The Power of Intention


“You are what your deepest desire is. As your desire is, so is your intention. As your intention is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
   Upanishads

Everything that happens in the universe begins with intention. When I decide to buy a present, call a friend, go to a movie, or wiggle my toes, it all starts with intention. In fact, the sages have said that our destiny is ultimately shaped by our intention.

Intention is the starting point of every dream. It is the creative power that fulfils all our needs whether for money, relationships, spiritual awakening or love.

Sometimes people aren’t clear about what intention really means. What happens most of the time is that when our analytical mind gets overburdened we feel stress and the thinking process begins....”I want this, but I need it on this condition, but I don’t want to lose that and if this occurs, then this is what will happen.....” and on goes the mind! This is NOT intention.

Let’s look at intention as a symbol. For instance, you may see the picture of a resort that you wish to create. You now start vividly adding details to that vision. By doing this you activate the frontal lobes of your brain where your creativity and new ideas are born. Slowly but surely you begin to make that picture alive, you begin to take it into the future and a multitude of possibilities flood your imagination.

The amazing part of this exercise is that the brain does not know the difference between the present and the future....you are now doing a mental rehearsal of your intention. By doing this you are literally re-wiring your brain to connect to the future....it’s a map to the future.

Let’s jump to the next level. You now need to match your clear intention with an elevated emotion...a feeling of enthusiasm, or deep interest, or clarity of purpose. Once you combine it with a strong emotion, your body which is your unconscious mind, begins to believe that what you intend is actually happening right now!

There is a slight twist in the tale here...most times we expect or believe that if THIS happens then I will be able to do THAT.

And it is actually the reverse! You can’t wait for a relationship to happen to feel love, you have to be and feel love first before a relationship can come your way. Or, you can’t wait for your new job to feel empowered, you have to feel empowered at the thought of your new job to magnetise a new job in your life. Or you can’t wait for a healing to occur in your body before you feel whole....you start by seeing your body as a ‘whole’ energy system and then the healing occurs.

This is not the old model of cause and effect, in fact the old paradigm is turned on its head! This is the Quantum Model where you are going to need to change how you think and feel for an effect to happen. In order for an experience to become reality you need to feel an emotion of it happening first. The emotion becomes a carrier for that to then manifest. So, we are now not waiting for an effect....we are CAUSING an effect!

Your personality is made up of how you think and how you feel and behave. If you want a new personality you would have to change the past behaviors, habits and thoughts that have created the old person. You have to look at the emotions that you have memorized that keep you anchored to the past. Those emotions don’t belong in the future....you will have to create a whole new set of habits and priorities you have focused on so far.

It takes a certain amount of repetition, a certain consciousness, a certain will to finally stop looking at the future from the lens of the past. It is a learned skill like any other, to get beyond the analytical mind.

We each have the power to manifest what we want and need. So, learn to rest...rest the body and the monkey mind, slip into restful awareness and detach from the outcome.

That’s a good point to start your journey towards conscious intent!


Cheers!

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