By now you probably all know that I belong to Gordon’s premium membership (and highly recommend it — best magical ROI on the net). The coolest side benefit is being plugged into this amazing community of people, all trying to help each other re-enchant the world. One of the projects the group has taken on is running Power of 8 Intention Groups for members across different time zones. The idea comes from Lynne Mctaggart and her book The Power of 8. Gordon did a podcast with her and it certainly energized all of us to try it.

Gordon’s membership enjoys privacy and so I won’t divulge any details, but I can say that the results have been impressive — up to and including outright miracles. And since Lynne Mctaggart’s stuff isn’t confidential — and in fact, you can learn most of what you need to from her site or the podcast — I wanted to share a bit more about it. Because the results are amazing — not only for the target of the intentions, but also for all of us doing them. Which brings me to the kind of the point of this whole post (apart from my suggestion that you go out and form your own intention group and change the world — see below).

We suffer from a huge lack of connectedness (I touched on this in my last Mind War post as well). In this environment of overwhelming need, it can feel very difficult to engage directly with people who need help. Better to send a check and let someone else deal with the human side. Modest Needs is the solution I adopted for the financial giving with a sense of connection (which reminds me, the H1 CircleThrice donation has been made). But people need human support too. Churches used to serve this purpose. You went, you got connected, you got help if you needed it, you helped if you could. There was a predetermined membership so it wasn’t overwhelming, and a sense of mutual obligation. This is legitimate and, I think, why religious people are always pushing for charity to be run out of churches. However there are obviously huge downsides such as the moral overtones or caveats that come with the help and a sense of picking and choosing who is most worthy.

The intention group is like a prayer group for people of disparate — or crucially NO — religion. It works, yes, but it also feels amazing and seems to confer benefits on those doing the intending as well as the person receiving it. And it’s easy and anyone can do it. There’s not really a downside here. So I though that, in addition to pointing to Mctaggart’s site and the book and podcast, I’d give the worlds quickest rundown of the process.

Round up around 8 people (it can be a bit more or less). They don’t have to be in the same physical space, this works just fine over Skype (or similar). Get someone in the group to volunteer to be the target (or the representative for the target if it’s like a family member, community issue, etc.). Have the target discuss the situation and then work together to come up with the intention statement. Keep it positive. Get a picture of the target person if possible. Then everyone breath in sync for just a few rounds of breathing, turn on the same meditative music, and spend ten minutes focusing on the intention with the group. One person acts as a timekeeper.

You rotate intentions through the group so everyone has an opportunity to be the intention target.

It’s just that simple, but it’s really powerful and I highly recommend it, not only to help others, but to get that benefit and sense of connectedness yourself.