Intention

Part 1.

In order to do the work, it requires an inner power, a motivation and drive to continue no matter what. Let me backtrack a bit. Do you have the moral courage to do what is right? Does it exist but only as a weak signal because your life circumstances are too threatening to develop it further? Life can indeed be dangerous and in the end no one gets out alive, at least physically. The question is, do you want to suffer or be a victim until the end? Wouldn’t it be great to be a part of the solution instead of creating more chaos in the world? When we work on ourselves we are working on the bigger picture at the same time. We are the microcosm of the macrocosm. Do not concern yourself with that right now. I was detailing the interconnectedness of you and your world. In my eyes the world is suffering from a lack of intention. Intention is our force of will in the world. It is a contract with ourselves to do what we intend. I have never bought into the story that humans are inherently bad. My experiences have proved otherwise. The bad behavior that is attributed to humans is an overlay. It is indoctrinated onto us by the environmental pressures intentionally imposed on us by a controlling race. This is how they treat all they encounter and they thrive on the discord created by the setup.  

Do not despair your lack of intention. You can build it up with practice and effort and you really must for the sake of your being and humankind. How can this be done? Let us look at this from a different direction. I am suggesting we look at our life and the four most common levels of it, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual. 

Let’s take a truthful look at how we are treating and caring for our body. I would really like you to focus solely on this aspect until you can get it under control and institute new habits of care. When we feel better and function better we are more likely to tackle other things that need attention and we suspect will be painful to deal with. These are the levels of body I would like you to examine and start to institute changes. Pick just one to start so you aren’t overwhelmed and feeling like a failure for not completing multiple concurrent objectives. As you successfully exchange one bad habit for a better one your confidence will grow and you will feel better able to tackle the next one. 

1. Are you drinking enough water daily? The body needs 64 oz daily minimum. We are composed of at least 60% water, probably more, and we need to replenish this amount just to maintain healthy flushing of toxins and normal metabolic functions. Your brain does not function clearly when dehydrated and that means you cannot make good decisions in your best interests and care. Low water consumption is a vicious cycle. If we don’t drink enough water, we don’t think clearly, if we don’t think clearly, we will not make the decision to care for ourselves better by drinking more water. Now that you are drinking enough water, you need to question what kind and quality of water are you drinking. I don’t consider city tap-water anywhere in the world potable anymore. Yes it is treated and theoretically potable but barely and we are talking about moving out of average functioning and into a superior level of functioning. I know many of you are financially strapped so consider getting the most bang for your buck. Bottled waters (and I have drank my share of them) are expensive and they really aren’t held to a standard that seems very transparent. Their quality reports are not in plain site and the standards they hold themselves to seem to me are more about marketing than anything else. Almost everyone should be able to afford a filter pitcher. Most of these will filter an average of 150 gallons before they need replacing, making the per glass cost pennies. The quality gets better with price so buy the best you can afford, do your research and scrimp a bit to save for the next better upgrade when feasible. Strive to treat yourself to the best you can. As long as you hold that intention, the universe will conspire to make it happen. Creating new habits is not an overnight affair, it takes effort and according to a study done in the United Kingdom, the average time to build a simple new habit like drinking more water is 66 days, so don’t feel the necessity to beat yourself up for minor missteps along the journey. 66 days for a simple habit! I am talking about changing your life, one step at a time. This effort and perspective change builds intention.

2. What are you fueling your body with? You know what I’m talking about. The breakfast that you skipped, the fast food lunch because it was convenient. The dinner out because your too tired to cook. Settling for the terrible quality of produce that the market displays. It looks great but has no flavor. Not to mention the side order of pesticides and herbicides that are included free of charge. How about the dyed meat to make it look fresh cut, or the way it shrinks when you cook it because of all the water they injected into it to boost the weight boils off.  How about the recreational drugs and or imbibing? Wine, beer, spirits, legal and illegal drugs dull your senses. This is the same vicious circle as dehydration because on one level that is what they do, but on another level its about escaping the pain, suffering, anguish, loss. My question to you is who or what are you inviting in to your body while you are escaping? Do you think it is an accident they are called distilled spirits? This isn’t about guilting you into changes, its about calling out the pink elephant in the room. We are ultimately culpable for how we treat or mistreat our bodies and we will bear the expense to rectify mistreatment. 

I would recommend eating organic. Buy from your local farmers market as it supports local farmers and it will reunite you with the seasons and seasonal food supply. This is a desirable result, becoming aware of the cycles of the earth and seasons. We have become too jaded into experiencing everything available all the time. It is also a great excuse to not try a different produce because the ones you are familiar with are always available. If you are going to eat meat then by all means buy the best you can afford. Make it organic, grass fed and free range. These tend to be catch words now so do your research on your suppliers. You will feel so much better. You may not immediately notice a change but with time you will see what happens when you eat the regular food again. Fresh, local, organic, no pesticides, fertilizer, steroids, antibiotics etc., your body and mind will thank you. Eating this way is more expensive, but I swear, you are worth it. Make little changes so it doesn’t hurt so much. With time you will naturally gravitate towards this food because you will realize the flavor is amazing. Quickly you will wonder how you ever came to eat the other stuff. The next step is to move away from foods that have been processed in any way. Because basically it was processed for profit not for health. There are very few exceptions to this and those exceptions require research. It should not surprise anyone that we have the degree of illness and bizarre types of diseases that plague us today, we literally are what we eat, and that includes liquid, food, and energies, such as emotions, stress, pain. All of these take their toll on the body because it is one more thing it has to deal with that it wasn’t designed to eat. Eating like this takes a little getting used to but ultimately its just making a habit of a new choice to treat yourself better.

I will discuss more aspects of the body in the next post. For now let me tell you a story about the power of intention and what is possible when you focus it.

Two years ago I was planning to go to South Dakota for my summer vacation on the reservation. The closer I got to that time I kept getting a message from spirit to go to New Mexico and see my adopted uncle. I really wanted to go to South Dakota but in the end I changed my plans. I didn’t know what to expect or why I was going. I had spoken to him about a project I wanted to do with him but that was all. When I arrived, all my plans went out the window. As he opened the door, I was mortified. Here was my uncle who literally looked dead. White as a ghost, barely able to speak or move. I didn’t recognize him. I immediately knew something was drastically wrong with him and the situation I just walked into. I also knew he would have been dead in a matter of days had I not detoured. It took me less than an hour of talking with him and then meeting his “caregiver” to decide what I must do. When we sat at the dining room table to talk it was covered with donuts and cookies. This man has diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, kidney problems, bad circulation and severe swelling in his legs, and 150 pounds he could do without. I asked him what his routine was and I surveyed the refrigerator and the cupboards. There was only cheap pasta and canned and processed junk food. I asked him what his caregiver was feeding him for breakfast and he said its in the freezer outside. He needed help to get out of bed every morning and to go to bed at night. That was the  reason for the caregiver. I asked him what time he was awakening in the morning and he said the caregiver (let’s call him C) would get him out of bed at 11am. That way he could feed him one meal for breakfast and lunch, which consisted of a frozen breakfast sandwich or two and coffee. Then C would leave and not return until 6pm or so, at which time he would make some other prefabricated meal and leave until midnight or 1am and return to put him to bed. My uncle who has arthritis in his back was basically trapped to sitting in a tall stool or a chair he had until C got home because of his limited mobility and needed an eye patch put on his eye every night. Something he was incapable of doing. This was definitely elder abuse bordering on torture and had been going on unbeknownst to anyone who cared. I immediately went to the Whole Foods to buy all organic produce and meat, something he had never eaten. I brought a pitcher type water filter with me so I could have clean water and then served and cooked everything with this water. I came home and started cooking. During our discussion I found out his state ID had gotten screwed up and no one seemed able to get it corrected and he was not able to go there to do it himself. This was making it impossible to cash his pension checks. His bills were a mess and tons of stuff needed to be filed. I found out who his primary care provider was and made an appointment for a checkup. I asked who was coming to see him as he had an injury to one leg that needed care. He said a nurse came in once a week to change the bandages. I could see this man buried in stress about things he wanted done and was not able to get accomplished.  So I set about resolving them. There were reasons that I had to wait but I fired C after three days. When we went to the doctors appointment I told the nurse I needed to talk with the doctor privately before she examined him. At this meeting I told her the conditions I had found him in and what I had begun to do and that I wanted her to check him out for I felt he was missing something. Turns out he had stopped taking his diabetes meds because of a misunderstanding (I’m sure he had zero intention to clarify the situation because he didn’t want to be on the meds) and his diabetes was out of control, as well as his blood pressure. I asked for a program to get some people to start coming by to check on him and visit and do some lite housework and prep his meals. The outcome was this: the doctors sorted out the meds and the issues they were creating so he was back on the blood pressure and diabetes meds. Then I got  a social worker to stop by at least once a week. Two nurses were coming by weekly. One for physical therapy to get him stronger and the other to tend to his leg. I setup a caregiver to come in and prep his meals. I went to the DMV and told them who I was and what the.problem was and that I wasn’t leaving until it was resolved. In 20 minutes I had fixed what many other people couldn’t in two years of trying. I was feeding him three home cooked organic meals a day. I told him we needed to change the time he went to bed and rose in the morning so he could get sufficient sleep and actually eat breakfast and lunch. After about a week he told me to throw away the donuts and cookies, which he hadn’t touched since I’d arrived. This told me his sugar cravings had subsided due to wholesome meals, sufficient rest, massively reduced stress, and someone actually caring about his wellbeing. Anyone who knows this man would bet a million dollars against him ever throwing away sweets. I was as surprised as anyone. I saw him constantly struggling to get to the phones mounted on the walls, so I went and installed a mobile phone setup which he had been fighting against with others for years. He fought me on that for about one day. After one week of this routine I went to get him up in the morning and as I entered the room he threw his legs over the side of the bed and sat up. I had been pulling him up to sitting every morning. I made sure he was aware of what had just transpired and how it showed his improvement, he wasn’t and acted like he had done this every morning. To say my uncle is a ball buster is an understatement. He was never going to admit something had changed. I fixed electrical sockets in the wall so the phone system would work. I reached out to family who happen to be contractors and told them about the situation. I stated that they needed to come finish the bathroom remodel they had bought materials for a year prior or I was going to do it because he couldn’t walk through the 24” bathroom doorway with his walker and the toilet was on the far side of the bathroom. They arrived a week after I left. Towards the end of the second week we went back to the doctor and his blood pressure and diabetes were under control, his color and some of his mobility were back. His legs, which had always been swollen to the point of bursting, were the smallest I had seen them in 20 years. The doctors were amazed at the difference I had made in him in two weeks and they kept saying it, as well as the nurses coming to the house. In two weeks I had given him his life back. I had turned back the clock to a point that it was up to him how he wanted his future to look. Now, this is why I’m suggesting that you go slow in the beginning. What happened by the last day of my two weeks stay was the pushback. I had expected it all along and was surprised that he had allowed me as much latitude as he did, but it was inevitable, because when someone is so rooted in their misery and beliefs that they can’t shift for what is clearly in their best interest they revert back to the familiar, even if that is detrimental , because it’s familiar and feels safe. It is a known in a world of unknowns. He tried to unwind what I had setup or fixed and shit on what he couldn’t. He then became a miserable old man to every one who came to help him. He could not acknowledge to himself that the reason he had all this energy to be an ass was due to the care received. He was so angry with me for the care given I haven’t spoken with him since. No need to, I can feel his anger in the air to this day. 

The point is, this is what is possible with a focused intention. I intended to give him back his life and show him how to maintain it. The doctors, nurses, caregivers, and family witnessed it and still didn’t understand how I did it. Intention, Intention, Intention. This is what I want for you. Unfortunately my uncle chose the former existence.