come?
But a big part of my reluctance to speak was driven by my newfound desire to try hard to be positive in these posts, to move away from the harping and blaming that fills and characterizes the media on all sides these days. I really do want to try to turn over a new leaf in my writing, not just here but everywhere, and offer constructive thoughts where I can. But what positive notions could I conjure up in the face of this crisis?
Then along came one of my heroines, Lynn McTaggart. In her newsletter today, she offered the brilliant idea of all of us holding a positive intention for BP engineers to resolve this issue soon and with no further damage to the Gulf and its shores. If you don't know Ms. McTsggart's work, her latest work is a book called The Intention Experiment which she has parlayed into a mini-enterprise of its own, one of which I am proud to be a part. She suggests that from now until the solution appears, everyone who wishes to see a positive outcome in the Gulf pause at 1 p.m. Eastern time daily and go to her Web site to join millions of others in clearly stating this positive intention:
'My intention is for BP's engineers to immediately and successfully divert the Deepwater Horizon oil leak with no long-term damage to the environment.'
Whether you believe, as I do, that a tipping point of folks holding a positive intention can actually effect change, just think how much better doing this will make you feel about yourself and the world around you! It is unarguably true that, regardless of the intention of BP executives (and I'm not so much doubting them as setting them aside), you know that there are many engineers inside BP who are moral, intelligent and creative people who are thinking and brainstorming hard about how to solve this problem their employer has triggered. It can certainly do no harm to hold them in a positive intentional force field and envision them coming up with something heretofore unheard of that may help prevent another such accident or provide a new way of cleaning up after such an incident if one does recur.
What say you?
