Intent and the World

Intent is a powerful word. It lets us know what we want to put our energy towards. To some extent it also focuses us, since until we formulate an intent we can't crystalize what it is we see as needing to happen, let alone how to get there. The moment we formulate a specific intent such as "I want more peace in my life" we tell ourselves a powerful message at an Unconscious level. It says: ' I know what peace is and what it feels like and I want to work out how to get more of it into my daily existence'. That's a more useful message than 'I'd like a vacation', although both sentiments come from the same place, really. It's more useful because it asks us to observe what peace might be, and then to notice ways to bring it forward.

A comparison may help here. Ask most people what they want and somewhere in the top five will be 'I want to be wealthy'. Now, we can spend a lifetime wanting that, and waiting for someone to deliver it to us. That entails a very long wait.... A better way forward is to look at the Intent and ask how we can have more real wealth in our lives, and what we need to do about that. For one man I worked with 'wealth' did not mean money but time to enjoy being alive, and the route to 'wealth' for him was actually to give up making so much money so he could have a life. Yet he couldn't see that basic fact until he had made his intent known, written it down, and pondered it.

So make your Intents known. Tell people about them, and then take the steps that will bring more of what you feel you need into your life. Having an Intent is a call to action.

Allan Hunter

www.allanhunter.net