Why is Intention Setting so powerful? Imagine that from now on, your attitude towards any challenge in life is that it’s here to feed your soul, not drain it dry! How different would your life look? Would you have more energy? Would you feel more able to cope with life’s small challenges and big adversities? Obviously yes!
The Power of Intention – use challenge to feed your soul, not drain it dry! Used properly, intention is really the decision to harness the power of infinite intelligence within. In his book The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire, Deepak Chopra refers to Intention as the very basis of creation and quotes the ancient Vedic texts known as the Upanishads:
“You are what your deepest desire is.
As is your desire so is your intention.
As is your intention, so is your will.
As is your will, so is your deed.
As is your deed, so is your destiny.”
Vancouver based Naturopathic Doctor, Adam McLeod ND, molecular biologist, internationally renowned energy healer and best selling author, who’s taught healing through intent around the world, reports that studies have proven that intention affects physical matter, including DNA, which is “why we need to update the software in our minds!”
How do we do update the software in our minds?
1. Decide!
Actually take the time to consciously and deliberately make the decision, that from now on, rather than deplete your soul, challenge will feed it.
2. Believe!
If you have this genius mind within you, which you do, then every time challenge comes up, your job is to re-frame the challenge; rather than being a threat, something to worry about, be afraid of or victim of, how is this challenge asking you to deal with it from the universal intelligence within you?! You must accept once and for all that you are spiritually equipped to meet every situation in your life. Once you do, you are transforming the old pattern of “I can’t” to “I can!”
3. Pay attention to synchronicities (meaningful coincidences) and follow through on them.
The universe is giving you clues all the time… your job is to notice them, look for the pattern, contemplate their significance in your life and follow through on what both your intuition and these coincidences are telling you. There’s a bigger picture emerging here and it’s got only your success/potential in mind! Keep a journal specific to synchronicity to see the pattern and you’ll notice where you are/are not following through with the actions that you need to take. We most often know things intellectually but haven’t quite owned them emotionally. That’s why intent is so powerful, it ignites and fosters the action steps required for follow through!
4. Stop regurgitating the past and decide to be happy…. NOW.
And don’t postpone your happiness until your goals have been reached! As Esther Hicks, author of The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent points out: the better you feel, the more you are allowing your Connection to Source. The worse you feel, the less you are allowing it. The most important decision you can make is to deliberately choose to feel better… it leads to flow, creativity, increased self-trust and sudden insight for that next right step that cannot be absorbed in a mind cluttered with negative thinking. Be the person you wish to become now… how would that person think, act, speak, respond to this situation, etc?
5. Create Regular Intention Setting Ceremony for yourself and/or with others (in business we call it Mastermind)
Nothing is more powerful than an “action” that you specifically create to demonstrate your decision – it can be as simple or as complex as you want to make it, it really doesn’t matter as long is it has meaning or significance for you…. done in a group, the power of intention is magnified even more. Ceremony can be as simple as writing a letter to yourself or more intricate including spiritual treatments, prayer, affirmation, meditation, etc.
Repeated intentions create habit… as you apply the power of intention, you reinforce the habit of using challenge to feed your soul. Imagine the repercussions of habits that help you to handle overwhelm, use challenge effectively and make empowered decisions!
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