Conscious Intention ~ A Daily Practice

Does your morning alarm jar you awake and jolt you into action? Or, do you have the luxury of marinating in your dreams or doing a little bed yoga to ease into your day?

No matter how you wake up, consider starting your day with the potent practice of Conscious Intention.

This practice brings focus to our day, disarming
the auto-pilot that lulls us into familiar and routine habit. 
It sets up a conscious GPS that navigates direction and keeps us on the track of where we intend to go.

Have you ever awakened with an intuitive message or knowing?
During our first waking moments, our rich and wise inner guidance still lingers in our energy field. Our mind is not yet plugged in to the activity of our waking world. This sacred time is perfect to harness the power of these wise inner messages and bridge them into the focus for our day. The practice of Conscious Intention begins here.

Daily Ritual:

1. Heart Center: Focus your attention on your heart space and breathe. Take a few moments to allow the energy that arises from focused breath to expand within you. Our clearest and most sincere intentions arise in our heart. Connect with your gratitude as your heart experiences the abundance in your life. Even if your mind comes up with lack or limitation, keep focusing on the gifts your heart perceives. Opening our day with heart focus is the way we give rise to Love each day.
2. Get Clear: What matters most to you today?  Make it simple and specific.
3. Commit to Action: Conscious intention needs concrete action behind it. Thinking about it is not enough. Writing down our intention, putting it into this concrete form with 3 action steps makes it real and more doable.
4. Gentle yourself:  Stretch, drink a glass of water and be ready to catch the moments of your day when you feeling aligned with your intention.

Whether you wake up facing challenging tasks, mundane activities or great fun, taking time to gather your energies to create conscious intention will raise your state. 

At the end of the day, you'll recognize that this morning practice makes a difference. You will re-enforce the experience that what you focus on grows. Over time, you will notice that giving rise to love each morning grows your heart and brings you closer to what truly matters to you.