What would your tattoo say?
Sankalpa: Tending Your Heartfelt Intention
I recently came back from retreat, and one of my favourite things was watching people soften and come back to what is important to them.
A few of the guests were talking about this sense of coming back to how they want to be and feel, rather than what they want to do.
I loved that. Because that’s what an intention is. It’s the quality you bring to your decisions and actions: the energy, attitude and mood you carry into them.
Life is a collection of little moments.
Every decision adds up to how you live your life.
So we’re coming back to Sankalpa — heartfelt intention. Hidden inside intention is the word tend. From the Latin tendere, to stretch towards. Like tending a garden, it’s less about planting the seed once and more about returning to it, again and again.
And here’s a little something to play with. If you were to design your own tattoo, a reminder of how you want to be living your life, what would it be? Perhaps a word? Perhaps an image that symbolises what you want to embody?
Big love, Em x
