What is the power of intention?

Moreover, what does it mean to connect to the power of

intention? In this article we will not explore what intention is exactly, because I dont
believe anybody can really know that. However, we can most definitely use intention and
experience it directly for ourselves which is what you will gain from reading this article.
Carlos Castaneda described intention as follows based off of the description he was given
by his teacher, Don Jan:
He said that in the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which
sorcerers call intent, and that absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is
attached to intent by a connecting link. Sorcerers, or warriors, as he called them, were
concerned with discussing, understanding, and employing the connecting link. They were
especially concerned with cleaning it of the numbing effects brought about by the ordinary
concerns of their everyday lives. (The Power of Silence, p.12)
In essence intention is another name for universal consciousness, or for the infinitely dense
field of energy (vacuum energy) from which all of creation arises. Intention is another
name for the impersonal and infinite universal force which is intending all of creation into
being simultaneously, including ourselves, and maintaining that creation. In the exact same
way that we can intend an image into our imagination and then maintain it there, I believe
this is precisely what creation is, but on a universal scale.
So what does it mean for us to use the power of intention, to connect to intention, and to
live with intention?
Connecting to Intention, and Intending Reality into Being
I deeply resonate with Don Juans other description of what it means to use intention and to
actually intend something, which helped me to greatly clear up my understanding of using
this force which we connect to. In essence he described intending something as: silently
willing something into being.
Not thinking something into being, but silently willing something into being which is a
specific energetic state. It is a state not characterized primarily by thought, but by a
powerful feeling and a state of being where from your inner silence radiates a powerful
knowing and energetic connection or bond with this future reality you are focusing on.
Until we have reached that specific state, we have intended nothing. Nor have we
connected to the universal power of intention.
In order to become a dreamer, Don Juan advised Carlos Castaneda in this way:
Don Juan: How can you convince yourself you are a dreamer when you know you are not?
Intending is both: the act of convincing yourself you are indeed a dreamer, although you
have never dreamt before, and the act of being convinced.
Castaneda: Do you mean I have to tell myself I am a dreamer and try my best to believe it?
Is that it?
Don Juan:Intending is much simpler and, at the same time, infinitely more complex than
that. It requires imagination, discipline, and purpose. In this case, to intend means that you
get an unquestionable bodily knowledge that you are a dreamer. You feel you are a dreamer
with all the cells of your body. (The Art of Dreaming, p.26)
Don Juan advised Carlos Castaneda to do this in order to become a dreamer, but in reality
we can use this same concept to become anything that we desire and are called to become.
In essence you want to arrive at an unquestionable certainty that what you are intending is
your reality, and that you already are what you desire to be. And it is this which I believe to
be the essence of silently willing or in other words, intending.
But how do you arrive at this unquestionable bodily knowledge or feeling? Is it something
that can be cultivated? The answer to that question is repetition, and learning how to
discipline our imagination, and emotions through repetition and diligent practice.

Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
We are not as fixed as we have been led to believe. Biologically or in terms of our
personality and potential, in every sense of the word.
We all have magnificent potential, but in order to reach that potential we must change. For
if we did not need to change, then we would already be living and expressing our highest
potential. We must change our thoughts, emotions, beliefs and habits which are in essence
our personality.
Don Juan admonished Carlos Castaneda:
not merely to think about what he had told me but to turn his concepts into a viable way
of life by a process of repetition. He claimed that everything new in our lives must be
repeated to us to the point of exhaustion before we open ourselves to it. He pointed out that
repetition is the way our progenitors socialized us to function in the daily world. (The Art
of Dreaming, p.34)
Repetition is the manner in which we have learned almost every skill which today we take
for granted. From language, to motor function. Through repetition we retrain literally our
state of being which transforms us into a new person, and thus our life transforms because
it is only a reflection of our state of being. Achieve this by training yourself to assume the
powerful feeling and unquestionable bodily knowledge that you are whatever you desire
to be.
While this requires enormous effort, it does not need to be a difficult or daunting task
because if we can learn to love this self-discipline we will become truly powerful. For this
type of work not only leads to personal transformation, but towards consciousness
evolution as well.
Many of us have tried to change our thoughts or to create new habits, or to manifest, and
have failed, but that does not mean this process doesnt work. It only means that we didnt
do it properly. It only means that we did not repeat the new state of being and bodily
feeling of our intention to ourselves tirelessly until we were able to turn these concepts
into a viable way of life.
We must inform the field and our subconscious mind (which are the same thing) tirelessly
of our intentions until we resonate on the deepest possible level with the idea which has
inspired us as to banish all doubt and all incongruity within us. Then we will start to open
up to and embody the power of intention.
Internal Congruence and the Power of Intention
If you always do what youve always done, youll always get what youve always gotten.
The quote above is an invitation for us to transform ourselves and our lives by actively
doing things differently.
In truth we should really re-direct all of the energy we dedicate to changing our external
reality towards changing, or at least refining and honing our internal world because our
external realities (our lives) are literally a projection of our inner world. In other words, we
must redeploy our energy towards changing our internal reality: our inner image, and our
emotions.
Imagination is an important component to using the power of intention, but one which I
will cover later because I feel that mastering the practice of silently willing and feeling is
more important. Emotion supersedes thought therefore if we can change our emotions,
literally how we consistently feel, then our thoughts will change naturally to conform with
that shift in emotional state.
Internal congruity is absolutely essential, and in many ways it is the key to living with
intention and using the power of intention in our lives. Internal congruity arises when our
thoughts are aligned with our heart (our emotions and our feelings), and when our actions
are then aligned with our thoughts.
And when our actions are aligned with our thoughts, and when our thoughts are aligned
with our hearts, then we are aligned with the universe because our heart center is our
connecting link with spirit, with intention.
The universal force of intention is an unfathomable and impersonal consciousness and
intelligence, but fundamentally it is energy. It is infinite energy. Therefore it is love.
So when we align with love, and with passion, and with our inner truth all those energies
of the highest frequency then we align with intention. And by achieving internal
congruence between our emotions, our internal image, our thoughts, and our actions, then
we resonate with the power of intention which is the force that intends reality into being
and which makes existence possible at all (which from a logical perspective is an
impossibility in and of itself).
Our greatest task in life is to cut away at the non-essentials within ourselves which is
anything that does not enhance our connection with intent or which does not flow directly
from intention itself. This process takes a lifetime as it is the process of cleansing our
connecting link with the universe. But with each obstruction we cleanse, we gain enormous
power, and we give ourselves the opportunity to step into inconceivable new worlds, states
of being, and lives.When you have contradictory desires, passions, and dreams within you,
you are obstructing the universal force of intention and obscuring your connecting link with
spirit. For until we have honed our state of being and unquestionable bodily knowledge to a
point our desires will not manifest in our lives because our old energetic state of being and
the new one we are trying to cultivate will be in a state of destructive interference.
They will neutralize one another.
That means that we must be in absolute harmony with what we desire internally. We must
know that we are worthy of that desire, know that we are fully capable of manifesting that
desire, and we must feel as an unquestionable bodily knowledge that it is already our
present reality.
Once again, this perfect internal alignment is brought about through sheer repetition.
Diligent practice in other words. This knowing cannot be cultivated artificially. We can
cultivate an internal image with our own power, with our thoughts, and we can imbue those
images with the all-important energies of passion, desire, love, enthusiasm, and so on. But
we cannot artificially create knowing.
Knowing occurs when our state of being is finally perfected once it has become precise and
clear, and when our entire being both the conscious and subconscious minds, our body,
and spirit - are all in alignment. When that occurs the universe resonates with our desire
because we will be informing it clearly of our intention for the first time. And when this
desire, which is really just a finely tuned frequency, resonates with the universe, that is
what we call a powerful knowing, silently willing, and an unquestionable bodily knowledge.


And that is what the power of intention feels like within your body.
Until you have experienced this feeling, then you have not yet tapped into the power of
intention, and you are not tapping into your full potential either. That should not be a
discouraging message by any means. On the contrary, it should be a message of hope.
Because if you look at your life as it is now and all you have (or have not) created, realize
now that everything you have done and achieved so far was what you have done without
harnessing your true power.
Imagine now what you could create and who you could be if you mastered the art of
tapping into the power of intention, and instead created with the power of the entire
universe behind each and every one of your actions.
Every thing around us has an effect on something within us be it our exposure to the
suns ultraviolet radiation (UVR), looking at the morning sky, taking a walk in the forest,
or swimming in the sea natures beauty prompts the flow of hormones and energy in our
body. But not everything thats present in nature is fundamentally good for human beings.
The Moon, romanticised by poets and artists since ages, has a series of negative effects on
the human mind, scientifically and spiritually. Several scientists and research institutions
have conducted experiments over the years to study the effect of moon and full moon
nights on the human mind and behaviour. It is concluded that moon does influence humans
and other species on earth.
Moon, Conscious and Sub-Conscious
According to Quantum Physics, everything in the Universe stars, planets, satellites or
even the moon has an operating frequency. The frequency emanated by the moon affects
the frequency of the mind that exerts control over our feelings, emotions and desires. The
mind, which consists of conscious and sub-conscious mind, reacts to the standing and
positioning of the moon in the sky. We arent aware of our thoughts in our sub-conscious
mind as a large number of us function solely by using 10% of our conscious mind.
Sub-conscious mind is the collective storehouse of impressions, memories and thoughts
accumulated over the years and lifetime and it has a higher operating frequency in
comparison to that of the moon. One needs constructive thinking and observatory skills to
get into the realms of the sub-conscious mind.

The moon frequencies have the power to make the thought frequencies in our sub-
conscious mind to surface to the conscious mind. Since our sub-conscious mind consists of
unnecessary and necessary, positive and negative imprints, their combined rise to the
conscious mind, can leave us feeling exasperated, crazy and mindless. Psychiatrists have
proven the fact that on full moon days, when the moon frequencies are more active, patients
with mental disorders feel heightened sense of emotions and anxiety that makes them feel
lunatic.
Moon, Tides and Human body
Moon is the reason for tides on earth, as due to its gravitational pull the volatile objects
(water) on earth tend to get disturbed. Marine animals have a hard time surviving due to
constant tides. Aristotle and Roman historian Pliny the Elder suggested that the brain was
the moistest organ in the body. Scientist went further on this line of thought and
suggested that since the human body is made up of 80% water, it could be possible that
moon does influence humans state of mind and behavior. However, to each research that
proves the same, there is a contradictory research denying the same.
But, there is concrete evidence that the moon affects human sleep patterns. The evidence
was published based on the experiment where 33 adult volunteers (of both sexes) of
different age groups were made to sleep for several nights in a sleep lab.
Researchers studied and observed the volunteers brain activity, eye movements and
hormone levels. Gradually, it was found out that on the nights closer to moon days,
volunteers took an average of five minutes longer to fall asleep, and slept overall 20
minutes lesser than their usual sleeping hours. Additionally, melatonin (hormone that helps
in regulating sleep cycle) level had dropped compared to other nights hence proving the
fact that people are prone to insomnia during full moon nights.
Practitioners of Ashtanga yoga, a traditional vigorous yoga style that is almost thousand
years old, are asked to avoid doing yoga on moon days: full moon and new moon. The
reason for the same is that one exhibits too much energy on full moon days, which might
lead to injury and fracture in the body. It is, thus, advised, to indulge in activities that
calms the mind, for example meditation.
Countering the influence of the Moon
In order to not let the moon vibrancies take over you, be vigilant about your own vibrations.
Be watchful of your behaviour, impulses and thoughts on moon days. Since, new moon
asks a part of your unconscious to rise up, you can use this as an opportunity to cleanse
your mind off those thoughts which tend to bother and disturb you. New moon energy can
be used in our favour if we choose to harness that energy to reflect and create a better self.