Affirmation · “The Subconscious Says Yes”
Intention for a New Possibility
To turn a present problem or complaint into a clear, present-tense, positive ‘new possibility’ intention — a stated desired outcome you align with — as the orienting focus for change.
Intention for a new possibility in 5 lines: Name the real problem honestly. Ask “what do I want instead?” Write it as a present-tense, positive, personal statement (“I am calm and clear in meetings”). Say it aloud and feel whether it rings true and lifts you; refine the wording until it does. Hold that intention as your orienting focus — and act toward it. (Don’t use it to bypass real feelings or needed action.)
What it is
Within Resonance Repatterning’s six Repatterning Keys, two early Keys do the framing work: “Problems into Opportunities” and “Intention for a New Possibility.” The move is simple and powerful: instead of staying fixed on what’s wrong, you restate the problem as a clear, present-tense, positive intention — the new possibility you want to live into.
Where a complaint is “I’m always anxious before meetings,” the new-possibility intention might be “I am calm, present, and clear in meetings.” In the full system this intention becomes the orienting statement for the session and is muscle-checked for “resonance” (does the body respond “on” to it?).
As a stand-alone self-help practice — the focus of this entry — it’s a structured reframing-plus-positive-intention exercise: convert problem → opportunity → present-tense desired state, and use that as your working focus.
The Method
Faithful to the Process Guide‘s Keys:
- State the problem honestly first. Don’t skip the pain. Name the actual problem or complaint as it is: “I feel stuck and resentful at work.” Wordsworth’s “Problems into Opportunities” Key starts from the real difficulty.
- Ask what opportunity / possibility it points to. Turn the problem around: what would you rather have? What does this difficulty reveal that you want instead? (“I want to feel engaged and respected at work.”)
- Write a clear “new possibility” intention. Craft a single statement of the desired state, with these qualities: - Present tense / already-so — “I am…”, “I have…”, not “I will…” or “I want to stop…”. - Positive (toward, not away) — state what you DO want, not the absence of the problem (“I am calm,” not “I am not anxious”). - Specific and personal — about you, concrete, felt.
- Read it aloud and feel it. Say the intention out loud. Notice the felt response — does it feel alive, true-ish, energizing, or flat and false? (In sessions this is where muscle-checking is used: a strong “on” response = resonance; weak = non-resonance.) For self-help, use your own felt sense as the gauge.
- Refine until it resonates. If the statement feels flat or you can’t connect to it, adjust the wording, scope, or specificity until it rings truer and lifts your energy slightly. The aim is an intention you can actually align with, not a grandiose one you reject.
- Hold it as your orienting focus. Let the new-possibility intention become the direction you give attention to — the outcome you align action and imagination toward. In the full system you’d then run a Repatterning process and choose an Energizing Option (see cross-links); on its own, the clear positive intention is already a usable focus you can return to. (Sourcing note: the six Repatterning Keys including “Problems into Opportunities” and “Intention for a New Possibility,” writing/reading the intention aloud, and muscle-checking it for resonance are documented in Resonance Repatterning materials and descriptions of the Process Guide. Present-tense / positive wording guidance is faithful to the method; example statements are illustrative.)
Source & Lineage
Chloe Faith Wordsworth built Resonance Repatterning over ~30 years from acupuncture, Polarity Therapy, kinesiology, and vibrational (sound/color/light) work, structuring change around the six Repatterning Keys set out in the Process Guide.
The “positive, present-tense intention” idea is shared with the broader New Thought / affirmation stream (Coué, New Thought affirmation practice) and with goal-setting and cognitive reframing in psychology — Wordsworth’s contribution is embedding it in a structured Keys sequence and validating it by muscle-checked “resonance.”
The Traditions' versions
Affirmations (New Thought / Coué) — present-tense, positive self-statements.,
- Cognitive reframing (CBT) — restating a situation in more useful terms; the evidence-based cousin.
- Goal-setting / “approach goals” — stating what you want to move toward outperforms avoidance framing.
- Neville’s “feeling it real” — assuming the wish fulfilled in the present tense.
- Solution-focused brief therapy — the “miracle question,” turning problems into preferred-future descriptions.
Common refinements
Skipping the honest problem statement. Jumping straight to “I am abundant” while ignoring real pain is bypassing; the method starts from the actual problem.
- Negative or future wording. “I won’t be anxious” / “I will be confident” are weaker than present-tense, toward-stated “I am calm and confident.”
- Grandiosity you can’t feel. An intention so big you internally reject it produces “non-resonance” / flatness. Scale it to something you can actually align with, then grow it.
- Treating the muscle-check as proof. Use the felt-true gauge as feedback on your own alignment, not as cosmic confirmation.
- Stating once and stopping. Like all intention/affirmation work, it benefits from being returned to and acted on, not declared once.
- Using it to avoid action. A new-possibility intention orients you; it doesn’t replace the steps to get there.