Living Large In Our Little House

This week, we’ve been dis­cussing the Law of Attraction, what it is, what it isn’t and ways you can help bring your dreams and goals to fruition. So far we’ve dis­cussed vision jour­nals and vision boards. Today, I have Michele Wojciechowski as a guest blog­ger talk­ing about voic­ing your inten­tions for your life among a group. Michele is an award-winning writer as well as an edi­tor, humorist, and speaker. Michele leads a group in Maryland called The Intenders Circle, and voic­ing grat­i­tude and mak­ing inten­tions is what they’re all about.

The Intenders Circle

By Michele Wojciechowski

Our group is an off-shoot of a national orga­ni­za­tion called Intenders of the Highest Good.

Our Intenders Circle is kind of like The Power of Positive Thinking meets The Secret.  It’s about learn­ing to use the Law of Attraction.  Kerri and Marcia have already explained about the Law of Attraction.  It’s not magic.  It’s not as though you can sim­ply ask for some­thing and expect it to fall into your lap.  But, in my rel­a­tively short tenure in the group, I have seen absolutely amaz­ing things happen.

We meet twice a month. When the group set­tles in, we go around and intro­duce our­selves and then say either why we’re there or what intend­ing has done for us.  That way, new peo­ple get to know every­one and see how intend­ing has worked.  I then lead us in a short, guided med­i­ta­tion.  This helps us all get cen­tered and focused.

Next, I explain the Intention Process.   Basically, we take time to write down our gratitudes—anything in our lives that we are thank­ful for.  If you want to ask the Universe (or God or the Source or what­ever you refer to it as) for some­thing, it’s nice to say what you’re already thank­ful for.  While I always am thank­ful for large things in my life like my hus­band and my friends, I always make sure to say a grat­i­tude for some­thing “lit­tle” like pizza (one of my favorite foods), a new pic­ture I’ve hung in my liv­ing room, or some­thing else that oth­ers might see as no big deal.  I do this to show that appre­ci­ate even the small­est joys in my life.  I think that’s important.

Then we take time to write our Intentions.  Intentions are just things you want in your life—everything from finan­cial gains and bet­ter jobs to bet­ter rela­tion­ships and new friends.  Nothing is too small or too large.  I tell peo­ple to do two things with their Intentions:  put them in the present tense and to begin them with either “I intend that I have…” or “I intend that I am…”  In the read­ing I’ve done about the Intention Process, all seem to agree that by putting things in the present tense, you are act­ing as if you already have it, as if it is going on now.  This allows your brain to believe that it’s so, and it starts focus­ing on ways to help you to get what you want.

I also tell the group to be spe­cific.  So how can you be spe­cific?  One way is that you can put a date on it.  Like “I intend that my Web site is com­pleted by March, 2010.”  Or “I intend that I will have a com­pletely orga­nized home by the end of 2010.”  It may seem scary at first because when you ask for some­thing big like a new job or a new house or lots of money, and then you put a date on it, it makes it seem so real—just within your grasp.

And that’s the whole point.

Writing down your inten­tions makes you get spe­cific, really spe­cific about exactly what you want in life.  What results is that you become more focused.  You make deci­sions about what is impor­tant and how you really want your life to be.

This isn’t all about mate­r­ial pos­ses­sions.  But it’s okay to ask for those too.

We just have one rule in the group—everything you ask for has to be for the Highest Good.  This means that you can’t intend that your mean boss gets fired.  But you can intend that he finds a posi­tion more wor­thy of his tal­ents.  You’re wish­ing him well, while intend­ing that your own work envi­ron­ment gets better.

After we’ve writ­ten down all our grat­i­tudes and inten­tions, we go around the group and read them.  After each per­son is fin­ished, he or she says, “So be it.”  And the group answers, “And so it is!”  Then I clang a pair of ting­shas together.  I’ve been told that the bell-like sound helps to release the energy into the Universe.  I know that sounds “woo woo” to some folks, so I add that I also just like to play with bells…

After we’ve gone around the table, we do some inten­tions for the shop and the owner who allows us to hold the meet­ings there. Then we hold hands, and I read a piece from The Intenders Handbook—we offer every­thing for the Highest Good and envi­sion the energy we’ve cre­ated going into the Universe.

The group is non-denominational.  It doesn’t mat­ter what you believe, as long as you’re offer­ing your inten­tions for the good of all.

What have I seen hap­pen?  Well, after the first meet­ing I attended, my hus­band, our friend, and I were headed to the car.  Our friend had intended for money to come into his life.  He looked down because he saw a bill on the ground.  He thought it was a $5 bill.  It was a $50.

This may seem like some­thing small, but it was just the begin­ning.  I intended that I would get more work in my field, and a month later, I got a month-long con­tract job that paid a lot of money.  We began to intend for park­ing spaces in the most crowded shop­ping areas.  We’d ask for a space in the front, and, you know what?  It works.

People have asked for and got­ten jobs, good rela­tion­ships with fam­ily mem­bers or friends, courage, peace in their lives, and even money. In the last year, I’ve seen peo­ple have so many of their inten­tions come true.

Again, this doesn’t mean that you always get what you want when you intend.  I had to take action to get that con­tract posi­tion.  But I also had to believe that I would get the extra work that I wanted in my life.

I’ve also started a new busi­ness ven­ture Welcome to Baltimore, Hon! The web­site also includes my self-syndicated humor col­umn, Wojo’s World™.  A few months after intend­ing that I was doing standup com­edy again, two oppor­tu­ni­ties pre­sented them­selves, and I began to get paid to do some­thing I love.

When I began lead­ing the Intenders Circle, I envi­sioned that our group would grow so much that the room wouldn’t hold every­one.  That hap­pened in November.  Who knows where we’ll be this time next year.

Give intend­ing a try.  Trust me; it will change your life.

To receive Michele’s weekly  humor col­umn, Wojo’s World™, e-mail her at MWojoWrites@​comcast.​net.

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Todays blog ques­tion:

Before this week, did you have any idea what The Law of Attraction was about? Have the posts this week changed your mind? If you intend to try using it, will it be through jour­nal­ing, vision boards or orga­niz­ing an inten­ders circle?

Stay tuned for a post later today announc­ing the win­ner of “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vision Boards.”

Want to read about an angel on earth? Hop over to Rescue Me, my blog about res­cued pets and the peo­ple who saved them.