How To Create a Powerfully Worded Intention

If you’re like me you’ve probably read a lot about the power of setting clear intentions. Doing so is an important step in the creation process because your intention is your opportunity to declare what you want.

Another important aspect of intention setting is how you word your intention. For example, let’s say you want to create (manifest) $10,000 each month in your business. You could write/recite your intention like this: I am so happy and grateful I am now earning $10,000 per month in my business.

I don’t know about you but that way of writing an intention has always felt a little flat to me so I got curious about it and then I had my a-ha. Creating the money is nice but what I really want to create is the experience of earning that much money, each month.

Keyword: experience.

After all, isn’t that what we’re really longing for…experiences that enrich our lives?

So I started wording my intentions in this way: I am so happy and grateful I get to experience what earning $10,000 per month feels like.

Do you see/feel the difference?

The latter takes you right into what it is you really want: the experience.

When I use the word “experience” in my intentions I instantly feel much more engaged in the creation process. I can see and feel myself having received that which I asked for.

Do you know why? Because when it comes down to it, money and things are just money and things. They are NOT experiences in and of themselves. They may play a role in an overall experience you desire, but the thing itself is not the experience.

Here’s another example.

Let’s say you’d love a bright red Ferrari. You could write your intention like this: I am so happy and grateful I am now the proud owner of a bright red Ferrari. Or, you could write this:

I am so happy and grateful that I’m experiencing what it feels like to own and drive a bright red Ferrari. I love how it takes tight corners and how fast I can go from 0 to 60!

(Because really, do you really want the Ferrari simply to own it or do you want the Ferrari to have the experience it brings while driving it?)

Can you see what a fun game this is? Let’s think of something else.

Let’s say you desire your dream house so you set an intention to manifest your dream house. You could write: I am so happy and grateful I now own and live in my dream house.

Or, you could write this: I am so happy and grateful I am now experiencing what it feels like to live in the home of my dreams.

This may simply be a case of semantics and I’m certainly not suggesting this is the best way to write an intention.

Here’s what I am suggesting: when you write your intentions get into the experience having that thing will give you. Allow yourself to feel what it would feel like. Imagine having the experience! Doing that will set the creation wheels in motion and allow you to start receiving “the way” to make it happen!

(c) 2010 Cari Vollmer Life On Track, LLC

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