Pay Attention to Intention

Can I say we all love to feel something soft against our skin? It can bring back warm, comforting memories of safety, nurturing and love. What does something abrasive feel like?  For some, it may feel good.  A cleansing of sorts like a salt scrub or a loofah exfoliation? What is too rough or abrasive is of course up to our own individual preferences and so to the degree that it is too much or not enough is for others as well.  That’s an easy one.  You can directly experience by sensation, kind of a no-brainer. What about what we say to ourselves? What about what we say to others? What language do we use to communicate? There is so much discussion about political correctness and that people are too sensitive or not sensitive enough.  I’m not going to debate whether it is true to me or not and frankly I am not a fan of the mindset “I’m responsible for what I say but Im not responsible for how you interpret it.”  I don’t care for it at all as it assumes little or no responsibility for the intention of what we say.

And that is what I want to talk about here.  Paying attention to our intentions.  Before my feet hit the floor, I begin my day with setting the intention to serve for the highest and greatest good for myself and for others; it is what governs my day. Am I perfect or even excellent at it 100% of the time.  Absolutely NOT.  But upon reflection at the end of each day, I ask myself the question, were your intentions where you would want them to be?  Sometimes the answer is a resounding NO.  I was in my ego, my competitiveness, my jealousy, my own inner struggles.  NOPE, NAH-UH, ABSOLUTELY NOT.  And then I follow it up with an expression of loving kindness to myself as I would with another who confessed to have acted with the best of intentions for themselves or someone else. 

I know, and I speak for myself, that I want to show up in a way that I am aware and awake so that when I speak, it comes from a place of softness, kindness and compassion and when you are truly authentic in that place, that energy from your heart vibrates  such that will consciously or unconsciously resonate with whom you are communicating with. Pay attention to your Intention and allow yourself be in flow with all that is.