Intention

There has been much written of late about intention, some say - and I agree with them - that intentions are the building blocks of the universe. What you intend strongly today you are sure to live out in all your tomorrows.

This is both exciting and terrifying.

Most of us are not well practiced with our intentions so we tend to create our universe accidentally, with all its cloud bathing heavens and its barrel scarping hells. When we are in heaven we call it a fluke or a happy accident and when we are in hell we think 'karmic return' or we talk 'spiteful God.' The truth is neither. Rather it is that we are creators in denial, fashioning random realities with our unskilled and unschooled thoughts, and then looking outside of our selves to praise or blame when our creation makes us happy or sends us into a dizzy depression.

People with a lower level of consciousness revel in the blame culture. It is not their fault that life is shit so they look for someone, anyone, to blame.

This is a weak place to reside because it is so disempowering. There is no darker place than the blame goal. The very act of blaming gives your power over to the object of your blame. If you blame God, then it means your situation will not change until God favours you. Similarly if you blame the government, society, your country, city or town, if you blame you ex-wife or mate or teacher or antagonist then you give them the key to your cell and await their leniency.

You always become a prisoner of those you blame.

People with higher levels of consciousness always place them selves at cause. They blame no one. They understand that their reality is one of their own making and if they want to change it they look only to the man/woman in the mirror. This gives them the freedom to practice their intentions until they become expert enough to sculpt out a dazzling idyll.

Those who blame do so because (deep down) they are afraid of responsibility. It is easier to hunt down a culpable scapegoat than it is to - like Titan - carry the atlas on your own shoulders.

Those that take responsibility do so because they are excited about the possibilities of creating a new and ever improved reality.

Personally - and before I accepted responsibility - I resided consecutively (and some times concurrently) in both worlds.

In my time I have created health, wealth and happiness and material possessions with my very best intentions, whilst at the same time creating violence, illness, unhappiness and penury with my very worst.

It was only when I took a hard and honest inventory of my life that I realised I was the creator of them all. I could trace back every good and every bad to intentions - or strong and persistent thoughts - that I'd had.

It was at this point that I got very scared. And it was at this point that I got very excited.

I was scared because although I realised I'd created this juxtaposition of realities I wasn't exactly sure how - that made my reality very unpredictable.

I was excited because I knew I could learn by using my own inadvertent experience as a reference point. I could learn from my own experience. And where the details were foggy I could borrow from the library of information that is currently available on the power of intention. I could become an expert and I could practice as much as I wanted to.

And that is what I did.

So how do you practice intention?

First you have to accept that intention is a creative force. Not just your own intention, but the universal intention that you click into when you practice.

Many do not or will not, and if you don't at least have an intellectual understanding of your own power then you are doomed to spin in an ever increasing cycle of random creation where life will brig you joy one day and a punch in the eye the next.

If this article does not convince you then you need to search out the truth from somewhere else. It's in the Bible, it is in the Bhagavad-Gita, the Koran, it is in the Toa Te Ching, Buddhism's basic tenant is that we create our own universe - even new science is catching up with it's theories of Quantum mechanics (see the film What The Bleep Do We Know, or look at Deepak Chopra's work on the science of intention).

Once you accept the premise the training can begin.

You practice intention the same way as you would practice anything that you want become expert in. With study and diligence. To become a strong judo player I read everything on judo, I placed myself in front of world class teachers, I talked judo, I watched judo, I actually lived and breathed judo. But more than anything else I practiced judo. I drilled and drilled and drilled the techniques until I was expert, until I could close my eyes and feel them, until I was the techniques, until I could handle judo players on the international scene.

Intention is no different. If you are a weekend player you will get weekend results. If you practice four or five times a week, you'll start to see some decent movement, but if you make it your life you will rise rapidly into the higher echelons.

You start by investing

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