Blog 1: Intentions!
Hi hi and welcome to my first blog post!
With the energy of the recent full moon cascading around us and as the whispered hopes, dreams, and desires of those in the city, delicately wrap around the wind on this brisk fall evening; I sip my chai, listen to the humming wind outside my apartment, and I wonder what it truly means to set intentions, live intentionally, and dwell within the “will be’s”
As a little girl, I was always talking to an imaginary friend, pets, or making up realities with barbies and dolls. There was always something overwhelmingly freeing about creating, imagining, and living within a reality of my own making.
The heart of intentionality is a vivid picture of freedom and possibility. Setting intentions and living life intentionally positions us to boldly chart and walk into the realities we desire.
What is an intention?
According to the Merriam Dictionary, an intention can be defined as “a thing intended; an aim or a plan.” The most powerful definition under medicine states that an intention is “the healing process of a wound.”
Aims.. plans..wounds...healing…
Often times, intentions are confused with goals. Goals are often time-stamped and steeped in productivity. Setting goals can be deeply motivating and a rigorous way to keep living the lives we desire. On the flip side, goals can cause us anxiety and stress when we don’t complete them in the self defined timelines we hold ourselves to.
Goals are rigid.
Intentions are flexible and shapeshifting.
Goals often cause anxiety, stress, and lead us down the path of comparison.
Intentions often cause a sense of deep-belly freedom, wonder, and lead us down a path of our own finding and creation.
Intentions flow from our hearts and overwhelm and inform the ways in which we enter, depart, and interact with the worlds around us.
What does it mean to set an intention?
Setting an intention involves spending some time reconnecting with your self, your embodied stances, your breath, and your heartbeat…
You are here...right now… what are you desiring? Intentions are often tied to our values, perspectives and personal thoughts.
Some examples of intentions:
“I am content and fulfilled in my existence”
“I speak, walk, and love from a space of abundance and not lack”
“I am an abundant, loving, and open being”
“I celebrate life’s frustrations and victories as it assists my souls transformation”
“I have within me everything I need”
How to get started? Start by reflecting on the following:
What you would like to let go of?
What you would like to welcome into your life?
What are you grateful for?
What are you hopeful for?
What would you like to forgive in your life?
The magic of intentions is that they become powerful the second it leaves our minds and filters through our lips or our hands. Speaking and writing make our intentions a truth and a reality. I think to Erykah Badu and how she once said “...write down what you want, watch it happen, spelling is a spell..”
What are you imagining, hoping, writing, and speaking?
How do you live intentionally?
Living intentionally is leaning into and becoming lost in the will be’s. Uncertainty is frightening. Living a life on purpose and with intention is radical, courageous, and dripping with the sweetness of possibility and freedom. Living intentionally, starts with the little things like: the language we use around our dreams, our fears, and our present realities. It is keeping a consistent gaze daring to look straight ahead, remaining in a state of wonder and awe at the glimmer of the stars and the amber hued reflection in the sky at sunset.
It is aiming, wanting, planning, desiring, and remaining 10 toes down as you simultaneously heal, give honor to your wounds, stride into your hopes, and get lost in the “will be’s” and “I shall’s'
I’d love to know how you set or are planning to set intentions!
love + light,
c
