You can test the power of your intention by using the symbols on either a Chi/MDH tool, or the Manifesting Mandala (download free from the Files section in Members Only section on left of page in the Healing Mandala yahoo group. Joining is free.)

The symbols on my healing tools work through the power of intention, and have a real effect on the energy of the body. However, you too have the same power of intention, and can test it and practice very easily. If you have a Chi tool, MDH tool or have downloaded the free Manifesting Mandala, then you can demonstrate the power of your intention right now!

choose something you want to imprint with the healing symbols. You can choose only one symbol, if you prefer, since there are several on the healing tools. I suggest you choose Love if only choosing one symbol. Now, imagine what that symbol might look like - it doesn't matter if it's the same as the symbol, it's a way for you to connect with the symbol and then intend for it to be imprinted. What you're really doing is intending that my original healing intention, which is carried by the energy symbols, be transferred to an object! The effect of these intentions are to enhance energy flow where it's blocked, to restore dynamic balance in all systems, restore and support well-being and harmony between all aspects of your being, and give you a sense of calm and strength, within a resonance of universal , all-encompassing, expanding Love.

O.K, test your object first to make sure you know what it feels like to you right now, without the symbols. A mobile phone might be a good thing to try! Hold the Chi/MDH tool or Mandala, or look at it on the screen if you haven't printed it out, and imagine the energy symbols on that card, or image. Let some sort of idea come to you. You'll find something will probably just flash into your mind. Accept that and know that's your mind connecting with the symbols. You may see them as white light, swirls of colour - even a sound. Whatever idea you get is your connection to them and is fine. This is an entirely mental process and should be easy and fun! Now simply imagine those same images/lights/sounds etc. being effortlessly put onto whatever you have chosen to imprint. Assume it's happened and then test the object. Does it feel different? Does it have an effect on your energy system?

If you don't feel anything, then leave it and try again some other time. Effort is absolutely not required, but intention is! Focus, clarity, decision to act, and openness to the outcome are all necessary, and it's this state you can practice again and again. When you get it right, really appreciate it and realise what it means - that you have that limitless power to work with subtle energy, through intention! Let the intention always incorporate Love in some form - love for yourself in trying to expand your abilities; love for the world, in the things you want to create to help enhance your life or those of others; and love of the freedom to think and be creative with no barriers!

If you try, and especially if you succeed, you can post in the Manifesting/Healing Mandala yahoo group. Let us know what you've done, and what happened! After this, you can add your own intentions to anything, and make your own energy symbols too. There are no limits! Enjoy the fun of trying and come back to it when you feel like it.

Hint - let yourself enjoy trying, and be supportive of yourself no matter what happens. Harsh and critical thoughts are the worst things for developing this ability. They're useless and cruel, so don't accept them or believe them! Be relaxed and happy, it's fun and if you don't succeed, so what? You will next time, probably. So no pressure, just a 'let's see what happens' kind of attitude. Banish negative thoughts - shake them off. They are not needed or helpful! But don't engage them, just keep coming back to the focus of your intention. If I can do it, why can't you? No reason!

Trust yourself to know how to do this. You have a higher self that's perfectly comfortable with all this stuff. It will help you through if you'll let yourself trust and go with the first thought or image that comes. Don't make effort! It's a flow of intention, it happens, you experience the results. It happens quickly, instantly, when it happens, and you know it. You can feel it, right there. Trust those feelings and act on them. Test the object, be honest, and if it's not worked - congratulate yourself anyway for having a go! Next time it will be easier. The barriers are only in your unkind and judgmental or doubting thoughts about yourself. Be kind, be loving, be patient, but be focused. And tell yourself, before you try, that you will keep on trying until you succeed. It's not a once-only thing. Do it every day for a week! Succeeding will free you from so many mental limitations, it's well worth committing to whatever it takes, but stay calm and relaxed.

Keep a journal. Keep track of what you do, what you feel, what happens. This is a journey into your inner world of thoughts and feelings, and it can take some sorting out if you've never done anything like this before. But it will move you on very quickly once the possibilities really sink in. Intend, and it's done. Simple. Then you can start thinking about what exactly does the work, what is supporting you when your intentions are fulfilled? It's available to all of us, and it's within, around, linking us all.

My new Energy Art Calendar and Mandala Mouse Mats are now at my Zazzle Store. Call by and have a look! They all act as healing tools as well as having a practical application.

The Applying Love e-course helps you understand and take control of negative feelings and become open to the effortless reality of Love.

Other related articles and sites. See Manifesting Intention for an article on finding the balance between intention and desire/attachment to outcome. And see www.energy-medicine.info for lots of ideas about the mind, intention, coincidences and other concepts, as well as the CoRe system of Radionics. Highly recommended reading!

How I developed the Applying Love Method.