How to Set Intentions & Raise Your Vibration to Transform Your Life

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Image of family looking at Universe to convey how to set intentions - Paul Wagner

When a loved one is hurting or in need, many of us will send a message saying something like, ‘I am praying for you,’ or ‘Sending good vibes your way,’ or ‘Thoughts And Prayers!’ Earnestly and lovingly, we recognize that on some level, thinking good thoughts for a person improves their lives. Little did we know we were operating on a level of intentions and vibrations! But do you know how to set intentions?

THIS IS TRUE! THINK GOOD THOUGHTS & THEY TRAVEL, IMBUING LIGHT & BLISS INTO EVERY FACTION THEY TOUCH!

Did you know that setting positive intentions for yourself and others can change your world for the better—and improve the vibrations and lives found throughout the Universe? This is also true.

Knowing how to set intentions can help you increase the positive energy around you and make your world a better, happier place to be.

Read on to learn more about intentions and vibrational energy and how they impact not only your life today and your life in the future but also the lives of everyone around you for all time.

Goals vs. Intentions

Before we dive into how vibrational energy and intentions can change your life, let’s talk some about goals vs. intentions. Many people think of intentions as something similar to daily goals—today I’ll eat healthier or today I’ll make better financial decisions. But goals vs. intentions are quite different.

Goals tend to focus on what we don’t have and need to get, and oftentimes, goal-setting can lead to a sense of failure if we don’t meet those goals. Goals can be helpful or can be based on contrived ideas and desires that are not so helpful and disappoint us.

Intentions are built upon feelings, hope, and faith. Intentions don’t have a fail-safe; there’s no way to fail to meet an intention. It lives within the fabrics of our Beings.

Intentions are soul-prayers pointing to  how we are approaching the world and our life at any given moment.

How Vibrations Interact with Intentions

If intentions can change your life, why are we talking about the energy of vibrations? Because science tells us that everything around us is moving, humming with vibrational energy.

The Entire Universe Is Made Of Light & Sound!

Electrons zing around in their orbits, protons and neutrons jumble together in our cell nuclei, and the water in our bodies hums with the power of the Universe around us.

OMMMMMM is the sound of the Earth giving birth to itself.

AUM, AUM, AUM: The mantra of Yogis for eons.

Scientific experiments have shown that our thoughts can have a physical influence on the world around us. The observed will change when other forces are witnessing them.

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As we set positive intentions for ourselves, we not only awaken and improve the vibrations in our own lives and bodies but also in the world around us.

In simplest terms, our intentions can create good vibrations that make our world better.

This is why Sanskrit mantras are so powerful—they are born from the purest intentions. Chanting in Sanskrit can vibrate our souls into healing and great transformations.

Intentions Center & Focus Your Power

One of the best things about setting intentions each day is that it helps to center and focus our power.

Oftentimes, we may say “I wish” about various things in our lives. The problem with this terminology is that it places the power with something outside of us; we have to wait for God or the Universe or people around us to grant that wish.

When you set an intention, you use the language “I will.”

“I WILL!” – This simple phrase returns your power to where it belongs—within your control. You can come to believe and understand that you have the power to change your life and that your daily intentions can be powerful tools for doing so.

Improve Your Outlook & Attitude

For many of us, if we take the time to listen to what we say each day, we’d find that it’s often overwhelmingly negative. We complain about our jobs, our kids, our looks, our challenges, and our bills.

All of this leads us to view our lives, at least in the moment, as being full of hardship, strife, and injustice.

While life can be challenging, setting intentions for your day can help you to improve your outlook and attitudes on the world around you.

You may start to notice those intentions manifesting in your life, which, over time, can raise your positive energy and overall magnetic vibration. With the best and most uplifting intentions, you’ll begin to see all the beautiful things around you. You’ll focus on your positive hopes and faith, rather than the negative and unseen space surrounding unmet goals.

Overcome Limitations with Intentions

You may have heard before that the biggest thing holding you back from the life you want is YOU! In many ways, that may be true. Oftentimes, we’re told that we’re not good enough, that we can’t achieve our dreams, or that we’re not worthy of love. Over time, we come to believe this, and we act more timidly, afraid of what might happen if we dare to live boldly.

We project our fears and early childhood experiences onto our daily realities, forgetting that we can change everything with one intention and one small shift in attitude.

As Abraham says, the law of attraction is what drives the Universe and all Creation. Embody and speak that which is an embodiment of your highest vibration and you will naturally see your world improve.

Setting positive intentions and harnessing the positive energy from divinely inspired vibrations can empower us to live a life free of limitations.

With a little effort, we can begin to see how our thoughts can shape the world. Truly, we are built to believe we can do amazing things.

Throw off the false barriers that have been placed upon you and become free!

Live your life as a full, loving, powerful, and radiant BEING!

Selflessly Serve Others

Although intentions can have a powerful impact on our lives, the benefits don’t stop there. Raising your positive energy can improve the lives of everyone around you—even of the whole world.

Vibrational experts understand that the Universe, heck, the entire eternal, ever-expanding Cosmos, is connected by these vibrations. By improving your inner world, your outer world will improve and expand.

Within your immediate circles, your positive intentions and the benefits they have for you will improve the lives of your partner, your children, and your friends. This can create a ripple effect, raising the positive energy of your community as your circle moves out into the world, happier and more empowered.

Your intentions help to improve the vibrations of one small area of the Universe, and that improvement shifts the balance to the good.

From an energetic standpoint, your vibrational energy permeates all realities. So be careful what you project!

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How to Set Intentions

So do you want to know how to set intentions and reap all these positive rewards? It’s best to begin your intention-setting practice with meditation.

Meditating helps to center us, removing all of the extraneous distractions and expectations of the world around us. With meditation and a focus on our inner silence and Being, we allow our nature to expand—and we find peace.

After meditation, take some time to focus your thoughts toward what you want and need in your life and from the world around you.

Allow these desires to condense into one specific phrase that begins with an “I Will”—an” action statement about how you’ll make this request a reality in your world.

An example:

I WILL EMBODY PEACE AND LOVE AND ATTRACT GOODNESS TO MY LIFE AND TO THOSE I LOVE.

Repeat your phrase a few times, allowing the weight of your focus to settle on it, before you set it down and move on into your day. 

You might also pray for others. When we pray for others, the Universe prays for us. 

The intentions we set each day can have a huge impact both on us and on the world around us. You can learn how to set intentions by creating these positive thoughts. We can change the energy of vibrations around us and put more positive energy into the world. You can reclaim your amazing inner power, overcome your limitations, and improve the world around you just with your thoughts.

Your mind is nothing but a tool that can help you live in a physical reality, like here on Earth! Your mind is also something that sustains itself. We never have to be in our minds. Even if we extinguish our connection to our minds, we’ll still know how to drive and cook. These things are instinctual.

Releasing our minds and egos, we become free.

I am here to help you awaken and bravely create an inspired life. Learn more about my loving services today and start changing your life in the most positive way.

REMEMBER!

You are a beautiful Living Being filled with light and love, born from stardust. You are unlimited potential in every direction. With a focus on discipline, virtue, and your own goodness, you can become as expanded and liberated as you desire. 

Pray for others and the Universe prays for us.

How To Set Boundaries for Self-Growth & Sometimes Say Goodbye

fence in sunset to convey setting boundaries - Paul Wagner

fence in sunset to convey setting boundaries - Paul Wagner

We’ve all been there—stuck in a relationship with someone who drives us nuts or seeks to harm us. You don’t know how to set boundaries with this person. We can’t seem to fathom a life without them, even though they impede our happiness. It’s a serious problem in the world today. 

With family constructs built upon foundations based on guilt and codependency, we all find it difficult to push back, draw the line, and break ties. But, haven’t you had enough? Aren’t you ready to reconstruct how to think about and enact these things? Do you want a change?

For those of us with big hearts and never-ending pools of energy, setting boundaries can be difficult. We might be in the midst of experiencing something deeply inspiring and truly wonderful, yet somehow we’ll allow an old flame, sibling, arch-nemesis, or our energy vampires to mess us up. It’s an old story: “Life was going along so well—until Ding-Dong came along and hurt me again!” 

It doesn’t have to be this way. You can make it your personal growth goal to set boundaries and move towards a happier and more peaceful way to live. 

What Does it Mean to Set Boundaries?

When you set boundaries, you’re defining what’s safe and acceptable for your life within a framework of your own values, goals and needs. Your boundaries might result in limiting your interactions with a specific person. In some cases, you might choose to  remove someone  from your life. Setting limits also helps you figure out how you’ll respond if someone crosses your boundaries. 

Some people think of boundaries as something reserved for family and friends, but they can extend to colleagues, bosses, partners, and even strangers. Your boundaries can also shift as your needs change, but you get to decide. No one else gets to dictate your boundaries or whether or not they’re important enough to honor.

Why Are Boundaries Important in Life?

When you go through life with unhealthy or shaky boundaries, you can lose yourself in the process. Instead of nurturing yourself and your values, you end up in dysfunctional or codependent relationships. Do you have trouble saying no or quickly compromising your values? Or maybe you avoid connecting with others on a deeper level altogether out of fear of rejection?

You deserve better. Setting clear, firm boundaries offers the confidence and protection you need to keep from being used or manipulated by others. They also help foster healthier relationships—especially the one with yourself.

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How To Set Boundaries With Confidence

If you’ve never set boundaries before, it’s important to approach the process with confidence. Here are some steps to help you work through the journey and deal with self-doubt or people who are resisting the changes you’re making in your life.

1) Make Notes About How You Feel Without This Person

When the other person is not around, write down how you feel now that you are separate from them. Your emotional guidance system can help you decide how you feel about this person and whether you want to keep the relationship. Continue to visualize and imagine other scenarios where they are not around and note how you feel. 

2) Make a List of People Who Enable This Relationship to Continue

There are always people in our lives who will enable harmful and toxic relationships to continue. List the tangential people who seem invested in both you and the other person involved. Perhaps these are people you have tried to set boundaries with before but have not listened to. Write down their names and what you believe they continue to receive from you having this relationship.

3) Make a List of How Your Life Would Change

What would your life look like if this harmful person weren’t in your life any longer? What would change? What would you do differently in your daily life? 

4) Consider the Types of People You Do Want In Your Life

Now that you have a better idea of what it would look like if you were free from this harmful person, who do you want in your life instead? Make a list of the types of people you would want to walk into your life. List their attributes and imagine what their personalities are like and how they might make you feel to be around them.

5) Write an Email, Letter, or Text to Set Boundaries with Someone

Write a clear list of your boundaries and what life will be like with these new boundaries with the person. Be firm and ask that they respect your request. If the person is dangerous, send a copy of the communication to your lawyer and best friend. 

6) Set a Time Limit for Follow-Up Communication

It’s important not to drag out the process and entertain back-and-forth communication. Instead, send the communication and move on. If they have follow-up questions, that’s okay, but set a 24-hour time limit, then hold firm. Once the time limit expires, move on.

7) Contact the People Invested in the Relationship

Write and send emails, letters or texts to and tell the people invested in your relationship with the harmful person about the new boundaries you’ve set up. Ask them to either support you in this endeavor or remain detached and out of your way. 

8) Remain Clear, Firm, and Positive

Stick to your plan. Release anyone from your life who is not supportive of this pursuit. They don’t deserve you and they might find other ways to trip you up in the future. 

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How To Say Goodbye To Someone (maybe forever)

It can be difficult to say goodbye to someone, especially if it could be forever. Here are some ways to stay firm and prioritize your needs.

Be very clear about how you feel about this person. Make sure that your decision to remove them from your life has come after a long series of events or over many years. 

Forget whether or not they deserve one more chance. They probably don’t and it’s time to let go. 

Notify the person. Write an email, letter, or text to this person outlining (as briefly as possible) why you need to move on without them. In your communication, share what you learned and what you still have not learned. If you can sincerely say “thank you” for something they gave you, do that with an open heart. Don’t gush; just state something positive. Send the communication and move on. If they have follow-up questions, that’s okay, but set a 72-hour time limit, then silence. 

Notify the people whom you both know in common. Ask that they respect your decision. If you need to cite a few reasons, that’s okay. Just don’t vomit all over the page when communicating with these people. Keep it simple and move on.

Honor how you feel, release your emotions, and pray for everyone involved. It’s difficult to make drastic changes to the relationships in our lives and trigger self-growth. As we get older, we realize that having 20 friends can be exhausting, but having 1, 2, or 3 best friends can be energizing and freeing. The reason you set boundaries is to create an environment that is energizing for you and those around you. When someone fails to meet those, on to the next.

It’s all about freeing yourself so that you can attract and choose positive experiences that bring you clarity, joy, love, and happiness. You can do this. Be clear, honor your feelings, and move on. It’s time.

Start Your Journey Toward Setting Healthy Boundaries

Remember that setting boundaries is about protecting yourself and it is not about offending the other person. While the other person might want to feel offended, it is their illusion to relish or release. With some practice, you can learn to set healthy boundaries from the start to avoid harmful and toxic situations while nurturing positive relationships. If you need support to understand the dynamics in your life and learn to confidently set boundaries, you can book an intuitive reading session with me HERE.

Mastering the Art of Processing Your Emotions

Image of woman meditating with chakras illuminated - Paul Wagner

Image of woman meditating with chakras illuminated - Paul Wagner

Do you ever feel like your emotions have a mind of their own? One moment, you’re riding a wave of joy, and the next moment you’re drowning in anxiety or frustration. Emotions can feel unpredictable, overwhelming, and at times, downright exhausting! 

But what if I told you that emotions are actually powerful bundles of energy which shape your entire reality? If you want to learn how to release and process your emotions to empower yourself and transform your life, read on!

Emotions Are More Than Just Feelings – They’re Energy

Emotions aren’t just fleeting feelings – they are bundles of energy in motion. We can think of these as tiny energy beings which influence and shape our reality.

We experience an emotion when a charged thought enters our mind. This can be something positive, like feeling happy while thinking about a close friend we saw last week. 

Other thoughts are more towards the negative end of the spectrum, such as the shame we feel when remembering an embarrassing moment (ya know, like that time you suggested peanut butter during foreplay. Whoops!)

Processing Negative Emotions vs. Cultivating Positive Ones

Positive emotions like love elevate your life and relationships, and can even boost your immune system. In short, positive emotions can help keep you healthy. When you feel aligned and at peace, your body responds with increased energy and balance.

Negative emotions, on the other hand, drain you of focus, energy, light, and health. Hate, blame, denial, anxiety, depression, and fear are just a few of the less desirable emotions that you may experience over your lifetime.

If you hold on to grudges, suffer from anxiety, or tend to obsess over prior traumas, you can’t process or release anything. Chances are you’ve already experienced the consequences in the form of fatigue, foggy brain function, or seemingly ubiquitous bad luck. 

If you fill your life with more positive emotions like forgiveness, acceptance, gratitude, and joy, you might find that your experiences are quite the opposite. The stats point to feeling healthier and more active – and you’ll probably enjoy a sprinkle (or waterfall) of “lucky” coincidences!

Don’t underestimate the power of your emotions!

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The Power of Our Emotions

It doesn’t take much energy to create emotions. Emotional responses arise effortlessly as thoughts and ideas move through our minds, hearts, and bodies. Over time, they are filtered through our perceptions, beliefs, and past experiences. 

However, although these emotions may start out as tiny energy beings, energies of the same frequency all come together to form one collective energy being that can be intensely powerful – sometimes volatile!

The energy of your emotions is so strong that it not only affects you, but can even influence those around you. I’m sure you’ve experienced this (even if you didn’t realize it at the time).

Have you ever walked into a room and immediately felt tension hanging in the air? Or caught a wave of excitement from a buzzing crowd at a concert? Our emotions shift the atmosphere around us. 

Think about these examples:

  • The hushed, weighty silence in a packed stadium when a professional sports player gets hurt mid-play.
  • The infectious laughter of a baby that has everyone giggling along.
  • The collective buzz of excitement in a movie theater just when a film reaches its climax.

Emotions are that powerful.

The Hidden Link Between Electromagnetism and Emotions

So, what does this have to do with electromagnetism? Well, everything.

Every emotion carries an electrical charge. As these electrically charged particles interact, they create an electromagnetic force. The magnetism of this force causes atoms to come together, which forms our physical realities. 

Without electromagnetism, nothing would come together. To put it simply, we would not and could not exist without electromagnetism.

Thus, every emotion you experience has the power to shape your reality. They emit their own electromagnetic discharges as they continue to move around and live within you.

The energy emitted can and will impact your overall vibrational frequency. Love, peace, and gratitude radiate at a higher frequency, while emotions like anger and fear vibrate at lower frequencies.

Over time, the emotions you hold onto shape your mind, body, and reality.

So, are you forced to just suffer and endure, unable to change your trajectory because of past events?

The answer is an emphatic NO!

While it can be difficult to control our emotions, especially in cases of high stress or trauma, you are not at their mercy. You have the power to shift them.

So, how do you process difficult emotions and use them to fuel your best life? Keep reading, because you’re about to find out!

Practical Ways to Process Your Emotions

The good news is that your nature, soul, and body are all made up of energy – just like our emotions. This means that our vibrations and intentions rule our realities, giving us the power to make improvements based on intentional action.

After all, each of us is composed of light and sound. 

You can move, dissolve, improve, integrate, or awaken electromagnetic discharges and emotions so that they continue to work more in your favor:

Mindful Processing (A.K.A. Stop Fighting Your Emotions)

  • Stop judging your emotions. Let yourself feel them, even when they hurt. Try to love them like little friends showing up to teach you something. Your emotions are your roommates! LOVE THEM.
  • Acknowledge and accept them. Choose the higher perspectives in every situation and your emotions will follow your lead. Never dismiss negative emotions without first accepting and understanding them. 
  • Take note of how much energy an emotion requires to sustain. Some emotions energize you, while others linger and drain you. Becoming aware of their energy is the first step in changing your relationship with them.

Physical Release (A.K.A. Get That Energy Moving)

  • Safely express negative emotions to minimize their internal effects on you. Vent, cry, journal, do a healing ritual, or take a walk. 
  • Practice constructive anger releasing. It’s also okay to punch the earth and scream – or throw a lamp against the wall (as long as you don’t hurt anybody, including yourself!)
  • Move your body. Dance, run, shake it out. Emotions are stored in the body, and movement helps release them.
  • Try somatic release techniques. Somatic experiencing helps you process emotions through physical sensations, rather than just mentally analyzing them. 

Spiritual Practices (A.K.A. Tune into Your Higher Self)

  • Be your authentic self. Open yourself to a pure encounter with your core self – your nature – your divinely inspired spirit.
  • Meditate, pray, and forgive. This includes forgiving others AND forgiving yourself.
  • Meditate, pray, forgive others, forgive yourself, and 
  • When you feel something good, SHARE IT. Let it expand in your heart, radiate outward, and provide healing light for not just your entire Being, but others too!
  • Do spiritual practices and rituals to uplevel your vibrations 

Remember, emotions are energy in motion. Let them move through you, not control you.

Should You Fear Negative Energy Around You?

The short answer is meh, not really

While there are all kinds of energies in the world, the one affecting you the most is likely your own. If you feel oppressed by negative energy, it’s probably emanating from you, not someone or something else. 

This realization should be taken with optimism because that means you’re in control. You can take control of your actions and monitor your responses. 

Take active steps to get rid of negative energy. A walk in the woods or a park stroll, daily meditation, and incorporating essential oils into your regime are all great ways to reduce stress and raise your vibration. Consider praying for your enemies as well, as hard as that may be!

While there are negative spirits and energies in this world, the likelihood of being hurt by them is highly unlikely. If you do truly feel you have this issue, you can take a deeper dive into energy clearing and spiritual protection in an intuitive reading with me. 

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How Your Relationships Can Help You Process Negative Emotions

Emotions don’t exist in a vacuum – they’re deeply tied to our relationships. As I mentioned before, energy is contagious, so you can bet that the emotions we carry affect not just us, but everyone around us. And vice versa. 

This means that processing emotions in relationships can be one of the most powerful forms of healing.

When a Conversation Can Heal

Sometimes, it’s as simple as having a conversation.

If you’re feeling tension with someone, start by talking it out, without blame, without assumptions, just honesty. When you express emotions in a way that inspires compassion rather than defensiveness, you open a pathway to real healing.

When It’s Time to Let Go

Then there are the relationships that can’t be fixed with conversations or empathy. Some people’s M.O. is to oppress, control, invalidate or guilt you. When a toxic person in your life takes things a step too far, you need to release them

Cutting ties may hurt like hell at first, but trust me, your energy is worth protecting.

You’ll ultimately feel better when you surround yourself with authentic individuals who support, uplift, and genuinely give a shit about you. When your circle of friends is vibrant and full of light, you will be, too!

However, it’s also important to:

Release Trapped Emotions Through Radical Forgiveness

If someone does you wrong, forgive them! As a matter of fact, forgive the fuck out of EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE! (Including yourself, as I mentioned earlier).

Why? Because forgiveness isn’t about them, it’s about you. Holding onto resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to get sick. The emotions that result from forgiveness will yield wisdom, clarity, and the kind of peace that no one can take away from you.

Final Thoughts: You Have More Power Than You Think

When you understand that emotions are forces you can work with rather than be controlled by, everything changes.

Some emotions will come and go with ease. Others will cling to you, demanding to be felt, understood, or released. The key isn’t to suppress them or let them run your life; it’s to learn how to move through them, process them, and use them as tools for growth.

Like attracts like, so if you’re emitting higher vibrations, you’ll attract high vibrations!

Did I mention Gratitude and Forgiveness? Oh yeah, I did. Good! Do that!

And if you ever feel stuck – you don’t have to do it alone.

If you’re ready to break through emotional blocks, release what’s been weighing you down, and step into a more aligned, empowered version of yourself, I’d love to help. Book an intuitive reading session with me today, and let’s do the deep work of processing your emotions together.

Remember that you are the embodiment of light and love. Your energy is yours to shape. So own it and live according to your highest potential!