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As a doctor of transpersonal psychology, Jonni O’Connor has facilitated thousands of groups and tens of thousands of individuals through conscious and subconscious vision quests where they attained the riches of insight and integrated them into the practicalities of their everyday lives. She can be contacted at both www.jonnioconnor.com and www.modernmeditations.com.


Awareness, Intention, Action

Without a doubt, the magic formula for creating happiness is found by following these three steps: awareness, intention, and then action.

When you want an experience of something – a situation, an item, a goal, being with a certain person, or any kind of outcome – most people would simply attempt to take action. They might get what they want, sometimes, but other times they might not. Their desires might feel blocked from them, resistant to them, or in some way not available to them. The more they try to take action to achieve it, often the further away it seems to get. So they think: “If I try harder, she/he will want me”; “If I keep dieting, the emotional struggle is bound to end”; “If I keep working hard, I’m sure to get rich.”

There are plenty of examples, and they all lead to the same conclusion: taking action first, isn’t the answer.

If you pull back, get a fresh and expanded perspective and then set a new game plan, it allows the magic formula to come into play.

First start with awareness, for the greater the awareness is of what you truly desire, the more effective this perspective can be. Awareness is everything. Without it, you have no foundation. The more awareness you have, the more capable you are of making decisions and choices based on that knowledge.

I don’t mean research – at least not tangible, linear, logical, three-dimensional research. I mean spiritual awareness: the awareness of the essence of it. Remember, I said “the greatest awareness”? That would be the spiritual one.

Only that kind of awareness will really give you the understanding of a given desire you have and the energy to attract it into your life. That kind of awareness is found in the metaphysical, metaphorical, between the lines, subconscious, superconscious, whatever-you-want-to-call-it realm.

It takes real practice to get this kind of awareness, because for most of us, it’s like isolating an untapped reservoir or an unidentified muscle in the body: we start off guessing, then second guessing, then assuming, then overly doubting, and on and on until we finally feel and know the greater awareness. Isolating that realm and reveling in its splendor is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.

Once you have acquainted yourself with your highest perspective, and have enjoyed the view from this height, you have, at your disposal, all the capabilities to see your desire from its true source. Here is the energy of your desire at its finest and purest. It is as simple a vibration as love and attraction, and it’s that easy to understand. From this perspective you may gain a complete and thoroughly-felt sense of the essence of what you desire, and that’s exactly what you’ll need.

Once you have isolated this grand awareness of the essence of what it is you truly desire, the next level of your magic formula – intention – is ready to be set. By giving this awareness to your human brain, it can take the essence from the ethers and make logical, linear sense of how to go about incorporating it into physical and emotional reality.

Your brain desperately wants to make some sense out of it all, to organize it for you, to build a plan of action, to highlight and edit out all that’s not fitting into this great plan, so your brain takes this felt sense and tries to interpret it for clarity. This process is often called “setting the intention”.

You are human and spirit, and this part of the formula is the magical integration of both. Your brain loves to do this job. It actually lives for it. It relishes the challenge. It may not always be able to make sense out of an action that isn’t working and what to do about that, but it can easily take a greater state of awareness and set an intention on what to do next.

Once the intention is set, the action is all that’s left, and that will be very different from the kind of action you have been used to, which was typically action without greater awareness and intention. This new kind of action – whole action – is fuelled from a very solid, very confident place, and is motivated by the act of synchronicity. Because you trust the awareness you have gained, and the intention seems doable based on that awareness, the step of action is the least of your energies. No more pushing forward and doing, doing, doing blindly with your fingers crossed. This new flow you have entered into is a gentle but very strong current. It unfolds before you, and you simply need to read the signs – the synchronistic signs – and keep going.

Awareness, intention, and then action are basically spirit, mind, and then body: the natural order of things. All three aspects in perfect harmony. All three honoured and utilized. I’d call that magic.



 
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Jonni O'Connor

Modern Meditations
by Jonni O'Connor, Ph.D.