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When we set our intentions from the soul, the experience is completely different because the realm of the soul is the realm of love, expansion, effortless flow, all possibilities and miracles.
So let’ s make this more concrete.
Think about something you want to create in your life— some resolution or intention that you want to bring to fruition. If you’ re like the majority of people, your New Year’ s resolutions are to lose weight, get organized, make more money, spend more time with family and friends or begin a fitness regime. Do you have yours? Now write it down.
When you’ re done, take a look at how you worded your resolution or intention. This reflects how you really“ hold” it in your mind and heart.
If your intention is to lose weight and you wrote down,“ Lose 20 pounds,” that is an egobased intention. Your ego wants you to look a certain way. Maybe because you’ re afraid of being judged or rejected or maybe you want to fit into society’ s brainwashed definition of beauty or you’ re having a hard time loving yourself the way you now look. Or maybe you want to“ show” your old boyfriend what he so unwisely gave up …
Now let’ s look at your soul’ s version of that same intention.
Your soul wouldn’ t think to say,“ I want to lose 20 pounds.” Your soul would say,“ I want to be fit, vital and healthy. I want to be in a body that reflects on the outside the radiant being I truly am on the inside.” Do you see the difference? Which feels better to you? Which one caused your heart to expand with truth and skip a beat with the anticipation of manifesting the result you desire? That’ s a soul intention. It’ s about aligning with the truth of who you are.
The desired results are the same but when you switch the angle of your approach, it puts you in the flow of universal energy. It opens you up to a greater force that allows things to happen with ease. You still need to take action, but when the action is taken with the power of a soul intention behind it, the path is paved with grace, and miracles begin to reveal themselves one after the other.
This year after you write your resolutions, go through the list and identify which ones are ego intentions and which ones are soul intentions. Think about how you can shift each one. If you get stuck, share this concept with a friend and help each other create the new angle so that every resolution is now a soul intention.
With your revised list in hand, step into 2017 and watch your miracles unfold.
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Marci Shimoff- Marci is a # 1 New York Times bestselling author, a world-renowned transformational teacher and an expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love. Her books include Love for No Reason and Happy for No Reason. She is also the woman’ s face of the biggest self-help book phenomenon in history, as co-author of six books in the Chicken Soup for the Woman’ s Soul series. Marci is also a featured teacher in the international film and book sensation, The Secret and the host of the national PBS TV show called Happy for No Reason. Dedicated to helping people live more empowered and joyfilled lives, Marci’ s current passion is mentoring people in her program 2017: Your Year of Miracles.
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