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Focusing Your Intention
Having an intention is enough to accomplish a result. When properly focused–which means easily and without strain–awareness has the ability to carry out quite specific commands. An intention doesn’t have to be verbally expressed thought; in fact, our deepest intentions are body-centered.
Our most fundamental needs–for love, understanding, encouragement, support–permeate every cell. The desires that arise in your mind are often clouded by ego motives, which are not true needs; people get caught up in the pursuit of money, career goals, and political ambitions in ways that are disconnected from the fundamental need for comfort and well-being that every healthy organism must fulfill.
Many of us are so alienated from our basic needs, so programmed to run after what the ego wants, that we have to relearn the basic mechanics of how attention and intention actually work.
There are many ways to get fulfillment besides the outward-orientated ones our culture teaches us. The most valuable lesson in this regard is that intentions automatically seek their fulfillment if left alone.
Every cell in your body is seeking fulfillment through joy, beauty, love, and appreciation. This is hard to realize when the mind sets up its own separate agenda for fulfilling other kinds of desires, ones that are loveless, without joy or satisfaction. Yet millions of people have programmed themselves to reach only such goals.
The ability to direct your awareness is critical if you want to change the deep-rooted patterns of aging, for aging itself is an intention that your cells are obeying without your control.
Every intention is a trigger for transformation. As soon as you decide that you want something, your nervous system responds to reach your desired goal. This holds true for simple intentions as well as for complex intentions.
Adapted from Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 1998).
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add your comment »Mr chopra u surprise me everyday with your writtings, you have opened my mind and body to ideas. You provide fulfillment of some sort and a degree of opening up ones mind to endless possibilities, I thnk you for your in sights.
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Intent: in my morning and evening prayers I ask for what I want the day to bring me and how I want to be in it. In my evening prayer I ask to rise from sleep energized at what-ever time, the day be full of creative fun and to serve HER in all I encounter. If I need to be a certain way in a situation I ask for that. If I need to know something I ask; and either dream the information, realize it upon awakening, or be led to it. However I can best assimilate what I want is how it comes.In asking for others I merely " point the light for Spirit and ask it to help , leaving it up to Spirit to decide what the being needs and how best to get it to them.In my morning prayers I ask for what I want the day to bring me. Another useful way to project one's intention, if you like fragrances, is to take your favorite and blow your wish into the bottle before putting it on. Ask for what you want and leave yourself open to receive it. It seems that what is needed to create the manifestation of a desire on the material plane can be likened to shooting an arrow.Three things must happen: it must be aimed,empowered, and released;stating intention is aiming, emotional intensity= psychic power, and it helps to have a break-off technique to facilitate release. This is the key to manifestation;purposefully or by accident this is ALWAYS how "shit happens"! Belief is unnecessary to success. Suspension of doubt for sake of experiment is enough so belief follows constant proof. Ask often!
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I also love to read these. They are so thought provoking, I usually meditate to the ideas expressed. Thank you so much for providing us with these wonderful articles.
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I always love reading these bits of info. The mundane world is enough to cause anyone any degree of depression, so it's nice to read these articles to refresh and get my mind and soul back on track. Thank you!
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