ARE YOUR INTENTIONS GOOD, BAD OR UGLY?

A Zen teaching says our entire life arises out of the spirit of intention. From intention springs the deed. From deeds spring the habits. From the habits grow the character. From the character develops the destiny. So what we intend to do shapes who we are.

Neuroscience shows that the neurons in our brains fire together and wire together, which basically means the more you do something the more it becomes a normal and accepted thing for you to do.

Depending on your intention, this can be good or bad news for you. Henry Ford’s famous saying sums this up beautifully: “I think I can or I think I can’t, either way I’m probably right”. This is simply self-fulfilling prophecy, if you tell yourself something or others start telling you, ‘you are this’, ‘you do this’, then you will start to believe it. If you keep telling yourself it, you will do it and you’ll become it. ‘It’ will become your destiny, so be careful of your intentions and what you wish for.

This holds for everything. If you intend to drink alcohol every day. It will soon become your destiny. If you eat well and work out every day you will become fit.

STEPS YOU CAN TAKE

There are many ways to understand your deepest intentions. A lot of us use the ‘wisdom of impermanence’. This basically means you only learn when something bad happens to you and triggers you to question who you are. I started questioning my relationship with alcohol when I realised the enormous effects it was having on my health and my relationships and my life expectancy. This made me question my intentions and what I wanted out of my life.

Another way is to just start questioning. Step outside yourself and with a scout mentality ask yourself What are my intentions? In short, you need to shift from an ego intention to an aspirational intention and by that, I mean ask yourself What do I aspire to be? What is my purpose?

In my book, Walking Back To Happiness: The Secret To Alcohol-Free Living & Well-Being I share ALL the obstacles I faced, the wisdom I gained and the challenges I overcame during the first year of going alcohol-free. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nigel-Jones/e/B0B7RP6LH6/

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