Focus and Intent

What affects the outcome of an action is the thought behind it. Have you ever been bowling, then find yourself trying to pick up a spare? Your first roll of the ball may have taken down half the pins and now you are counting the remaining number, hoping to clean it up for a spare. As you face the pins, the ball balanced at your chest, the success of the outcome will not be luck as much as the focus of your intent.

All of our thoughts, worries, experiences, and awareness along with things we have viewed, heard and been taught whirl and flow, through our mind influencing our views of everyday experiences. This is why police officers will ask for 3-5 witnesses at an accident. No two people will view that accident the same way. Each will see it through their life experiences. One person may swear the driver was drinking because they saw the accident through the scars of losing a loved one to a drunken driver. Another may have seen the driver not wearing the seat belt; a regular point of debate between them and their spouse.

It is in creating quiet time that we begin to realize how busy our minds are. It is in the ability to quiet the mind that creates powerful focus. When the thoughts behind the focus are negative, it produces a force that can be hurtful, but the energy formed is constrictive and will rapidly return to the sender. When  it does, it carries an amplification of its negative message.  When the thoughts behind the focus are optimistic, a flow of positive energy occurs with an expanding ripple that has valuable collateral affects.

The most valuable asset to living is in spending time training the mind to a disciplined quiet. Then feed the mind with positive thoughts and beliefs. When you want the results of a positive focus, it needs no effort to direct it and all around you benefit. By training the mind to hold a positive focus we create the reality we want and a better world for all.  WHAT WE DO TO ANOTHER IN THOUGHT OR DEED, WE ARE DOING TO OURSELVES.

 

Vitality

I’ve been writing a lot about vitality lately and with chronic conditions, it’s a major missing link. If the word ‘chronic’ is defined as; slowly developing, long-term, then it only makes sense the pain, struggle, worry or fear created by it would have a weakening affect on every area.

People struggling with chronic conditions, whether in their health or relationships, invariably lose the vitality needed for hope, courage or desire.
An easy little exercise that can open a door to a few moments of peace and freedom is to close your eyes, then take and releasing a deep cleansing breath. Give yourself permission to imagine yourself as a free, wild animal…possibly an eagle, dolphin, mustang or other. Let your imagination loose. See yourself flying, or running free. Feel the wind beneath you, or the water rushing past your face. Travel as far as you choose.

When you are ready to return and open your eyes. You may be amazed at how much stronger and lighter you feel. It’s what freedom feels like. Now that you are acquainted with the feeling, practice this exercise every day, waiting for the bus, or at the doctor’s office or before bed. The more you practice it the longer the feeling stays. Soon it will be YOUR normal feeling and will create the change you are looking for in your life.

My next post we can examine how food allows healing by offering vitality.