In the work I do as a practitioner, healer, and life coach, I’ve seen time and again how the power of intention transforms lives. Inspired by Dr. Bradley Nelson’s work, I invite you now to explore what intention truly is, how life shifts when you cultivate it, and how you can strengthen it in your daily healing journey.
What Is Intention?
Intention is a conscious inner commitment to a desired outcome. It is more than a wish or hope — it carries direction, focus, and energetic momentum. An intention is like planting a seed in your energetic field: you give it purpose, attention, and faith that it will grow.
When you set an intention, you are aligning your mind, heart, and body toward a particular truth or possibility. In Dr. Nelson’s system (as taught through Discover Healing), intention becomes a tool in energy healing. It helps you communicate with your unconscious, your body’s energy systems, and the subtle intelligence within.
One qualitative study of healers and recipients framed intentionality as “the matrix for healing,” suggesting it underlies shifts, awareness, and transformation in the healing process. Another review of distant healing modalities observed that deliberate intention is a consistent feature across many energy-based traditions.
In more conventional medical contexts, intention is less often named — yet its echoes appear in phenomena like placebo effects, guided imagery, and therapeutic expectation. When intention is missing, energy can feel aimless, stagnant, or disconnected.
What Happens When You Have Intention — Versus When You Don’t
When You Have Intention:
- You feel grounded, focused, and empowered.
- Subtle resistance or inner conflict often surfaces for transformation.
- Your body-mind system aligns with possibility, healing, and clarity.
- You become more attuned to signs, guidance, synchronicity.
- Your sessions with The Emotion Code, The Body Code, or The Belief Code become more effective because your intention “amplifies” your energetic requests.
When You Lack Intention:
- You may drift, feel scattered, or stuck.
- Energy feels diffuse and healing efforts lose momentum.
- You might attempt shifts superficially without deep integration.
- It becomes harder to sense or trust subtle feedback from your body and energy field.
- Sessions can feel flat, or you may feel uncertain about what you even want to heal.
In the context of healing relationships, one paper describes how mindfulness, awareness, love, and compassion in the healer foster a “healing intention environment.” Without that quality of alignment, intention becomes weak, scattered, or even contradictory.
So intention is the difference between saying “I hope to feel better someday” and saying “I intend to release this trapped emotion, restore balance, and live lighter.”
How to Strengthen Your Intention
Here are practical, powerful practices that can deepen your ability to set and hold intention — both in daily life and in energetic healing sessions:
1. Clarify the “Why”
Ask yourself: Why do I want this shift? Connecting with deeper meaning (freedom, love, vitality) gives your intention fuel. Write it down, speak it aloud, embody it.
2. Use Present-Tense, Positive Language
Phrase your intention as though it is already true: “I live in balance,” rather than “I will not be overwhelmed.” The subconscious understands present and positive language more clearly.
3. Ground and Center
Before setting intention, take a few slow breaths. Drop into your body. Feel your connection to Earth. Centering your energy helps your intention take root.
4. Visualize or Sense the Desired Outcome
With eyes closed, picture or feel what it’s like when your intention is fulfilled. Let your energy body carry that frequency for a few moments.
5. Repetition & Reinforcement
Revisit your intention daily — in meditation, journaling, or simply speaking it. Repetition strengthens the energetic imprint.
6. Align Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions
Intention is most potent when your inner dialogue, feelings, and external actions all reflect the same direction. If fear creeps in, gently acknowledge it and reaffirm your intention.
7. Enlist Energy Healing Tools
In my practice, I combine your intention with The Emotion Code, The Body Code, and The Belief Code. We use muscle testing, energy pathways, and gentle releases to match your intention with the intelligence of your body. That synergy makes your intention more vivid, precise, and actionable.
Invitation to Go Deeper
If you feel drawn to a deeper exploration of intention, energy healing, and how they intertwine, I encourage you to visit Discover Healing, Dr. Bradley Nelson’s training and community platform. There you can dive into advanced teachings, modalities, and certification courses.
In my own services, I bring together three powerful tools:
- The Emotion Code — to locate and release trapped emotions that weigh you down.
- The Body Code — to identify and correct imbalances in your energy system, organs, meridians, beliefs, and more.
- The Belief Code — to uncover and transform the subconscious belief patterns that shape your identity, behaviors, and emotional responses.
When you combine intention with these modalities, you access grace, clarity, and profound shifts. Many clients report feeling lighter, more empowered, better able to manage emotions, and more in alignment with their life’s purpose.
If you’d like support to strengthen your intention, release old energetic blocks, or live a lighter, brighter life, I’d be honored to work with you. You are not alone on this journey.
May your intention light the path, guide your healing, and open you to new possibilities, for it is the most important step in your healing process.
