The intentions, Sankalpas, are formed by the heart and mind and help to realize your desires, dreams, projects... The life you want to live.
Repeating intentions regularly helps you to focus on your goal and keep your mind, heart and soul connected with your true self and the divine. Sankalpa can be a single word, a phrase or a short prayer that should remain private to you and usually is not something to share with another person. What also helps and puts a seed in your unconscious is visualizing your intention. It has the positive effect of awakening the willpower within you, uniting the conscious state with the unconscious.
Intentions are not just a wonderful tool during the change of year. They can also be done before any sadhana or beginning of any yoga practice, before the meditation, or even at the beginning of the day. During sitting meditation, the sankalpa mudra (a hand gesture) connects the right and left sides of the brain so that mind, spirit and body can work cooperatively to bring about positive change. In this mudra, turn the palm of the left hand upwards and the right hand covers the left with the palm facing down. Now repeat your personal sankalpa .
The idea of repeating a sankalpa is to create the life we want to embrace and enjoy. If you've never tried to define intentions, you're always in time to start. Try and see, feel and welcome the positive changes in your life.
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