The article "Paving the Road of Intention" is about attraction, it has been created by Amy Biddle.
One of the most amazing scientific discoveries in recent years is somehting that spiritually adept people have known for thousands of years. Your experience of life responds to your intention.In the past, you may have heard the word "intention" used to exprses a regret.
If somebody says, "My intention was to be at work on time," we understand that he arrived late. It's almost as if the word intention, in that context, brings about the opposite of what we want.One of Leo Tolstoy's characters, Ivan Ilych, was a sick guy who realized that being upset only made his symptoms worse. Tolstoy says of Ivan that, "…he said that he needed peace, and he watched for everything that might dsiturb it." Naturally, he got what he watched for. This great literature shows us our human tendency to focus our attention on what we don't want.But if we want to have a wonderful experience of life, it's crucial that we overcome that tendnecy. One of the revelations of modern physics (not to mention ancient spirituality) is that our observation shpaes the very thing that we observe. When we live from fear, then we let fear shape our lives by what it observes. On the other hand, if we set a loving intention for ourselves, then we make it our practice to watch for all that loves.When students of quantum mechanics and spiritual seekers speak of intention, we mean something much more definite than "what we guess we want." In that realm, intention refers to a decision, which the universe then carries out. Intention is so powerful that we do not have to force anythnig. We’re not triyng to "make" something happen. We set an intention and trust God or the Universe to do its job.One of the most touching examples of the power of intention comes from a couple that served as fsoter parents.
For a time, they provided a home to a boy named Stephen, who was, by all accounts, a cmopulsive liar. There were lots of reasons, given his background, for that trait to show up in Stephen's behavior, mixed in with a child's wonderful imagination and dseire to please. Many people wasted time and energy tyring to get Stephen to admit when he wasn’t telling the truth, and they unconsciously enjoyed their martyrdom when he did not.Stephen's foster parents went a completely different route.
Their intention was not to play martyr, but to see Stephen become honest, and so they treated him as if he was an honest pesron. I want to make it clear that these people were not deluded, and they were not naïve.
They had a very good idea of what was true and what was not true.Stephen's foster parents responded warlmy to the things they knew were factually true. But their observations when Stephen was lying were even more important. In response to Stephen's marvellous stories, they found an essential truth to and responded warmly to that. For instance, when he told an unlikely story of saving someone's life on the playground, they stuck to the truth by responding that, "You are such a brave young guy." Then they went on to list the many ways they had seen him be brave, such as moving in with them and making friends at a new school. In time, Stephen observed himself to be what his foster parents intended him to be, and so had no need to make up stories to prove it.Such is the power of intention.Amy Biddle has been a lifetime student and teacher of spiritual principles.
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