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Hello,

I just wanted to share a system for healing that I came up with due to my own inability to use other systems, like reiki, visualization, etc. I hope you find it helpful, and don't hesitate to comment or ask questions. I will reply to all comments and questions and try to improve my system, help people understand it better, and clear up any confusion. I'm totally open to criticism and new ideas. So, here it is:

Everyday Intentions To Heal


Most people find that they cannot deal with negative emotions effectively. Negative emotions are usually vented, suppressed, rationalized, analyzed, but usually never dealt with. Likewise, most people find that they cannot cultivate positive emotions that they desire, such as love, warmth, kindness, and so on. However, I have observed that all people perform several universal actions that can be performed not only physically, but mentally as well. In fact, it is possible and more beneficial to perform these actions mentally and physically at the same time. Intentions on the mental level directly produce mental and emotional effects, and physical effects are not very strong; intentions on the physical level produce physical effects, and mental effects are not very strong; intentions on both levels are more effective, and as the mind and body effect each other, such intentions will work much more effectively that intentions on the mind or body alone.
Additionally, these actions are not limited to what people usually use them for. For example, one of the universal actions is the intent to refuse. Usually, this action is performed to refuse gifts, offers, or suggestions. However, any negative emotion or physical posture or ailment can be refused. Refusal of fear, for instance, makes one highly resistant to fear. Refusal of anger makes one resistant to anger. You will notice that the refusal of different negative emotions and different negative postures and diseases produces different physical and mental effects. Another example of this is that the intent to embrace, or to hug, is universally used among all people. Usually, this intention is used to express love. However, any positive emotion, posture or even positive physical attribute, such as a healthy heart, healthy lungs, etc., can be embraced. For example, we have all heard the phrase that it is good to "embrace positive change." Well, it IS possible, literally, to embrace positive change, or any desired emotion. Kindness, love, calmness, and any other positive emotion can be embraced.
Perhaps most importantly, it is possible to perform many different intentions at the same time. For instance, it is possible to refuse fear and embrace courage at the same time, and that combination of intentions is an excellent way to make one courageous, because fear is the opposite of courage, and resistance to fear will act as a catalyst to the cultivation of courage. However, multiple intentions do not have to be used in this way. For example, someone may want to embrace love and calmness at the same time. Although they do not directly act as catalysts to one another, they nevertheless may both be required by an individual.
Additionally, this document is only a guide. If you experience any problems with these intentions, then certainly it is better not to do them. Also, you can use the intentions listed below not only in the ways that are described in this document, but in any other way you like (except negatively; this is described below). You can, and should, experiment with these intentions until you find intentions that are useful and effective for you.
Lastly, it is important not to misuse intentions. For example, it is never beneficial to refuse love, embrace hate, receive anger, and so on. Intentions are powerful tools, and should never be misused to harm oneself or others.
I have discovered several universal intentions that all people do. Although there are certainly more, I have found that these specific intentions can be performed by anybody, are familiar to everyone, and are easy to learn:
Refusal: This intention is easily recognized. Have you ever refused a gift, an offer, or a suggestion? You can refuse whatever you want. Intend to refuse fear both mentally and physically. What happens when you refuse fear? Your shoulders go back, your chest goes forward, and your head becomes poised, and you feel, and are, highly resistant to fear. Now, refuse anger. What happens when you refuse anger? You feel your body pleasantly drop and relax, and you feel highly resistant to anger. Any negative emotion, posture, or even physical ailment can be refused. Physical ailments probably won't go away if refused, but refusal of physical ailments does help mobilize the body to fight the ailment more effectively. Remember that refusal gives you the power to say no to whatever troubles you, and is therefore the most important intention in your arsenal.
The Intent To Embrace: Have you ever hugged someone? It need not be a person; it could be an animal, a teddy bear, or even a tree! If you have, then you know what this intention is already. Any positive emotion, posture, or physical quality, like a healthy heart, can be embraced. Intend to embrace courage mentally and physically. What happens? Your hips powerfully roll forward, the back of your neck straightens, and your head rolls forward, and you feel powerful and unstoppable! Now, embrace calmness mentally and physically. Your face will become stable and unshakeable, your whole body will relax, and you will breathe more slowly and smoothly. The power to embrace allows you to cultivate any positive emotion, posture or physical quality you wish, which gives you the power to feel whatever you want to feel, whenever you want to feel it. If you always wanted to feel more love, more calmness, more energy, then you CAN feel those wonderful sensations with this intention.
The Intent To Receive: Have you ever received a gift, a letter, or even a household object from somebody else? If so, then you have experienced the intent to receive. You can receive whatever you want with intention. What happens when you mentally and physically intend to receive warm sympathy from all your loved ones, relatives and friends? You feel taken care of. What happens when you receive compassion both mentally and physically? You feel softer inside, more in touch with your emotions, and you feel free to feel those emotions without any shame. This intention is a powerful tool to heal one's troubled past, as you can intend to receive any positive emotion from anybody, and you will then literally receive that emotional nourishment that you have wanted for so long! This intention is not only to heal emotion wounds, however, and can be used to fortify and strengthen one's mind and body. You can receive more joy, more compassion, more of any positive emotion, physical posture, or positive physical quality that you want.
The Intent To Give: Have you ever given a gift or a tip at a restaurant? If so, then you have already performed this intention. When you give, your awareness expands to include the person that receives your gift. What happens when you intend to give love to somebody, both mentally and physically? You feel more maternal, you feel that you care for the person you give love to like a mother. What happens when you give warm sympathy to somebody, both mentally and physically? You pay full and undivided attention to the person you give warm sympathy to. The intention to give expands one's heart and mind to include others, and therefore makes one feel more connected, less isolated, and more part of life. One needs to both give AND receive to feel fully connected, however, and it is good to use both intentions at once, as they balance one another.
The Intent To Request: Have you ever ordered a meal at a restaurant, or asked somebody for directions or money? If so, then you have already performed this intention. The intention to request does not directly yield that which is request, but is useful in that it makes us more comfortable in asking for what we need and in speaking our mind. What happens when you request compassion, both mentally and physically? You feel like you can tell people that you DESERVE what is good, that you can convince them, through ethical persuasion, that you DESERVE what is good. Experiment with this intention, because although I have discovered this particular use, I'm sure there are many others.
The Intent To Eat: Yes, the intent to eat. It might sound farfetched that such a basic, earthy intention can be used in so many different ways, but it is actually possible to use this intention to generate any desired emotional state. The intent to eat is not only physical, but mental as well. It is the intent to CONSUME, to take in that which we need. To see this for yourself, intend to eat love, both physically and mentally. You will fell your chest muscles soften and your heart expand, and you will feel tenderness in your face, and you will feel like you are almost drinking emotional nourishment from an infinite bottle. Just as the intent to request results in being comfortable speaking one's mind and asking for whatever you want, the intent to eat produces a general emotion of being cared for and nourished. And that is neither surprising nor a coincidence - after all, it is the intention to eat.
The Intent To Eliminate: This intention is the intention that we use to go to the bathroom. I am well aware that this intention calls forth repulsive imagery in the mind, but if you explore this intention, it is not necessarily about bathroom functions. Garderers eliminate pests that infest their plants, teams are eliminated from playoff contention, and bacterial infections are eliminated through the use of antibiotics. Now, physically and mentally, intend to eliminate sadness. You will feel any residual sadness drain from your emotional body (your mind), and you will feel protected. More specifically, you will feel purified after this intention, and it is no coincidience that bodily elimination has exactly the same purpose.
The Intent To Sleep: This intention is obvious, but it is good to ackowledge it as a conscious intention that everybody does. It is the basis of all of these intentions, because sleep gives us the rejuvenation and energy necessary to ensure maximum effect from our intentions, and also allows us to do them for longer periods of time. A healthy diet, regular exercise, avoidance of alcohol, tobacco or drugs are of course necessary to ensure that these intentions have their desired effects. It is obvious that a person high on LSD can't possibly benefit from these mental exercises; his mind is far too agitated.
These intentions can be used for many different purposes. When under pressure, these intentions can be used to create mental clarity, fearlessness, and focus. These intentions can be used to go deeply into positive emotional and physical states in order to promote healing, and can be done for many minutes, even hours. These intentions can be used for experimental purposes as well, to answer questions one may have, like "What effect does it have to receive groundedness?" You can use these intentions to find out.


Best Wishes,

SomaticHealer

Hey Again,

I've discovered that there's alot more to intentions than I previously thought. I experimented with intentions for a few months until I was certain that there are actually several separate aspects to each intention, just like there are many different sides of a cube or a prism. All of these aspects are unified in that they all go together in every intention, but it is a good idea to go over these specific aspects anyway, because if we understand all the aspects to intention, we have much more control over our intentions and can use them more precisely and more efficiently. Here are the aspects of intention (that I have discovered so far):

1.) Intentional "Form": This concept is very difficult to understand, but I somewhat covered it in my previous post. Intentional form is the base intention - for instance, the intent to give, or receive, or refuse, or embrace. For instance, consider the fact that you could give somebody anything - a bird, a shoe, a coin, whatever you want to give them - but all of these actions use the same intentional form or base intention - the intent to give. Now, let's translate this into mental intentions - you could choose to give somebody love, warm sympathy, calmness, or whatever you wish. Despite the fact that these are all different emotions you can give, the intentional form is the same: to give. It has a distinct feel of offering, regardless of what you choose to offer. It is not too difficult to see how this principle applies to the intent to give, but it is more difficult to understand how it applies to many intentions. Take, for instance, the intent to refuse. Most people think of refusal as necessarily angry and rigid, but this is absolutely not the case. Imagine this: somebody chooses to refuse anger that is in his mind in order to quell it and get rid of it; effectively, his intention could be said to be an antidote to anger. Now, intend to refuse anger, not angrily, but to simply refuse anger with the understanding that this will make you coolheaded, the opposite of hostile and angry. Intend to refuse anger both physically and mentally. What happens? Your shoulders drop and you experience a pleasant sinking sensation, and truly feel coolheaded! Now, to see how the same intent, the intent to refuse, can be used in a different way, intend to refuse fear, both mentally and physically. What happens? Your spine lengthens and becomes taller, your head becomes poised and slightly tilted upwards with firmness, and your whole body and mind feel firm and fearless. Now you can see that those two different intentions, despite having the same base intent (to refuse), have very different effects indeed!

2.) Intentional "Essence": To begint to understand this principle, think back to the fact that you can give somebody whatever you wish - a coin, a dog, a peanut, whatever. Despite the fact that the action of giving somebody a coin, a dog or a peanut uses the same basic intent, the intent to give, the actions themselves are completely different because of WHAT you decided to give them. Mental intentions work the same way; for instance, the intent to give yourself love and the intent to give yourself compassion are completely different, and have different effects. The same is true of other intentions, although in many cases it is harder to visualize how this principle works with them. Take, for instance, the intent to embrace. Normally, we think of the intent to embrace as only an expression of love, but this is actually not the case. Have you ever read somewhere that society needs to "embrace the spirit of kindness" or "embrace positive change"? From these examples it is clear that the intent to embrace can be used to embrace ANY kind of emotion and draw it nearer and dearer to us - in other words the intend to embrace makes us more like what we choose to embrace. Now, intend to embrace compassion, mentally and physically. How do you feel? You feel a kind of pure gentleness wash over you - that's the best description I can come up with. Now, intend to embrace groundedness. What happens? You feel much more solid, and immovable in a positive sense. So as you can see, the intent to embrace has completely different effects depending on what you choose to embrace. The same is true for all other intentions.

3.) Object: This aspect of intention is also somewhat difficult to understand. Imagine for a moment that you had a weapon from the distant future that could target any object in the universe - not by shooting, but by mere intention. Imagine that you could have the weapon, say, blow up a planet a trillion light years from your location, or cause a supernova on the other side of the universe. Intentions function exactly like this. For instance, an example of this principle that is easy to understand is the intention to give. You can give, for instance, a present to somebody in Japan or even to yourself! So too, you can give love to yourself, to your mother who is 2000 miles away, or to any person, place or object whose existance you are aware of. This principle applies to all other intentions as well. For instance, if you wanted to refuse fear, you could refuse fear in your self, or you could refuse fear in another person in Japan. If you were aware of a person's existance on the other side of the universe, you could refuse fear in that person as well! I absolutely know intentions work this way because my uncle as well as my mom's friend have done intentional healing on me from great distances, even as far as Ohio (where my uncle lives) to New Jersey (where I live). Intentions, in other words, can have any target whatsoever; they are nonlocal, and can be used anywhere.

4.) Level: Intentions can work on many different levels, either alone or simultaneously. For example, we can intend to give ourselves love on the mental level, on the physical level, or on both simultaneously. We can also more specificlly intend on different levels of the body and/or mind: you can work with intentions on the level of the ego, the level of emotional perception, the level of sensory perception, the deep muscles in the body, the energy channels in the body, etc. This aspect of intention is extremely important when one wants to use intentions to heal, because, just like a doctor that treats a specific part of the body, it allows us to heal more efficiently and rapidly and not waste our energy on different levels or locations in the body and mind that aren't as critical as others.

5.) Intentional "Quality": This aspect of intention is by far the most difficult to understand. To begin to understand what intentional quality is, think of your mind is a machine that can manufacture different kinds of emotions. Now, think of your mind-machine as having the power to generate all of these different emotions any way it wishes - it can manufacture, for instance, love either by straining and struggling or effortlessly and peacefully. The intent (action) of your mind-machine, in both instances, would be identical - the intent to love - but HOW your mind did the intention was radically different in both cases. Intentional quality is nothing to do with the actual intent itself - it is HOW you go about intentions. For instance, you could choose to give yourself love in an angry manner, or you could do it in a compassionate manner - you're not choosing to intend anger or compassion in these instances, you're choosing how you want to go about your intention. Think of it in physical terms - imagine that you want to eat a slice of pizza. You could do it quickly, slowly, humorously, or however you wanted to, and yet the physical intent to eat the slice of pizza would be exactly the same in each case. Again, intentional quality is totally separate from intentions - it's how you go about your intentions.

6.) Purpose: This factor isn't actually associated with actual intentions or actions, but constitutes why we intend and act. For example, the intent to be creative and mentally flexible when you design nuclear weapons really isn't the intention to be creative and flexible: underneath it all, the intent is to destroy. So this factor consitutes the ethical basis for intentions, and keeps us grounded with the knowledge that not only intentions but what we use our intentions FOR is equally important. You have to get both aspects right to be positive and effective.

7.) Time: This factor is fairly obvious, but it should be included anyway. You can do your intentions any time you want for however long you want.

That is what I have come up with so far. I hope it helps you and that you find it to be useful and healing.

Best Wishes,

SomaticHealer