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The Power of Intention
A book review by Wanda Easter Burch

Lynne McTaggart, author of the The Field continues sharing the scientific results of quantum energy field research in her new book, The Intention Experiment. Ms. McTaggart offers the lay reader a easy-to-understand journey into the exciting mind expanding experiments in directed intention accomplished by respected and well known quantum researchers, which include, among others, scientists, physicists, and psychologists.

McTaggart states that she is writing the first "living" book and invites the reader to plunge into the everyday use of quantum physics. McTaggart leads us step-by-step – using scientific study – to the understanding that with a little more conscious work in creating positive carefully worded statements we can transmit messages that tune, heal, and change our lives.

She stresses the need to pay close attention to the form we give to our intentions. Consider the following statements: 

I do not want to feel pain.

I do not want to be ill.

I want to be well.

There is a difference in how these three statements trigger negative or positive results The difference is in the way our mind perceives words. The words "not," "ill," and "pain" are learned negative thought forms in our mind and thereby influence our ability to affect healing. Experience and habitual use have trained our mind to hear and react to the intent of individual words rather than to the intent of an entire sentence. In the third sentence words are used that the mind responds to with joy and healing, transmitting those signals to the body - "want" and "well."

This is only one small example in a step by step excursion artfully led by Lynne McTaggart through quantum experiments in intention as she opens to the reader a world of possibility in understanding the interconnectedness between mind, body, and the larger universe. We are all capable of altering matter not simply by force "but through the simple act of the formulation of a thought." This ability, McTaggart shows, is boundless and resonates like the frequency of a tuning fork, affecting everything in and around its path.

In this journey McTaggart provides careful instruction on the formulation of a good intention, explores the power of group Intention, and provides believable examples of powerful "normal time" visualization used by successful businessmen and well-known athletes. Then she invites the reader to continue The Intention Experiment beyond the pages of the book, go on-line to a website and begin both personal experiments shared with others who have signed in and/or periodic larger group experiments which use the words and page numbers in The Intention Experiment as controls to ensure acceptable scientific results.

Lynne McTaggart challenges readers to make focused intention everyday practice and to participate in group experiments designed to re-tune the environment through positive affirmations.

The Intention Experiment, Using your Thoughts to Change your Life and the World
Lynne McTaggart; New York: Free Press, 2007