Intention

Before proceeding to read this page, please read the brief overview on the Six Life-Supportive Concepts System here.

All outcomes can be manifested if we have the intention to begin and follow through. In our day-to-day living, we are often bombarded with many priorities and distractions and get trapped in a fuzzy and lethargic mind, floating from one purposeless task to another. To move to a focused, clear, and motivated state, we need to direct our consciousness to our purpose, reason, and devotion—also known as intention. Intention is misunderstood today as a weak desire, a fleeting thought without the commitment to follow through. But the original meaning of intention, etymologically speaking, is “to stretch out into” and “to strain, exert, and put one’s effort into something.” According to Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D., past president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, intention is “the projection of awareness, with purpose and efficacy, toward some object or outcome.” In other words, without intention all new concepts and desires are lost in our daily competing priorities, overwhelming distractions, and disengaged mind.

The power of intention to influence seemingly impossible things and situations has been increasingly substantiated by scientists from different disciplines. As we read in Chapter 14, they have carefully studied the effects of individual and group intentions on the performance of machines, properties of water, behaviours of animals and plants, growth rate of cancer cells and viruses, recovery from chronic diseases, behaviours of human DNA, social and economic trends, collective consciousness, and more. These scientific studies have concluded that the act of giving attention to something changes its physical properties. This has led scientists to ask, “What would our world be like if we gave something our full intention, our deliberate desire to make changes?”

Many articles on the interaction between mind and matter have been published in scientific journals, such as the American Journal of Physics, Scientific American, Physics Letters, Foundation of Physics, Physical Review, and the European Journal of Physics. Our thoughts are energies, vibrations, and information, and so are all unmanifested creative forces and manifested matters in the Universe. Moving out from a space of no-thoughts, unclear or crowded thoughts require a moment of silence, a “pause” in our daily lives. This is the vital beginning of our intention-setting process, which allows us to enter the realm of universal consciousness, of infinite possibilities.

In Particle Physics, the Standard Model describes a set of particles (e.g. photon, quark, lepton, gluon, etc.) that build the entire Universe as we know it. Central to the Standard Model is the presupposition that a Higgs Field—a field of energy present throughout the entire Universe—exists. This field provides virtual particles their mass, giving weight and shape to all matter we see in the Universe. This presupposition was proved with the discovery of the Higgs Boson—a fundamental particle of the Higgs Field—by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, in July 2012, after months of intense evaluation and examination. Our intentions act like the Higgs Boson: they give particles their mass. The quality of our intention strengthens and accelerates our efforts to manifest the other five concepts, that is, simplify, redefine, align, embody and resonate.

Core Actions to Take e

(a)     Make time in the morning to set your intention.

(b)     Quiet your mind and calm your body by focusing all your attention on your breathing. Focus on the pause between your inhalation and exhalation—expand the pause.

(c)     Bring the six qualities of intention into your awareness—simplify, redefine, align, embody, and resonate. Be one with the field of consciousness.

(d)     State your intention clearly, Remind yourself that less is more. Be open and flexible.

(e)     As vividly as possible, see, hear, and feel yourself carrying out your intentions. Be aligned with them.

(f)      Surrender your outcome to the Universe (or God, or whatever name you call this totality). Wait for the mind, heart, and body to be still before you move to the next activity.

(g)     Honor your intention. “Be” (clearly experience) your intention as you carry out your daily life-supportive routine.