How Your Intentions Determine Your Results

Intention is everything! Did you know that your intentions determine your results and also other people’s reactions to you? Your intentions determine how you are perceived and what comes back to you. Through my experience, I’ve seen more and more proof of this concept.

If you do an action that comes from your ego, often the result will not be what you want. If you do an action that comes from your higher self, then the reaction you receive will often be more of what you want. This is because these are two completely different places so the energy behind them is different and therefore what comes back to you will also be different.

 ACTION = REACTION (Your Action Isn’t Always Equal to the Reaction)

√ EGO ACTION = UNWANTED REACTION (An Action from Your Ego Will Produce an Unwanted Reaction)

√ HIGHER SELF ACTION = ENJOYABLE REACTION (An Action from Your Higher Self Will Produce A Wanted Reaction)

Ego Intentions

First of all, what is the ego? Ego is your identity of what you believe you are. It is not your true self but what you believe yourself to be. It is the part of you that protects you, but it doesn’t always know what is best for you. Your ego can easily get hurt.

Your ego can be ever-changing as you change and develop different aspects of yourself. It is the part of you that thinks “I am good at sports” or “I am not very smart.” It has taken different aspects of your life into account and basically forms this opinion on what it observes.

When you feel bad and do something as a way to boost your ego, the reaction will not be what you want it to be.

When you feel bad and therefore do an action from a fearful place (where your ego lives), the reaction usually makes you feel bad. You probably care about the reaction and want a pleasant one to boost your ego. I completely get it and I’m speaking from experience! Unfortunately, that’s not how energy works.

Higher Self Intentions

What is your higher self? Your higher self is the part of you that is not physically focused with you here on this physical plane. You are a multidimensional being and only a part of you is here on earth. The other part is still with you but not in this physical world.

Your higher self is the part of you that guides you to make decisions because it has a broader view and knows who you really are. Your higher self never forgets who you really are and what you are capable of.

When you do something from your higher self (a love intention and as a way of helping others), you often won’t care what kind of reaction you get because you are doing it from your soul. Your soul knows that whatever the outcome is will be ok as you only want to help.

This is when you’ll get a great reaction and outcome for two reasons:

1. You’ve dropped all attachments to the outcome.

Your attachment to the outcome is often what puts up resistance and therefore the results won’t be what you want. If you can let go of the attachment, then the results will have room to breathe and will be more of what you want. This is because they are coming from a pure place in your soul, so the energy is different.

2. Your higher self is being genuinely helpful, and people can see that.

People can read through energy and know when you are doing it from a place of love. People gravitate to those that they feel are being genuine and coming from their higher self.

Have you ever listened to someone speak who said things that seemed nice, but you felt like something was off? You just didn’t believe them, and you couldn’t quite figure out why. This is because they were coming more from an ego place (“look at me, aren’t I awesome”) vs. their higher self place (“I genuinely want to help YOU”.)

Energy doesn’t lie. If you are an empath, you probably pick up on this stuff more often than other people and have the ability to feel when something is authentic or something is off.

How to Decipher Between Your Higher Self & Your Ego

We talked about this a bit above but basically, when it comes from your ego, it feels fearful and you are doing it to make yourself feel better. Ego wants to do everything for themselves and doesn’t care as much about others. Your ego tries to protect you from getting hurt.

When it comes from your higher self, it feels right, authentic and you aren’t trying to get a reaction. You are trying to help people and share your knowledge because it feels good to do so. Your higher self is a love-based place and it has the purest intentions for yourself and others. It wants to serve others.

How to Make Sure Your Intentions Are Coming from Your Higher Self

1. Only Take Action When You Feel You Are in Alignment

When you are out of alignment and decide to take any action that usually feels fearful it will often be a reaction to a person or a circumstance. It will feel like, “my ego is hurt, and I am reacting to what hurt it.” Or, “I am reacting because I don’t know what else to do, even though it doesn’t feel good or right.” “I feel as though this is my only choice in this situation.”

Those are all thoughts that come from the ego when you are out of alignment.

If you catch yourself taking action from a fearful place, stop and ask yourself, “do I need to take this action right now or can it wait?”

Personally, I’ve stopped taking action when I know it’s coming from the ego because I’ve seen time and time again that it just makes me feel worse.

Do whatever you can to get into alignment FIRST before taking action. There are so many ways you can do this. I have lots of videos on YouTube about how to become happier, how to control the negative thoughts in your head, how to do an emotional cleanse, etc.

When you are in alignment your actions will come from a place of love and feel really good. You will be doing it because it feels right.

2. Ask Yourself, Am I Doing This for Me or To Help Someone Else?

If you are doing an action to make yourself feel better, then the outcome usually isn’t what you want.

First, let me define what I mean here. I’m not referring to things you do for yourself that are good for you like meditating, exercising, taking care of your mind, etc. I am specifically talking about actions that impact other people and that are for them.

So, these are things such as helping someone else, writing a blog article to help someone, or volunteering. Are you doing these things for them or for you?

It can be a tough spot to be in because you want to feel better but it’s often your ego that wants to feel better. Unfortunately, the outside world won’t be able to help your ego when your actions are coming from a fearful place; you need to work on your inner self first.

You have to bring your energy back into alignment first. The outside world won’t make you feel better, only you can do that. Believe me, I’ve tried. I tried for years before I understood how it all worked.

When you are taking action to help someone else then it is authentic and genuine, and it is coming from your higher self. The reaction from the outside world will be more of what you want.

3. Do You Care About the Outcome?

If you care about the outcome, then you are coming from your ego. If you don’t care, then it is coming from your higher self.

It can be difficult to drop attachments to the outcome. We do things for the outcome. But, if you can trust that what you are doing is right and helpful to others, no matter what the outcome is, that will help you to drop some of the attachment to the outcome.

I don’t think we can ever completely drop all attachments to the outcome, but when something is coming from your higher self then you will automatically drop some of the attachment to it. Your higher self will have enough trust and belief that it is right and won’t question how others will react or what the outcome is.

Bottom Line: Your Intentions Determine Your Results

Where your intentions come from will determine the reaction you receive and your results. If your intention comes from your ego, then the reaction won’t usually be what you want. The fearful place of your ego will give off fearful energy and the reaction back to you will not be what you want.

When your intention comes from your higher self and a place of love then the reaction will usually be one that is pleasing to you. This is a place of love and therefore you will be giving off that energy and will receive that back.

It’s funny because you probably won’t care what the reaction is when it comes from your higher self and that is usually when you’ll receive pleasing results. It is all about your intention!

~Meghan