Intention Cannot Be Overstated
The power of Intention cannot be overstated. We have said that in many posts, because Intention is so incredibly powerful!
Intend It, and It Will Happen!!
Insights Lead to Our Intentions
We often set our Intention after we have had an insight, awakening, or a major realization about our self or something in our life. For example – suddenly, we…
- discover that we are really loving, when we thought we were otherwise;
- know what direction to take on our spiritual path after having eluded us for so long;
- find we have a wonderful talent that was previously unknown to our conscious mind;
- should pursue a particular career path that we had disregarded before;
- realize that someone who is a friend is really the one we love and want as a life partner;
- become aware of other endless possibilities…
Often Received from Higher Guidance
These realizations very often come from our Higher Guidance, i.e., High Self, guides, angels, the Universe and even the Divine (God) at a specific time when we are ready to receive it.
They guide us to become aware of an insight at a special moment – during an instance that sometimes has the potential to change the entire trajectory of our life. The “special moment” can happen in the shower, in traffic, watching television, in a dream, at anytime and anywhere.
Life Plan
This new awareness is frequently taken from the higher pathways of our Life Plan — the blueprint of life possibilities created before we came to Earth (See Optimizing Our Life Path for more about our Life Plan).
We only need to pay attention to this powerful insight and set forth our Intention to do it, be it, or realize/obtain it – whatever It may be!
Setting our intention for a specific purpose brings together several inner forces and aligns them in one direction, to the true north of our being. Our being’s Will, mind, emotions, and spiritual energies all harmonize and resonate with this new awakening we have had – from small to big.
The Universe Notices
When we set our Intention to newly-discovered realizations in this way, the Universe and our Higher Guidance immediately take notice. It becomes a stop-the-presses affair as they wait to see if we are truly serious about following this new awakening.
They watch us: Will he really do It this time? Is she serious, or is this a flight of fancy?
As our actions (behaviors) begin to match our Intentions along with our refocused Will, mental, emotional, spiritual, and energetic processes — our Higher Guidance starts reconfiguring the assembly line of our life path so to allow us to make It happen.
Poof! We are suddenly on a lifepath segment of our Life Plan that matches our new Intention!
Example of Using Intention
Let me share a small personal example of using Intention.
I have a friend who can see auras like we see images on a television, whether in person or remotely.
Now, I happen to be very color blind. I do see colors but not the way everyone else does. Basically, I do not know the difference between violet, blue and purple. They are all just a range of a bluish color spectrum that lack distinctness. They are not separate colors to me.
During a certain guided meditation, we were instructed to place indigo blue on the outside of our aura.
As many spiritual people know, indigo blue is a powerfully protective color that keeps negative energies and emotions out of our auric field. Since I had no idea what indigo blue looked like, I just set my intentions to have a thick layer of it surrounding the outside of my aura.
Well, it just so happened that I called my friend later that day and asked about the colors in my aura, which I routinely did during our phone calls. I was told that all my normal colors were there in all of the bands, but there was an abnormally large amount of indigo blue on the outside of my aura that wasn’t there the last time we had talked.
Wow, that was revealing!
Intention Works on Things Big and Small
Over time, it became clear to me that setting and using Intention not only works for aura colors, but also in every other area of our life, from big and small, if we use it!
The Energy & Frequency of Intention
The energies of our Intention have a frequency to them. Those energies naturally magnetize people, places and events to us that resonate with those frequencies and let fall away everything that does not. We don’t have to think about how to do it.
Intention & Visualization
When Intention is combined with visualization, the effect becomes even more powerful. (See The Nature of Our Consciousness about visualization). Visualizing is just another form of Intention.
Intention Magnetizes Higher Pathways
As we act upon our newly-set Intention, its frequency automatically starts to shift us to the alternate, higher pathways of our Life Plan in order to match it. The parts of our life that are not part of this Intention (and life pathways) will naturally fall away because they are no longer being magnetized to us.
Stay the Course
The longer we stay with our Intention and continue to move toward it, the more finely tuned our life path will reflect the energies of our set Intention. The people, places, events and opportunities that come into our life will also increasingly mirror the higher possibilities that only exist when we follow through with our Intention.
With this in mind, the Universe once told me that it cannot give us what we want when we keep changing our minds. We may need to reaffirm our Intentions (plans) and not vary when things don’t quickly appear.
Higher Life Pathways
In other words, following our Intentions leads to the higher pathways and bi-ways of our Life Plan. In turn, those higher pathways guide us to even better (higher) opportunities that were not possible before — because they were part of the lower energies of the old life path. Joseph Campbell called this following your bliss. He also said, “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors (for you) where there were only walls (before).”
Intention is Like “Autopilot”
Using your power of Intention is like a plane captain pressing the “autopilot” button and letting the jet fly itself to its set destination.
Just set your Intention, stick with it, and things will happen.
How to Set Your Intentions
Set your intentions every day. You can do in the morning, in the evening, or anytime.
Try to be specific enough to clearly affirm your Intention but not so narrow that it blocks the Universe from giving you what you want (and need). That way you can receive your Intention in the most perfect way possible.
Example of Setting Intention
For example, if you intend to pursue a particular position at a large company that has many types of jobs. You may wish to say something like, “I see myself working at the Acme company where the perfect position awaits me doing technical writing.” Then see yourself happily working at Acme company in the position perfectly suited for you.”
Simultaneously feel the satisfaction of having the ideal job as you say the words and visualize yourself working there. (Of course, follow through with your actions, as needed.)
Present Tense
Adjust the words to match your desired outcome, but always speak in the present-tense, seeing yourself already having the desired result. You can surround the visualization with white or golden light to add power.
Release It to the Universe
Then release the image and words. If you hold on to them, then the Intention remains locked in your energetic field unavailable to the enormous powers of the Universe and your Higher Guidance to manifest it.
Highest Good
Just know that the Universe, your Higher Guidance, as well as, your subconscious can bring it to you – but only if it is for your highest good. Setting our Intention actively engages us in the energies of our life path. It empowers Higher Guidance to give us what we most need, while best aligning our lifepath requirements to our desired Intention. That means sometimes things may manifest a little differently than expected.
Each time you set your Intention(s), your Higher Guidance will strive to make them a reality, because on the inner plane, there is no time, only the Now. You even might end up with something more ideal.
Intention Can Be Used for Anything
You can do this in the same way for relationships, seeing a conflict-situation happily resolved, or a project finished in the most ideal. Just intend the positive, uplifting and joyful end result by using your words, visualizations and feelings associated with achieving your Intention, seeing it happening in the Now.
Intention through Guided Meditations
The guided meditation, Living Our Dreams, naturally magnetizes our life path toward our life dreams. It takes about an hour and it is both relaxing and easy to follow. It is another way to achieve your Intentions.
