1. Intention
Onjida (on-JI-da) / Adhbhar (ah-vid)
“The value of deciding in advance what you want to happen is simply that you will perceive the situation as a means to make it happen.
You will therefore make every effort to overlook what interferes with the accomplishment of your objective, and concentrate on everything that helps you meet it.”
Airson Dè Tha Seo / What is this For?
Lets talk about the purpose of Intention and I’ll share a personal experience about making my Intention and how the Universe responded. (The Universe always responds. lol.)
Set Your Intention for the Year
Setting an intention for the next 12 months (while working Braiding Roots), offers a framework around which all the “events” in your life can evolve. The Intention gives us a choice on how to see the World, and to see the “Things That Happen” for “the purpose of our Intention”, instead of being just random chaos or worse - things and events happening to “prove that we’re shit”.
Seriously, a lot of us are running this intention unconsciously - “I’m a piece of shit and deserve to suffer” is pretty common. AND a terrible way to frame events in our lives because it always ends up proving to us the worst possible version of ourselves and the world.
It’s not what is true, so let’s not do that.
What do you really want?
A lot of people say they don’t know. Maybe they don’t - but everybody has wants. Not knowing what you want doesn’t mean the wants aren’t still there, working on us every day.
Maybe you haven’t spent any time thinking about what you want, maybe growing up you weren’t allowed to want, maybe your wants were dismissed or ignored. Maybe you’ve disconnected from your own wants and needs to the point that you can’t identify what you want anymore. Or maybe you know what you want but you’re too scared to admit your wants to yourself, or you think you aren’t allowed or supposed to want what you want.
You want what you want. It’s okay.
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What do you want to experience during this time in your life?
What do you want to feel?
What do you want to believe?
What characteristic of being alive do you want to emphasize and dig into during this teaching?
Who do you want to be?
Whatever you choose becomes the framework for how everything will be perceived.
If you’re interested, this is my intention from my Level II course at ICU. It’s a big intention, but for me - is the only intention that matters right now.
Here are a couple more that I found:
“Experience doesn’t just change what you see - it changes what you look for. ”
The Practice
Izhi’ (i-ZAY) / An Dèanamh (an JEE-an-ov)
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You don’t have to do every thing, but you must do some things regularly or nothing will change.
ACTION BRINGS CLARITY.