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Clarify Your Intention
We can affect our own reality through the power of our intentionality. Getting clear on our grandest purpose and setting intention for our highest good allows the universe to align and create what we are here to manifest. In my experience, when I get my vision clear and state it directly, it manifests. It’s as if the universe has no choice but to manifest our purpose. But it may not always look the way we intended, or occur in the time frame we hoped.
Our intentions, unlike our ego-willed agendas, come from deep within. They initiate the momentum that creates our lives. Our individual intentions go toward creating the collective intention as well. This is what we call the Universal Field of Intention that shapes our collective reality. The Universal Field, is an energy field created by our combined hopes, dreams, wishes, prayers and intentions. Clarity of intention has large ramifications for both ourselves and the planet.
The process is
1) Get very clear on what you want to manifest, think it through.
Be as specific as you need to be, and as general as you want to be. Don’t leave out important details, especially if they are deal breakers. For example, once I wanted to move, I asked the universe for a rental property walking distance to school, large enough to accommodate my family, with a hot tub and a great view. I got everything I asked for, except the hot tub was rat infested and broken and the rent was pretty high. I forgot to add affordable rent, and although I thought “working hot tub” was implicit, the universe has a sense of humor.
2) State the intention clearly and look deeper into your Beliefs.
If you know someone with Natural Number 3 get them to help you clarify and state your intention. It is part of the NE3 superpower to help us identify and transmit our grand purpose to the universal field. Stating it clearly, out loud, lets you feel and face the hidden beliefs that might get in the way of your bigger intention. We can unwittingly create a reality that feels hard and presents challenges if we don’t send clear messages to the universe.
As another example, we wanted to sell our house, pay off our debts, and find a place that could incubate Body of 9 in a healthy and supportive way. We took the required action, listed our house and thought it would sell quickly. We had done this without a clear statement of intention. In a hot housing market our house sat there with no one even coming to see it. We were baffled.
Then we met with an NE3, we looked at our beliefs around what we thought we deserved and our relationship with money, and found that our deeply held beliefs were unwittingly interfering with the forward progress of our larger vision. With our NE3 coach we got clear about what was really happening and then stated our newly crafted intentions clearly. Two days later we received an offer that met all our stated intentions. It felt like a miracle, it felt like the clarity allowed the Universe to manifest what it was trying to complete.
3) Be persistent, stay with it, you don’t have control.
Once you have stated your intentions, you have to keep the energy flowing. There will be actions that you have to take. In the example above, we had to release our Real Estate Agents. They were friends, this was hard. We held it out as the highest good for all of us. Once the energy holding the house sale from happening was addressed, it resolved quickly.
I think the universe will also test our resolve. If it is a newly held intention, interesting things might start to happen that make you question your intention. I believe this is the universe’s way of asking us questions, and gauging the importance and clarity of the request. Once we were in contract on selling our house we were met with a series of challenges that threatened to delay the transaction. We continued to clarify our intent and dig deeper into our resistances rather than complain about how hard and unfair the process was. I found that I had to build in the capability to meet these challenges with a new response. If I retreated to my old place of victimhood the universe did not have sufficient clarity to execute the vision. Both my husband and I had to align and commit, then give over to the transformation process the universe was trying to lay out for us. The art is to assist the process through consistent action, not to push the process artificially, and to hold out for the highest good for all involved.
Now you might ask – what about random acts of violence, consistent bad luck, untimely death all the things that we cannot believe that we or someone else deserves or created for themselves. I am not clairscentient, nor am I going to say they didn’t get their intentions clear. It is a complicated web we human beings weave. I don’t have these big answers. But give clear intention statement a chance and see if it helps you to manifest your reality in a more powerful and expeditious way.
This is “practice” is in our book Practices For Presence: Body-based Insight for Living a Life of Purpose.
