Intention as Ally

Your thoughts and intentions announce your deepest wishes, desires, and goals to your subconscious mind, or Inner Sage, whose job it is to bring you more of what you project. It’s great to have so willing a friend as long as your thoughts are positive and your intentions are set purposefully. So often, however, they are neither. Many of our thoughts and intentions reflect deep-seated fears, unhealthy beliefs, and intolerances. For instance, if we fear we’re not up to snuff in our job and think things like, “Good grief, how dense can I be?!” or “I’m never going to be able to learn all this!” sure enough our brain, mind, and subconscious centers will obligingly provide what we prescribed—feelings of inadequacy and stupidity. And, of course, such feelings make it hard for us to concentrate and keep us from learning as quickly and easily as we could if we were free from fear. Or if we believe we’re being treated unfairly, we may gnaw on feelings of being cheated and long for revenge; then once again the Inner Sage will cooperatively present matching experiences and feelings

Excerpted from The Woman's Book of Mindfulness by Sue Patton Thoele. Available on Amazon.