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Happy 2014!

1/2/2014

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Attention and Intention| Paula's Herbals
The difference between Attention and Intention is subtle and dramatic. Like the difference between listening and hearing, your entire experience will change with an application of focus.

Two years ago, something moved me to create an intention for the year. I don't now remember how or why, if it was audibly suggested or some sort of spiritual guidance, or where the words even came from. But on the inside cover of my list-making notebook, I wrote:

Mean What I Say and Do What I Mean

Very frequently, several times a month, I would see that phrase, all by itself on that white page. It would remind me to act consciously, to choose and to speak consciously. No more promises to others that make them comfortable, at my expense. No more carrying over list items from day to day until I get tired of looking at them, and just not writing them down again. It was time to be responsible for my words and actions. It changed my habits and my year.

Last year, I chose a single word to represent what I wanted to reach in 2013:

Balance

Lots of people asked me about a New Year's Resolution last year, and lots of them laughed at me when I revealed my goal. It seemed an uncomfortable topic for many, almost like they didn't want to acknowledge their own unbalancedness, and would really rather I not suggest they think about it, thank you very much. I did stop talking about it early in the year!

However I didn't stop thinking about Balance, and I found myself trying to choose my actions, my reactions, the people in my circle, even purchases I made in terms of my inner scales. Again, it changed me!

This year, I'm in Witch Camp and we have an Intention Workbook (try it!) to set up our New Year. We are supposed to choose a word to describe the year we want to have, then apply it to categories like family life, relationships, work, heart, soul, and so on. I chose:

Satisfaction

While I was filling in action steps for each of the Intention categories, Discipline also made an appearance in every one of them! That's an uncomfortable word for me, Discipline. It sounds so small and mean, about denial and hardship. I don't like to use the word and I don't like to act on it, either. Yet I have spent quite a bit of time recuperating from a a hard time, and now it's time to get my new, stronger, healthy me back on track and I know that Discipline is the way to reach my goals, and to be Satisfied with where and who I am.

Attention energizes, intention transforms. What's calling out for your attention, and how do you intend to respond
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