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Important instructions for
the Peace Intention Experiment
Please go to our new website for
the Peace Intention Experiment
September 14, 2008
12 noon US Eastern Daylight Savings Time
Other times:
9 am Pacific Daylight Savings Time
10 am Mountain DST
11 am Central DST
12 noon EDST
5 pm British Summer Time
6 pm European Summer Time
For other time zones, consult this site.
  Dear readers,
We're just seven days away from the first day of our week-long Peace Intention Experiment, and we can now announce where you should go every day from September 14 through September 21:
www.thepeaceintentionexperiment.com
We're using a dedicated site on a very large server for this experiment, so the thousands of participants don't overwhelm our main site. So every day of the seven-day experiment, here's what to do:
1. At 11:45 Eastern DST (or the equivalent time in your area) get comfortable in your special intention space if you can (if your computer is in another room, make that intention space special).
2. At least 10 minutes before the start of the experiment, go directly to www.thepeaceintentionexperiment.com. DON'T GO TO OUR MAIN INTENTION EXPERIMENT WEBSITE.
3. Sign in, using your email address (abc4all@gmail.com) and password (fr85a). The target area will then be revealed to you.
4. Read our description of the target area. We've chosen an area with some of the highest violence levels in the world.
5. Allow yourself to feel for the people who live there. To stir compassion, we have deliberately included some graphic photos to give you a sense of what these people have to endure.
6. Begin to power up. Consult our intention tips and The Intention Experiment for full details.
7. Wait for the page to flip. When it does, and you reach the page with the intention statement, begin to hold that thought for 10 minutes.
8. Hold the intention for 10 minutes, while the music (Jonathan Goldman's Choku Rei) plays.
9. Focus on the beautiful images of peace and harmony in our target area, which we've included on that page.
10. When the experiment finishes, click onto the forum and share your experience with our community.
11. Return the following day at the same time and repeat the experiment - each day for seven days.
12. Get a candle ready. We will all light a candle for our target area on Sunday, September 21 - the International Day of Peace.
Please open up your emails from us each day this week and next. We'll keep you posted on what to do, when.
Remember: the experiment runs for an entire week at exactly the same time for 10 minutes. Please participate every day that you can.
Warm wishes,
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How to participate in the Peace Intention Experiment
August 26th, 2008 by Lynne McTaggart · 35 Comments
With less than three weeks to go before we launch our first ever Peace Intention Experiment, I thought I should give you some basic instructions.
The Peace Intention Experiment will begin running on September 14 and will run for one week. It will run at the same time every day:
- 7 am Hawaiian Daylight Savings Time
- 9 am California Daylight Savings Time
- 10 am Mountain Daylight Savings Time
- 11 am Central DST
- 12 noon Eastern DST
- 5 pm British Summer Time
- 6 pm European Summer Time
- 2 am Sydney and Melbourne
For all other time zones corresponding with 4 pm Greenwich Mean Time, click here.
Here’s how to participate:
- REGISTER on our home page: www.theintentionexperiment.com/peace. The most important first step is to register so that we know exactly how many people are participating every day.
- WAIT for our instructions, which will be sent you by email. If you don’t get instructions by September 7, email us at: cs@livingthefield.com. We’ll give you some exercises to do to become practiced at intention.
- READ The Intention Experiment, by Lynne McTaggart, if you’d like the full information about the science of intention and how to master intention. Note: you don’t have to buy the book to participate, but doing so helps you to become an intention master. It also helps us to defray the costs involved in setting up a scientific experiment and the enormous web bandwidth involved.
- COMMENT ON THIS SITE. Tell us your views about this project! You’ll be joining with the thousands of others around the world who looking forward to participating.
- WRITE DOWN the new website address. We’ve created special web pages for the experiment that are NOT on this website, so that we can cope with the huge traffic expected throughout the week.
- MAKE NOTE of the right time zone corresponding with 12 noon Eastern Daylight Savings Time (or 4 pm Greenwich Mean Time). That’s the time you’ll send intention each day that you can participate throughout the week.
- PLAN to spend 10 minutes sending intention during that period, plus the time preparing to POWER UP.
On September 14, and every day thereafter through September 21:
- COME ONTO THE NEW SITE 15 minutes or more before the experiment begins.
- LOGON WITH YOUR PASSWORD. We need you to register/logon every single time, so we can track exactly who is participating.
- IF YOU PLAN TO PARTICIPATE WITH A GROUP, make sure all of you sign in. We’re arranged it so you can all sign on the same computer.
- FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS on the pages, which will automatically flip forward so that you are in synch with everyone.
Immediately after the experiment each day:
Please try to make the effort to participate every day. I am trying to keep a critical mass of at least 7000 people on the site every day.
If you can’t participate every day, come on every day that you can. Remember, you’ll need to put your password in on our special Peace Intention Experiment website in order to get through to the site, so we’ll be counting our participants every day.
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- Make your on intention space that's special for you
- Power up through meditation
- Move into peak focus through mindful awareness of the present
- State your intention and make it as specific as possible
- Mentally rehearse every moment with all your senses
- Visualize in vivid detail your intention as established fact
- Move aside - and let the universe do its work.
Dear participants
I want to thank all of you for signing
up to take part in our global Peace Intention Experiment, starting on
September 14. As I write this, there are 26 days to go before the
experiment starts.
As a few of you have asked for a bit
more information on how the experiment will be run, I've posted all the
latest information to my blog.
To read it, click here.
Please feel free to post any comments or questions there, or by emailing me at lynne@livingthefield.com.
Warm wishes,
Getting the space ready
Choose a room, or a space, that is special. It will be your intention place.
Feel comfortable in it. Clear it of extraneous items. Make it your own.
Put in it the things you like - cushions, or comfortable furniture. Soft lighting, perhaps, or candles, or incense.
Some people create an altar on which they focus. You may like to, too.
Make the air cleaner and fresher with an ionizer, especially if you live in an urban area.
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Reaching peak intensity
Meditation is a period in the day you set aside for quiet times. Now you need to develop the state of mindfulness in your day-to-day life.
Learn to be present in every moment, or every moment you can remember to do it.
Mindfulness is to just observe, just eat, just listen, just walk - without judgement, chatter, or criticism.
When you eat a meal, be mindful of the eating and the food. What is its taste? What is its texture?
When you take off your sweater, what does it feel like? How does it feel as it goes over your head? What is its colour? Its smell?
When you walk on the pavement, what is the sensation in your feet, or legs? What do you see? Are you noticing the cracks in the pavement, the weeds sprouting through? What about the wind on your face, in your hair?
Can you listen without thinking? Can you hear the gurgle of the water in the pipes? The leaves swaying in the breeze?
Are you aware of your body, the way it sits or stands?
Do all of this without judgement. It's not good. It's not bad. It's not better than something else. It's not worse than something else. It is what it is.
Developing mindfulness
It's amazing how often you will forget to be mindful. So here are a few ways that will help you.
Take time out in the day to be quiet and mindful. It need be only a few minutes. It can be done at work. It can be done while you're washing up.
Try to build 'mindfulness breaks' into your day. If you have some alarm clock on your computer, mobile phone or watch, set it twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon. These are your mindfulness moments.
Come back to the moment by watching your breath.
Associate mindfulness with one activity every day.
It could be when you put your coat on in the mornings. Make a promise with yourself: "When I put my coat on, I shall be present. I shall feel the coat and its texture, feel it as it goes onto my body, how it warms my body. How it feels when it's on."
When you come home after work or shopping, look at your partner or your children as if you've never seen them before. Then you see them as they are, not how you think they are.
Merging with the 'other'
We are preparing ourselves for successful intention. One vital key is compassion, or being coherent with the person for whom you're intending.
You can practice intention with someone you know. If it is your partner or child, the connection should be easy to establish.
If you instead decide to work with someone you don't know, exchange something with him or her, such as a photograph, or something you own, such as a simple piece of jewellery.
Whoever you choose, meditate with them for half an hour. Feel their presence.
Ask the person to be open to your intention when you send it.
Be specific
Be highly specific in your intending. Intend for something that is very precise, and measurable.
Don't intend for 'world peace', desirable though such an outcome would be. Instead intend for something highly specific, such as the healing of the fourth finger of your child's left hand, which was burnt in a candle flame. Also include in your intention the exact problem with the finger (eg, the blister won't heal after the finger was burnt on a candle).
Then, in your intention, state your objective exactly. "I intend for the wound on the fourth finger of Sam's left hand to heal in three days time, that is on Thursday, the 18th October 2007." Make sure you complete the checklist that runs through the head of most reporters when they write an article: who, what, when, where, why and how.
To reinforce your intention, you could draw a picture, or perhaps have a photograph of the intendee in front of you.
The mental dry run
Visualize the outcome of your intention. If it's Sam's finger you want healing, see him playing happily without a bandage on the finger.
Visualization can be a powerful ally in helping your intention. The key, however, is to visualize the positive outcome. If your intention is to ease a painful back problem, visualize yourself walking freely, and climbing the stairs two at a time.
It should also be a multi-sensorial visualization. So as well as seeing yourself climbing the stairs, feel what it's like to be free of pain, feel the muscles in the back working freely and well. And feel the elation as you realize you can again do things that were until recently impossible to complete.
Practise visualizing
Visualization is a muscle that needs to be exercised just as much as your intention 'muscle'.
Start by getting yourself into a meditative state, and then begin your visualization exercises by imagining:
- A recent meal you enjoyed. Can you see and sense yourself sitting at the table, possibly with others? Can you see the meal in front of you? Can you smell it? What does it taste like? How is the texture of the food inside your mouth?
- Your bedroom. Mentally walk around it. Touch the bedspread and sense how it feels. Feel the curtains, and imagine your feet against the carpets or floorboards.
- Yourself running or in a gym. How do your legs feel? Can you imagine the sweat trickling down your face and your back? Can you see other people in the gym? What are they doing?
Believing it
When intentions - and other psi experiments - fail, it's usually because the person doesn't really believe it will work.
Implicitly believe that your intention will work. You have prepared well. You are ready. Your preparation is no different to the placebo or sugar pills that are handed out to participants in medical trials. They don't realize they haven't been given the actual drug - and so the sugar pill works for them just as well.
The placebo effect, as it's known, proves that if you believe that something will work, it will.
If the target of your intention doubts that it will work, talk to him or her. Explain the science behind this, and the preparation you have gone through. Try to get them to believe that your intention will work for them.
Getting out of the way
This is probably one of the most important elements of intending - get out of the way.
You're not responsible for any effect your intending may have - that's down to the universe - and so it's not you really doing anything. You're merely inviting something to happen.
Do what you've been taught so far. Get into the alpha state, state your intention clearly and precisely - and then move aside. You have placed a very precise request to the universe, and now powers that are beyond our comprehension may get to work.
You don't heal, you don't cure. The universe does. All you have done is to make a precision prayer. Now wait to see if it will be answered.
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