Earth Caretakers
Intention, Change, and Interbeing                 March 2012
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Intention, Change, and Interbeing

            

 

All change begins with intention.

 

In the beginning, intention may simply consist of openness and willingness to experience. Such willingness might prompt you to take a class, read something different, or try a meditation you hear about. The first step, trying something, is what leads you down a new path.  

 

Experience of a change helps us take the next step, and the next. Setting our intention to heal a physical injury is a simple example. When doing our exercises results in less pain, we keep doing it. When we feel our bodies become stronger and less stiff, that fuels our intention to keep up the exercise! When we stop (as we all do!) and the pain returns, we have some choices: we can renew our intention. We can give up. We can try something different. We can make excuses. We can feed our fear of being disabled. We can vow to do the best we can.

 

Intention and Possibility  

 Setting an intention to shift activates our hearts. Our hearts, in turn, send messages to our brains and bodies (not the other way around!).  

 

On my first trip to Peru 20 years ago, my teacher Am�rico Yabar invited us to notice the energy changing as we drove along the road. This was the first time I'd heard of that! I had never really considered energy in a conscious way. I started to pay attention--why not?--and thought I could feel some shifts, but I wasn't really sure. It took my intent, along with a lot of encouragement, practice, and being around others who entertained the possibilities of energy shifting before I felt confident.

 

The consciousness of possibility is also essential in forming intent. In general, we do not experience things we do not think are possible! Traveling with Am�rico in a culture where living energy is perceived in everything, it became natural to play with energy. It became natural to receive vision. It was mystifying sometimes, and I didn't have words to describe what I was experiencing, but the portal to different possibilities stood open. It was possibility, and experience, that allowed me to intend to change my perception, and eventually to change my life.

 

Once we perceive the possibilities, we can develop our intent--the attention, passion, spirit, and direction we focus on our energetic response and our attitude. Intent can include how we want to feel; what support we'd like to seek; what we need to let go of; what changes in lifestyle we are willing to make (or not); what we want to understand; what daily practices will help us; how we want to talk about our issue; and what kind of response from others would help us.  

 

It can help to express intent as a decree, such as: "I see my body strong, energized, whole, and joyful," or "I see all the waters on the planet running clear and pure." It's OK, even good, to go into detail. The more we envision a healing, the more likely it is to happen!

 

Intention and Creation

Our words, and the intentions they express, carry energy, so it is really important to reflect on what we are trying to manifest. The process can help us clarify desire, and notice any hesitations we have, as well as the strength we are carrying. Only if we discover that we are putting limitations on the outcome can we address those limitations and create from the heart.

 

As Sandra Ingerman writes,  

 

"...We need to stop allowing the outside world to write our script and our new script must be born from our inner world. And we must use the depth of our senses to make our creations real... If we cannot get in touch with the true power of our own vivid images, our own internal songs of creation, the beauty of the fragrances we wish to smell, the taste of healthy food grown and cooked with love, and the feeling of touching the beauty of life, there is no power in our creation... If you wish for healing to take place at a particular location on the planet imagine reading a newspaper article that announces the healing has already taken place. Feel the feel of the newspaper in your fingers. Smell the ink. Experience yourself smiling as you read the article out loud, and hear the laughter of your friends as you share the good news."

 

Engaging belly, heart, and third eye wisdom, that trio of energetic power spots known the world over, helps us avoid getting trapped in ideas and mental concepts. Experiencing and perceiving change helps us step out of that repetitive internal dialogue that keeps us in a fixed version of reality. Knowing we share intentions--for example, to live in gratitude--with many others around the world helps us maintain our commitment.

 

Intention and Interbeing

In these times of planetary, personal, and, for many, unusual physical reactions, it is crucial to hone our intent so we can stay on track. The stronger our intent, the less we are buffeted by the energy and weirdness around us. (In writing this over the last five days, I've renewed my own intent to exercise an hour a day. This focus helps, I know, to avoid anxiety, self-doubt, and plain old pain!)

 

Seeing each situation as an energetic opening creates a wider vision for us, one that incorporates the mystery and challenge of the unknown. It makes it possible to take in feelings as well as thoughts, spirit as well as matter. It makes it possible to see ourselves with a place in the universe: not the whole, not God, but one essential part of the whole.

 

In a state of "interbeing"--the boundarylessness that lets us feel our connection with all living creatures--breath, light, and energy move through us so strongly that cosmic connection is all that is important, and ego dwindles away. In this state, intent becomes a vast open expanse. Possibilities and hope abound. Sensations and perceptions arise and fall away moment by moment. Awe takes over, and the portal opens into wondrous, amazing mystery.

 

Meg Beeler/Earth Caretakers    

Copyright � 2012

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"In any kind of situation, you have the choice of connecting with the energy that flows in the cosmos. You truly can transform that energy into love, and bring that love to all of our body. It's very different than  'personal power.' The important thing is to work with intent and incorporate that cosmic energy transformed in love in order to project that energy to the others. This is the essential principle of the art of magic in the Andes."  --Americo Yabar

 

"The creative act of perceiving - how we perceive and how we imagine - shapes our direct experience of the world, each other and ourselves. We suffer terribly when we become locked in dead perceptions, old narrow descriptions, and frozen perspectives. What opens new ways of perceiving and the igniting spark of your imagination?" -- Susan Harper

 

"Creation takes many steps before it arrives in a physical dimension. When we start to create, we have to imagine it first, and then gather information and resources before we can actually manifest that something. Manifesting in spirit is one half of the manifesting process. It is also the part we quickly over look, because we cannot see it with our eyes. Everything has to be created in spirit first, and then it slowly manifests into the physical world. - Aluna Joy

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