When Intention & Spirit Are Aligned

                          

the setting was 'right' to mention spirit and intention being aligned

'When intention and spirit are aligned....' is something that one of my cousins said to me, when we were talking and waiting for a seminar on the heart. 

Not just any seminar, this is from a Tohunga. A Tohunga is a Maori mystic, healer, and spiritual guide, from a spiritual system dating back through time, so far back that no-one knows just how far back. 

The teachings from the distant past are taught at what is called a Wananga. Which in very easy terms, involves spiritual teachings, learning and absorption, in a setting. A lot of the absorption is done through the ancient form of Maori language, which penetrates deep into our cellular understanding and memories, our mind, our gut, our heart. 

It is such a profound language, whether one understands it, or not.

where does intention and spirit align?

The heart is where intention and spirit align. Our heart is like a beacon of light which is supposed to radiate out, from our being. If you look up videos and articles from The Heartmath Institute, you will see confirmation of this. 

When we express through our hearts, with good intention, which will always have it's basis in caring, warmth and love, we actually radiate an energy which beams out from our aura towards the person, or being (animals, birds, plants, for example), and that being is affected in a most auspicious way.

When we express in a positive way via the heart, our own whole physio-psychological being is affected, with our mind receiving that heart energy, and our body is rewarded with positive cellular responses. 

And, conversely, when we are traumatised, messages go out from our heart (and gut), and mind, and we store that trauma in invisible pockets of our body. These pockets are the acupuncture points. There are also what we could say are 'pockets' of trauma stored also in the heart, the gut, and the mind. 

This stored trauma can be stimulated by anything: a smell, a sound, even something that we see out of the corner of our eye.

our heart has the power to heal us

How can we deal with this trauma that we carry? Through the heart, for it is also a guide. It is where our love, and ethical, invisible guidelines emanate from. Somehow, the heart (called manawa in the Maori language), it just knows. It knows ethics, it knows love. The manawa also knows pain and heartbreak, too, but it also provides us the way back to ourselves, to be able to live with that pain. 

our conscience expresses itself through our heart

Think of it as our conscience. Each time that we go against those inner qualities of the manawa, and therefore we go against our conscience, it is like a shadow passes over our heart. Many shadows on, and we are living in a loveless situation, a place overshadowed by lack of love, a place of darkness. A place of no self respect.

When we allow ourselves to "come from" the manawa, our entire being is affected. It radiates within, through the whole body right down to the most minute level, and from within it goes far out into the aura, our energy field surrounding the body. Sometimes we just have to have the intent to do this. 

And a good guideline is how some one or some thing affects our self respect. If it is a negative effect, our manawa is telling us something. It does not mean that we have to radiate out love whilst someone is being mean, but it could mean that we either stand up to the person, or remove ourselves. In time, that love will shine through, and the other person will be touched by it. But in life, many things can be a slow process.

One of the very best, and easiest, ways, to do this, is to resolve never to do, or say, anything that stops us going to sleep at night. We often cannot sleep because we are troubled. Sometimes it is because of external things that we are affected by, but more often it is from our conscience. Our conscience, in this instance, is telling us something! 

it only takes a little bit of intention

Our manawa will respond dramatically with just the smallest effort of us aligning intention with spirit. We feel better, and are encouraged, from within, to do more. This is a "quickening". 

Our whole system is receiving a marvelous message from the manawa, telling us that we feel good because we aligned intention and spirit. We are, at this moment, in tune with our manawa, our heart.

how to act from the best intentions

How do we have the most beneficial intentions for, and from, ourselves? The Wananga of the Manawa teaches us to remove emotion from an intention, as it is the emotions attached to intention that creates the karma. Obviously if the intention is bad, malevolent, there will be a lot of emotion involved. 

Rather, act from a place of neutrality, so that your own emotions are not "spilling over" onto another person. Equally importantly, we do not then "pick up" the other person's emotions.

our spirit is a radiating light

Our spirit radiates out from our heart, and from our heart chakra. When our spirit radiates, it is easier to act with intention from a place of neutrality. We feel closer to our own Divinity, to the Divinity of everything. We walk in Grace. We understand that the Manawa is a gift, a gift from the gods.