Exploring the Source of Intention

It is no secret to me, I know that intention is clearly a big player in the attainment of my goals, and the creation of the life I want to lead. Intention is the foundation for which these visions, goals and dreams are built. Now well along this road, sometimes by years, sometimes by progress and sometimes by curious digression, I find myself once again engaging in a new connection with my personal, creative and vocational dreams.

This day begins with an electricity in the air of my inner landscape.

I feel as though I am standing in the path of a rare and enigmatic breeze.

I sit down on the side of the road.

I my thoughts drift to pondering “the how” of how I create my intentions. I find my awareness moving in a new direction, to a place that takes me back further, to thinking about what comes before intention —to the source from which I create my intentions.

Source — “a thing or place from which anything comes, arises, or is obtained.”

This opens up thoughts about creation, and the difference between creating FOR and creating FROM. I realize that I have so often created my intentions “for” something.

It is interesting to me how the word FOR contains “OR” – as in “one OR the other.” The dictionary says OR is the logic of  “the connective used in disjunction”

Disjunction! — it says “to undo or prevent the junction or union of” – Yikes! That doesn’t sound like a very cohesive way to make a plan, let alone set the foundations for an intention —  and what a place for fear to live, slipping in through those cracks, hiding in the dark corners.

With or  without, beautiful or ugly, success or  failure. Such a limited view of the process of creation, of possibility.

Putting it that way just seems like an exercise in handling stress and not much in dancing with creativity and non-judgement!

Then there is  the word FROM, which contains the word OM – according to the dictionary it is “a mantric word representing a complete expression of the universe” (Brahman) – and consists of three sounds, creation, perseverance and destruction (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva) or as consisting of the same three sounds representing waking, dreamscape and deep sleep – followed by silence, which represents fulfillment. 

So what do I want the source of my intention and creation to be?

Am I really providing myself with a good foundation by building the foundation of what I create by doing it “for” something – by injecting it with a “connective used in disjunction.”

I realized that it has to come “from” me – to honour the cycles inherent in creation, to honour the deep listening in the silence of completion, so I may understand the fulfillment of what I have just created.

The “either/or me” gets to rest now. . .and I feel assured that this is a good thing.

How do I know this?

Because that idea came directly “from me”!

Note from Lenke: Working with Sandi Amorim is certainly one of the best experiences that I have given myself this year. Not only is it an absolute pleasure fanning that inner fire that has smouldered inside of me for so many years, I also love the flashes of insight that have inspired me since I began the journey. This was one of those moments.

The invitation from Sandi to share this with anyone but her was an adventure that I could not resist. During this journey I realized how often my writing in the past has been “for” something, but in this case, it really had to be “from” me. It has been a real meta moment, because it is so many things that have been this way.

It has been an exercise in becoming, a discovery of understanding and a fantastic adventure in deepening –  and that’s just the very thing I love about working with Sandi – it’s such an adventure into myself!

Lenke Sifko is a multimedia designer and illustrator. Continually inspired by her environment, and the people and creatures that inhabit those spaces,  she finds herself often creating visual translations of her daily influences. WIth a strong background in print, design and illustration, she enjoys working on projects both large and small in concept. Because creativity matters.