Sometimes it feels like the days are just zooming by, one after the next, and at the end of each I can hardly recount what happened. Did I do enough, give enough of myself, learn something new, improve myself at all? Who knows! Sometimes it feels like I'm just repeating the same struggles over and over, but life is so hectic that it's hard to begin to figure out how to make it better. I feel as though I lack the ability to focus, to quiet my mind and make sense of where I've been and where my life is going. And I don't want to look back at the end of my days and view a jumbled mess of missed opportunities and untapped potential.
The idea for an intention altar stemmed from a desire for focus and positive growth: a place to record and display goals and organize thoughts, and to reflect on the day at its completion and plan for the next. It isn't meant to be just a thing to hang on the wall, but a kind of ceremony to make a part of the day to day: an ongoing practice in mindfulness. I suppose some people might get all this from journaling or other methods, but this idea of creating an altar, my own little sacred space, appealed to me. Maybe it does to you to?
