i set an intention for a house in january of last year. i wrote it down. i said i intend to own my own home by december of this year. at the time i had a little over two thousand dollars in savings and no idea how that was going to happen. i'm not going to pretend meditation made the money appear. it didn't. what it did was change how i approached every decision that year. i stopped spending on things that didn't matter. i picked up extra work. i said no to things i would normally say yes to because the intention was bigger than the comfort. every morning i sat with the vision. the specific kitchen. the yard. the feeling of belonging somewhere permanent. in october we made an offer. in november it was accepted. i moved in on december 19th. 11 days before the deadline i had set for myself in january. i don't fully understand what happened that year. but i know the intention was real and i know i acted from it every single day. and i know that december morning when i carried my first box through my own front door i understood something about the relationship between belief and reality that i cannot put fully into words.

DISTANT INTENTION AND WATER CRYSTAL RESEARCH: A 2006 EXPLORE study tested whether distant intention could affect ice crystal images formed from water and reported that crystals from treated water received higher aesthetic ratings than controls. The study tested whether water exposed to distant human intention would form ice crystals that looked more aesthetically beautiful than crystals from untreated control water. Over three days, about 1,900 people in Austria and Germany focused their intention on water samples kept inside an electromagnetically shielded room in California, while nearby and distant control samples were not targeted. The water was later frozen, photographed, and judged by more than 2,500 independent people who did not know which samples had received intention. The outcome was that the intentionally treated water crystals were rated as more beautiful than the proximal control crystals, with a modest statistically significant result reported at p = 0.03, one-tailed. Source: Radin et al., 2006, Double-Blind Test of the Effects of Distant Intention on Water Crystal Formation: