Last nite I went to a truly Boulder workshop on Living the Life You Love http://www.livethelifeyoulove.com/ and creating it through intentions. The moderator Boni Lonnsburry is a cross between savvy business professional and a fairy..... a real life professional fairy. Like you might guess she is into all the metaphysical consciousness aids like crystals and various renditions of hearts in the form of art hung around the conference room at her place of business In Touch Today where we met. She was nominated as Entrepreneur of the Year for her InTouch Today business success so she knows what it is like to combine head and heart to balance our energies. I liked her I have to say. I liked her openness and frankness and positive attitude and dedication to "no harm to others" in creating the intentions that she asked us to write. This was the first of what will be 10 evening sessions doing a variety of guided imagery, discussion, meditation and manifestation of the intentions we have created.
Fundamentally, I do agree with the principles she is putting forth. Basically we create our own reality. I think that is true and we all know this on a visceral level yet fail to take it into account in our everyday lives. For whatever reason we let our egos rule with a lot of distracting energy. I can't deny that shit happens but by and large we get what we put out there. Some who are more grounded in traditional "reality" might find this methodology of creating and manifesting your intentions a bit "airy-fairey," but I don't. I am anxious to explore further developing this consciousness.
If I look back on what has happened in my life it has been through actively going after what I sought and wanted to manifest in my world. I found my husband long before Facebook and other social eHarmony type sites. I saw his picture in the paper and picked him out as someone I wanted"2 of for Christmas." Well I was happy to get the one of him after almost 3 months of a rather circuitous and weird set of developments before we finally met. I held his picture though in my mind, our relationship in my intention and voila he and I have been married 27 years. We were meant to be together I believed then and still know now.
My kids were also pretty straightforward intentions. I always thought I would have kids and was waiting for the right man to come into my life to share that experience with. My husband turned out to be that man and we manifested 2 terrific kids who are now adults. Yeah it was not easy and there were some real challenges along the way much like the sitcoms in many respects. Rob stayed home and was an early stay-at-home Dad in the 80's and early 90's when it was not yet fashionable. I have to admit I was glad he did but for many years resented his doing so because I had been trained to think that was my role in the family. Breadwinner was what I became and while he supported me in climbing up the corporate ladder he had to wait until the kids were in high school before he was able to really focus on a career for himself. We had to recreate our intentions for family but all the while put family first. What were the rewards of all that. We ended up with two reasonably well adjusted adult kids who were enjoy spending time with and are proud of. We hope/believe they enjoy spending time with us as they tend to seek us out for input, communication and interest.
So back to intentions. I am really open to embracing this process of creating an intention and putting it out to the universe to manifest. I figure we have so many different levels of consciousness and we only travel in a very limited range on a regular basis. This just opens another level of consciousness that reminds us we are in charge of our own lives and how they develop. I wish to make the last part of my life in the many years ahead be truly meaningful and manifest the purpose of why I have been sent here. Stay tuned.
