How to power intention
We all have done it, New Year’s resolutions, 
planning something, making a “goals and aims” list, then …we put in the effort, try to muster up the will and then, we have success, or we fail, another learning experience under our belt.
We alter the goals, make them realistic so we can have more sustained success, we keep trying.
We change to make the steps even more realistic, try to build them into daily routines, daily practice so they become habits, and there is some success. Maybe we get to a point to clarify or shift our goals because we have changed, some unconscious block released, maturity happened. Still, often there is effort involved still.
That is all okay.
There are tendencies in our body-mind that will continue to need our vigilance and renewed commitment to be able to manifest a desired way.
In the process of practices, or “dirt time”, we learn.
Building new habits is a good way to go.
But then there is this: big, fundamental life and meta programming changes and goals. Soul intention, healing and alignment. Here working with intention means your highest possible intention for your life you can come up with at the time.
Setting a clear intention and visioning the end result, how it will look, feel, sound or be.
And then: power it.
How?
With passion, with feeling, with emotion, with persistence, with practice, with developing a humble disposition, with asking for help, with not letting go of that intention, with not giving up on that intention. With being open for that intention to manifest, with being willing to follow your inner guidance to do what needs to be done. With being willing to let go of your idea how the path to the manifesting of the intention looks like. With being willing to accept what source brings into your life and energy field for the intention to come to life as your lived reality. Because that intention is something you hold all the time. It is the over-reaching goal in which all the rest of your life happens and you can trust that.
Humans feel, like all mammals and possibly all sentient beings everywhere. They have the gift of emotional energy. In humans, there is desire and passion. What do you really feel drawn to and pulled by. What turns your life on? What is it that feels right in your body and soul?
Emotional energy provides fuel for intention to manifest. Experiment with varying degrees of energy and attention placed on your goal.
And then, someday, somehow, grace happens and you simply notice effortless action and manifesting of the intention, sometimes day in-day out. That is amazing.
But here is the thing: you develop a burning fire, a flame that fuels the manifestation process of your intention. It does not have to be a roaring and all consuming fire all the time, or ever, but it is a fire you never let go out, even if some days, because you forgot, all you have left are some glowing embers which need a little breath to make a flame, like a little reminder during your morning practice minute: I am open, I am willing, please help we with: ….your intention here.
Setting intention is one part of the process. Some part of your attention stays with the intention, and then – give it some power….with emotional energy, feeling.
Don’t know how to feel? Okay, no worries. Accept that you don’t know how to conjure up emotions or feelings.
Just pay attention when you DO feel anything like love, joy, desire, pleasure….maybe when playing with a child, holding an animal, being in nature ….then…notice the feeling and remember the goal of your intention…and put it there with that feeling. Keep doing it.
And notice what keeps you from feeling – fear of it being too much, beliefs about whether or not it is appropriate? Eliminate those false beliefs and barriers within you.
As you can see, that overarching intention might bring to you things and situations you need to face and deal with…and when it happens, deal with it.
You could imagine feeling the goal, the object of your intention, as the beloved.
You could do a ceremony for yourself, dedicating your life to that beloved, aligning your will, your self with that highest intention.
Discover who you are, from the original intent out of the void, to your soul’s blueprint, to manifesting. When aligned with that, you can fulfill your destiny, your mission, however that looks like for you.
The spirit then moves through you, making use of all you have learned and all the means available to you.
Every single one of us is different. That is why it makes no sense to look outside of your self. I see people who do amazing things, apparently have gone through great transformations, living and experiencing things that are incredibly beautiful, and I rejoice for them. “I” would not want to have to live they they do. It is not who I am, who this soul is meant to be, how alignment with Divine Will looks like for this soul.
The saying of Rumi’s is so so true, paraphrased: Let yourself be pulled by what you truly love.
Following your yearning, your deepest longing.
What is it you love doing and being?
Sometimes that inquiry leads to some unexpected discoveries.