Your meditation match

Intention setting

Best if you feel scattered and want direction and clarity.

Intention setting is the quiet practice of asking, before a day or a week or a sit, how you want to show up. Not what you'll achieve. How you'll move. "Patient with my kids today." "Honest in this meeting." "Kinder to myself when I get tired around 3pm." It draws on the Buddhist concept of sankalpa, and it works because an intention is a thread you can come back to when the day starts pulling you in twelve directions.

You matched here because you feel scattered, and goal-setting hasn't fixed it (probably made it worse). What you actually need is a sense of direction underneath the to-do list. A short guided intention practice at the start of the day takes about three minutes and changes the shape of the next sixteen hours. The trick is making the intention specific enough to mean something and loose enough to survive contact with reality.

before the day startsone clear word, gently chosenshapes how you will move

Worth knowing

  • An intention is about how you move through the day, not a task to complete.
  • Set it before the day starts and it is still there to come back to when things get loud.

How to start

  • Choose one word or short phrase for how you want to meet today, and carry it with you.
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