The Dark Side of Intention

Discovering how to identify and work with negative intent

For many of us, the idea of setting intention happens through fantasy. We think about a positive change that we want and hope at some point for we get it.  We may practice ways to set this intention into our system and to help manifest the physical reality of what we want such as a vision board, positive affirmations, or not focusing on the negative. What happens when we set an intention and nothing happens or when we set an intention and something altogether different happens than what we are asking for?

Photo Credit: Joseph Rothstein

It becomes clear we need to embrace the dark side of intention. Within the desire to positively change our lives is comfort in the roles we play. Sometimes we run into pieces of ourselves that can’t seem to shift no matter how hard we intend to change. We might even notice that there are some places in ourselves we absolutely don’t want to feel into. We have something that we do not like in our life but do not believe it is possible to change our identit…