Recently, I had the experience of feeling nervous about an event and wondering how it was going to go. It was a last minute engagement. I learned many years ago about the power of intention and so while I was aware of my nervousness, I remembered that I could prayer about it, practice the first three steps, release the nervousness and create a powerful intention for my time with this event. My intention was to be present and available for anyone that wanted/needed some healing for the evening.

There was a miraculous outcome with this intention at the event. There was someone there who had the intention of receiving and welcoming healing that day. My presence assisted in creating the container for this. There is great healing in simply listening powerfully to someone and in sharing my experience. We were both reminded of the profound impact we each have in setting an intention and being open to have the Universe move to meet the request.

How does this relate to Co-Sex Addiction or any addiction and recovery from addiction? The answer is simple. I believe that when we work a program with intention around the healing and empowerment of any addictive behavior, it is the spiritual program that works us in real ways. As we heal from our dis-ease and transform our addictive behaviors, we have energy available for authentic connection to life and all its possibilities. We free up the energy wrapped in our addiction and addictive thinking and behaving. We then return to our original spiritual intention of service to others and have the free attention with internal and external resources to live this service in our lives. Utilizing the 12 steps helps us remember our spiritual intention and commitment to service and keeps our dis-ease and addictive behavior in remission.

Being of service is my primary, daily prayer in my meditation practice. I simply sit for a bit, journal and then set an intention for the day. Sometimes the intention is for a particular outcome for a project or event. Sometimes the intention focuses on a relationship or business collaboration. The intention may be big or small depending on what is troubling me or in front of me to do that day. When I do this, my energy and time is focused on what I want to accomplish, how I want to co-create a result and align with this intention for a positive consequence. It is deliberate in that I choose how to align and channel my time, energy and focus. We spend so much time worrying about the outcomes in our lives and/or gossiping about and blaming others as a way to avoid dealing with our own insecurities. The practice of creating an intention based on service and then offering our actions and behaviors in alignment with this can seem simply and perhaps easy, but my experience is that it produces miraculous results.

Our addictions are simply an unexpected path to our spiritual connection with the divine. They teach us to go within and be of service to others.

My encouragement to you is to practice setting an intention for a positive outcome for an event, relationship and/or project and then keep your energy focused on actions that support that outcome. Remember the great power of intention and ask others to hold this intention with you for the good of all involved. Pay attention to how things unfold and what synchronicities occur as you hold this intention and enroll the thoughtfulness and prayerfulness of others.

With this practice, we develop further trust and discipline in the orderly workings of the Spiritual World. We learn to welcome the abundant resources of the Universe and use all that comes to you in service for the highest good of all involved.

Blessings and love,

Sally