You need intention to start your journey into self-reflection and transformation
Just as you need a lighter or a match stick to light something,
similarly to get the best out of your meditation you need to set an
intention. When you sit with a spark, you are ready to stoke the fire of
transformation.
Meditating with intention brings the best out of the time
invested in the practice. Just as in a journey, you have a destination
in mind to avoid unnecessary wandering, similarly, in meditation you
place an intention to make your self-reflective journey fruitful. Your
meditation could be to get rid of fear or pressure. It could also be for
enhancing creativity or being infused with inspiration.
Intention creates a platform on which you build the practice of meditation.
Meditating without intention is akin to climbing a fruitless tree
just to experience the tree. When you sit with intention, you know what
you want or you know what you do not want. Start with what you are clear
on the most. Build up piece by piece, day by day. You will keep getting
clarity on your situation. Get rid of what you do not want to bring in
what you want; in early days of meditation, the intention can be as
simple as that. With practice, you will refine your choices, find a
clear direction, a path, get a vision perhaps. Go with the flow, do not
resist, thoughts will come and go, focus on your intention.
For example, in your workplace, you want good relations with your
colleagues and seniors. Set the intention: “I have good relations with
my colleagues and seniors. They help me whenever I reach out. I am
thankful to them for their support and kindness.” (Even if someone has
rejected supporting you, send them the gratitude anyway). “My
relationship with my colleagues becomes better and better each day.”
Focus on these thoughts, how you want the situation to be, what you
desire with a pure heart. Now visualise opening your heart centre and
sending out appreciation, gratitude and your love to all.
After you are done, bring your attention back to yourself and close
the meditation. Stay for a minute or two absorbing the pure positive
vibration that you just created with your intentions. When you are
ready, proceed for the day.
WHY INTEND?
When you intend, you pre-dispose your brain to create a reality that
your subconscious wants. After you have meditated with intention, you
come out satisfied, with a sense of fulfilment, as opposed to without.
This sense of fulfilment lends value to your time and effort. Not just
that, you allow the inflow of pure positive thoughts without resistance.
In the absence of intention or resolve, you may resist the inflow of
thoughts because the analytical mind is still active. Meditation needs
surrender — surrender from the calculations of the conscious mind. For
instance, you may say you can’t concentrate or sit still, but when you
rise up to the resolve — “I know it is possible to concentrate”, “I can
concentrate”, “I concentrate very well” — you will be surprised at how
your mind complies. The ease, the flow and the grace of the meditative
process is invested in intention.
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