A short YouTube talk by Joni Patry about the role of intention in manifestation, drawing on a section of her book "Awaken to the Power Within You." Patry emphasizes that unclear intentions block manifestation and proposes a simple daily practice: create a small reverent space, light a candle, stare into the flame while concentrating your strongest emotion and clear intention into it, then blow the candle out to release the desire. She frames fire as a symbol of power and spirit, links familiar rituals (birthday candles, church candles) to intention-setting, and closes with a safety reminder to extinguish flames.
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Hi, I'm Joni Petrie, and welcome to my YouTube channel. Well, today I want to talk about a specific subject called intention.
How important our intentions are and how you can empower your intentions. So I have a new series where I'm going to be talking about a subject from my book, Awaken to the Power within youn, which is now out on Amazon as a Kindle book. And it has pictures that instill messages as, and then it gives you what the message is. So I'm here to tell you about one of my favorite parts of this book, and that is the section that's called Intention. Because throughout our lives, you gotta admit.
When we are misunderstood, we're confused. And like, why is it they didn't understand what I was saying? Well, the same thing is happening with your subconscious mind. When you're not clear with your intentions, your subconscious mind and your conscious mind can't come together and manifest what your desires are. So the way that you can manifest your desires for your highest good is to focus on your intention because you may be unclear about what you. You really intend. So I have a really wonderful technique that you're going to love and it's worked for me and it's a lot of fun. And it deals with lighting a candle and focusing on that flame.
And this helps you get clear with your intentions and to create that what you're trying to focus on. And it will give clarity to your intentions. Now let me explain a little bit about this. First, fire.
Fire is power. Realize that in the old Greek myth that the gods were furious at Prometheus because he stole the fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, well, he had to pay the price. But regardless, what this symbolizes is a sense of how powerful fire is. If we didn't have fire, we couldn't warm ourselves, we couldn't cook our foods. So it gives a sense of security. And you've got to admit, when you stare into a fireplace and it is so mesmerizing, I mean, all of a sudden we find ourselves just our eyes are locked and we go into another world. So this is the essence of using fire. And may I remind you, you know, we light candles in churches to put our intentions of our prayers to heal. So we light that candle. And my favorite.
Analogy of this is we always light candles for our birthday. What do we do? We make a wish which is an intention, and then we blow it out. How cool is that? That's all these ways that we have been using the flame fire with intention and not Even realizing we can use this every day. So here's what I suggest you do. Make a little altar, a little private space in your home, wherever you feel comfortable, but a place where you feel a certain degree of reverence, where you can.
Feel special or give that place importance, because you know what we're actually doing. We're finding our purpose and meaning in life through what our intention.
So really, when your life feels meaningless, that's probably, I think, the cause of depression, when you feel there's no meaning. But you got to find that meaning and you got to find that purpose. And I think that will come through finding your true intentions. So.
By the way, we make birthdays a special day where we're special. We've got to make our place where we go to create our intentions, a special place. So find that special place and put your special candles there that when you light your candle.
Stare into the flame.
Focus on your intention, and that is what it is you want to manifest. Always, always remember that what you want to manifest does not involve controlling other people. It's empowering people and empowering yourself. Because this is how you're going to bring your happiness, your purpose, your meaning to your life. But whatever it is that you really want to manifest that, think about it, focus on it, get that intention into the flame. That flame is power. And it's going to connect to what your spirit. Spirit is associated with fire.
In astrology.
The fire signs are relative to the spirit and this purpose. So when you do this exercise to just focus and put your strongest emotion and intense intention into that fire.
And then let it go, blow it out, but do this daily. This practice is amazing with the power of manifestation to bring into your life that which is lacking. Because if you are not manifesting what you want, it's because you're confused. You don't know what you want. You don't have a clear intention. But this fire can help you. But of course, let me just say this. Be careful of this fire. We don't want to have any house fires, you know, be careful to light and put it out when you leave, when you finish.
But use fire to create it is powerful. And with this exercise, you're going to find that you ignite your power within you, empowering yourself to create and manifest the things that you couldn't before. Why? Because you're con. There's so much confusion. There's no focus. And this exercise will bring it all together, intensify it, and make your deepest desires come to life. And consequently, it will make your life come to life with meaning and purpose. So with that, I'd like to close once again. If you would like to explore my book, Awaken to the Power within you. It has many, many exercises like this, and I'm going to be bringing those to you through this series of classes or lectures here, whatever you want to call this, to help you change and transform your life. So thank you and I'll close once again. If you want to purchase my book on Amazon, here's the link. You can go to it. Awaken to the Power within you. Thank you.
