Clarity On Intention

Posted by Sunni on June 19, 2012 in blog, Uncategorized | 7 comments

So I sat down this morning and asked _____________ (insert favorite name for formlessness or higher-selfhood of your choice) for clarity and understanding on the role of intention. Because I had a lot of conflicting-bits about it, and as my awareness and connection has expanded, the role and importance of intention in my life has greatly dropped from what it once was. But I found myself flip-flopping on it, and I found some stress lurking up about the should’s and shouldn’ts of this particular facet of our human experience.

I rather love what came out of this conversation, at least it was helpful to me, and so I thought maybe some of you would find it helpful too.  Here’s how it went:

Me:  ”Dear ______, will you please assist me in understanding the role of intention?
I have a lot of conflicting thought patterns about it, and I’d love some clarity —
Can you help me understand? I understand a lot of THEORIES and BELIEFS about it already, but I’d like to  look at this in a new way… can you help?  I’m all ears…”

{ P.S. I don’t know why these conversations come out in a strange kind of poem format, some are more poetic, some are not-so-much, but they still come out in this format. Just feels right to me somehow. }

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Think of intention as an aperture.
a way in which mind
focuses.

However, contrary to popular belief
it doesn’t focus things into being
in TIME, or space.

This is how Loving
looks for itself.

It paints a picture of something shiny
in your mind, and holds it
until it further recognizes it.

Until the nooks and crannies
of the dream
are known.

For every shiny thing and dream
is inspected for just one thing,
and until that thing is found

the shiny thing keeps shifting
it’s properties.

It acts as a gauge to
tell you where you
ARE.

It seems that the clearer you become on
your “intention”, the narrower the
focal point…

this is a misunderstanding.

In actuality, the clearer you become
on your intention,
the wider the aperture
opens

With each point of clarity
the lens clicks one step wider
and a whole new realm of
your world is
revealed.

It is in this way
that things SEEM to
“manifest”

Suddenly things show up
that weren’t there before,
and it’s odd for you
because it feels completely natural
instead of like the
SHOCK
you thought it would be.

You think it had something to do
with the passing of TIME
but it didn’t.

Your lens just wasn’t open,
until it was.

Time passes in your minds experience
but the moment it happens
it’s done.

It’s never outside of
NOW.

You think clarity on intentions
is about the exclusion of things,
but the truth is, that it’s about
Inclusion.

What was already there,
but out of your periphery,
has just come into
view.

So you’ll suddenly notice
all these things you wanted,
you already
HAVE.

And the more you notice,
the wider the lens opens,
and the more things like that you
begin to SEE
as Mind strokes it’s wide
brush across your canvas.

You think you’ve moved,
but you haven’t.

Nothing has changed,
the picture has just
broadened.

But my love,
the shiny dreams
will continue to be inspected for that
just one thing
I was telling you about.

And they will continue to
change and shift into
eternity

until that one true thing
is found.

Every dream is a hall of mirrors,
making you think there are many versions of you
when the reality is

there is only
just
One.

And dear, when you find this,
the dreams are but
a toy

and your joy becomes a
simple game of

hide
and
seek

with the ineffable
beauty that
you ARE.

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Me:  Oh my, my, my, is that sweet!  This is what I already felt to be true, but I love how you’ve reframed it for me. Thank you, thank you.  This feels so much better to me. In other words, you go right ahead and keep on clarifiying your intentions, and honing your dreams as long as it takes — like an alchemical process, until you distill it all down to the flames and white-hot core, where the truth about dreaming is revealed.
It’s alllllllllll Love baby.

It’s
ALL
for
LOVE.