ILIA is my term for the state in which you create resonance between your intuition, love, intention and attention. By resonance, I mean that the positive effects reverberate back and forth between these elements, magnifying their positive impact on you and on the people you touch.
Let’s take them one by one:
INTUITION: I use this word in a broader manner than most. To me, intuition is not a mere decision-making tool, although it certainly can help you make the right call. It is also a way to know things you have no explicable way to know, to tap into eureka moments that help you leapfrog the current ways of doing things, and to access wisdom beyond that stored in your body. For reasons I don’t fully understand, we like to deny the fact that the most powerful forms of intuition are far more than just gut feel.
LOVE: When I say love, I mean unconditional love as defined by Dr. Julia Mossbridge, who says, “Unconditional love is the heartfelt benevolent desire that everyone and everything — ourselves, others, and all that exists in the universe — reaches their greatest possible fulfillment, whatever that may be. This love is freely given, with no consideration of merit, with no strings attached, with no expectation of return, and it is a love that motivates supportive action in the one who loves.”
Julia says that we don’t create unconditional love; we access it by finding ways to notice it working inside you. Such ways include prayer, pets and babies, positive intention and meditation. “Think of it as a force like electricity,” she says. “We are in charge of whether we access it, and that is all.”
INTENTION plus ATTENTION: “You can do anything you set your mind to do" goes the saying.
Unfortunately, many people only internalize the first half of this statement. "You can do anything..."
This implies that if you want to get promoted in six months, you can get promoted in six months.
But success is dependent on the second part of the statement: “...you set your mind to do." In other words, you must pay attention to your intention.
Your intention describes what you want so much that you keep it active in your mind and heart. In some respects, it is a “memory” of the future.
But... your attention determines whether your intention comes true.
Intuition and unconditional love help you set intentions that will most greatly benefit you and others. Plus, the greater your ability to know the right path, the more likely you will be able to maintain your attention to your intention.
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Here’s my definition of ILIA:
A way of being in which an individual consistently accesses unconditional love and creates resonance with it plus their intuition, intention and attention.
By resonance, I mean that these different elements align. Your attention follows your intention. Your intention was formed as the result of a deep and meaningful intuitive insight. And unconditional love permeates all of these, creating a situation in which you also are aligned with the people and world around you.
In such a state, you/we bend the boundaries of what it means to be human. Since intuition and unconditional love both dwell in places external to our physical body, you/we are fully leveraging the fact that everyone and everything is interconnected. We replace our typical “go it alone” misguided perception that we are separate and replace it with the power of unity.