by Cate Ferguson

Created on: January 11, 2009

Conscious Awareness: What Are Your Intentions?

There has been quite a lot written in recent times about Intentions. A number of 'Best Selling Authors' have titled their books around the topic. Articles in magazines have covered the power of Intentions in your life and I can remember seeing a short film about that recently.

So, are Intentions some kind of new age fad or is something deeper going on here?

Many years ago I did some study and practice in the old traditions of herbal remedies and met some very interesting women who were practiced in the Wiccan traditions. We used to do meditations and blessings together and I attended some of their Solstice and Equinox celebrations which were really wonderful. For a while, I considered following that path myself but in the end it wasn't really for me.

Having said that though, there was one very, very powerful part of their process which I have discovered turns up in many forms all over the place and it is the statement that ends something like "... and it harms none" That is an Intension. That my will be done, that is it already done, that this is now true... so long as it harms none.

I heard a story once about a women who was learning to work with the Law Of Attraction. She would often drive a particular route and discovered a house that she really liked. She had been heard to say many times "I Want That House"

It came to pass that the house came on the market and she bought it.

It appeared that the Law Of Attraction had worked in her favour.

There was a little spin on the tale though. The previous owners had been living happily in their home for some years, the husband suddenly died and the home had to be sold and this is the reason it came on the market and allowed our "I Want That House" friend to purchase it.

I am sure it was not her Intention to have something terrible happen to the inhabitants so that she could "Have" that house. I'm sure that if her Intention had been made Consciously it would have been more like "I Own A House Like That One" or at the very least she would have added her insurance policy statement if it harms no-one.

That's what I particularly like about using Intention in your life is that you can t add real value to what you are doing, what you are dreaming about and to get really clear on what you want to happen.

When I make an Intention statement I add something to the end of it that conveys my ethics and morality around what I am willing to accept in terms of this becoming my reality.

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