If you’re an ambitious and driven person, chances are you’ve heard the word intention thrown about:
Set your intentions…Be mindful of your intentions…Create powerful intentions…
But the term can be vague and convoluted. Is it a belief? A prayer? Is it having faith?
In simple form, your intentions are your thoughts directed toward a desired outcome. To be more complex, it’s the realization that our consciousness has the ability to create our reality.
It’s often ridiculed and passed off as Abracadabra BS, but scientific research on how the mind affects reality is growing.
Most common is the placebo effect, from sugar pills having the same effect as prozac, to non-alcoholic beer causing drunkenness, and fake surgeries improving health—our beliefs defy logic.
Mind over matter feats have been documented by monks draped in cold wet sheets, then used mediation to increase their body heat and dry the sheets.
The extent of our influence on matter and reality is taken further with the famous double slit experiment in quantum mechanics: showing that light/energy behaved differently—as waves or particles with the presence of an observer—as if the photons knew they were being monitored.
Physicists call it the Observer Effect, NASA scientists have commented, “The results of any observation seemed to be determined in part by actual choices made by the observer.”
