Module One - Intuition, Intention & motivation
Objectives
Discover what intuition is and how it works in everyday life.
Learn to question your motivations and refine your intentions in order to reduce self-sabotage and increase self-awareness.
Understand how to create and strengthen powerful intentions so you can trust your inner guidance with greater confidence and clarity.
You will be asked to revisit this in Module Six.Recognise the importance of acknowledgement and gratitude on the path toward manifestation and personal transformation.
intuition is your inner tutor
As the name suggests your INNER TUTOR is that ‘inside person’ that gathers and learns from the mental, physical and spiritual energies permeating through all of your senses. It’s job is to make sense of this incoming energy and information so as to guide you using spiritual intelligence. A deeper connection to, and understanding of, your inner tutor can grow as you continue through the modules of this course. The more you progress the more you will sense a shift in relationship between you and your ‘inside person’. Trust grows and shift happens as the validation you receive solidifies your belief.
Intentions bend reality
Intentions can create what may seem like miracles. However, before you begin working with them, there is one more important step to take: checking in with your motivations and the things you truly value in life.
Learning to “know thyself” and becoming honest about what genuinely motivates you is not always an easy path to walk. Yet it is a journey that can lead you to a deeply meaningful and beautiful destination.
When your intentions are aligned with self-awareness, authenticity, and love, they become far more powerful, focused, and transformative.
Start by making a list of what you truly value in life, placing each item in order of importance. Once you have completed your list, please add the following two values at the top of your list, if they are not already included:
Mental Health
Physical Health
When these two values are placed front and centre in your life, decision-making often becomes quicker and clearer. Ask yourself: Which choice best supports my mental and physical well-being? If a decision strengthens both, it is likely aligned with your highest good. If it compromises them, it may be wiser to say no.
Without mental and physical health, it becomes far more difficult if not impossible to give your energy fully to anything else in life.
Being motivated to set an intention is creating an opportunity to direct the potent energy of creation towards your goal
win win
If motivations are solely for individual gain, without considering the greater good, they tend to have the running mate called ‘fear of loss’. When fear of loss enters the race the goal becomes difficult and often impossible to reach.
Even when we think we are motivated to help others, our goal is often muddied by our own gain chocolate coated with unconscious guilt to avoid appearing selfish. This is trickier to find, but equally sabotaging to the goal, so worth having a look for. Once exposed you can own it, or change it as you deem fit.
The ideal motivation is win-win, where there is a healthy balance of worthy self gain, as well as a benefit for others, which creates a balanced feeling and a sense of mental wellness. Mental Health is KING!
Our Hearts Know
What is our honest motivation? Why do we want to do the things we want to do?
Taking these steps can help you create goals that are fuelled by positive, win-win outcomes, rather than being compromised by fear of loss, guilt, shame, or self-doubt that can sometimes accompany personal gain.
Sit quietly in a comfortable position, ideally with your eyes closed, and focus gently on your breathing.
Contemplate the intention behind your goal. Use short, simple sentences and be mindful of the words you choose. Ask yourself: Is this good for my mental and physical health?
Once you have decided on your goal, ask yourself why you want it. Give yourself time to answer honestly. This step is important, so continue asking yourself why until the deeper reason becomes clear.
(You may wish to begin by asking what you would like to gain from this course.)Write down your intention as a gain.
For example, if you wish to sell something, rather than focusing on losing the item, focus on gaining the ideal buyer at the right price.Imagine how it would feel if your goal had already happened. Focus on the feelings associated with achieving it. Visualise the experience and allow feelings of excitement, gratitude, peace, or joy to grow within you for a few moments.
Acknowledge how you would feel and what you would do after achieving your goal. This process may reveal thoughts or emotions that feel comfortable — or uncomfortable. If any feelings of unease arise, gently explore them without judgment.
Revise any intention that does not feel aligned. Reword and refine your intention until it feels clear, calm, authentic, and comfortable within you.
Unconscious
fear of loss
Can be alleviated by repeating these phrases
The best that can happen, will happen.
If I don’t achieve this goal it was a lucky escape from something that was not good for me.
Something or someone better for me, will come to me instead.
I am open to receive all that is good for me.
Unconscious guilt associated with self-gain
Is often a thorn in the side of people following a spiritual path. It can be alleviated by repeating these phrases
Everything I need will come to me because I deserve it.
I am worthy to receive and to be valued.
Others feel the same happiness when I receive from them, that I feel when I give to them.
Reciprocity ( to give and receive mutually) is a win-win
When you speak to yourself, it does have an affect on your body, even if your head doesn’t believe it at first. As your body accepts the information, because you repeat it, your body will relax and in time your head will accept it as well! It’s a feedback loop. Talking to yourself is good magic!
How to make a clear intention
Words are magic, that’s why we spell them.
When outlining your intention, use goal-focused words that define exactly what you want, and NOT what you don’t want. This may seem obvious, yet often our words are outside of our awareness. So often the words we habitually use in that gap outside of our awareness, are the ones that manifest. Mind the Gap!
EG. If a person were to say “l want to lose weight”, their focus is being directed towards two things they unconsciously don’t want. Unfortunately this intention is confusing and often has the opposite effect of what they want to achieve.
1. If they focus on LOSS the energy evokes a sense of loss or failure as well as an internal struggle between wanting to lose weight, while subconsciously igniting the fear of loss; this can create yo-yo weight loss, then weight gain, as the struggle plays out. It can lower your frequency.
2. Also by focussing on WEIGHT, they attracts weight and heaviness, so are liable to gain even more weight as it can also lower your frequency.
Note. Although physically opposites do attract, when it comes to energy like attracts like.
So if that person were to use goal-focused words describing the goal they really want, they might say “I want to be lighter, slimmer or healthier. These words attract a sense of lightness, slimness and higher frequency.
Understand how important clarity of intention is
Take for example an architect drawing out the detailed plans to build a house. Without clarity, can you imagine what the house may look like? Even with the most sincere motivation to build a house, the results would be sketchy and incomplete, or even if the house is built somehow, it’s unlikely to be what was wanted.
Acknowledgement fast-tracks growth
At the end of a week or month after setting an intention, it’s useful to reflect back on your intention. Check in with your feelings and explore the results. Acknowledge any part of the intention that has manifested, however small it may be. Your acknowledgement is like water to help a seed of intention to grow. It’s also good to acknowledge your progress periodically throughout this course. It truly helps you to see your progress and motivates you to move forward consistently.
water your seed
Your acknowledgment is like water to a seed; water your seed regularly!
THE IMPORTANCE OF truly KNOWING YOURSELF
When we set an intention for a goal and it manifests, we usually expect to feel successful, fulfilled, or validated. But what happens if your intention does manifest and yet you still feel disappointed, unseen, or unappreciated? Perhaps you notice a lingering feeling that, no matter what you do, it somehow feels wrong or incomplete.
This is where self-awareness becomes deeply important.
Return to your list of values and identify between three and five core values — the things that truly matter most to you. Then begin exploring how to live in alignment with those values each day. When your life reflects what genuinely matters to you, decision-making becomes clearer and your motivation becomes stronger and more authentic.
Sometimes, when motivation is unclear, the unconscious goal may be very different from the conscious one. This awareness is a vital part of learning to “know thyself.” We can unknowingly hide our true needs behind secondary goals without realising it. Although this can be difficult to recognise, a lack of genuine fulfilment — even after success — is often a valuable clue that something deeper needs attention.
For example, if you often feel unappreciated no matter how much you do for others, simplify the intention. Rather than striving endlessly to prove yourself, set the intention simply to be appreciated. This subtle shift can guide you toward actions, relationships, and experiences that are naturally valued by others.
A true win-win outcome nourishes both you and those around you.
attachment - Non-attachment - detachment
It is necessary to be clear about your intention, but not attached to the final outcome. It’s useful to distinguish the difference between attachment, non-attachment and detachment.
Attachment
Attachment is to be fixed, invested, controlling and in fear of loss.
Non-attachment
Non-attachment is to be present and interested, but without an emotional need to control what happens.
Detachment
Detachment is to be disconnected and disinterested, often dissociating from reality and trying hard not to care.
evoke the power of the universe
In other words, do not exhaust yourself by relying solely on willpower or by forcing outcomes through personal effort alone. Instead, create a clear and focused intention, allow it to connect with the greater flow of universal energy, and then release your attachment to how the result should unfold.
Rigid expectations can often create fear of loss, disappointment, frustration, or resistance. Even more importantly, they may prevent us from recognising a greater or more miraculous outcome than the one we originally imagined.
Sometimes, the most powerful step after setting an intention is learning to trust, surrender, and allow.
Perhaps this is where the well-known phrase applies:
“Let go and let God.”
By releasing the need to control every detail, we create space for guidance, synchronicity, growth, and unexpected opportunities to emerge naturally
