The Toltec Nagual Four Agreements Carlos Castaneda

Harnessing the Power of Intent

“Setting your Intent to do your best in the life circumstances you came into and created is one of the quickest ways to liberation.”

Harnessing the power of Intent is one of the most effective strategies to help you accelerate in your growth path. Spiritual Mastery is a life that is in alignment with Intent. A life that is in alignment with Intent implies that your thoughts, feelings and actions are in harmony with your Intent. Intent is a strong energy that penetrates into all of Creation. It is discussed in various forms of religions as well as growth paths. For instance, the early Toltecs talked about the Intent of the Nagual. With Christianity, the Creator’s Intent is carried by the Holy Spirit. Through utilizing and aligning with the Intent, the force of Intent becomes available for us so we can enhance our individual growth and spiritual development.

Intent is made up of two elements: will and purpose. Will is an energy that comes from outside of the Dreamer or Soul. The whole of creation has will. For instance, each and every living creature has the will to live. Will is the gift that sustains our bodily functions – inhaling air, pumping blood and keeping itself healthy and balanced. Our body naturally carries this out without our intervention or interruption. With just the mind, it would be difficult to control all the functions that the body performs.

As human beings, all of us are also gifted with free will to make decisions or choices. Right after a particular point, healing, growing and spiritually evolving do not take place spontaneously. Each of us has to decide to attain them. We need to involve our will as well as our purpose and Intent to make these things possible.

Purpose is how you direct your will. For example, you can ask yourself, ‘What is the purpose, what do I wish to be or have happen? Combine purpose with will and you have Intent. Set your Intent and you will have dominion over self and your life. Then, hang onto your hat as your life transforms in amazing ways.

Kristopher

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Kalyn and I worked with don Miguel in private homes in Los Angeles before he was well known. We also studied with his mother, Sarita. We were certified as teachers by don Miguel. Don Miguel, a Toltec Nagual, carries the essence of the energy of love. It was always a wonderful experience being in his presence. The Four Agreements are powerful in their simplicity. It has been more than ten years since we founded The Toltec Mystery School. Since then hundreds of students have taken our online Mastery of Awareness course and moved into the higher levels of the School and Toltec Path, such as the Mastery of Transformation and Mastery of Intent.

Don Miguel says, “The goal of changing the world is finding an equilibrium between generosity and gratitude – which is an expression of real love.” He goes further by saying that the earth is a living being and we humans are part of the organism of the earth and as such we change the world through our energy. The way we affect energy is through awareness. So, as we move deeper into love in our energy, thoughts, feelings, words and deeds, we impact our mother, the earth, in a positive way.

Toltecs say you are dreamed by the Dreamer, and your life is the dream. I encourage you to dream large, to nuture your dream, to infuse your dream with love. Not only will you experience the Ultimate Freedom, you will be doing your part to change the world in a positive way…truly a win win for you, humanity and the world.

Kristopher

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A core focus on the Toltec path is expanding your perception of self and the world around you. People perceive so little of what is. Just beyond the average person’s perception are entire worlds of beauty, energy, and love. Experience follows perception, and if you want your life to transform and experience the wonder and mystery of life, you need to free up and expand your perception.  The first Mastery on the Toltec path is The Mastery of Awareness. As you become more aware, you collapse time and free yourself from the laws of form. Increasing your awareness enables you to perceive, not only different realities, but to perceive the greater Self that you are in magnificent ways. One of the easiest and most enjoyable ways of freeing up your perception is to travel, or simply spend time away from where you live or habitually spend time.

My wife Kalyn and I travel frequently. I am writing this from the beautiful town of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico where we have been living the last month. The town is full of colors, sounds, wonderful food, friendly people, colonial style buildings, cobblestone streets, and language – all different from where I live. Here I am continually surrounded by an environment ‘foreign’ to my habitual surroundings back home.

When driving in Mexico, for example, one must let go of their notions of how to drive, who yields when, speed, distances between cars…it is all very different. San Miguel de Allende is a City with a population of 140,000 people. There are accordingly many cars, but in the main part of the City, there are no traffic signals! Yet traffic flows in seemingly magical ways. When driving you must let go of the rules of driving, written and unwritten ones, you have from your home country, otherwise you will not get very far (and you risk pissing off a lot of people). In North America, for example, if you are entering a main street from a small side street, you wait until there is a break in traffic before you proceed. Pull out in front of someone and you are likely to see a finger pointed at you in a not so pleasant way. Not so in San Miguel de Allende. Here you must pull out in front of oncoming cars. They will not stop for you, but will slow down just enough to let you in. If you wait until there are no cars coming to pull out onto the main highway, people get angry because they will have slowed down for you and you didn’t go. You are expected to pull out in front of oncoming cars!

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“Setting your Intent to do your best in the life circumstances you came into and created is one of the quickest ways to liberation.”

One of the quickest ways to speed up your growth path is to harness the power of Intent. Spiritual Mastery is living in alignment to Intent. Living in alignment to Intent means your thoughts, feelings and actions are in accord to your Intent.

Intent is a powerful force that permeates all of Creation. It is spoken of in different forms of religions and growth paths. Ancient Toltecs speak of the Intent of the Nagual, for example. In Christianity the Intent of the Creator is held by the Holy Spirit. By tapping into and aligning to Intent, the power of Intent becomes available to us to speed up our personal growth and spiritual evolution.

What is Intent? Intent consists of two things – will and purpose. Will is a force that originates beyond the Soul or Dreamer. All of creation contains will. All living things have the will to live, for example. It is the gift of will that keep our bodies functioning – breathing, pumping blood and keeping itself healthy. The body does this naturally without our interference. Mentally, it would be impossible to keep track of all the functions the body does.

As humans, we are also given the free will to make choices. After a certain point, healing, growing and spiritually evolving does not occur naturally. We must choose to make it happen. We must engage our will along with our purpose and Intend to make it happen.

When people begin a spiritual path, too often they begin with the wrong Intent. Many begin a spiritual path in hopes it will relieve their pain, for example. It is true that a spiritual path leads to the ultimate freedom. Part of this freedom is the freedom from pain and suffering. However, the path to ultimate freedom inevitably has painful experiences on its way. To heal is sometimes painful. Often it is the very pain of healing that is the catharsis for spiritual growth. Choosing to move through the pain instead of trying to avoid it will lead to rapid growth.

If your sole Intent is relief from pain, you will continually try to avoid painful experiences and making healing impossible. Healing is a prerequisite for a true spiritual path. We must, at least to a substantial degree, have healed self in order to live the Divine in our daily lives. If your Intent is in its proper place – to grow and evolve spiritually, you will be more willing to go through the pain sometimes necessary to heal and grow. This doesn’t mean that a spiritual path is all about pain. It is not. There are both painful and blissful experiences as you advance on your path. Moreover, as you heal, grow and evolve you become free from emotional wounding and the pains of life.

Others embark on a spiritual path to avoid life. They don’t want to deal with making money, relationships and daily living. This too is the wrong Intent. One trait of a spiritual master is that they have dominion over self and life. Dominion is not the same as domination. What good is it if you are not able to manifest and live your spirituality in your daily life? A spiritual master has personal power. Along with personal power comes abundance and the ability to have a positive impact on the people and life around them.

Life is the playing field for developing personal power. If you find yourself avoiding people and life, you are slowing down your spiritual growth. There is a reason why you came into body – why you came into this life. If you avoid life, people and the world around you, you are not fulfilling your purpose. You cannot fully heal in solitude. You can never empower yourself around people if you avoid being near them. You will not be able to manifest your hopes, dreams and desires in life if you avoid life.

Realizing that you came into this body for a reason, that you were born to the parents you were for a reason, that you were born into the society you were for a reason, and that you were born into this timeframe for a reason, is important. Setting your Intent to do your best in the life circumstances you came into and created is one of the quickest ways to liberation. Set your Intent to embrace your life every moment of every day and you will soon find your life purpose.

Take the time to honestly look at your Intent. Refine it and remember it as you live life. As you align your daily Intent, to the bigger Intent of why you came into this lifetime, which will be aligned to the Intent of the Nagual or Creation, you have the power of heaven and earth behind you.

Each and every morning, before you start your day, find your Intent for that day. What is it you wish to heal, grow, or strengthen in self? To the best degree you are able, find your bigger purpose for coming into body, and set your Intent to align to that purpose as you live your day. As you do this consistently, you will strengthen your will and begin to harness the infinite power of Intent. You will find self and your life begin to transform in miraculous ways.

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The life you desire resides just on the other side of your comfort zone. If you resist your uncomfortableness, guess what happens. What you resist persists and the discomfort only grows bigger. By resisting your uncomfortableness, that which you desire stays perpetually out of your reach.

The feeling of uncomfortableness is often an indication of our Source, or what Toltecs call our Dreamer, guiding us to make movement. The beauty of this is that when your Dreamer gives you uncomfortableness or a life challenge, at the same time it gives you the solution to the challenge. The solution lies just beyond the uncomfortableness.

One of don Miguel Ruiz‘s Four Agreements from his book The Four Agreements is “Don’t take things personally.” This too is part of allowing what is and being in The Flow.

I talk a lot about living life in The Flow, that wonderful state of being where you feel fully supported by life, stress free, cherishing every now moment. It is a magnificant way to live. It takes no effort to move into The Flow. You only need to allow it to be.

If it is such a wonderful way to be and live, why are so many people not living in The Flow? One reason is that they have a fundamental misperception about it. They believe that if you are in The Flow you won’t have problems, or life challenges. So, they avoid their challenges thinking that by avoiding them they will be in The Flow. Another thing people do, which is related to this avoidance, is they avoid the feeling of being uncomfortable. They believe that if they are feeling uncomfortable they won’t be in The Flow.

The problem with this avoidance is that it negates allowance. The only way to be in The Flow is to allow. More than this, the solution to the problem or life challenge often lies just beyond the resistance. If you avoid feeling uncomfortable, and don’t allow the problem, the solution will have difficulty coming to you. You have heard the saying, ‘What you resist, persists.’ This is true, and often what happens is that when you avoid problems, not only do they persist, they get bigger.

Feeling uncomfortable is a natural part of growing and expanding. If you want to become stronger physically, for example, you may need to exercise to the point of discomfort. If you want to become a public speaker, moving through the uncomfortableness of getting up in front of a group of people will help you become a skilled speaker. If you have had an accident and need physical therapy, it may be very painful. But, by moving through the pain you heal.

When you are living in The Flow, it doesn’t mean that you are problem free. It doesn’t mean that there are life circumstances that come that may make you feel uncomfortable. However, when you allow the uncomfortableness to be, you remain in The Flow and it moves through you much more quickly than when you resist it. If you simply allow the problem to be, more times than not you will find the solution magically presents itself. The solution is in The Flow.

As you allow and welcome life challenges, discomfort and move through your resistance, sooner than not you will find yourself stress free in a state of free flowing Joy, the problem will be resolved; and you will have grown, and become more of Who you truly are. You then rise up in frequency and know the Intent behind your Dreamer – what it wanted for you. You will have evolved to the next level on the Path of the Ultimate Freedom.

Are You in The Flow?

Kristopher

PS: The Energy of our Teotihuacan Power Journey is coming in strong. We hope to see you there to experience these amazing pyramids and The beautiful town of San Miguel de Allende – Where one becomes Who they are.

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