Align Your Mind for Greater Success and Clarity

It is imperative that, if you wish to achieve your goals and reach the way of being that you seek in life, you have great clarity of intention. When you have clarity of intention, energy flows in that direction.

I have taught yoga to professional rugby players. Most of the players start with little appreciation for yoga, but they understand physicality. When I instruct them to straighten their back as if they were going into a tackle or engaging in a scrum, they know what to do. A straight back allows them to channel their strength and energy directly.

If they have a rounded back going into contact, the energy of the collision causes their spine to buckle. They get crumpled rather than applying their strength, power, and momentum into and through their opponent.

Similarly, if your mind is bedeviled with doubt, uncertainty, or any lack of conviction, then your intentions will lack "cut through." If you seek something, be clear about what you seek and banish the disempowering thoughts that undermine your hopes, dreams, and aspirations.

When your mind is uncertain, the energy of your efforts lacks clarity and direction. When you are clear about what you seek, you can align your energy and efforts to your desires, and miracles can happen.

Sherlock Holmes proceeded to solve problems on the basis that, by eliminating everything that is impossible, whatever remained, no matter how improbable, must be the answer. Your heart's desire may be improbable, but if you approach life on the basis that you can only get the most likely rather than the least likely outcomes, you will deny yourself that which you seek most.

A couple of years ago, I wrote a request to the universe. I had a tremendous wish for that request to be granted, but I was blocked by a seemingly overwhelming problem of how to make it happen. I was open about the issue that stood in my way, and someone else said that they could resolve that problem—what I did not have, they did have.

By being clear, open, and willing, events aligned to my mind's wishes. Within a matter of weeks, the request had been fulfilled, and the obstacle removed. My life has been transformed.

Be clear in your intentions. See past immediate obstacles. Be less willing to resign yourself to an existence that does not fulfil your dreams and more aware that aligning your mind's intentions, actions and energy will carry a profound impact, like a rugby player bursting through a tackle.