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Today, let's explore some rules that are useful in dealing with any form of criticism.

Today, let's learn when and where to seek out the “right” type of criticism.

Today, let's recognize how we've been wrongly shamed and how that affects our creative process.

Today, let's take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors fly open.

Today, let's listen to our anger to better understand where we have betrayed ourselves.

Today, let's notice that each moment is not without its beauty.

Today, let's find delight through our capacity to pay attention.

Today, let's set skepticism aside to further examine beliefs that keep us stuck and imbalanced.

Today, let's look at the inner enemy we harbor ourselves.

Today, let's acknowledge how others can be a destructive block to our creative work.

Today, let's nurture a space of safety and self-acceptance that will allow our creativity to flourish.

Today, let's neutralize self-doubt before it turns into self-sabotage.

Today, let's turn our critic's negative blurts into affirmative allies.

Today, let's acknowledge jealousy as a stalling technique that reinforces our staying stuck.

Today, let's recognize our either/or thinking that keeps us blocked from embracing our beloved dreams.

Today, let's uncover false negative beliefs that have been inhibiting our creativity.

Today, let's find ease from the fear of the unknown by confronting the enemy within.

Today, let's find and protect our artist child by gently acknowledging enemies of our creative self-worth.

Intention Inspired's community platform shares tools and methods to achieve emotional ease and experience success in every area of our life.

Today, let's acknowledge our critic within and begin to nurture our artist child by taking our creativity playfully seriously.

Discover and recover your creative self, with short daily emails inspired by The Artist's Way!

Today, let's release limiting stories and recover our creativity.

Today, let's walk deeply into our life with love, healing, and compassion, and for others who are also walking this human path.

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Today, let’s experience the heart of creativity as an experience of the mystical union.

Intention Inspired is a fun community of seekers who are committed to the journey of self-discovery.

A journey of discovering and recovering our creative self—distilled into short daily sessions!

Can you give yourself the gift of committing to the Artist's Way course?

The weekly Creative Clusters meetups are an opportunity to come together and reflect on the core practices of  ‘Morning Pages’, and ‘The Artist Date’.

Today, let's accept our inner critic and begin to nurture our artist child.

An artist date is a block of time, perhaps two hours weekly, especially set aside and committed to nurturing your creative consciousness, your inner artist.

The morning pages are three pages of longhand writing, strictly stream of consciousness. Anyone who faithfully writes morning pages will be led to a connection with a source of wisdom within.

Today, let's reflect on our adventure and how we're forever changed because of it.

Today, let's see ourselves from a birds-eye view to honor how far we've come and inspire our next best steps.

The 64 Ways are potent oral transmissions of each Gene Key recorded by Richard Rudd.

Today, let's be present with an openness that allows us to enjoy exactly where we are—no matter the circumstances.

Today, let's become more familiar with the true natural freedom of our miraculous existence.

Today, let's use our feelings as a guide to becoming more aware of our truest sense of self.

Today, let's embody our innermost self by observing our inner environment with courageous vulnerability.

Today, let's make magic by moving beyond the norms, rules, and expectations.

Today, let's see ourselves for what we really are: “God stuff”.

Today, let's nourish the soul by reconnecting with our natural roots.

Today, let's embrace the calling of our wild authentic heart.

Today, let's embrace fear in a way that creates preparation and inspired action.

Today, let's reinforce our brain's magnificent ability to build resilience amidst challenges and difficulties.

Today, let's explore simple ways to ride out fear so that we remain grounded and empowered.

Today, let's become more familiar with the true natural freedom of our awakened heart.

Today, let's notice when we panic and use our breath to stay calm and mentally sharp.

Today, let's give our brain the care it deserves by lovingly responding to stressful situations.

Today, let's flex our mental muscles by staying focused when the going gets tough.

Today, let's explore how to routinely replenish and revitalize our mind–body–soul with the miracle pill of rest.

Today, let's explore what might be inhibiting our intuition and discover ways to deepen the connection of our intuitive inner voice.

Today, let's uncover spirited guidance for our next best steps within each connection.

Today, let's explore how our perspective of the universe will affect every aspect of our adventures.

Today, let's uncover spirited guidance for our next best steps within each connection.

Today, let's explore how our perspective of the universe will affect every aspect of our adventures.

Today, let's ask a mentor for help in order to overcome challenges that are too difficult alone.

Today, let's ask a mentor for help in order to overcome challenges that are too difficult alone.

Today, let's harness the synergistic power of strategically sharing our vision with supportive allies.

Today, let's explore the conversation of who we are relative to how we relate to our environment.

Today, let's harness the synergistic power of strategically sharing our vision with supportive allies.

Today, let's explore the conversation of who we are relative to how we relate to our environment.

Today, let's acknowledge the powerful little achievements that lead to greater accomplishments.

Today, let's commit to courageously stepping into the unknown towards our inspired dream.

Today, let's commit to courageously stepping into the unknown towards our inspired dream.

Today, let's acknowledge the powerful little achievements that lead to greater accomplishments.

Today, let's embrace falling down as a necessary part of moving forward.

Today, let's commit to courageously stepping into the unknown towards our inspired dream.

Today, let's shine the light of curious attention and creative action amidst fears of the unknown.

Today, let's shine the light of curious attention and creative action amidst fears of the unknown.

Today, let's fortify the inspired vision of our adventure by cultivating a safe and empowering environment for us to explore.

Today, let's fortify the inspired vision of our adventure by cultivating a safe and empowering environment.

Today, let's create a tangible vision that will clarify our next best adventurous steps.

Today, let's create an effective vision that will clarify our next best adventurous steps.

Today, let's awaken the adventure that's beckoning within.

Today, let's awaken the adventure that's beckoning within.

Today, let's courageously embrace the unknown and create the life of our dreams.

Courageously embrace the unknown and create the life of your dreams.

Today, let's get back in touch with our deepest intention so that we can live in more alignment with the truth of what we really are.

Today, let's reawaken our deepest intentions so that we can realign our actions with what is most important.

Today, let's look at life before birth to deepen into the magical mystery of what it means to be alive.

Today, let's nurture those emotionally reactive parts of ourselves by combining two powerful methods of self-compassion.

Today, let's reclaim more life-force energy by releasing patterns, again and again, with patient endurance.

Today, let's develop a simple and reliable practice that interrupts the attention-erosion process of a pattern.

Today, let's practice dying to a pattern by disidentifying with it.

Today, let's recognize when we're operating from reactive patterns so that we can live with more intention.

Today, let's decern the difference between acting out of presence or acting out of a pattern.

Today, let's review the role of our reactive patterns of behavior and respond to feel, heal, and release them.

Today, let's observe how pattern-based living creates suffering on an emotional level.

Today, let's notice the ways that pattern-based living creates sickness and disease in the body.

Today, let's observe how a reactive behavioral pattern is created in the first place and practice releasing the stuck energy.

Today, let's review the five elements that power emotional reactions to further identify how we habitually react when triggered.

Today, let's practice rewiring reactive patterns of behavior by being prepared with a mindful response to the trigger.

Today, let's notice what we feeeel after we go _blank_ to identify how habituated reactive patterns affect our energy.

Today, let's practice detecting the three core emotional reactions.

Today, let's notice the transitions between conscious awareness and unconscious emotional reactivity.

Today, let's identify the reactive patterns of behavior that operate in our life.

Today, let's bring attention to the nature and operation of conditioned patterns.

Today, let's have the willingness to be present with suffering, extending ourselves and widening our circle of compassion.

Today, let's practice responding to triggered reactive states with a deep, nourishing breath.

Today, let's explore ways to notice when we are triggered into a fight-flight-freeze state.

Today, let’s cultivate an inner fire toward what matters most.

Today, let's practice releasing the blame and judgment that is in the way of understanding, freedom, and love.

Today, let's embrace the storms in life as a necessary process to release, transform, and refresh.

Today, let's tap into the courageous heart of our wildest dreams.

Today, let's cultivate the felt sense of beauty induced by deep attention.

Today, let's deepen our competence by choosing, again and again, to show up for what matters most.

Today, let's courageously notice our edges and then soften.

Today, let's cultivate the confidence to trust in our potential to meet whatever arises.

Today, let's explore how to routinely replenish and revitalize our mind–body–soul with quality rest.

Today, let's cultivate active attention that allows us to be more present in our lives. 

Today, let's expand our consciousness by heightening our attention to the conversational nature of reality.

Today, let's acknowledge that in us, which is just being.

Today, let's zoom out from siloed perspectives that create separation and realize our greater vastness within this interconnected existence.

Today, let's discover our worthiness and within it, our greater capability.

Today, let's discover how and why we inhibit our “positive” emotions.

Today, let's expand into our self-discovery journey by exploring emotional intelligence.

Today, let's access subconscious information about the people of our past by calling on our Inner Child.

Today, let's access subconscious information about the people of our past by calling on our Inner Child.

Today, let's explore how things that seem true and universal are often just our own unique experience of the world.

Let's go on a mini journey into the magickal world of smoke cleansing with Palo Santo.

Today, let's step into the fire of self-discovery by creating a space and gathering tools that are conducive to our self-awareness.

Self-Discovery may be the greatest adventure of our life. This journey is designed to expand that adventure. “Who Am I?” … “Why do I feel this way?” … “How can I change (heal, grow, become conscious)?”

Today, let's embrace unexpected nonroutine moments as part of the routine itself!

Today, let's explore the vast benefits of getting our juices flowing in the morning.

Today, let's stoke a sense of early morning productivity that will continue to radiate into the rest of the day.

Today, let's explore simple ways to enjoy a morning mindfulness practice, no matter how busy we may be.

Today, let's view our morning with the playful creativity of our three-year-old and the graceful focus of our 108-year-old.

Today, let's rest in the felt sense of “I amness” by witnessing with broader awareness.

Today, let's honor our worthiness by acknowledging our Greatness and creating courageous boundaries around our morning routine.

How we start our day sets the tone for the rest of it. Join us for the next 7 days as we play with our morning routine!

Today, let's consciously co-create our reality with the support of the Universe.

Today, let's break away from the “norm” in a way that resonates with our inner divinity and allows our soul to sing its own song.

Today, let's allow effortless creativity to flow as we empower ourselves with the relaxation we deserve.

Today, let's be more conscious of the reality we're creating with the words we choose to use.

Today, let's redefine ‘art' as we notice what inspires our souls to sing.

Today, let's broaden our perspective of reality by attentively examining what is on the inside.

Today, let's elicit the energy of our emotions to inspire our creative practice.

Today, let's reconnect to our child-like creativity with curiosity, imagination, and freedom!

As the creators of our reality, we get to decide what we want to create based on what is most important to us.

Today, let’s clear the cobwebs of creative resistance with intuitive action.

Today, let's free ourselves of tension by resting with appreciation and satisfaction.

Today, let's joyfully create with surrender, curiosity, and love.

Today, let's imbue all our creations with soulful intentions of love, healing, and growth.

Today, let's explore how our creativity enhances our connection to all things.

Today, let's get more clear about what's most important so we can live in more alignment with what makes our soul sing.

Let's break the momentum of past conditioning by returning our focus to the abundance of this moment.

Today, let's accept the inevitable contrast and celebrate periods of balance.

Today, let's rest and reflect with curious observation of our seasonal cycles.

Today, let's take stock of our internal landscape and choose a path that feeds our soul.

Today, let's be wholehearted in our service by upholding loving boundaries that allow for authentic transformation.

Today, let's take stock throughout the day to improve our connection to Self.

Let's play with symbols of Autumn in ways that deepen the connection we have to the cycles of the Universe.

Let's reflect the magnificence of our divinity and abundance.

Let’s honor impermanence by letting go of what no longer serves us.

Today, let's rest and reflect to capture the essence of Autumn by tuning in with all our senses.

Today, let’s focus our energy where it best serves by acknowledging our blessings.

Let’s examine our Harvest so we can gather and preserve what will value most.

Today, let's honor all facets of our being—both the darkness and the light.

Today, let's broaden our perspective of abundance by appreciating what we have already created and become open receptacles of for the vast bounty that is yet to come.

Today, let's craft more intention into the space where engage with our creative practice.

Creativity is an energy that is at the root of all things. It is life force energy that invites us to expand.  Nothing happens without the energy of creativity. Creativity brings us to life! 

Creativity is about observing yourself as you create in a safe, free and interesting process and then making the adjustments that facilitate your personal growth and awareness.

Today, let's observe ourselves in varied creative practices, use imagination and curiosity to problem solve, know and love who we truly are at our core, and have FUN while doing it.

Today, let's learn our stress signature and practice becoming the empowered “Watcher” of our emotional triggers.

All feelings have validity. We are not broken, just learning. We are magnificent and worthy just as we are.

3 Days of Self Awareness: Cultivate more awareness into the magnificence of who you are, with Marva Midkiff.

Hi friend, Matt here. I so selfishly love the community we're creating. I feel inspired every day to show up and play with ways that help me focus on who I am, what I want, and how to get it. Which often involves YOU 🤜✨🤛 Grateful, as many of us have been focused on The Artist's Way journey, to watch intentions […]

Each moment brings new awareness if we choose a creative curiosity to examine it. Today, let's see how our creative journaling cultivates self-awareness and empowers us to make a work of art with our life.

Today, let's use our creative journaling session to uncover patterns and conditionings that want our healing attention. Prefer to listen? 👇 Intention Inspired · Uncover Patterns and Conditionings That Hold the Key to Unlocking Our Creative Freedom   I intentionally use my creativity to become self-aware and to heal. Art opens the closets, airs out […]

Today, let's embark on a curious adventure that will make a clear division between our ‘self' and our creative expression so that we can better carry out the wishes of our creative muses. Prefer to watch & listen? 👇   I will intentionally connect and create a strong bond with my Muse. “If there's a […]

Today, let's dance with the moon's energetic glory as we embrace her illuminated pull and connect to her power with balance and grace.

Being able to access our magical, creative child is an important part of creative expression. Here are a few exercises to do just that!

Today, let's acknowledge a creative block for it's temporary state of being and address the issue with courage and compassion.

Today, let's release our intentions into the fertile soil of our consciousness where they can flourish and grow.

Let's befriend all the parts of ourselves and use the powers of creativity, courage, and compassion to try on all the hats of joy.

Enjoy this free online community course for Julia Cameron's book, The Artist's Way—a 12-week journey in discovering and recovering your creative self.

Today, let's search for life-enriching treasures in the form of opportunities to explore and experiment.

Today, let's get still and connect with the creative divine essence that connects our energy to the energy of all that is.

Without vulnerability, we struggle to achieve love, creativity, belonging, trust, and joy (to name a few).  Today, let's courageously show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.

The power of imagination brings things that do not exist into the mind and uses it to visualize how things “could” be. The more you use this power the stronger it becomes.

Today, let's embrace in the warmth and light that we are and feel so whole and full and peaceful as we bask in our own glory.

Intentional breathing helps us decrease stress, relax our mind and body, helps us sleep better and so much more. Today, let's observe how our breathing affects our focus as we create.

Play is crucial to the development of our creativity, health, and happiness (as well as many other benefits). It may be one of the higher expressions of humanity. It is more a feeling of an experience than the experience itself. Today, let's play with some color and see if we can get to that playful […]

Today, let's slow down and use our committed time to create as trying new experiences that take us to the edge of our comfort zone and expand our knowledge of how we do what we do.

Let's compile what we know about ourselves and answer the question to the best of our ability—WHO AM I?—with a self-love card!

A Life Pie is a good indicator of where your time and energy is spent. We can use this information to make decisions that will bring our lives into a state of balance.

Let's compile the data we have been collecting about ourselves until we can clearly define: Who Am I?

Any practice that observes the self cultivates this life-changing magic. In the Art Room, we intentionally observe ourselves through the process that Marva Mikiff calls, Creative Journaling.

Spring beckons us to examine the things that are important to us. Today let's use our journal practice to create clarity, slow down and make space.

Winter is over and Spring invites us to celebrate a New Beginning! The seeds I have planted in the garden of my life are beginning to grow.

Welcome, everyone, to the beginning of our Spring Creative Journal Journey!  We begin with our commitment to our creative expression and to our own self-awareness.

While playing in our journals we are observing our mind, our feelings about what our mind is saying, our beliefs about our creative process. We are opening the door to live life creatively … with curiosity and courage rather than a life of self-judgment, perfectionism, doubt.

Creating is an innate human attribute, available to everyone.  We will explore this.  You will find so much benefit to daily creative expression and so many areas that creativity can enhance your life.

“Sankalpa” is an intention we set from our heart. Translated as our “higher truth” (san) and “vow” (kalpa), Sankalpa is a promise to stay with our highest truth and to act from our hearts. A Sankalpa can be set as a positive affirmation that we state to ourselves in order to align the heart, mind, and soul in order to help us realize our greater potential. When we practice setting intentions we harness the power within that helps us manifest our Sankalpa. In this group, we will be tracking…

For our first intention setting & manifesting topic in this group, we will be looking to the moon as a cosmic timer to gain clarity on our deepest intentions. Or as I like to call it, MOONOLOGY MAGIC 🌝✨ What we'll be doing: For every new moon and full moon of every zodiac sign, I will be providing us with worksheets, exercises, and group calls so we can work together, with the magic of the lunar cycles to consciously create the life of our dreams. 🌕 new & full moon rituals – affirmations,…

CLICK HERE TO ENROLL This course is inspired by juniper's studies in Chinese Medicine and the five movements that generate and create all life. Each element/movement has a powerful key to developing resilience. Unlocking the gift of each movement opens the way for the five movements to dance in your life. This is a dance to foster calm, flexibility, joy, nurture, and surrender. Get ready to get your alchemy on! Why the five movements? In Chinese Medicine, the five movements, the wu xing, form…

This week we started with a short body scan meditation to realign the mind and body. Then we explored topics like inspiring the youth on intuitive eating, the middle path of staying committed to the practice while not taking ourselves so seriously, the courageous act of allowing and trusting, healing deeper wounds, responding with intention, and more! Thank you all so much for showing and sharing what's on your heart 💖🙏 Watch the replay below: Click here to RSVP to next week's Sunday…

Jennifer Nichols joined us for the 7 Days of Decluttering challenge back in March and continues to inspire us on a daily basis. We wanted to take some time to get to know her a bit better and share some of her wisdom, depth, and beauty with all of you. You can connect with her […]

I recently spent some time with the co-founder of Intention Inspired, Matt Prindle, who is actively co-creating the future with all of us. We dove into who he is, how Intention Inspired was formed, and what he’s looking forward to in the future. Watch the interview video below: The Origins of Intention Inspired “I remember […]

In addition to being our host for 7 days of Balance and 30 days of Mindfulness, Gia is also a Spiritual Teacher, Energy Healer, Musician, and Sound Healer. She shares herself, her passions and how she brings light into the world with us.  “I bring all of my healing gifts together to help my clients shift and transform […]

By: Maria Vandenburg Our discussion with Marva opened up with how concepts like spirituality, self-development, and self-discovery are often hard to put into words. Marva reflected that some of our terms are overused and have now taken on an altered definition. “Spirituality” can have many different meanings depending on our own personal understanding of it. […]

Keisha joined Intention Inspired when we launched our first course, 30 Days of Bravery, and has been an inspiring and supportive member, since. We sat down with Keisha Khanyahl to hear what life was like for her before Intention Inspired. We were curious to know what she discovered about herself by going through 30 days […]

Two-year-old Raden Rusyn is setting out to thru-hike the entire 2650-mile long Pacific Crest Trail! Granted, he’ll be traveling the majority of the trail in his mother’s backpack. Mary Shelton and Matt Prindle trust their journey will shine a light on the importance of connecting with nature, especially for the little ones! Matt is co-founder […]

Intention Inspired has evolved (in a big way!) Join the founders and hosts during this live call so we can walk you through this exciting new platform and how to make the most out of your Intention Inspired membership. 👁 Watch the replay 👇 This new community-focused platform was created so we have a safe […]

In May 2017, I found myself randomly stumbling across a clip of some guy standing in a forest with a man bun telling me about “how brave I already am,” how he “guarantees it.” I had no idea that that particular clip and my subsequent sign up for 30 days of Brave with the intention […]

No one is born a hero, but we all are born with immese potential to lead a heroic life.

Whatever happens, you can lift yourself up, cherish the experience, learn from it and continue to create an Intention Inspired live for yourself.

Six guidelines that will help you find your way back to your natural curiosity.

Learn how to develop the mental strength to deal with the endless stressors that come your way.

Self-awareness teaches us how to do both things: how to be successful and how to let yourself actually enjoy life at the same time. It all starts with a clear mind.

A fearless proclamation of what's possible for ordinary people like you and me.

If you aren’t feeling yourself, and you’re struggling to keep up with everything, it’s time to take a step back and adjust your focus, re-prioritize, and take some time to rest.

Here are the three exercises that can help you understand your guilt, make amends, and forgive yourself.

The top 18 pages of 2018 on IntentionInspired.com

2019 is just around the corner, and we are all starting to think about New Year’s resolutions. Unfortunately, these are the most commonly broken promises we make to ourselves. Let approach it differently this year.

What we do, how we act & how we interpret the events in our lives is what manifests more abundance. Here are a few simple steps to make it a reality in 2019.

It can be hard to find sympathy for someone who's is making other people's life miserable, so here's some advice for both the victim and the bully who are likely going through emotionally instability.

My throat grew tight. My palms were sweaty. My breath shortened, refusing to fully expand or contract. Nausea brewed in the pit of my belly. I was about to…

Member Maria Vandenburg. shares how she's jobless, homeless and more at peace than ever.

While contemplating this recently, I connected with my soul and the answer struck me like a thunderbolt.

Experience benefits like positivie outcomes, stronger relationships, and more by adopting these effective humility-building practices.

Not making a choice is also a choice.  Consider that it also has very real consequences. The way to start being decisive is to follow up on your decisions with conviction and moral clarity.

If I did magically have the ability to turn back time, this is what I would have said to my 16-year-old self.

There are no logical parameters we can point to that explain this phenomena. Yet, maybe that is where we get ourselves into trouble…trying to use the intellect to define an experience that goes beyond the intellect.

While we don’t often see famine anymore in this day and age, fasting still is beneficial to the body in many ways. This isn’t starvation, fasting is the controlled voluntary withholding of food.

“You need to draw a line in the sand. You can't enable her anymore. If she leaves this facility, you and your husband have to agree not to let your daughter in the house. This is one of the rules of our program.” This advice was given to Debra, the mother of nineteen-year-old Emily.* Emily […]

Today humanistic sciences strongly suggest that not only everybody needs a hero, but everybody can become one. Is it true that a hero lies in you? Let's find out!

Enough is one of those ever elusive human experiences and when we are not careful, it is an experience we may never reach. At least not for very long.

The defining factor for success is never resources, it's resourcefulness…it is not resources, but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

“Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully, much that is neither.”

Let’s face it. We know mornings are important. We know they set the precedence for how the day will go. We also know there’s a lot of stuff out there about what you should be doing in your mornings, things that will help us become more successful, more productive, more satisfied.

I was depressed because of the past. I had severe anxiety because I was dreading the future. I often cried alone and, at times, went to bed hoping I would never wake up.

In today’s society, the “norm” seems to be to strive for fame, success, recognition. In such circumstances being honorably humble is an extremely rare and respectable virtue to be having. It’s almost like being a unicorn.

Grief affects everyone differently. Often, we don’t know how we’ll respond to grief until it’s upon us.

My throat grew tight. My palms were sweaty. My breath shortened, refusing to fully expand or contract. Nausea brewed in the pit of my belly. I was about to…