Intention is what you 'do' about your innermost desire(s).

The first thing is to feel an overwhelming gratitude for everything that God, the universe, or whatever name you give this first principle, has brought into your life up until this moment. Give thanks for who you are, where you are, and for what surrounds you, for all of it, because when the object, state, or experience that you desire is attracted into your life, it can't exist suspended in nothing, it needs 'you' and your life as the soil for it to be planted in.

The second thing is to verbalize your desire concisely (know your outcome). Just put into everyday language what you want to draw into your life.

The third thing is to visualize it. This simply means to see what you want in your mind - make it into a picture. And see yourself in this picture; see yourself in close association with the object of your desire.

The fourth thing is to have 'now' all the positive, enjoyable feelings linked with what you desire.

The fifth thing is to feel gratitude, again, but feel it now as though what you desire is already present in your life. So express your thanks, in the present tense, for this thing having come into your life: "I'm so thankful now that ..."

What is it about this process that gives us a power to achieve a desired goal? What is this 'power of intention'? At the sub-atomic level all phenomena, physical and non-physical, actual and potential, exist as dense clouds of energy, vibrating at varying speeds. Even a potentiality, something which doesn't factually exist yet, is there, as energy. What is its form? It is a thought, the energy produced by a thought.

The power of intention is thus a tangible, measurable, utterly real thing: the power of thought, as energy. And we control our thought.

Our conception of precisely what 'thinking' is, is grievously inaccurate. We truly have no idea the power we wield.