by wpengine | Sep 7, 2013 | Spirituality
Your intention is one of your most powerful forces.
How can you best use and wield it?
Your intention has energy. When you consciously make one you, quite literally, imprint its energy into your field and world.
Your intention has the power and capacity to co-create what you want. Deeply want, that is.
What’s the difference between intention, wishful thinking, and want?
Wishful thinking is simply wishing. “It would be nice to have ____”. When you wish for something, you don’t really believe you can have it. There’s often doubt mixed in with your wish. So it remains a wish without your engagement to actualize it.
Your want is stronger than wishful thinking. Your desire’s more engaged. You put forth energy towards what you want. Wants and needs are often at your physical, emotional, and egoic levels.
Your intention comes from a deep, whole place within you. Your intention includes and is larger than your physical and egoic well-being— it also involves your heart and soul. And is often connected with your life purpose.
When you have an intention, all of you embarks on a journey to attain it.
It’s more than a goal, as is a want. With an intention, you begin a process of personal growth and unfoldment.
How does the power of your intention work?
1. You show up
When you have an intention, you show up to yourself. For yourself. You say to all of yourself: “I want That. It’s essential to me.” Your identity and maybe your life purpose are connected to What You Want.
When you create an intention for yourself, you tell yourself you’re ready to have What You Want or be Who You Are. You send a message to your subconscious. You send a message to all of you. Even if you don’t know how you’re going to get there, the truth of What You Want vibrates in your body.
You’re ready.
2. You message the Universe
Whether you call it the Universe, Energy, the Divine, Source, Goddess, or God, It’s a staggeringly powerful, alive, and intelligent energetic field of potential, possibility, and love. It’s vibrant, wise, incredibly sensitive, and waiting.
For you.
It’s been waiting for your call. And when it hears your message, it responds. It has to. Because like attracts like.
It creates and brings waves and waves of opportunities, circumstances, and people to you who will help manifest your intention.
3. You focus your energy
When you hold and sustain an intention, it gains momentum, focus, and clarity in you. It narrows from a broad, general field to a sharp specific, laser-like focus.
You might find the more you hold it, the more it defines how you think and feel about yourself.
You fuel it with your interest, focus, and what it means to you.
And when you surrender to your intention, you may find that it carries you in its own current of becoming.
4. You create a vibration
As a vibrational being, your thoughts, wants, and intentions are vibrations. Just like when you shout “Love!” in a valley and hear the resounding echoes of “love!, love!, love!…” back to you, so when you set an intention, the Universe has to respond with a similar vibration to help you manifest it.
When you have an intention, you set in motion a host of movements and forces that combine and interact to manifest What You Want and Who You Are.
This is the “co-” in co-creating. The wonderful part of this is that you don’t have to know or manage or control how the Universe will do this. You might do your very best to figure it out. You might try very hard to plot it all out. But it’ll be clear very soon that it’s not your job. At all. In fact, if you do so, it only slows you down.
So it’s better to stay on your side of the fence, focus your intention, and do your own work.
5. You transform
Often and likely, there are Things in the way of What You Want and Who You Want to Become. Like, who you are now. Or limiting beliefs, fears, wounding, or your ego, which create a vibrational difference between Here and There.
Your journey is in bridging the gap.
Your journey is getting There from Here. For which you may have to clear or release old beliefs, patterns, or judgements. And step into new ways of being.
Which means letting go of who you are today.
And you will. Because when you set an intention, you decide to transform. That’s the power of it.
6. You do something
Do one small (or big) thing to move towards your intention. There’s power in your stepping forward to meet and manifest your destiny.
Every action you take sharpens and focuses your intention even more. Every action you take brings you closer. Every action is a becoming, an unfolding from Here towards There, from Now towards Then, and from Who You Are now to Who You Will Be.
Your action keeps the telephone line open between you and the Universe.
When you act, you say, “I trust in myself. I trust in the Universe. I trust this will come to pass.”
Happy journey!
by wpengine | Aug 8, 2013 | Healing, Spirituality
The twists and turns of my life have led me to becoming a psychotherapist. Originally from India, the land of spirituality, I’ve had a deep spiritual path my entire life. Vedanta, Tantra, Kundalini awakenings, and Integral Yoga are as familiar to me as my breath.
But, being Indian, I had a blind spot about the psyche and emotional healing. Psychology is a Western field, to which India has yet to open and embrace. So I came late to psychotherapy—at 40.
That’s what makes me passionate about psychotherapy. So profoundly transformed by it, I love helping others do the same. I love helping people heal their wounding and discover they’re so much more than that. I love helping them grow into their authentic selves and live their Truth.
After getting licensed, I knew there was more. I sat with the question: What is healing?
The answer came soon after as a Lyme Disease diagnosis. In 2009, alongside traditional and alternative medicine, I visited a spiritual healer in Brazil. My worst symptoms vanished in two days. And in eighteen months, I was completely healed.
I also received an incredible amount of emotional and psychological healing, which was life-changing. And all manner of guidance about my life.
When I learned about soul lessons, something unlocked and clicked in me. I finally had answers to questions I’d been asking for much of my life. I finally had a perspective which made sense. My life’s purpose and meaning lay clearly before me.
My many palpable experiences of guides and beings awed and intrigued me—that so much healing and guidance is always available to us. Right here, right now. Even if we can’t see it.
My healing and transformation shifted me to living a soul-led life.
It was one thing to receive spiritual healing in Brazil. It was quite another to integrate it into my world as a professional psychotherapist. After all, even in San Francisco, there aren’t many social or professional situations in which you can say you were healed by exalted vibrations of Light and Love without people hastily ending the conversation.
There’s so much we don’t know about healing, yet is available at arm’s reach. My healing journey made me realize how much our spiritual life, relationships, past lives, unconscious (yes, even more than psychotherapy does!), energy and light bodies are interconnected with our physical and emotional health.
Psychotherapy was my doorway to the realm of healing. My experiences of spiritual healing set me on an exploration of healing beyond its paradigm.
So I trained in Past Life Regression Therapy and Hypnotherapy. I shifted to include working energetically and intuitively.
I love helping people step into and live from who they really are. I’m excited when they tune into their inner guidance and intuition. And I’m most fulfilled when they open to and unfold their 
connection to their heart and soul.
For you are beautiful, magnificent, and powerful—much more than what you know.
I’m starting this blog because I want to share what I know about healing with you.
Whether traditional or alternative, every modality has something useful to offer. I want to integrate and share what I know and continue to learn with you. Some of my areas of interest are spirituality, psychology, healing, and the Divine Feminine.
This blog is also about being and becoming a Goddess. Which is no small feat for we—regardless of gender— are goddesses in process. It’s a practice we’re in. Every day. Whether we know it or not. Intend to or not.
The blog category ‘Divine Feminine’ travels through the rich, gorgeous, and juicy pantheon of Indian goddesses, more ancient than time itself. They offer you wisdom, grace, and power as you travel through your own life.
It’s a place for you to connect with Her, and invite Her into your heart and home. It’s a way to celebrate your femininity or your feminine nature. It’s a way to know yourself as the Divine Feminine.
I know you’ll be drawn to what speaks to you here. And I would love to hear from you. I’d love for this blog to be a place where you can connect with me and others to share your experiences and reflections.
I’d love for it to be a space where you can sit down, kick off your shoes, curl up with your favorite beverage, and talk.
Welcome to my blog!
by wpengine | Jul 10, 2013 | Divine Feminine, Spirituality
How do you flow through the river of your life?
How do you let life flow through you?
When you flow you are open to what you don’t know. You are so completely in the moment that you let go of your past and your future. You are entirely in the present. In the full awareness of now. Alive and vibrant.
You are at the intersection of knowing and not knowing. You are in the very moment of becoming.
Saraswathi’s flow
I love the goddess Saraswathi (Saras means “to flow”) whose body is, literally, a river. Beginning in the mountains, she falls and tumbles down to the plains. She widens and deepens. She narrows and becomes shallow. She gurgles and rushes over boulders and pebbles. Wet, fluid, and alive, she is water itself.
She nourishes as she moves, bringing new life to all that comes across her way. She carries and cleanses all that is decaying and dying.
She is always moving. Always present.
Flow Moments
When I feel her flow through me I am fully present. I am one with what I’m doing, whether it is moving fluidly from one yogasana into another in my salutation to the sun. Or the effortless ease of chopping and sauteing vegetables as I cook a dish that my body needs. Or when I sit down at my piano, listen for, and allow music to emerge from my fingers on the black and white keys.
When I walk on trails among the redwoods, I am in my body and being. And out of my mind. I allow another sense and wisdom to take over. My steps have a different rhythm, a different mind. And I let myself be taken. On the winding trail sometimes flat and sometimes steep. Sometimes craggy and sometimes smooth. By the trail into the deep moist darkness of the woods. Off the trail to sit on a mossy fallen tree trunk. Or to gaze into the wide open hearts of white lilies in early spring.
Then, I am Wathi, “she who flows.” I am one with my river. I give up control. I shift from doing to allowing. I allow a deeper wisdom than my rational mind to take over.
How do you step into flow?
7 ways to step into flow:
- Stay open to what you don’t yet know. Our minds with its judgments and beliefs can close us off to knowing. When we bring curiosity and possibility into our lives, we stay open.
- Tune into yourself. Our instincts and emotions are our guides. When we keep thinking about something we want to do, chances are we’re wanting to grow in that area.
- Nourish yourself. Go the the beach. Ride your bike. Sit on a park bench with a friend or watch the world around you. Do what feels good and connect with people from whom you receive.
- Do something different. Are you doing the same thing and expecting the same outcome? Just as the river broadens or narrows, deepens or gets shallow, we need to change our ways of being and how we do things.
- Laugh, play, and get creative. When we step out of trying to figure things out and into play, it creates and opens space for solutions we haven’t thought of.
- Let go. Maybe there are past events, relationships, or ways of being that don’t serve you anymore and hold you back.
- Keep moving! When you feel stuck, do one thing that takes you even one step forward.
Are there other ways in which you flow? I’d love you to share them here.
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