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The need for clarity
of intent
Attention and intention
Clarity of
intent
Enfolded
intentions
Competing and underlying intentions
Using
clear intention
Surfacing the intention for our life
Freedom to
change directions
Exploring
the power of clear intention
Related topics
From a
creativity perspective, clarity of intention cannot be
overemphasized. The following discussion provides an overview on the
topic of clarity of intention. This discussion and related
discussions “Obtaining
Clarity,” “How
Intention Works,” and “Setting
An Intention” can provide some assistance in this area.
The need
for clarity of intent (Top)
Setting a clear intention is the
first element of any successful creative endeavor. A conscious clear
intention can greatly assist any creation effort. Clarity of intent
coupled with mindfulness and awareness is the most powerful mental
creative force you have. Clarity of intention or clarity of
intention cannot be under estimated. For many intentions we hold and
have held, our intentions are fulfilled even long after you have set
them and forgot about them, even ones we no long want.
An intention causes our creative life energy to flow or not to flow
in a given direction in our life to fulfill the intention that is
held. In this regard, the intention(s) we hold, consciously or
subconsciously, is (are) a very powerful creative force in our life
to create the experiences we have. To get some creative control over
our life it becomes essential we understand both the conscious and
subconscious the intentions we hold. Often we need to go back and
establish the clarity of our intention before we actively undertake
a creative endeavor.
As such, it is recommended we become very clear on what we desire to
create and experience and why, including the feeling we wish to
have. In many ways the feelings are more important than what we
mentally think we want. It is essential that we know exactly what we
want, not necessarily in a specific form but in its key attributes
and experiences, including feelings.
Attention and intention
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It cannot be over emphasized that
our energy goes where we focus our attention and awareness.
Attention is the power, or faculty, of mental concentration, or it
is the practical consideration or care give to something or someone.
It is the concentrated direction of mental powers or the close or
earnest attending to something or someone. Now what needs to be
understood is that you will not, and cannot, give your attention to
something unless you have an intention. Your intention is the
underlying purpose for where you are placing your attention.
You may be only placing your attention on something out of
curiosity, that eager desire for information about what ever it is
that captured your attention. It may be only to see what it is that
crossed your peripheral vision. It may be to see the cause of the
sound that you may have heard. But nevertheless there is still an
intention behind your attention. In this realization, our
intentions, and our ability to consciously or subconsciously set and
hold intentions, are the greatest and most powerful creative tools
we have at our disposal.
An intention can be seen from several different perspectives, all of
which ultimately achieve the same end - it directs and underlies our
attention. An intent is normally seen as a purpose, aim, goal or
design. More importantly for our purposes, intent is the act of
intending and is actually a state of mind in which, or the purpose
with which, we do an act. Relative to meditation and related
techniques, the action we refer to is how, why and where we place
our attention. Also it needs to be understood that an intention will
take us past the completion of any single act or goal. For example
the intent to build a house takes us past buying the property,
designing the house, digging the foundation and building the house
step by step.
When we intend we aim, direct, make, design, mean, signify, destine
or whatever similar word we would like to use, something, some
action, or some situation to have a specific aim, purpose, use or
plan. As a state of mind intent can be seen as staring or directing
one’s mind or efforts steadfastly, earnestly or attentively. We can
intend harm or good by our actions. we can intend harm or good by
our thoughts. An intention can be seen is either an ultimate or
immediate purpose, aim or goal. It is the will, design or resolve to
do, or refrain from doing, an act. It also needs to be noted that
intention is reflective of the natural course, operation or process
such as the intention of the mind is to protect and preserve itself
and the body, or the intention of a wound is to heal.
When one is intentional, one acts from an intention or with an
intent. When we focus our attention on something, we are being
intentional. In focusing our attention we are acting from an
intention or we are acting with an intent.
Clarity of intent (Top)
Before starting any creative
endeavor it is essential we look at our intentions and what lied
behind the intention. Clarity of intent/intention does not only mean
being able to state clearly what we want to create. It also means to
understand why we want to create what we do. What lies behind the
intention is what we really want. We need to look at what both our
mind wants and what we feel we want. In looking to what we desire to
feel, there may be more than one way to get such a feeling and how
we get it may be in ways mind cannot conceive.
Pull the string on why you making the choices that you are making in
the order and direction you chose. Clarity of intent is also about
the feeling we desire to create that goes with the thought. More
often than not, we think we want something in particular when in
reality we are looking for a type and kind of feeling or experience.
We need to become aware of the experience or feeling we really what
to have.
For example, often individuals think they want a spouse. In reality
they want someone with whom to share life. But they desire a spouse
because they think a spouse is some with whom to share life. Yet a
spouse is something different. The individual gets married to the
person who they think will fulfill their needs as a spouse. The
individual they marry may in fact be an extremely good spouse.
However, the individual find out they got what they said they
desired. But they come to find the relationship never fulfills their
deeper and real desire for the person to share life. They find out
that their interest and their spouse’s interest are too different
than what the individual really wanted. They come to find out their
spouse is not there to share their live but they are there to be a
spouse.
Enfolded intentions (Top)
We need to look carefully for any
enfolded intentions based and underlying desires, wishes or
expectations that may actually contaminate the intention we set. Any
truth we know exists but are afraid or unwilling to face will become
an “untruth,” a falsity, enfolded in our intention. It manifest
causing our intention to be less than desired for the fruits of an
intention will reveal any untruth present when the intention was
set.
For example, you make a request of the universe but you believe you
are unworthy of receiving what you aks for. Although you may
manifest what you request, your unworthiness causes what you get to
somehow reinforce your unworthiness. You may get what you want but
it is something less than adequate. Or, what you get suddenly gets
taken away from you and you end up thinking you didn’t deserve it
anyways. It is important to speak our truth to the best of our
ability at the time and iterate our intention as we obtain clarity
on what we desire. We are free to change what we believe if we find
the beliefs we hold are limiting our ability to create what we
desire.
Competing and
underlying intentions (Top)
What is not understood is that
this intention or intent can be conscious,
subconscious or unconscious or a combination and that our
intent, acts as an undercurrent that directs our attention. If we
have a clear, conscious intention then we will have a clear focus in
our lives and our attention will be directed accordingly. If
however, our intention is subconscious or unconscious we will still
have a focus that continually directs our attention but we will
think we don’t have control for the intention is unconscious or
unconscious.
To get control over our creative life energy so that we can directly
our energy into what we desire we will need to surface and
subconscious intentions. We need to surface the intentions that may
be affecting what is we are trying to manifest. If we don’t surface
competing subconscious intentions, our attention will continually be
diverted from what we are intending.
To uncover any subconscious or unconscious intentions that we may
have, all we need to do is to look at what is pulling our attention
in our life. Although our thought may jump from one issue to another
as the day proceeds, we will find that our thought will be
reasonable localized around a given set of topics. By becoming aware
of our thoughts and what pulls our attention we will begin to see
what beliefs are causing those thoughts to occur or that allow our
attention to get pulled in the direction it does.
The importance of meditation and similar practices/techniques is to
become aware of our thoughts and where we are placing the focus of
our attention and awareness. What we will find is that underneath
the first lay of subconscious intention there is another layer, and
ten another. Our intentions are much like how we can peel the layers
of an onion. We will need to peel back each layer until we find the
most fundamental intention that is driving our attention in life.
What we will find are embedded intentions of desires, wishes, wants,
obligations, duties and the like that is giving direction to our
life. The entire process is very personal and can take months or
even years depending on how many layers exist and are controlling
your life.
Setting a conscious clear intention can greatly assist any creation
effort and accelerate the process of surfacing subconscious
competing intentions, including the
intention for our life. Often it is appropriate to set the
intention to surface our subconscious or unconscious intention to
“clean house” and/or
reconstitute our creative power.
Using clear intention (Top)
When the intention is clearly set
and expressed to the universe in a form similar to that used here,
we must have the faith our intention is heard and will be manifested
by the Universe if we act on the guidance we receive. When we set
and hold our intention and act to create it, two things happen.
The first is the intention, as if by magic and magnetism, pulls to
itself the resources, people, opportunities and experiences key to
manifesting the intention. The fulness of being that is available
through navigating from the heart will tell us what resources,
people, opportunities and experience are being pulled to us in
response to our intention. The fullness of being we feel is related
to being in alignment with the flow of our creative life energy that
is manifesting what we desire.
The second item is that every obstacle that will interfere with the
manifesting our intention will appear and must be worked through. If
the obstacles are not overcome, they continue to appear until they
are over come or the original intention which produced the obstacle
is rescinded or accordingly changed. Here again, we can use the
fulness of being to navigate around or through any obstacle and not
lose focus on what we desire to create. When the intention is clear
and the desire clearly understood, the technique discussed below can
be effectively used to manifest the desire. Although other technique
are effective, the following is a preferred choice technique for use
with the understanding within the energy consciousness model and
consistent with the other principles on the
applications web sites.
Surfacing the intention
for our life
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The intention for our life acts as
a deep undercurrent for our life carrying us to certain types and
kinds of experiences. It is not always easy to consciously access.
Most of the time we will only be aware of a feeling if we are aware
of it at all. However, we cause use clear intentionality to explore
access it directly or indirectly. To directly access it, we need to
set the intention to access and follow our intuitive guidance until
we do. How long it takes depends how willing we are to change our
life to become aware of it and how whether or not we are will to
accept the changes an awareness of it bring into our life.
We can also access it subconsciously by setting the intention to
access our true nature and/or access and release our unlimited
creativity. To do so we first need to set a clear intention. The
intention should be for our life and/or what we desire to create
with our life and become very clear as to what it looks like either
in words or in a image or visualization.
Writing our eulogy is helpful in this effort.
We then need to look at every action we take in life relative to the
intention for our life. We needs to look to see if the choices they
make in life are moving them towards manifesting our intention, away
from our intention or neutral in that their action is neither
helping or hindering the manifestation of the intention. Then over
time, we will begin to make more and more choices in the direction
of our intention and less and less away from our intention. As we
move towards our intention, all the obstacles and competing
intentions that exist will surface to be address and properly
disposed of in such a way that one continually move towards the
intention we desire. What we will observe what we do this is an
continual influence or “drift” in our creative effort. We will being
to see what the intention for our life is pushing us to create.
Freedom to change directions (Top)
In any case, with a clear
intention, we need to become aware that as we step out to create
what we think we want, we can always change what we desire. We do
not have to be locked into the intention we set. But we must become
clear and know why we are choosing the way we do. Once we have
clarity of our intention then we need to
set the intention and act to create it.
Exploring the power of clear intention
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If you wish to explore the power
of clear intention there is an experiment you can do. It may take a
little time but you might just be fascinated by what you discover.
The experiment if found in the discussion, “Exploring
the power of clear intention.”
Related
topics (Top)
Obtaining Clarity
How Intention Works
To
Set
An Intention
The relationship of intention and perspective
Exploring conscious and nonconscious intentions
A View from the
Mountain
Power of intention
Fear related to our stated intentions
Vectors and creativity
The intention we hold
Composite intention
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