Chapter 14

Your Personal
Intention Experiments

Now that you have practiced “powering up,” what can you use intention for in your own everyday life? To help you find out, with the help of my scientists I have designed a series of informal, personal experiments.

The following “experiments” are intended to be read in two ways: as a springboard into ways to incorporate intention in your life, and also as a piece of anecdotal research. Whenever you carry out an intention experiment, I would like you to report it on our website.

To carry out these experiments, all you will need in the way of equipment is a notebook and a calendar. When you are first starting, note the date and times of your intentions. Each intention experiment should be carried out after you “power up” in your intention space, using the program outlined in chapter 13 (page 197). Needless to say, if you suffer from a serious illness and are trying to think yourself better, you should augment your own healing intentions with the help of a trained professional healer, whether conventional or alternative.

Make a daily note of any change in the object of your intention, and be specific. If you are trying to heal a condition in yourself or someone else, take a daily “temperature” of change. What does the person feel like, in general? What symptoms have improved? Have any got worse? Have any new ones turned up? (If any situations seriously worsen, immediately consult a professional practitioner, and also examine any subconscious intentions.)

If you are trying to change your relationship with someone who is ordinarily very antagonistic to something more positive, make a daily note of his or her interactions with you, to determine if anything has changed.

To Have Something
Manifest in Your Life

Select a goal that has never happened but that you would like to have happen. Choose something that seldom occurs or is particularly unlikely, so that if it does come to pass it is more likely to be the result of your intention.

Here are some possibilities:

• receiving flowers from your husband (if he has never bought them for you)
• having your wife sit down and watch a football match with you (if she usually refuses to do so)
• having the boorish neighbor who never gives you the time of day start a cheery conversation with you
• having your child help with the dishes
• having your child wake up on his or her own in the morning and get ready for school without prompting
• improving the weather (30 percent more or less rain, say)
• having your child make his or her bed
• having your dog stop barking at night
• stopping your cat from scratching the sofa
• having your husband or wife come home from work one hour earlier than usual
• having your child watch television two hours less
• getting someone who can’t stand you at work to say hello and start up a conversation
• achieving 10 percent higher profits at work
• growing your plants or crops 10 percent faster than usual

As you begin to manifest, you can try more complicated thoughts. But remember, at first you want one single event to change, something where change can be easily quantified and can probably be attributed to your thoughts.

Retrointentions

• If you still have a medical problem of some sort, cast your mind back to the point where it started. Carry out an intention for it to resolve itself then. See if you are now better.
• If you are not getting along with someone, cast your mind back to the point where you first had a disagreement and send your intention to change there. Remember to be very specific.
• Ask your friends and family if you can try a retroprayer for some of the loved ones who were ill five years before. Concentrate on their former illness and see if this improves their current state of health. The idea will seem so ridiculous and therefore so harmless that they probably will agree to it. If you feel bold, you may even try this with a local nursing home. First, be sure to obtain permission of the patient and those in charge.

Report any results by writing in to The Intention Experiment website: www.theintentionexperiment.com.

Group Intention Exercises

Assemble a group of your friends who are interested in trying out some group intention exercises. Create an intention space where you will meet each time. Select a group target in your community. Here are a few possibilities:

• improving the weather
• reducing violent crime by 5 percent
• reducing pollution by 5 percent
• reducing litter on a particular street in your community
• getting your mail delivered one hour earlier
• achieving some form of community activism (such as preventing a mobile phone antenna tower from being built in your area)
• decreasing the incidence of local road accidents involving children by 30 percent
• improving the collective grade point average of the school by one grade
• decreasing abuse of children in your community by 30 percent
• reducing inappropriate handgun possessions by 30 percent
• increasing (or decreasing) local rainfall by 10 percent
• decreasing the number of alcoholics in your area by 25 percent

Depending on the nature of your intention, make one member of the group responsible for researching statistics involving your local accident, weather, or crime statistics. For these types of statistics, it is a good idea to get hold of reports for the last five years in your area and surrounding communities so you have something solid to compare.

Then, when you meet, decide on a group intention statement. When you are “powering up,” visualize yourselves as a single entity (say, a giant bubble or any other unified internal image). Once you are all in a collective meditative state, have one member of the group read out the statement. Meet regularly to send the same intentions. Keep a careful reading of statistics for one month before and several months after you have sent the intentions. Note any changes.

Send the results to The Intention Experiment website: www.theintentionexperiment.com.