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What comes first, intention or identity?
Autumn/Winter 2019 was a very challenging time for me personally, despite me feeling at capacity mentally, I invested my energy into one of the most eye-opening aspects of mind and body healing.
I had invested in a Transformational Teacher Training Course. The training weekends were intense, the daily meditation “homework” was also quite intense, nothing like I had expected and yet everything that I unknowingly needed.
Prior to the course, I had three experiences of what mediation had done for me, it had helped me literally dial down physical pain of a health condition many years previously. It had helped me get focus also during that very dark time, when I was unfortunately living on high anxiety levels and very little sleep, due to such poor health. It also helped me improve that sleep, something I didn’t think possible.
I had only found meditation through desperation, as someone with a somewhat active mind, I used to (and sometimes still do) run in the opposite direction of anything that would require me to sit still and be still of mind.
The course taught me so many ways in which I could help others to create their own unique way of accessing mediation. It taught me the discipline of some of the most challenging styles of meditation and also the ease and flow options too. To lead or be led (guided) through meditation.
So, what has this got to do with the title of this blog?
There was an aspect within one of the meditation sessions called a Sankalpa (intention setting, formed by heart and mind, a vow a will to focus on a specific goal). It is designed to support the process of you getting out of your own way regarding your thoughts, find what you truly (holistically) want and need in your life now, that would serve and support you (and therefore others around you) right now. You are then invited to set the intention to make that “wish” a reality.
Now before my fellow meditation buddies/friends and followers jump in to tell me it’s so much more, or it is different to my description. I respect and honour that, this is just my simple take on it.
Since learning more about intention setting, I work to incorporate this into my life. I work on asking, “what is my intention for this xxx?”
By asking this type of question, we can start to see a pattern of who we are, what our values are and an emerging theme of our identity.
I remember when I had to pick my first business name, I picked getfit2play because I wanted to stand for helping people who were de-conditioned to improve their fitness to help them play the “game” of life with more ease. A coach and marketing company, quite rightly so, suggested that I needed to simplify my business title for people to get what I did straight away, so the business name changed to Linda Hill Fitness. Then came the stage where I formally entered the work of health coaching and habit change, so I chose Healthy Habit Change.
And Finally…
There was one final adjustment to the name. Once I had finally settled on the offering of cultivating clarity and calm in mind and body and to support their overall wellness intentions. So, just like the sage plant (it is said to have calming and clarifying properties), I chose the new business name as Sage Wellness. Well, it makes sense to me anyway. Also, some people just know me by name, so with the intention to make it super easy to find me either way, I also registered my full name as a domain name too.
With the intention set, I know the rest will follow and flow and be exactly what it needs to be, both for me and for those who I serve.
I leave you with three thoughts/questions;
1 – What’s your intention for your health, your fitness, your overall wellness?
2 – What’s your intention for your business or career or a current project that you are working on, is it clear?
3 – What’s your intention for making the most out of your next time off or time out?
As always, enjoy the journey, and if times are tough, find a way to make it a more healing experience, rather than an energy depleting experience.
