We know that positive intent is far more productive and beneficial than a negative mindset. There is no comparison.
The power of pure intent is boundless. When we align ourselves with these creative, life-affirming energies, doors open and mountains are moved.
Many of us do not experience this kind of bounty in our lives, because while we may have positive thoughts from time to time, our hearts are still hardened and our overall intent is not pure.
There is a significant difference.
What Does Having Pure Intentions Mean?
To have pure intentions is to embody a state of being that completely ignores the wants of the ego and instead favors a kind of spiritual selflessness and innocence.
Likely if you are interested in spiritual growth, you have read material on the importance of reclaiming our innocence, a subject that often coincides with healing childhood trauma.
A great many of us are blocking ourselves off from pure expression because in our formative years, the expression of positive energy among negative cells (usually toxic family members) was met with reproach and even abuse. The ego, in self-preservation mode, has no choice but to harden and create worldviews that reaffirm the necessity for staying closed minded and closed-hearted in perpetuity.
This is no way to live, however.
When the heart is hard the soul is narrow. The great wealth of experience and bounty that exists is not obtainable for those who claim victim-stance and keep their hearts hard.
Many spiritual and religious traditions begin with a simple act of innocence reclamation, including Christianity, for this very reason. The heart is often too hard to perform any meaningful spiritual work, so the door must be opened with a wedge.
Some examples:
Accepting x god or holy figure as your savior
Asking for forgiveness
Cleansing rituals, renewal rituals
All of these practices have their origin in the ancient mystery cults, which understood that to reach a state of purity, you first have to heal past trauma and loosen the grip of the ego.1
Most of the time, our ego-based personalities and worldviews are incompatible with having pure intentions, because the ego often hinges on the idea that the world is loveless and that innocence is a liability.
The opposite is actually the case, as it is innocence that holds immense, incalculable power.
Pure intentions are the product of the willingness to accept the role we play in co-creating the world around us minus the negative thinking patterns of the ego. By definition this kind of thinking is powerful, because it is these negative thinking patterns that often hold us back from our ability to manifest outcomes consistently.
Making Mischief With a Good Heart
One incredible upside to having pure intentions is it dramatically increases your ability to do good under the guise of causing problems or making mischief.
Pure intent cuts through chaos like a hot blade through butter. As long as our mindset is pure, the universe grants us great leniency in how we go about bringing good into fruition.
Down through the ages, so many of the world’s famous saints and gurus are depicted as non-serious personalities that brimmed with joy.
The jolly persona of the world’s great spiritual teachers stands in stark contrast to the drab seriousness of today’s religious, political, and media paragons.
Overdeveloped egos, in their quest for validation and power, always equate seriousness with results. Somehow, it is reasoned, the more you “take something seriously,” the greater the likelihood of a beneficial outcome.
Anyone who basks in high-vibrations understands that while seriousness has its time and place, it is very rarely needed and is often a detriment to productivity, whether the end goal is physical or spiritual.
Pure-heartedness is in part a willingness to rise above the self-import of the world’s egos, choosing childlike wonder and dynamic selflessness instead.
Thought-Gardening
Reality hacking is the product of right-thought + right-intent.
Typically we fail at either one or the other, which is why even many spiritual individuals fall short when it comes to getting what they want in life.
Either the intentions are pure but the actual ideas are misaligned, or the ideas are positive but the intentions behind them are wayward.
Once you shift toward a more purehearted kind of mindset, the next phase is thought-gardening. Being conscious of the thoughts you think and why you think them.
It is so much easier to curate your thoughts if you start with pure intentions.
Think of your mind like a garden plot. A purehearted individual begins with a nice little plot of land with rich soil and lots of sun. Yes there are weeds but all of the conditions are present to allow for a future bounty.
Someone with a cold heart and mind, however, is working under much more stringent conditions. Their plot is shaded, with suboptimal soil and plenty of pests. Even if something were to grow, a single vibrant idea, extreme care would have to go into the nuturing of this thought, in order to combat the aphids, slugs, and lack of sunlight.
Spend time plucking weeds and watering the flowers, but make sure you aren’t wasting time on a garden plot doomed for failure.
You would be better off with a vibrant little plot of clover and moss than a giant mass of dried up bramble sitting in dead soil.
It’s the overall condition of our minds and hearts that matter - our intentions - not any one particular thought or belief, that usually moves us closer to where we want to be.2
When Your Intentions Are Pure The World is Yours
Pure intentions pave the path of dreams.
The more open, generous, loving, and kind you are, the easier it will be to generate outcomes that work in your favor. This is reality hacking, mastering the rules of the game.
You see, there is no actual benefit to having a closed-off heart and mind. All of the seriousness, the arrogant self-importance, the pessimism and cynicism… it all leads nowhere.
Over the years I’ve had conversations with people that go something like this: after explaining the benefits of living with pure intentions, there is often some kind of remark about not wanting to get taken advantage of for being too nice.
It is important to make a distinction between being innocent and pure, and being a doormat, or someone who is too “nice.”
These two things are actually not related.
Niceness, or the need to appease, comes from a place of fear and mental poverty. Someone who acts with pure intent isn’t always “nice,” by the standard definition. Nor are they prone to being taken advantage of.
Corrupt minds often project their own insecurities onto others. It is in fact the low vibration, fear-based mindset that will open you up to manipulation and extortion. Very rarely are genuinely good and pure-intentioned people taken advantage of - because darkness has no dominion over the light.
When your intentions are pure, the world is yours.
To get from a state of pessimism to one of purity, you have to be willing to set aside the ego and let your metaphysical guard down a little. Here is some general guidance:
I find that appreciation helps to align the mind and heart for this purpose. Get in the habit of appreciating everything for what it is.
Let go of the need to be defensive. You’ve already won, there’s nothing to defend.
Make it a point to counter the negativity of others with positivity. You will either help them, charm them, or agitate their ego. These are all desirable outcomes.
There are ways to turn any bad situation into a positive one. Look for these opportunities and run with them whenever possible.
Forgive your Self and move on from the past. Don’t let yesterday’s failures (real or imagined) keep you from the bounty of today.
Pray - in whatever fashion you feel reflects the nature of your soul and the Path that you walk.
Have fun. You’re here to experience the world.
The perfection of this realm is revealed in the simple harmony of it all, how a simple perspective shift can be so generously rewarded. Those with pure intentions align with this energy of perfection, channeling it and making it their own.
The surface level meaning behind religious practices is rarely the actual reason why these practices or traditions are in place. For example, the act of “asking for forgiveness” from God has a lot more to do with tearing down the ego and thinking from a place of innocence more than it does any deity actually forgiving us for something. We cannot properly process the energy of past wrong deeds until we forgive ourselves for the act and come to terms with it. The act of asking for forgiveness is spiritual alchemy, transmuting the low vibrational state to the higher. It is innocence reclamation.
A positive thought with a lot of value can easily be undermined by a negative mindset. Even if it’s backed by positive reinforcement from other people, a cold mind will tear down the energy of a positive idea with little resistance. Trying to grow and do good while working from a place of negativity is almost always a losing game.