One way of improving the force, impact, and effectiveness of using intention in energy medicine is to prolong the period of time that one focuses the mind on setting a particular intention. For example, focusing my mind on directing energy for a specific intention over 30 seconds will not be as powerful as focusing on the same healing intention over a period of 2 hours. Knowing this, I recently experimented with focusing on a specific, helpful intention for a patient over a period of 20 minutes. Each minute went by at an agonizingly slow pace, and I found the exercise extremely difficult, not having the training that others may have had in meditating for long periods of time. However, I soon abandoned this laborious process and found a solution to this hurdle, by setting another intention that the focus of my healing intention would continue to flow to the patient over a specified time as if I were focusing on the specific intention over that duration of time. [...]
