The Intention Effect

Back in the early 80's,  I was an instructor for the Silva Method, which is an introductory course in developing basic skills of awareness for directing the energies of inner life.  Taking the course the first time was such a thrill to me;  it was the equivalent of having w-a-t-e-r spelled into my hand at the pumphouse... offering concepts and tools for a vast, vast sense of untapped, fuzzy and foggy potentials within.  I immediately wanted to become certified to teach it.  

We were busy manifesting all kinds of things in our lives decades before everyone was talking about "the Secret."    One of the outcomes of my Silva experience was a deep desire to some day be part of a group that agreed on a collective manifestation exercise.  I've been close to it a few times, but never actually had the full-on experience. 

The first time I imagined such a thing,  I'd just arrived at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and I was learning to think and be inspired on a global scale.  I remember feeling a little sheepish and probably transparently naive about confessing an idea to schedule and promote a day for global focus on peace.  These days, there are full on experiments boldly done precisely in that same spirit.  It is good to witness the evolution of collective consciousness.  In the late 80's, intuition was still a code word spoken among the underground, a way to signal to someone else that you were available for a deeper conversation as yet unavailable in mainstream culture.

Lynn McTaggert has been a leading voice for intention and manifesting for a number of years now.  She's written bestsellers about it, and consults with places like Princeton and the Institute of Noetic Sciences in their psi/consciousness research experiments. She's even a part of Dan Brown's new novel, The Lost Symbol. Her website (http://theintentionexperiment.ning.com/) is full of interesting group intention exercises.  She is proving statistically/scientifically that when groups of human beings direct their focus in the same direction, holding the same intention, their efforts can be measured; the broader effect is that consciousness becomes a little more real to more people, and more powerful.  Anyone with a computer can join in.

Of course, the Maharishi and TM meditators were demonstrating this decades ago.  Those experiments are widely known, and the pioneering nature of the Maharishi's vision is becoming more apparent every day.

All of this brings me to my own intention experiment, and I want to invite anyone who can participate, to do so.   Here is what to do:  At noon (your local time) every day (or as many days as you can manage it) for the next few months, picture me in your awareness, feel the love connection we share together.  Register that loving feeling as fully as you can.  Take a few deep breaths while imagining you are standing within a large container of Light, and say these words:  "Lovingly felt and expressed, Sandy is completely healed, whole, and in perfect health NOW."  Speak these words in your mind with conviction, as if you are issuing a flat-out royal decree to the Universe.  (You may wish to practice saying it until you can feel your own personal power.)   Once you've spoken the affirmation/decree, take another deep breath and feel gratitude in your heart, being thankful to be alive, connected to the Universe, and enjoying life... and gratitude for my healing.  It will take no more than a minute of your time.

Noon is the suggested time based upon the idea that when the sun is at its zenith each day, greater power is available more than at any other time of day.

If word spreads, and people you love want to join in, people that I don't personally know, the process is the same with one exception:  when feeling the love connection to me, if you need help doing that, then feel the love connection you have to the person who shared this with you.  In this way, the affirmation is fully spoken, and we bless one another as well.  The basic substance of the Universe is made of  Love, baraka, the impalpable essence of all things, and the one true thing every sentient being came here to experience.

This is a demonstration of prayer, lovingly spoken into the fabric of the Universe, of our collective reality.  Each time you do it, I will feel it, and it will support me in ways I very much want and need for my healing.  We will do it together.   While most/all of you have prayed on my behalf, when we do it in Unison, the prayers are far more powerful... the power of One.

And I will look forward to reporting back to you about our intention effect, the very affirmation, "I am completely healed, whole, and in perfect health NOW." 

I love you.


Thank you.