Intention

Intention. Intention. at the beginning of yoga class, my instructor asks us to define our Intention for our practice. to focus on our Intention for our practice. we breathe with our Intention. it becomes life-giving and allows movement, our Intention. ahhhhhhhh. Intention. so many people that i know are questioning Intention...theirs, their friend's, their So-Called friend's, Intentions for writing, or do-ing or dreaming or hoping. I have always felt that Intention is one of the strongest forces available to us. it is the Intention behind something that makes that Thing what it is...good or bad...blessing or curse, and on & on. if i was walking beside you and shoved you aside, you'd surely be upset and perhaps raise your fists reday to Go. but what if you discovered that my Intention was to push you out of the way of a falling brick? oh. same movement....different Intention. giving a bucket of money to a person who's fallen on a hard time has good Intention. withholding it from someone who is controlled by drug addiction has the same good Intention. so all this rambling. my Intention (smile), if you allow me to sound schoolteacher-ish, is to say that if we (each of us ) live our lives with Good Intention in our hearts & actions, then any misinterpretation, or advantage-taking on the part of someone else is their own issue to dissolve. way back When, it was my Intention with this blog to expel some of the intense grief i felt at Kita's death. sort of a Dear Diary. i didn't care if anyone read it, and felt quite anonymous, actually. i'm not a paper & pencil journal person. i think better through a keyboard. and although lately my words have been running from me, and yes, i have a tendancy to make up my own words as i go, i still feel the need to put my random thoughts to virtual paper. there is no other Intention. "the blog" as a format (not MINE, just blogs in general - maybe everyone's BUT mine) has become a launching pad for a phenomenon of Blogstars. which, if i'm honest....i think is amazing and wonderful. to be able to share your thoughts, dreams, creations in a format that can be freely accessed around the world - amazing! i have no Intentions or desires to be a blogstar, in case you wondered. if elected, i will not serve. as if. but if you read my blog, i hope it makes you happy somewhere, or you feel a connection sometimes. if you think i'm dorky or goofy or spoiled or shallow, well, there are other places to read what connects with you. and that's okay. comment or not...i leave that forum open for you. this is my spot to gather my thoughts and perhaps share some with you. so back before i got completely off track (a habit of mine), i guess i wanted to say that right now, today, there is a shaking and a shifting and a clearing away going on in so many people's lives...seperating the wheat from the chaff...examining their lives and holding close the good and that which rings true, and perhaps packing away that which no longer fits. sometimes gently and wistfully. sometimes a little kick to the curb. like habits...like my smoking. like, sometimes relationships that aren't life-giving. sad to say it happens. what's worse - continuing to poison one another or making a little distance for healthy growth? this is true with girlfriends, husbands, boyfriends, jobs, etc. And the discomfort and unease and kid-in-the-grocery-store-past-nap-time feeling some are having....perhaps it's a call from the Instructor to examine our own Intention...our own reason for the relationship...the job...the whatever is rubbing and chafing and causing discomfort...perhaps the reason for the discomfort is to call attention away from the business-as-usual approach to that area...and maybe the Intention going out, or coming in is not in alignment with your path...the fix is easier than easy. Find your Intention...focus on your Intention...Honor your Intention. if others come with dishonorable Intention, walk away. or Know it for what it is and accept it. don't let another's bad Intention, action, desires, etc, foul the pure air that is the breath you breathe in deeply to your core....now release it ....ahhhhhhhhh. L.