In this article regarding wealth and abundance creation, I will talk about the most powerful creation tool of all and that is ‘intention’.  The potential for practical uses of ‘intention’ comes from observations of our greatest athletes.  In an article from the Jan. 07, Ode magazine, entitled “The Power of Intention”, the author takes a look at the incredible career of Muhammad Ali, former World Heavyweight Champion who utilized the power of intention to win fight after fight after fight. Ali practiced his art of intention by using mental rehearsals to hone his skills in preparation for the actual, physical fight.  This is said to be the decisive element that separates the elite athlete from the ordinary competitor. In this regard, Ali was the ‘master of intention’.  He used affirmations, visualization, and self-confirmations with perhaps the most well known being: “I am the greatest”.  In his mind, and from the results of all his mental rehearsals, he was the greatest.

His constant and never ending rhyming couplets such as “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” seemed innocuous enough but once an opponent got in the ring with him, they understood the incredible power of his ‘mantras’.  Muhammad Ali was continually sending an ‘intention to his body to win and his body responded by following orders’.  This is the same intention that you can use ‘to win’ in your life whether it’s winning a prize fight or wealth and abundance.  But how can simply ‘thinking’ about a future performance actually produce the result?

There is research quoted in Ode that studied the electrical impulses sent from motor neurons to specific muscles as measured by electromyography or EMG.  EMG reveals real-time pictures of the brain’s instructions to the body.  These researchers were studying whether the brain differentiates between a thought and an action.  What the researchers surprisingly found was that the electrical activity produced by the brain is identical, whether we are thinking about doing something or actually doing it. Their startling discoveries revealed that the brain doesn’t distinguish between doing something and just thinking about it.




So, what is really going on here?  One theory proposes that mental rehearsal creates the neural patterns necessary for the real thing.  In other words, the neural patterns created were operating as though the brain was simply another muscle. In this way, the repetition of this mental rehearsal was forming neural pathways in the brain which I call ‘pathways of performance’.  Then the actual performance is physically carried out by the brain simply following the path.

These pathways of performance may also make possible certain other ways of performing or even certain ‘ideas’.  These ‘ideas’ could set our path for how we live each day and the quality of our life each day, dependent upon the quality of our ideas. And perhaps these ‘pathways of ideas’ may be formed much the same way as the pathways of performance through affirmations, visualizations, or self-confirmation. Assuming this to be possible, then you could utilize the power of these same tools used by elite athletes to create the quality of wealth and abundance in your life. This is all possible through the power of intention.

In my next series of articles, I will break down each of these incredible tools of intention — affirmations, visualizations and self-confirmations.  These tools will get you the wealth and abundance you desire and deserve.  See you then.

Have you read the earlier parts to this article? If not here are the links:

Intro
Part One
Part Two

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