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There’s a quiet moment before anything begins.
And that’s where everything actually starts.
That brief pause where you decide the place you’ll move from.
The inner root of your action.
The seed of your energy.
The invisible direction that shapes the way you inhabit your day.
Your intention.
And even though it sounds simple,
I realized I had lived a long time without truly having one.
I did things, I moved, I solved…
but I never asked myself why.
I lived from impulse, from hurry, from autopilot—
as if I were only reacting to whatever showed up in front of me.
That’s when I felt the most lost.
Not because of what was happening outside,
but because I had no clarity inside.
Until one day, tired of feeling disconnected,
I asked myself a question that changed everything:
“What do I truly want for myself… and from where am I choosing?”
That question opened a door
I had never even noticed was there.
For the first time, I was making choices
from a place that felt honest.
From a place that felt like mine.
I realized many of my intentions
weren’t even mine to begin with.
They were inherited intentions, external expectations,
borrowed ideas I had taken on without questioning.
I was moving from what I thought I “should” want,
not from what I genuinely needed.
When I started listening to my real intentions,
something inside me aligned—
that inner direction from where I move.
Intention is an intimate conversation with yourself
before you engage with the world.
A quiet dialogue
that shapes the quality of the rest of your day.
It’s asking yourself:
Who do I want to be today?
What do I need to honor?
What energy do I want to hold?
What am I choosing to build within myself?
The more I listened,
the clearer everything became.
Not what was expected of me,
not what looked “right,”
but what actually resonated inside.
Intention changes the way you move through life
because it gives meaning to what you do.
And when something carries meaning,
your nervous system responds differently—
it settles,
it focuses,
it knows where to go.
When you act from a clear inner direction,
your brain activates deeper circuits of motivation—
the ones fueled by purpose, not pressure.
It’s as if your whole body says:
“Now I know where I’m going.”
And suddenly, life feels more like yours.
I also began to notice something else:
intentions shift,
and they’re meant to.
Because you shift.
The intention you had a year ago,
a month ago,
or even this morning,
may not be the intention that supports you now.
Sometimes intention comes from exhaustion.
Sometimes from desire.
Sometimes from fear.
Sometimes from self-love.
Sometimes from a wound asking to be tended to.
But it always comes from a place within
that wants to be heard.
Intention is listening.
Listening to what you want to feel,
to what you need to hold,
to what you’re ready to let go of,
to what you want to build inside yourself.
Intention reveals you,
because it shows you the origin of your movement.
And when the origin shifts,
everything that follows shifts too.
I started asking myself before anything:
“Where am I moving from today?”
From fear,
from pressure,
from comparison,
from autopilot…
or from the real desire to live closer to myself?
It’s that gentle sense of knowing where to begin—
if the intention is honest,
it starts within you.
B.K.S. Iyengar used to say:
your practice begins before you step on the mat.
The energy you arrive with
shapes the clarity you find.
Yoga philosophy calls this sankalpa—
an elevated intention
that comes from your truth, not your ego.
An inner commitment
that feels like alignment, not obligation.
Joe Dispenza explains it in another way:
when you align your energy with a clear intention,
your body starts acting in coherence with that direction
before anything around you changes.
That’s what intention is:
inner coherence.
Choosing from truth, not noise.
Even on my hardest days,
I realized that if I had an intention,
I wasn’t alone.
Not because someone was there—
but because I was there.
And that changes everything.
Because when you do something with intention,
the result matters less.
What matters is the root.
And a true root always holds you,
even when the action isn’t perfect.
Intention builds you,
even when the outcome doesn’t.
So let me ask you:
Which intention is guiding your life right now?
Is it yours?
Or one you’ve carried out of habit?
Is it bringing you closer to yourself?
Or pulling you away?
Does it nourish you?
Or drain you?
Listening to yourself is an act of courage.
Choosing yourself is an act of love.
Moving from there is transformation.
Intention is the first choice of your day—
the one that shapes everything else.
The one that defines how you inhabit yourself.
Life feels different
when you know the “why” behind each step.
More honest,
more present,
more yours.
And when your intention shifts,
your inner direction shifts with it.
And when your inner direction shifts,
your whole life changes.
That’s where everything truly begins:
the intention that comes before the movement.
What are you choosing for yourself today?
