What Are Your Intentions?

There has been quite a lot written over the years and especially in more recent times about the Power of 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 lo and behold our friend bought it.
• It appears that the Law Of Attraction had really worked for her, even though she may not have even been aware that she was utilising it's influence in her life.
• There was, I'm afraid, a little spin on the end of this tale. The previous owners had been happily living in their home for a number of years when the husband became ill and died a short time later.
• The home had to be sold as a result and this is how it came to be on the market and how our friend came 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.

This is what can happen if we are not conscious of what we are Intending in our lives. It is one thing to create a statement of affirmation but unless we are aware of what the intention behind that is, then things we never intended may manifest as a result.