Setting Your Intentions

If you Google it, you will find that many of the Indian-derived religions and life philosophies have a concept called ‘setting your intentions’.

Anywhere from a 1 to 10 step process, ‘setting your intentions’ is right up there with ‘attached attachment’ as a chestnut chestnut.

The idea is to consciously set your intention with regards to, for example, human interactions.

This way you will be able to live more authentically due to your awareness of what you want and your new-found ability to communicate this so that others are not confused and behave more in line with your intentions.

However, if you use the front of your brain (the thinking/rational neocortex) to set an intention then it could be at great odds with the older-school limbic (emotional) or reptilian (control systems) parts of your brain.

I suspect that the point of setting your intention isn’t necessarily to create the intention as an outcome but to ‘out’ any dissonance between the various parts of your brain that you wouldn’t otherwise be aware of.

What you do with such dissonance is anybody’s guess but I would say ‘pause and ponder and sleep on it’ until the dissonance is resolved.

Whether you know where it was resolved or how, it doesn’t matter so much.