Working with Intention and Your Three Selves

First thing in the morning, as you open your eyes, ask yourself, “What is my intention today?” and allow that primal response to bubble up from the deep recesses of your unconscious.

You might be surprised at how basic the intention sounds.
“to breathe”
“To see the light”
“to wake up”
“To see where I am”

Or your could hear
“presence”
“have to/want to”
“peace”
“life”
“breathe”
“grown – Not another day!”

My experience is that the intention that wakes you up every morning comes from the basic part of our consciousness – I refer to it as the Basic self. Its focus supports vital health and well-being and, if the lines of communication are in good repair, operates your body in harmony and balance with your day.

The next part of your consciousness to chime in is usually the Conscious self. It sounds more like,
“What day is today?”
“What am I doing today?”
And proceeds to pop up a snap shot of your hectic schedule.

Finding an intention in the midst of all the To Dos of a day may be a little difficult for the Conscious self operates like your computer – data in, data out. Often, the Conscious self holds all the details of the day prioritizing them according to your current point of view. If the Basic self and Conscious self communicate without blocks or distractions the Basic’s energy sustains the work of the Conscious self and its immediate goals.

But wait, there’s more. Now ask yourself, “What is the intention of my High self today?” Here’s where the fun begins.

The High self, who is in direct communication with your Soul’s intention, often comes in as warmth or tingling through out the entire body. It can feel like an expanded sense of self. This expanded Self may speak up with words like “happiness and joy” “radiant loving” “abundance and wealth” “well-being and peace”. Often the High self’s intention is inspirational in nature.

At this point, with all three parts of our consciousness awake and on alert, make a choice as to where you want to focus your attention using intention. In other words, while you are breathing in and out and taking care of all the demands of the day how do you want to experience YOU? Put another way, what is the experience you would like to have as you go about your day?
In peace or stress?
In joy or in drudgery?
In abundance and wealth or lack and not enough?

Here’s an example of choosing to focus on the High self intention:
Choose your High self intention – how about joy
Send that message to your Basic self and allow the energy of joy to get you out of bed.
Let the Basic self inform your Conscious self that your daily routine will be done from joy today.

Then let the day unfold and observe yourself and the flow of the day’s events.

The results could range from “This was an effortless day.” to “Wow, I had no idea how little I experience joy in my day. No wonder I’m so tired.”

What great information to carry forward! From here you can work on several different levels of clearing: limiting beliefs, fears, conditioned responses, addictions, unconscious judgments etc..

Another day do the same exercise using a Basic self intention. The next day choose a Conscious self intention.
Remember at day’s end observe yourself and the day’s flow.
Which intention worked for me?
How did I experience my day differently?
What was different about me today?

A few guidelines about intentions:
Intentions are already present just not fully realized
They operate like a guiding light
Create a shift in awareness

Love it all,
Rebecca