"When your mind and soul combine with focused intention you will create miracles!"

Every once in a while we stumble upon an experience so rare and so out of the ordinary that we know there has to be something we are supposed to learn from it. For me that lesson came from the death of my husband.

I believed we would be together forever. But Rick’s life was haunted by a past of abuse and separation. To beat his pain he battled with alcohol and depression. At times it seemed like he was winning.

But in 1998 and after only five years of marriage, Rick decided to confront his past and journeyed back to the place where he endured his abuse. Terrible memories resurfaced.  Over the next weeks I watched helplessly as he withdrew from family and friends and tried to deal with his inner turmoil, but he was failing.  After a desperate 12 weeks he asked for outside support.

Rick agreed to go to a healing centre which was a six hour drive away.  Half way there he started to pray for a miracle to release him from his lifelong pain.  He was lying on the back seat. Two hours later when he arrived at the centre he was dead.  The doctors said there was nothing physiologically wrong with him. The autopsy revealed no cause of death.

Later, the pathologist told me that in all his 40 years of doing autopsies he had never been so baffled.  Rick’s heart had simply stopped beating and there was no apparent reason.  The truth is my husband could not find a way to stop the intense pain he felt in his heart and the miracle he prayed for was death.
 
My husband’s death taught me the power of intention.  He intended to die; he willed himself to die.  If I knew then, what I know now, Rick would have willed himself to live. It’s entirely up to you which thought you align with.    We have the power to choose our thoughts when we choose to live with present moment awareness. 
 
My message boils down to a simple formula.  Intention is the very basic spiritual force that drives the universe. It is the energy encoded into our DNA. We have the power to first visualize something in our minds and then manifest it in the physical realm. The fuel that drives manifestation is intention. The magic of intention is that just by acknowledging it and focusing on it, you can create miracles in your life. It really is that simple.
 
While the path of my inspiration was determined by my husband’s death, my determination to heal showed up early in my life.  It was an unstoppable force. At age 16, I was a nurse’s aide; at age 19, I was studying to be a psychiatric nurse. 

Much of my path has been shaped by events in my life.    Shortly after nursing school, I was called home to nurse my dying grandfather and I saw how his addictions had ravaged his body, his mind, his soul. His life was driven by addictions.  It was devastating to watch.  Determined to come to terms with the cycle of addiction I registered in a program to study addictions which later then led into studying Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) at the University of Regina. NLP is a model of interpersonal communication chiefly concerned with the relationship between successful patterns of behavior and the subjective patterns of thought underlying them. 

That was life changing.  Until then I did not know I had choices - everything was black and white.  I had to learn to communicate, to share feelings, to express myself. The thing that truly robs people of their power is when they think they have no choice.    It was at this point in my life I starting praying to the Creator to guide me to powerful, simple ways that would heal the root cause and that could be taught to others.

A multi disciplinary healer, my path continued through Reiki.  This was another turning point.  I started to integrate energy work into counseling sessions.   From there I trained as a Peruvian Shaman.    I have worked at the forefront of residential school survivor programs and have taught extensively.  I am also a qualified Theta Healing practitioner and teacher, having taught Theta Healing around the world.

And now, these 30 years of healing work and experiences have culminated into the development of Intention Focused Therapy (IFT).  IFT is about tracking core issues that have us living confined by fear, doubt, worry and lack, instead of living from a place of being conscious of our inner magnificence and prosperity.  The development of this therapy was the answer to my life long prayer.

Source Energy, God, Life Force, Creator, Universal Energy, Divine Presence, (or whatever name you use), it’s everywhere. This is the energy we all source from, God. The power of conscious intention is what instantly makes that Source Energy available to us.  Importantly, that power is within us and always within us to access at our will.
 
The minute we use intention to acknowledge our connection to Source Energy we have the opportunity to create and change anything that we desire.  When we connect intently with Creator Consciousness we are going within ourselves to access the subconscious mind where limiting belief systems and unfinished events are stored. 

Ancient wisdoms come from the time when we were closer to the earth, when we recognized our essence as a part of a universal consciousness, when we realized we were intricately bound with the ebb and flow of nature.  While the Greeks believed that the heart was the seat of the spirit, the Egyptians believed the heart was the center of the emotions and the intellect. The Chinese believed the heart was the center for happiness. 

It is the heart that is the major organ in our body system and is the center of our Divine Consciousness.  It stores our pain and it stores our love. If we are holding on to pain from the past, the memories of that pain are being pumped into every cell of our body.  And it is from here that the path to wellness begins.  With IFT we use heart centered consciousness to go within the body to follow the trauma to the root cause.

This is what one client had to say after experiencing a session.  “I met with Loretta to uproot a devastating and totally irrational fear that was stopping my professional life as a new academic—publishing. I intellectually knew why I had this issue; it was a painful memory of a teacher hitting me for writing WRONG (upside down and backwards!) with my right hand.  Because the memory was so traumatic, I couldn’t go there to face it myself and felt Loretta was the right person to help me.  

As Loretta guided me through the experience, I first felt fear and even the physical pain of being hit by that teacher.  But as the session progressed, something beautiful happened.  All the fear and pain subsided and suddenly I felt something new … hope and peace.  I felt held, contained. Suddenly I felt the presence of the Divine not just around me, but IN me.  I was in awe.  “WHAT? I can actually feel the Divine!” and my body said simply, peacefully: “Yes, this is how it really is.”

IFT helps you feel and see a stunningly simple Truth. We are connected. We are Divine. We have everything we need and are loved. IFT directly addresses deep and profound aspects of us.  It can be used to change any aspect of your life.

• Symptoms of a chronic health problem can be improved or removed.
• Fear of failure can be changed into a love of success.
• A discouraged attitude can be changed to a positive attitude.
• Flu, cold or other infection can be transformed to allow for quick recovery.
• Resentments, grudges and hatred can be removed.
• DNA can be reprogrammed to facilitate health, wealth and happiness.
• Addictions can be overcome while minimizing or eliminating withdrawal.
• Negative reactions to people who ‘push our buttons’ can be changed.
• Anxieties over important life events can be soothed.
• Learning the Intention Focused Therapy technique to facilitate even more miracles in your life.

From my heart and soul I bring you Intention Focused Therapy.

Loretta Mohl is a Certified Life Coach and Counselor and teaches Intention Focused Therapy at the Canadian College of Healing Arts. Call 780-910-5052.

Note: This information is for educational purposes only. It is intended to supplement your current health program and not to replace the care of a doctor.  For diagnosis or treatment of any disease please consult a licensed physician.

This article was published in August 2009 Mosaic.