When you set your intentions, give them the significance and attention they deserve to ensure personal fulfillment. Go beyond a simple declaration. Do this by choosing one or more of these seven ways to honor and encourage their fulfillment.

Why Set Your Intentions With Personal Fulfillment In Mind?

People set intentions because they want to clarify for themselves what they want. But wanting and having are two very different things. Of equal or greater importance to having articulated (or written) intentions, you must focus your energy and prioritize their fulfillment.

What Is an Intention

But what does it mean to have an intention? How is an intention simply different from wanting?

Intention, goal, and aim are often used interchangeably. Each of these terms is typically distinguished from wants, desires, and prayers because it assumes some degree of commitment and a willingness on the part of the actor to act and participate in the effort to fulfill the intention. That effort could be mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, energetic, or a combination of any of these.

Unlike goal or aim, the word intention is commonly used in spiritual and metaphysical contexts. It connotes something transformative and of greater value and meaning.

It can be about something physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, or energetic. And, it can be focused on the present or the future.

Start With Well-Defined Intentions

The best way to empower your intentions and achieve personal fulfillment is to use words that are:

• positive,
• clear, and
• specific.

Why Use Positive Language

Positive means to state what you want and not what you don’t want. For example, “I get a good night’s rest,” instead of “I don’t want to wake up at night.” When you focus on the positive, you orient yourself to what you want instead of the current situation you dislike and want to change. This is especially true if you fail to indicate what you want instead of that which you dislike. The latter leaves the future wide open. And, you assume the risk of creating a situation you don’t like either. It could be even worse.

Why Clarity Is Essential

Clear means that you state exactly what you want. When you’re clear, your words aren’t vague or understated.

For example, assume you’re experiencing a lot of pain in your left knee. Wouldn’t you want to be pain-free rather than feel less pain? Of course, you would. The point is not to be shy or hesitant. Be honest and clear. Believe in yourself and your ability to completely heal or attain all that you aspire toward. Clarity is power.

Specificity Focuses and Reinforces Clarity

Being specific involves articulating your purpose in a way that eliminates vagueness and any alternatives that you do not mean..

For example, let’s say you have two daughters. Your relationship with one is excellent. The other is strained. If you say “I want to communicate effectively with my daughter,” you just might further improve the good relationship you already have and fail to improve the stained one. So make sure to specify which daughter.

7 Ways to Work With Your Intentions and  Fulfill It

1. Every so often, take time to reflect and even daydream about your life when you fulfill your intentions.
2. Journal about your intention. By doing so, you’ll reflect on the many ways these intentions will contribute to personal fulfillment in life. Through reflection, you can identify and prioritize actions to support your desired transformation.
3. Create a crystal grid or vision board that encompasses your vision and intentions. Select healing crystals with appropriate attributes. In addition, energetically charge the grid or board with the energy of your intentions. Periodically visit and recharge it.
4. Focus on who you expect to be when you fulfill your intentions. And, be that person now. Start small, habituate yourself, and over time continue to adopt more attributes of the person you want to be.
5. Keep your intentions close to your heart and in your daydreams, staying open to related opportunities as they arise. This means you don’t plan and assign your solar plexus chakra to will your intentions into existence. Instead, focus on the feeling state and sense you will be. Allow rather than strategize.
6. If you have many intentions, select one or a couple to focus on immediately. Too many intentions can dilute the effort you can put toward any one intention. Plus, lots of details create confusion. This is true even on an energetic level. When you’re confused, your energy is likely to be confused and incoherent. This muddles energetic clarity and alignment (think the law of attraction).
7. Diffuse essential oils to clear negative energy and create a supportive atmosphere. The idea is to pair your intention with the biophysical and metaphysical properties of particular essential oils. Another option is to diffuse a cleansing blend to energetically clear you and your space, thus removing toxins and clutter from the past, opening to flow, and your life forward movement. (See my post Smudging Using Diffuser Oils for Energy Work Clearing.)

Try any one or more of these ways to empower your intentions. People who like the ceremony may lean toward using crystals and essential oils. But, in my experience, numbers four and five are the most impactful.

The Key to fulfillment is the Right Intentions and Complete Embodiment

The Key is not to simply state what you want. Nor is it trying to create and focus on logical plans built by your cognitive mind, which hasn’t yet delivered personal fulfillment.

Rather, embody the transformation you seek in countless small, attainable steps, maintain the vigor of your purpose, and remain receptive to those chances that provide glimpses of your ultimate goal.

For More On How to Set Your Intentions and Get What You Want, see:

• My Mind Body Spirit Blog, in particular:
  • How to Your Clear Energy, Gain Clarity, and Create Flow
  • 6 Powerful Ways Healing Energy Helps Manifest Intentions
• Spiritual Life Coaching and Energy Healing sessions; in particular, Integrated Energy Therapy (IET)

Updated February 23, 2024