The Intenders of the Highest Good

These are vital points to be aware of when we decide to consciously create our experience. If you're having trouble seeing positive result from your intentions, the answer may be here.

One key is focusing on the emotional experiences of gratitude and joy that come with fulfillment of our intentions, not the objects of them. See and feel yourself AFTER your desires have manifest, focusing on the emotional quality of the experience. Spirit may have a way of fulfilling our desires that is different, and greater, than what we have visualized. There is also the crucial point of letting go and not being attached to the outcome. As long as we hold onto our vision with vise grip-like attention, we haven't given it over to the Source of creation. We are not sole creators; we are co-creators with that which is the source of all that is. Getting clear on what we choose to experience is important, but then we need to let it go to the creative source of life.

Perhaps the most important key to successful manifestation is the desire that all of our intentions serve the highest good for all. Everything we create affects everything in creation. Our limited human vision may lead us to want for a particular thing, but that thing in the way we have imagined it may not be a blessing to us or to others. We have greater success in manifesting if it is clear in our intentions, and in our heart, that what we choose must be a blessing not only to ourselves, but also to others.

Then we get to the issue of receiving. Probably the largest majority of human beings don't believe they deserve what they desire. You can affirm, intend, and visualize all day long, but if you have a belief, conscious or unconscious, that you don't deserve it, you won't receive it. Beliefs of unworthiness need to be healed and transformed before receiving is possible. Do you feel uncomfortable when someone pays you a compliment or gives you a gift? If so, you would be wise to address your feelings of worthiness. Learning to love and value yourself is important not only for manifesting your desires, but also for general happiness, good health, and success.

Last but not least is vibrational frequency. Abraham talks a lot about being in vibrational harmony with our desires, and they're not the only ones who stress this point. We can't manifest abundance while in the vibrational frequency of lack, or fear. The most important thing we can focus our attention on when we want to make changes in our lives is how we feel. How we feel is an indication of the frequency of our vibration. "Negative" feelings equal a low vibration. "Positive" feelings equal a higher vibration. Hate is the lowest frequency and love is the highest. Genuine heart-felt gratitude is very close to the frequency of love. Every teacher of the Law of Attraction stresses the importance of gratitude because it raises our frequency to allow us to attract more of what blesses us.

Meditation and breathing exercises bring our attention to the present moment, and allow us to become aware of the essential life energy that animates our bodies, inspires our minds, and brings worlds into existence. Meditation also makes us feel good. It releases serotonin in the brain. That raises our vibrational frequency. Affirmations and intentions may be more effective after a good meditation because we are already in a higher vibration. When we focus our attention on gratitude and are able to get into the feeling of joy, we open ourselves up to attract to us that which is in harmony with gratitude and joy.

It's also important to be conscious of our word choices. Words carry a vibration. What we speak and what we write affects what we are creating in our experience. Everything we think, say, and do is making a statement about who we think we are. From that statement, our reality is created. Look at your thoughts and communication, especially those that are automatic. Is there any language there that might be limiting you? How many times a day do you say, "Not, no, don't, can't, hate, fear, afraid" or any other negative word or phrase? These words effect our vibrational frequency, and lower it. Becoming conscious of our language can open the way for greater success in manifestation.

For more tips on raising your vibrational frequency, see Easy World, with Julia Rogers Hamrick or Wellbeing & Prosperity with Nature's Help

You know you need to learn patience
when things are coming to you at the last minute.

As we said earlier, things can come to you at the last minute. In fact, you know that you need to learn patience when things are coming to you at the last minute. There is an interesting story sent in recently by my friend Pat in Canada that exemplifies this all-too-common scenario. Pat received it from her good friend in Hawaii who is living close to the land.

Years ago, in an entrepreneurship class I was taking, there was a woman who wanted to establish an emu farm. She and her husband read all the books on emus, on gestation time, and at what moment the chicks would hatch. They had a whole bunch of eggs they were incubating. At one point they figured the babies should be emerging, and, thinking Nature had screwed up, took it upon themselves to crack the eggs and release the chicks. (I couldn't believe she actually told us this, I would have been so ashamed.) Needless to say, the baby emus ALL died. When you know that what you want is coming, don't interfere!!! That story still makes me shudder.

We in The Intenders have all had to deal with patience issues at one time or another, and the way we resolved them was to intend that we always have a "buffer zone" so that things come to us well before they were needed. Needless to say, we also had to learn to let go of our tendency to set time parameters and realize that the Universe often had different ideas about how long something was going to take than we did. But once we began to see our buffer zone intention work, our impatience lessened and we relaxed because we learned that everything is coming to us in its perfect, right timing.

My Intention for today is:
I Intend that I have a buffer zone so that things come to me well before they are needed.

I write this, not as one who is an advanced spiritual being or sage, but as someone who is just like you, going through the same trials and tribulations that life on Earth in the beginning of the new millennium presents to all of us. In truth, I am but a scribe who has been fortunate to come across the Ten Intents of The Code and who has had an opportunity begin to integrate these principles into my own life. I do not claim to have mastered them yet, however, I can tell you that they have made a tremendous difference in the way I deal with the world I live in.

For instance, in accordance with the First Intent - Support Life - I can no longer bring myself to take part in any conversation or activity that calls for violence as a viable solution to anybody's problems. In the past, I may have gotten fired up about one "Us versus Them" drama or another, but these never seemed to do anyone any good. Now, instead, I see the wisdom in taking a stand on behalf of All Life, and I will not lend my energy to supporting any institution that calls me to harm another. By integrating this Intent into my life, I find that I am not as popular as I used to be in some crowds, but something has shifted within me. I can live with myself easier. I like myself better. My conscience is awakening.

Many things like this have happened to me since I received The Code. In fact, the writing of these two books has been a magical process in itself. Just as soon as each Intent was fleshed out on paper, it also started expressing itself in real life as an experience that moved me forward. As an example, after I put the finishing touches on the Sixth Intent, I walked outside to take a break (I was caretaking a place in the Sierras, near Kings Canyon/Sequoia National Park at the time), and not one but three Eagles circled high overhead. I have never seen anything like it before or since. It let me know that I was doing the right thing; that I was doing what I came here to Earth to do. In the language of the Sixth Intent, it showed me I was Synchronized.

The Code is a very timely gift for those who are drawn to it. Amidst an ever-changing world that, for many, is becoming more stormy and uncomfortable by the day, it offers a new set of guidelines that will help us navigate through the choppy waters. These guidelines are designed to help us personally and, at the same time, to help our world. We are not called upon to "drop out", nor do we have to patch anything up. Instead, when we align with The Code, we allow that which is collapsing to go away of its own accord, while we concentrate our energies on creating something entirely new.

From my own experiences, I can tell you that that "something entirely new" is very expansive, very promising. It includes having a better world here on Earth to live in, as well as opening up to a whole host of other realms that are accessible to us from the inside. The Native American Elders who you'll read about in these books made it clear that their intent was for The Code to bring forth my highest potential and my greatest fulfillment. That is the Spirit with which they shared it with me.

And that is the Spirit with which I am sharing it with you.
My Intention for today is:
I Intend that I am saying The Code once a day
and seeing what happens as a result.

When you get a lot of people agreeing and envisioning the way things will be, then that's the way things will be. There is tremendous power in a group of people focused on a common objective. It works within a positive environment, such as in an Intenders Circle where everyone is holding a vision of everyone else's intentions being manifested; and it works just as easily within a negative atmosphere, such as when we're creating fearful weather conditions for ourselves.

You don't have to look very far to see that our weather is being tampered with. Those in power would have us believe that the weather is out of our control, that we are at the mercy of the storms and climatic changes, but this simply isn't so. In fact, it's just the opposite. It is we who create every aspect of our environment, including the weather. We've just forgotten about it.

So, here's a gentle reminder. Night after night, in homes all across the globe, the weathermen and women prance across the TV screen telling us what the weather is going to be like. Much in the same way that the drug companies create flus and sicknesses of all sorts by describing them and pulling flimsy "facts" out of thin air, the weather people describe the coming weather changes, and, if we believe them, we add to the creation of the bad weather.

Can you imagine the power in that? Millions of people holding the same thought is an awesome prospect in itself. And now, with all the satellite imagery graphics, the friendly weatherperson can even have us picturing large weather systems impacting whole parts of the planet. This is the point where we give up our power and hand it over to someone else. People everywhere either forget or simply don't realize that their thoughts are creating their world. They buy into the pictures they see on TV and waste no time telling everyone they run into that a storm is on the way.

That's how storms, flus, or any other mass events are orchestrated. And if that isn't enough, now the weather people have even created "seasons" for the storms and sicknesses in order to get us primed and ready to experience bad times. Is there anything we can do?

Yes. Two things. First, we can withhold our agreement every time someone tells us a storm is on the way by simply refusing to believe it. In that way, we are not adding to or reinforcing the event.

And second, we can become proactive by using the satellite images against themselves. Whenever we see the great masses busily creating a storm, we can become a Storm Steerer. Instead of believing that a hurricane, for instance, is going to follow the course described by the anxious weatherperson, we can use the wondrous lightworking tool we call our imagination, and, in our mind's eye, we can Steer the Storm out to sea, or see it dissipating into nothing before it has a chance to hit land.

Now . . . what if enough Storm Steerers pictured the storms going away? They would go away. I've seen huge tropical storms move away from The Big Island after 50 Intenders "intended" it. Can you imagine what would happen if thousands of people from all over the globe became Storm Steerers? It would change everything, not just with the weather, but with the way we create our entire world.

Freedom. This was the teaching of the Native Americans. Surrounded by the blackness of night, they danced around the campfire, whooping, hollering, yelping. This was their show of freedom, in sounding it outwardly to the world, in sounding it into the vast silence that was all around them. They shouted fearlessly into it. And the hills would reflect it back... It was like a miracle.
From The Intenders of the Highest Good

My Intention for today is:
I Intend that I am refraining from buying into any media hype surrounding mass events, and that I am only envisioning positive outcomes for the Earth and her people.

We felt that the following recent message from Lee Ching is so timely that we decided to repeat it here for you now. We intend that it serves you well.
Each and every person is qualified to have riches. At this time, conscious people, in particular, are opening to their abundance so that the world can be in a better position, and so that the wealth will be shared and there will be much to spare for everyone who needs it. You can do several things to facilitate this process.

First, you will need to open your hearts and your minds to the possibility that you are a divine bringer of money into any situation where it is needed. Be open for magic and miracles and ways of getting money that you never even thought of. For this to happen, you must begin to look within your own being and search out any blocks to your good. One of these places is in your language. You must be very, very astute with your languaging. You must always speak in a positive manner about money. If you're looking at a rich man and putting him down for his riches, that is a block to your own divine good. Likewise, if you have a block about a given amount - if you are thinking small - then you will be given what you ask for. If you start by asking to expand your ability to receive, to expand your ability to open to larger and larger amounts of money, knowing that you are capable and willing to care and use this money wisely, then, you will open to more and more riches being given to you for your work and for your being. It is not only through your work that this money will come, although it is very important to do that which you are here to do. Do what you love and money will come from every direction. Known and unknown sources will open their hands, their minds, and their flow will come to you.

You can also bless the money you already have. To do this you can put a portion of your cash money on a Divine Altar surrounded by Beings that you love and respect. Say to your Divine Beings and to your money, "I love you. I thank you. I trust you. I enjoy you. And I respect you." These words go out and focus the energy on your finances. It is that simple. You are blessing your money. You are trusting that you will use it in the right way when you receive it. And, you're respectful of the money and where it is coming from. Divine energy is multiplying your money right now - multiplying it in many ways to give you more and more money to use for the betterment of mankind. Open to this possibility. Open to the generous flow coming to you from places known and unknown. Bless your money and be grateful for what you have. Give thanks for the money that you have, even if it is one dollar. For, as you are thankful for that one dollar, it will multiply, and zeroes will be added. Many zeroes, and many commas . . .

Another way to step into your financial abundance is by consciously flowing your money to each other, through the act of tithing, as you have read in the Bible. In this way you flow it to people and places who provide you with your spiritual food. These things are like voting with your money. You are acknowledging your abundance by being open and willing to share your money with those who are giving their gifts to you. Whether it is in the form of work or in the form of spiritual awareness - whatever it might be - as you open to give your money freely, you cause trust to come into your life. When you trust that your money will always be there for you when you need it, then you will be more open and willing to flow your money to others when they are in need, or when they have shared their highest gifts with you.

Remember your gifts. When you give freely of your gifts you will be highly rewarded in every way imaginable. Then all you have to do is ask for what you want. Open for what you deserve. Be a willing and ready receiver for high gifts. Gifts from the Universe. Magical gifts. Miraculous gifts . . .

My Intention for today is:

I Intend that I am a Divine Bringer of money into any situation where it is needed.

You can have anything and everything
you could possibly dream of -
even a whole new world to live in.

Our desires help us set our course in life. The second reference point with which we started The Intenders was that our desires are in us to be fulfilled. Our guidance told us early on that we came into this lifetime with a certain set of desires and the way for us to know that we are evolving to our highest potential is by either transcending or fulfilling our desires. If we were born in an eastern culture, where spiritual pursuits are honored more, we might go into a monastic cell and spend anywhere from 20 minutes to 20 years meditating and transmuting our desires in order to get to what the Buddhists call a state of desirelessness. But in our western world where consumerism is king and we've been barraged by advertising since day one, we are probably best off to learn how to fulfill our desires. That's where The Intention Process comes in. We can learn to manifest our desires one at a time until there aren't any more of them.

It's interesting that in the west we have been taught to sweep our desires under the rug; that there's something wrong with us if we have desires. The Intenders teachings remind us, however, that the word De-Sire comes from the Latin meaning "of the Father," and that there is a sacred aspect to our desires. All we need to do to evolve and to empower ourselves at the same time is become more proficient at fulfilling them.

"When I arrived at my first Intenders Circle, I was homeless. I'd been trying to find a way to scrape up enough money to rent a small place, but things just weren't working out for me. I was getting desperate!
"My friends who took me to the Intenders Circle told me not to hold back. They said that, at an Intenders Circle, "the sky's the limit," and that I should ask for my heart's desire. I made an intention to find a place of my own where I would be very, very happy - and I asked that it come to me freely and easily.
"It wasn't two days later and a lady who had been at the meeting called me and said she was going abroad for at least three years. She'd thought about selling her house, but it was such a lovely custom home, right down by the beach, that she couldn't bring herself to part with it. Maybe she'd be back someday, but, in the meantime, would I be interested in caretaking it for free?"
Karen Reid

My Intention for today is:
I intend that I am looking within to see what would give me the most joy, and then I am consciously creating it.




Mike Dooley has a wonderful set of free email reminders that you can sign up for. They help inspire us to create from joy.

Speak Freely and Know Safety
The law that our thoughts create our experiences is not just a law unto each isolated individual. It is just as applicable to our beliefs as a whole. When individuals begin to create a new, peaceful world, so will the human race, as a whole, create a paradise on Earth. In other words, when we all see that we can have the world we desire just by thinking that we can, it will manifest for us.

And then, there's also the icing on the cake. It can happen fast. It can happen in our lifetimes. We need not think that we are just making things better for future generations. We are also making things better for ourselves. It can start with the smallest spark, and, as quick as a wink, it can spread around the entire globe.

It only takes for each of us to start to see everyone else in their highest light ... even the international bankers and power brokers who have used deceit and fear and all things horrid in order to maintain control over us. We so often forget that each man, no matter how bad we think he is, does indeed, without exception, have a shining Spirit deep down inside. To remember this and to act accordingly is the challenge of mankind today. For some reason - perhaps the desire of some to dominate others - we have overlooked our ability to see the good side of every man. We don't notice him in his highest light. We don't see him standing up for the Highest Good. And if we don't see him standing up for the Highest Good, he won't. He'll continue to ride roughshod over us as he pleases. But it is when we begin to see every man, even our enemies whom we have called "the bad guys" in the past, as standing up for the Highest Good, they will sooner or later reflect our expectations of them and step into their highest calling.

There is something deep within our inner nature that is called up when we are confronted by a man of principle, a man who speaks directly yet gently into the face of his friends and enemies alike, and doesn't back down. Something special happens in the psyche of the "bad guy" when he is confronted by someone who sets a noble example. It may be subtle at first, but after awhile, it will change him, just as when you keep chipping away large rock - eventually it turns into pebbles ... or a statue of great beauty.

His heart will soften and his mind will recognize the wisdom in becoming one with others. Walls of separation will dissolve as the "bad guy" begins to follow your example and seek for his own highest light inside himself. And when he looks, he will find a world that is better than the one where he spent all his energy trying to control everything and everyone around him. He'll experience a feeling of great joy that was not available to him as long as he persecuted others.
From The Intenders of the Highest Good, Volume 2 (Coming Soon)

And we'll all be much happier because, from then on, instead of continuing to deal with the challenges of how do we get along with each other, we can all start to work together on the challenges of how do we make our world as good as it can possibly be.

My Intention for today is:
I Intend that I am seeing everyone in their highest light.

Most people are unaware of the effects of their negative emotions. Not only do these emotions - anger, hatred, sorrow, self-pity, greed, worry, grief, and so forth - do us no good whatsoever in our lives, when expressed, they always make matters worse. Indeed, they are the chief contributor to the aging process, and if we would refrain, for a time, from indulging in them, our youth would begin to return and we would rejuvenate.

But these things are not taught in school. Instead, we've been taught to guard and protect our right to feel sorrowful, for instance. We feel grief over the parting or loss of a loved one, never realizing that nothing positive can ever come from our grief, that feeling bad is a lower manifestation that opens us up to all sorts of unwanted repercussions. We simply do not realize that grief, worry, sorrow, self-pity, etc. have the effect of weakening our body's immune system and aging us prematurely. If we truly knew how much we harm ourselves, not to mention others, when we act out our negative emotions, we would reevaluate our behavior immediately.

Our negative reactions have never had one positive effect on anyone, ever! Unfortunately, most people think, for example, that it's fine and dandy to hate others, and that if someone else does something hateful to us we are perfectly justified, even obligated, to hate or harm them back. The simple truth, however, is that not only do our negative emotions harm us personally, they actually make every situation worse because they feed the flames of our enemy's anger and make them want to retaliate all the more. Our negativity catches us in a vicious cycle from which there is only one way out.

The only way to defuse our arguments, hatreds, and wars is to love our opponents. Love removes the negative charge from our conflicts, leaving them to disappear and disintegrate due to lack of sustenance. The fires of hatred and war automatically die out when we stop feeding them.

BJ used to liken our negative emotional reactions to the way Velcro works. He said that when you look real close, Velcro has a whole bunch of tiny hooks that catch and hold fast to thousands of little eyes. He explained further that when someone else is angry and yelling at us, if we react it is because they hooked into our own fear and anger. But, if we are committed to loving them, it's like we've sanded or smoothed off all of the little eyes so there isn't any way for them to get their hooks in us. Our arguments would fade away because there is no negative reaction for someone else to grab onto. There is only love.
My Intention for today is:
I Intend that I am catching myself before expressing my next negative emotion and that I am acting out of love instead.

We don't have to continue to believe what we were
taught when we were young

It's all in what we embrace. Those who embrace scarcity shall be subjected to it; those who embrace sickness shall experience its ill effects; those who embrace violence shall perish by it; but those who embrace Love and a caring Spirit shall be embraced by Love in return. What we put out is what we get back. If you find that you've been attracting challenges and discomfort into your life, you can start out by making an intention to be more gentle with yourself from now on.
Whenever you're feeling weak or feeling down, you can draw on the energy and power that comes from the spark that lives deep inside of you, the spark that animates your entire being. Call it up! If you need to sing, sing loudly. If you need to pray, pray loudly. If you need to tone, tone proudly. Do whatever it takes to lift your Spirit so you can look down and see your life, playing itself out. Then you, the person in charge, can watch and decide what is best for you.
From The Intenders of the Highest Good
Remember that when you lift yourself up, even in the slightest degree, the whole of Humanity is lifted up in the same measure. You lift all of Humanity up when you reach out for your greatest happiness. Who knows, maybe one day soon you'll cast aside a last lingering belief surrounding your scarcity, sickness, or suffering and, in that joyous moment of release, it will be just enough for the whole world to breach an ancient barrier and be lifted up to its next level of experience. So Be It!

My Intention for today is:
I Intend that I am embracing that which uplifts me
and my fellow travelers.

Oftentimes things may be happening all around you that seem to be discordant, and you cannot imagine what is going on. But you must remain focused and steadfast and be able to see through and not get caught up in the mundane dramas that are constantly being perpetuated on this planet.

I have good friends who live way out in the desert in order to get away from everything. Like a lot of people nowadays, the husband is obsessed with disasters and potential catastrophes. In fact, he even has a cave on his land stocked with enough survival goodies to feed and water a small town. I lived with my friends for a few months the winter before last, and everyday, as we worked together, the husband would talk about last night's Art Bell radio show, and he even taped the most frightening shows so that I could listen to them later in the day.

Now . . . I was having some health challenges when I arrived at their place, and over a period of the next couple of months I felt my energy level going down and down. My physical discomfort was getting worse by the day.

Finally, one morning I asked my inner guidance what was going on, and the answer I receive was very helpful. I was told that the next time the husband approached me with the latest disaster rumors to tell him, "My friend, I know that you mean well for me, but I have to ask you to hold off on these scary stories of yours. You see, it's my job to stay uplifted, no matter what. Your stories are enticing, however they tend to bring my energy level down. I need to stay up if I'm going to do the work that I came here to do." To make a long story short, he began to honor my request right away, and in a very short time my health and energy level shot back up to normal.

And that's the message for all of us who truly care about the well-being of humanity. It's like a resume for us, so that when anyone asks us what our job is we can say "It's my job to stay uplifted, regardless of all the crazy things that are going on around me. In fact, I've come to understand that if everyone buys into the disaster mindset and nobody guards their energy level, then we will all be down wallowing in the swamplands. Some of us have to stay uplifted, and that's what I'm here to do!"

My Intention for today is:
I intend that I am staying uplifted and doing what I came here to do.

The Intention Process Information Sheet
(Reprinted from The Intenders Handbook)
Our thoughts create our experiences
Saying our intentions outloud focuses our thoughts
There is power in the spoken word
Positive thoughts bring positive experiences
Negative thoughts bring undesired experiences
It's important to trust and know that the things that we Intend are coming to us because doubt will interfere with the manifestation of our positive intentions
We always ask that in order for our intentions to come to us, they must serve the highest and best good for the Universe and the highest and best good for ourselves and others
As we go around the Circle, we express gratitude for intentions that have come to us and we state our new intentions
The power of the Intention Circle arises from everyone supporting everyone else's intentions
Clarity is important
We eliminate such words as trying, hoping, wanting, to be, and not
We say things in a positive way: for example, instead of I intend that I am not afraid anymore, we say I intend that I am courageous
We don't name sicknesses in our Circles; we see everyone in their Highest Light
We say our intentions daily, and we gather together once a week
We don't know when or how our intentions will manifest for us; we just know that they will!
We always end our intentions with our seven favorite words - So be it and so it is !

We get asked a lot about The First Intent where it says to refrain from opposing anyone. People seem to have a hard time wrapping their mind around the idea that it's possible to go through our days without opposing others. They say they can't imagine living without opposition, but we say that the human being is an inherently warm, trusting, affectionate type who has become colder due to the influence of outside forces. We are not naturally predisposed to be violent; it is something we were taught to do, and now we have to unlearn our violent ways by looking deeper into how they are really affecting us.

Every judgment we make works against us. Every opposition we create boomerangs back to blindside us eventually, often in ways we least expect. Throughout these Bridge Reminders we have repeatedly talked about the idea that when we oppose someone we are becoming just like them. Perhaps we neglected, however, to also point out the complete and utter futility of our opposition.

Opposition always leaves us empty; it always leaves a mess behind for us to clean up. People suffer and die in its wake, never to fulfill the calling they set for themselves in this life. In truth, opposition never achieves its "suggested" result of making peace or providing the way for a better life for everyone. Quite the contrary, it only fans the fires of the other person's hatred and makes them want to retaliate. Said another way, opposing, in every instance, brings the exact opposite result from that which we truly desire. It's like deciding we're going to drive to the store in town, but turning the wrong way out of the driveway, and then wondering why we aren't getting where we want to go. It's a self-perpetuating dead end cycle, an exercise in futility. Opposition creates more opposition. It's the Law.

So how do we stop the hatred and the war? There is only one way. Love. We can learn to love our enemies, and to give them the respect they deserve as fellow travelers who seek, just as we seek, to have a better life and to enjoy all the abundance that the Earth sets before us. We can ask them how we can help them instead of looking for ways to harm them. We can set a good example by withdrawing our swords immediately, whether they be the swords of war, or the swords of daily judgment toward our neighbors and co-workers. Then, and only then, will we feel what it's like to be at home on Planet Earth. Then, and only then, can we begin to get reacquainted with the rest of our Earthly family, the other eight billion souls who want only for the same comforts we do. Love is the only stance that will bring us home.

My intention for today is:
I Intend that I am doing whatever I have to do to love my enemies.

Intention Circles are designed to provide you with a unique format for coming together with your friends and neighbors. You do not have to live near one another in order to use the Intention Process. In fact, we offer several ways for people who live at great distances from each other to take part.
The Intenders is free: There are no dues to pay, no memberships to join, and no leadership positions to occupy. You do not even have to call yourselves Intenders. You can create your own conscious community by following our guidelines and call your group whatever you like.

The Intention Process is being used by Intenders all over the world who are bringing their lifelong dreams into reality. It is one of the simplest, most effective ways for you to put the laws of manifestation to work in your life. You only need to do three things in order to practice the Intention Process:
1. Say your intentions outloud daily.
2. Go to an Intenders Circle once a week.
3. State that, in order for your intentions to manifest, they must serve the Highest and Best Good of the Universe, yourself, and everyone concerned.
If you would like to know a lot more about the Intention Process, you can order a copy of The Intender's Handbook: A Guide to the Intention Process and the Conscious Community. It costs $4 and is full of valuable information and real-life stories that will help you make all of your dreams come true.

Your thoughts to the contrary can override the good
Here in the west, we are subjected to advertising almost everywhere we go. The newspapers, magazines, billboards, and especially the TV are constantly bombarding us with products and services designed to cure all our ills. What's most interesting about this is that before we tuned into the media, we may not have had anything wrong with us. In fact, we could have been fit as a fiddle.

But fit as a fiddle doesn't sell products, so the corporate decision makers have taken it upon themselves to create problems and challenges for us in order to get us to buy their goods. Said another way, the companies behind all the advertising are actively and deliberately doing their best to make us sick so they can turn a profit.

There are worlds where activities that are purposely designed to harm the health and well being of others are illegal. Those who choose to engage in these nefarious endeavors are exiled. It matters not if the methods used are subliminal, suggestive, or outright deceptive, those who are caught must leave and cannot return again until they have learned to love.

Let's go back, at this point, to the original premise that is the foundation for all the Intenders teachings: our thoughts create our world. This means that our thoughts are creating our sicknesses, and our thoughts are the tools we use to get well again. The medics and media would have us believe otherwise by telling us that now they have a fantastic new device that will rid us of all our ills, but, as we are learning, it's the thought of wellness - the seeing ourself healthy and in our highest light - that overrides the need for any device. If, however, we believe that a device - which could be anything from a pill, to a scientific looking apparatus, to a common quartz crystal - is what we need to heal ourself, then that is the route we should take, because that is what we believe will work. Conversely, if we do not believe that a particular device will work, then we are wasting our time to go any further with it.

When the smokescreen settles and all truths are revealed, we will see that it is the belief that heals us, not the device. You can have a closet full of devices, and if you do not believe 100% in any of them, they won't do you enough good to make any difference. The only device that is capable of curing all of our ills is not to be purchased at your local drug store or ordered through some obscure catalog. It is not to be found by handing your power and authority over to anyone else, no matter how persuasive or credentialed they may be.

Indeed, the human mind is the greatest device in existence, and all we have to do to make it work on our behalf is learn how to use it.
My Intention for today is:
I Intend that I am holding my mind on my desired outcome
and trusting implicitly that it will come to me

Go forth with Gratitude and all is added unto you.

Gratitude is what makes the Intention Process work. It's the acknowledgment that the intentions we've made in the past have come true. When we express our gratitude, we're saying thank you to the Universe for bringing us the things that we've asked for. Were saying that we recognize that a connection exists between ourselves and the Universe, that we appreciate this connection, and know that we can call on it at any time.

There is always a lot of gratitude expressed in our Intenders Circles. In fact, that's what our Intenders Circles are for - to make our intentions and to express our gratitude for their manifestation. When an Intender speaks of gratitude, it shows everyone in the circle that the laws of manifestation work. It gives those who still carry doubts and skepticism a newfound confidence. It heightens their level of trust when they see their fellow Intenders "winning."

And that's how it all starts. We make an intention, and soon, when it has manifested, we feel like we've gotten a win - and we say so by stating our gratitude. The Intention Process has come full circle. It started out with an intention and it ended with a statement of gratitude.

Once we've seen ourselves and our friends get a win or two, it gets much easier for all of us. We put even more trust in the Intention Process and then we get more and more wins. Pretty soon, we're winning all of the time! Eventually, we'll look around us and see that the world we're living in is the one we've intended for ourselves. We will have created everything in our world consciously. When enough of us have done this, others will learn from our example, and we will all begin to walk this Earth free and full of gratitude.

Last Spring, during the potluck at an Intenders meeting, a very successful woman was telling us about how she manifests things. She was using money as an example. She said that she was grateful for it, both before and after it arrives. That got me started thinking. Up until then, money was always a challenge for me. Every time a bill would come in the mail, I would get upset. Right away, I would start to complain and I'd walk around muttering and wondering how I was ever going to pay it. But since that meeting, I've started doing something different. Now, I thank the Universe when I get a bill in the mail. I think of all the wonderful things that the bills are providing for me and I'm really grateful for them.

Needless to say, everything is much better financially for me now. Since I've started being grateful, I've received more money than I ever had before. It just keeps flowing in, like water from the kitchen faucet. Sometimes I'm even pleasantly surprised by where it comes from!

Ron Merriweather

From The Intenders Handbook

My Intention for today is:
I intend that I am living in grace and gratitude.

Every one of us is seen and known for who we truly are.

One of the chief characteristics of the accelerated times we're living in is an enhancement of our perceptions. For some of us, our intuition is awakening, and we are now able to know things that we never knew before. Some people use muscle testing, dowsing rods, or pendulums, while others are simply finding themselves able to quiet their minds long enough for their Higher Self to come forth. When our Higher Self steps in we will have no need of books or channels or divination tools anymore. The answers to all of our questions will be made known from within. Such is the destiny for all who choose it.

Another kind of perceptual enhancement is the opening of our third eye. Lee Ching used to tell us to hold our attention a little above the place between our eyebrows and that after practicing this for awhile in our meditations, we would be able to "see" into the Essence of things. He told us that once our third eye opened we would be aware of things that are right in front of us, but which are currently invisible to us while we're in our present state of consciousness.

BJ put it another way. He said that "the higher see the lower, but the lower don't see the higher." From his point of view, there were no secrets in our world. Each one of us carried our past and our probable futures with us, and anyone with their third eye open could see into the lives of others.

One cloudy afternoon I was walking up the trail to BJ's coffee shack after having gone into Kailua town to get some things for the farm. I was humming a popular America ballad from the early 70's that I was planning to learn to play on the guitar. As I dropped off some of the supplies and was getting ready to leave, BJ picked up an old tattered piece of paper that was sitting on the counter beside his kitchen sink, and said, "Hey Tony. I ran across this the other day and was going to throw it away but thought you might be interested in it."

He handed it to me, and I opened it up. It was the sheet music to the song I was humming earlier.

My Intention for today is:

I Intend that my perceptions are enhancing in perfect accordance and timing with that which is for my highest good.

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