Setting Intentions

Intensions are the things you want to improve about yourself or your surroundings. They might be to eat healthier, find balance with life, to have better focus or anything else that will help improvement. 

Intentions are similar to the resolutions that many people make at the end of each year. The difference is intentions are a smaller version of a resolution and always worded in a positive manner. This promotes the positive side to instill a better effective outcome when repeated. 

Using an intention helps one to grow and become the best possible version of themselves. Intensions have been used for hundreds of years. They’re used during yoga practices to help the student by giving them something to focus on during their poses, which allows them to hold the pose longer and with the balance and endurance needed. 

Setting daily intentions can help improve focus, concentration, lower stress levels, provide positivity, balance, confidence, along with many more things. 

An intention is set before doing a meditation practice so as the monkey mind wonders, the intention can redirect the mind back to the place it should be. Meditation intentions can strengthen the concentration and focusing abilities for the person practicing. 

There are many different practices that setting intentions are used in. But even if you’re not doing any special practice, the benefits of setting daily intentions can still be helpful for you. Rather it’s one word, a phase, or sentence, it’ll be unique to you as well as the benefit you receive. 

It’s not hard to set an intention. Simply think of a quality that you’d like to emulate. It could be gratitude, strength, awareness of breath, or whatever you want to cultivate in your life or your surroundings. 

Setting intentions can be very powerful when they’re focused on throughout a full practice like in yoga or meditation. The mind will continue to be drawn towards the intention even after the practice has ended and will continually reach through the subconscious, manifesting and bringing the intention into your life. 

It’s a good idea to work with one intention at a time for a while, until you feel the qualities of the intention have become embedded at the degree, you’re happy with.  

Try setting an intention for yourself by sitting comfortably with your eyes closed, thinking of and repeating the intention in your mind. Continue to do this for a few minutes or however long you’d like. You can do it as many times in a day as you want but should be done at least once a day for as long as it takes for the benefits to be seen or felt. You can even write the intention on a piece of paper and read it every morning and night. Remember to always use positivity with setting intentions. 

~Best of Health & Positive Energy, Healing Feather Wellness “Balancing Body, Mind, & Spirit” Saint John’s, MI. (810)339-0260