Intention is a primary component of my Weight Release Program™.   Learning what intention is and how to use it is the key to successfully releasing weight permanently. 

 First off, what is intention?

Intention is a held thought – consciously projected on to circumstances and experiences.  It is a conscious filter that effects interpretation.  Intention also guides and directs choices.

What does intention have to do with releasing weight?

Intention is a guiding principle of the Service to Self™ Process – a general personal growth program I developed that is the foundation of the Weight Release Program™.  Fundamentally, it is your intention to heal and release weight that guides your choices and allows you to make manifest your desire.  Moving into intention will actually evoke much more of what you “DO” want in your life – which naturally and effortlessly directs your experience away from what you “don’t want”.   

 Intention directs experience.  Another way to say this is: our experience conforms to our intention.  So, as we continue to focus our energy using intention we naturally shift our experience.

 Now this is not a sometimes statement – “well, sometimes intention directs experience” – NO – as far as I am concerned this is an absolute fact – once you understand intention and how to use it your experience will profoundly and dramatically change.  In short, you become the director of your own movie – your own life.

 I will return to this question later in the article.

 What is the power of directed focus or attention on the potentiality of a particular outcome?

You have probably heard this principle talked about in terms of “mind over matter”.  You may have heard the term “a self fulfilling prophesy” – though often times this is used to suggest a negative focus and thereby a negative outcome – but it is still the same principle.  Simply that the focus influences the outcome.

 Simply illustrated, if someone says “I’m going to get sick – I just know I am going to get sick.” – what’s going to happen – they’re going to get sick, right?   At least the potentiality of them getting sick is surely higher than someone who says “I’m not going to get sick, I never get sick.”  Now, I know that there are anomalies – the person who doesn’t think that they will get sick but does and the person who always gets sick and is sure that they will get sick but actually doesn’t – BUT the probability of the former expression of reality – where the person who “thinks” that they will get sick actually does get sick (and the opposite for the person who doesn’t) is surely higher – agreed? 

 What is the scientific basis for intention?

In fact, there is empirical evidence that the principle I am speaking about actually plays out in “real life”.  On some level, it’s really just common sense.  However, there is a bit of a technology behind the use of intention and that is what I teach people in the Weight Release Program™.

 Over the past 20 or 30 years the interest in this type of natural law or principle has really picked up momentum.  In fact, today, there is very legitimate science backing up the claims that intention directs experience.

 The scientific term used to explain the principle is called “micro-psychokenisis” – that is the term coined by scientists at Princeton University’s PEAR laboratory – basically this is the science of measuring the effect of thought (the energetic power of the mind) on random events.  Scientists study this principle by simulating random events, similar to a coin toss, where laws of probability and statistics can be applied, then measuring what effect a “held thought” has on the outcome.  The scientists use what they call REGs, which stands for random event generators, where just as in a coin toss the odds are basically “50/50” – half of the time the coin will come up heads and half of the time the coin will come up tails, then they have a person bring a focused awareness to a particular outcome to see if it changes the 50/50 rule.  What the studies (and I mean lots of studies in many different circumstances and under different conditions) have shown is that intention – “the projection of awareness, with purpose and efficacy, toward some object or outcome” (that is the Institute of Noetic Sciences language), profoundly effects the outcome. 

 Intention absolutely increases the probability of a particular intended result occurring.

 So, back to the question, “how does intention fit with weight release?

I want to say a little about the unfocused mind – just think about it – when you are unfocused – bored, distracted, pre-occupied, whatever – what are the chances of you overeating? 

The patterns of behavior that cause weight related issues are unconscious – they are unconscious patterns of behavior.  In order to interrupt these patterns you must become conscious of them – more importantly you must become conscious of what is underneath the habits.  Again, the intention process alone does not constitute the entire Service to Self™ process, but it is the foundation.  The Service to Self™ process is a commitment to consciousness – that is what it is.  Remember, intention is directed focus – consider this in the context of your unhealthy eating – your unhealthy eating is unfocused and unconscious.  When you understand and begin working with intention you are being conscious of the choices you are making – the unintended consequences of being unconscious end – that’s it.