Step One: Visioning and Setting Your Intention
Visioning
Setting Intentions
Vision/Intention Exercise
The number one, all-important part of anything at all you wish to embark upon in life is knowing what you want. Visioning gathers the etheric quality of something vast yet vague, and setting intentions brings that quality into a coherent, practical and achievable position to be realized.
Ask yourself the following questions. Meditate on the response of your heart and the response of your head. Look to see if your head and your heart are answering differently. Don’t judge yourself, but look neutrally to see if there are conflicting feelings that make you lean one way or the other with your answers. Look further to see if you can find the root of the feelings and thoughts that arise in response to the questions. Finally, log your answers.
Tip: If you have trouble answering a question, reverse it and ask the opposite.For example, the first question is “Describe prosperity in your own words.”
If you find it difficult to describe prosperity, try describing what prosperity isn’t.
Visioning
- Describe prosperity in your own words
- What would prosperity enable you to do?
- What does lack of prosperity stop you from doing?
- What feeling does the word wealth invoke in you?
- What was the situation with money in your family?
- How were you brought up to think about money?
- How do you think about rich people?
- How do you feel about riches?
- What constitutes abundance for you?
- Do you feel prosperous in your life now?
- How much money do you want?
- What would that amount of money do for you?
- Describe what would make you feel more prosperous
- If you had that much money would you feel prosperous?
Now that you have gone through this exercise, consider the following: Are the head and heart answering the same? Do feelings of fear, shame or anger arise when you think about prosperity, wealth, money and abundance? Can you define what you want? Can you define it in great detail?
TO DO: Look through your answers and find the common threads and begin to make a list of what you want. First define what prosperity means to you. Describe it in as much detail as you can. Then determine from your answers what prosperity would allow you to do. Again, describe it in as much detail as possible. Be specific. Many of the questions were meant to inspire introspection. You only need to write down how you want prosperity to take its place in your life, how you want prosperity to look and feel, every day.
Tip: If a million dollars is your idea of prosperity, don’t just write “a lot of money,” but also don’t cap yourself. Use a plus sign after any sums you write down, so that if the
Universe brought back $1,000,001 it would still be able to find you!
These, then, are the prosperity intentions you are setting for yourself. Make a copy to put on your altar, but keep a copy near you. Intentions tend to become more defined the more we focus our energy on them. Nothing you have done is written in stone, and you will find that the wording may change, as you continue on Your Path to Prosperity™
