Intention

Intentions govern outcomes. They steer the ship 1 degree in a different direction and over time, small adjustments make for drastic changes in your destination.

As you live your life, you are always intending - either consciously with awareness, or unconsciously adrift in the stream of influence. Ask yourself, do you currently set conscious intentions to unfold your awakening every day?

I’ve realized through my practice that if I don’t create a daily reminder ritual, I can forget that I have to wake up twice every day. Once from physical sleep and once in my conscious awareness (presence). If I don’t install the intention to prioritize my awakening every day, I stand the chance of being swept off into the current of ego-thought and suffering.

Ego-thought is the non-stop repetitive chatter that analyzes ‘my life situation’. It’s a story we tell ourselves to reinforce limiting concepts about ‘who I am’ and ‘how the world is’ - subject and object, victim and victimizer. Thoughts of this dualistic nature do not originate from the source of higher-self intention and have the effect of pushing you further away from ‘being’ in the present moment.

Accompanying your thoughts, you have a conscious and subconscious mind that also creates your emotional energetic experience. The conscious mind uses thoughts or direct experience to generate body energies that become emotions. The unconscious mind possesses the “things you don’t know, you don’t know” such as karmic (past life) forces, stored body trauma, pain body and other deep-seeded energies that you don’t seem to have control over yet effect your sense of life.

Using intention energy along with energetic practices, you can merge with these deep-seeded, habitual emotional energetic states and release them from your experience. This transmutation is liberation from these seeming unconscious governing forces that can disrupt your ascension into awakened presence. I call this process, your Ascension Process, and it is the specific formula we use to create higher states of consciousness.

Once you can hold Inward Pointed Focus through meditative practice, you will evolve the way you relate to your body, it’s energies, it’s thoughts, and it’s emotions. You begin to dis-identify with your ego’s victim story and start to identify with the neutral observing awareness that witnesses ‘all that is’ without the suffering story attached. Instead of working with your bodies elements through your thoughts, you begin to have more of a direct experience relationship (beingness) with these sensations which enables you to relate with your body in a way that:

1. Allows you to become the awareness that witnesses the energy or emotion, rather than identifying strictly as the experiencer of it (imagine the difference between watching a waterfall from a distance and being showered on by that waterfall)

2. Allows this new awareness to merge with negative sensations, which exposes them to your light/love - releasing them rather than keeping them stored (running in the background continually draining your energy)

3. Allows this new awareness to merge with and amplify positive sensations, which provides you with sustainable joy and well-being while healing your body

It’s through your intentions that you can release old habitual patterns of relating to yourself and your life story allowing you to create new habits and patterns that serve your awakening.

Through our work together, we will examine your existing agreements and use your higher intelligence (desire intuition) to let go of any undesirable ones and craft desirable ones.

It’s your new intentions that will enable you to create the successful, supportive agreements and habits that keep you connected to higher states of consciousness.

At the core of your awakened presence is desire. Desire is different from “what you want” because desire comes from a deeper place than your conceptual ego-mind. When you are perfectly placed in awakened presence, you want for nothing and feel completely content because the ego is properly positioned in a servants role (imagine a dog playing fetch, idly waiting for your next command).

Alternatively, when the ego’s in charge it works to have you believe that you lack something that can only come from the ‘world out there.’ It lusts for an unobtainable ‘otherness’ that usually only leads to unhappiness and well illustrated through the concept of the hedonic treadmill. Or more commonly as, “the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.” This energy is want, not desire.

Ultimately, there isn’t anything wrong with seeking after what egoic ‘want’ is offering you, as the misery the seeking-but-never-satisfying will bring serves your awakening too. That’s right, the ego’s purpose is to give you a platform of un-fulfillment that forces you, through suffering, to eventually leap from it into the unknown—which is awakening presence.

But back to desire.

Desire is a divine institution.

Your soul came here to planet Earth because of desire and it would like to tell you what it is seeking to accomplish by coming here. These messages are being sent to our bodies all day, every day, we’ve just tuned them out because they don’t conform to what our logic-dominated intellectual culture would deem as relevant information.

Regardless, every human is a soul, and every soul has a divine plan for this human journey. The more we can align our intentions to this embodied soul-map, the more ease and abundance we will find.

Listening to the messages about your soul-plan requires what you’ve learned ‘Inward Pointing Focus.’

Through stillness, your subtle intuitional messages can become amplified. Following your divine desire requires intention.

The other side of intention work is confronting your ego-created shadow self

Part of your ego’s job is to block your access to your higher-self and enable your pain-body to take over when you are triggered. This is when we seem to go unconscious to our higher intentions and enter our “warring-self” that says/does things we regret or find hard to believe we are capable of—in the name of defending itself.

In our work together, we will do what Jung called “Shadow Work,” which is to say that we will confront your pain body and process it in a way that’s safe and effective (integration). We do so to learn about ourselves, process negative energy, and to ascend into higher states of energetic consciousness while creating your self-actualization experience.

Working with my intention process can get you there.