What Is Intention?
What Is Intention?
“Where the mind goes, Qi follows the flow.” — Zhineng Qigong
It may sound poetic, but it’s deeply practical. Wherever your mind focuses, your energy follows — shaping how you feel, how you move, and how you live. To begin living more consciously and aware, first open the mind — and truly begin to open the heart. This is the doorway to intention.
- Worry or overthinking: the body feels heavy and tired — sometimes even sluggish digestion.
- Parkinson’s clients focusing on posture: standing taller comes naturally; balance improves; breath frees.
- Living with pain and focusing on recovery: pain eases, recovery quickens, and energy begins to return.
This is intention at work. It’s not just about what you do — it’s the quiet force behind how you do it, the current that shapes vitality, clarity, and the direction of your life.
What Is Intention?
Intention is the power of your mind — where you place it, energy flows. Your thoughts ripple outward, shaping the health of your brain, your nervous system, your relationships, and even the energy field of your environment.
When your daily intention is clear, it acts like a compass — helping you choose wellness, strength, and joy in every moment, resulting in a day full of ease and enjoyment.
When your life intention is clear, it becomes your beacon — the guiding light that transforms every high and low into part of the wisdom of your conscious true life living. Life becomes more enjoyable, full of meaning, and filled with vitality.
INTENT Framework™ (reference): I = Intention, N = Nourishment, T = Trust, E = Energy, N = Navigation, T = Transformation.
How to Begin Connecting with Your Life Intention
Clarity rarely arrives in one flash — it reveals itself as you live, reflect, and practice.
- Find a quiet place, maybe in nature, and allow yourself to be still.
- Ask: “What kind of day would I like to have today?” Not a list of tasks or accomplishments, but the holistic you — physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy, strong, balanced, and whole.
- Ask again, bigger: “What kind of life do I truly want to live?” Not measured by achievements, but by living with a true purpose — your life mission. It may not arrive all at once; if you hold the intention to find it, clarity will come. When it does, life becomes more meaningful, steady, and guided.
- Truly open your mind and heart.
- Set aside old stories, traumas, and expectations (heart stones). Begin like a clean slate — open mind, open heart.
- Write a few words, a mantra, or a short sentence about how you’d like to live each day — and your life.
- Carry those words for a few days and let them shape small, conscious choices.
When your life intention is clear, it becomes your beacon — aligning you with the vision of true health: living long with vitality, in harmony, free in your true self, and uplifted by beauty and equality.
Why It Matters in Daily Life
- Parkinson’s care: an intention of posture brings balance — changing how someone stands, moves, and breathes.
- Beauty & well-aging: an intention of vitality shifts how the body looks and feels daily, not just how it responds to treatment.
- QiGong: guiding energy with the mind turns movement into medicine.
- Relationships: an intention toward kindness reshapes the tone of every conversation.
Daily intention doesn’t just change what you do — it changes how you do it (consciously). Life intention doesn’t just shape a season — it redefines the path of your life.
Start Where You Are
You don’t need to know your full life intention today. Simply notice where your attention is going — and guide it gently. Start with a daily intention. Then open the mind, open the heart, and step toward your deeper life intention — your beacon.
Because where your mind goes, your life follows.
