In this video I hope to outline the baseline understanding of intent and how to apply it in it’s most basic form to simple spellwork - there are quite a few layers of how it works and as with anything this is going to be vastly different for every practitioner. I hope to cover some more of its complexities in some videos to follow so let me know what questions you have and I’ll try my best to answer them here or in a future video! Thank you so much and I hope you enjoy!
Hello I'm sorry to bother you but I was wondering if there was any way I could reach out to you? I keep getting pulled back to your channel for some reason and I'm a beginner witch. I really need some guidance and tips. If you are okay with that I'll give you my email. I don't want to seem creepy I'm just really struggling.
@@aprillxve6068 It's not true that u will end up in hell..do u understand what witchcraft means. In old days practitioner of naturopathy were known as witches because as she said. They work with tools and those tools are herbs, intentions, visualisation,feelings..except herbs if u just keep intention, visualisation, feelings u know what it's called Reki.. means projections energy and all of it together is a pure science of crafting something but a very old science.. hence it's called witchcraft So now a question for you.. their are modern scientists as well.. do u think they all will go to hell because they practice the knowledge that they have gained over years? Now in brief I will give u ur answer in her words.. going to hell or heaven depends upon ur intentions, visualisation of ur goal and ur feelings towards that endeavour.. for that thy actions will be one to decide which way thy ends.. heaven or hell 🙏
Hallo, I practice 3-4 years and now I see spells need time to come true. I got disappointed as results were delaying for some spells I had performed. But then, after some time, I saw spells did work and what I had asked, happened...
I remember as a child, when I would blow out the candles on my birthday cake, I would think of what my wish was, then inhale deeply and as I blew out the candles, I believed I was blowing life into the wish. I didn't start practicing my craft until well into my 30s, after both of my parents past away. When I would read about 'setting my intent' for a spell, it just seemed a natural reaction to 'blow life into it', just as I did as a child. Now that I think about it- my birthday wishes almost always came true! Though I never did find a unicorn in the forest behind my house, guess it was just too muggy for such an ethereal creature in the pine forests of Florida, lol. I love your videos and the way you explain things on such an easily understandable level. Keep up the amazing work- but remember, you and your mental and physical health must come first! ~Jenn
I am a practicing witch and I am entering college as a music therapy major in the fall. I am so excited for the potential for healing and love I have by incorporating a bit of magickal intention into what is already magic in itself.
Agree! To me it seems that song, dance, a walk in nature, and speaking out my spells all kind of go together. There's something magical about passionate intentions that are vocalized towards a specific thing. I think this is why we can more easily hurt someone with our flippant words than anything else. it's that sharp intense poignant jab that does the most harm (or good if you're able to pull it off!). Perhaps it's because we all know the meaning and "spirit" behind such words and actions; and so does the one saying (doing) the thing... it's literally "magic in action". Apologies don't cancel spells, nor curses, so be careful what you say and think, especially those we repeat with emotional charge. It appears the Universe takes all things as matter- of- fact and simply puts them into action; black, white, good, bad, negative, positive... it's all the same process behind the curtain, because it's all about the emotion. I'm sure if there were a great single point that started our universal cosmic clock, it was emotionally charged and exceeded anything before it and after!
A little tip for people with ADHD. I often forget what my spells are for so i like to right a little description and information about it and tie it with a string of the spell or but it under depending on what its in. Its really helpful :)
What I appreciate most from your content is the calm, unhurried, enjoyment of the moment you bring. I have been so stuck on trying to "visualize" that I've been overlooking feeling the sensations, a pressurized current kinda thing. I forget steps/stuff from rushing. You remind me to breathe and enjoy.
Thanks for mentioning methods other than visualization! As a person with aphantasia (no mind's eye), I really appreciate it. So many people seem to assume that everyone can "just picture" whatever. It's lovely to feel included for once!
I know this doesn't have anything to do with the video, but I just wanted to say that you are a serious inspiration. You are a woman that came out as a practicing witch and as part of the LGBTQ+ community, and even after all of that you still keep pushing and show your authentic and true self and that is amazing. Have a great day, Blessed Be💜
I love how you explain each thing you pick to share with us. Even us older long time witches need to return to the basics again to refresh. We forget pieces over time or we just need a reminder from a fresh, calm voice. Blessed be my sister!
The way I express magic to my daughter is intent, preparation and hard work. When you focus with an affinity for nature and pure good thought and purpose life is magic!
Thank you SO MUCH for this. I'm new to all of this at the tender age of 48! I have just come to the realization that witchcraft and all things witchy, might be for me. I stumbled into the TH-cam-Verse a few months ago and found you and absolutely love your teachings. I struggle with READING the tons and tons of books out there (reading puts me to sleep instantly and I don't retain shit) And I've seen video after video talking about adding your intent...and I get the gist but you made it make sense. So thank you! 😊
This is such a nice explanation of what intention is meant to do and feel like, however I think there are many many forms that intent can manifest itself in. My personal manifestation is a physical sensation, like shivers of cold, that run through my body and into my hands. Visualization, though often talked about, I think is the most difficult way to work with intent. Many people, even visual-minded folks like artists and the like, have a hard time visualizing an abstract concept to go along with the 'light' or whatever visual they choose as their intention. I think sometimes people are so focused on visualizing the visual portion of their intent that their actual intent gets lost. Writing or speaking is definitely the most beginner friendly, or even finding a song that fits the emotion. Anyway, for those of you who are just beginning, your preferred manifestation of intention will present itself the more comfortable you get with your craft and there's nothing saying you have to change what works for you, even if you still with the thing you first learned.
I’m a visual person so I always imagine my intent as a clump of earth and as it build in my heart it sprouts and green lush vines work their way from my core and down my arms and reaches out and wraps around my target and then flourishes into a beautiful wonderful other worldly flower and then releases from me and continues to exist on whatever I was focusing my intent on.
I just have to say that I absolutely love you…your videos, your knowledge, your kindness, your overall being, and ability to inspire so many with all that you offer. You’re a beautiful soul.
Something that's helped me so much is realizing I don't need to think the intention, I can just feel it. Lots of people have said things about how to word your intent making sure it sounds like it's already in the works. This confused me and got me hung up on simple spells. Instead I don't visualize my intent, I feel it. I let the energy I want to fulfill take over my body and infuse my ingredients. Works so much better for me :)
Thank you so much! I've struggled a lot with visualizing and I find telling far easier. This is one of the first times I've heard someone else mention it and it's extremely validating.
the way I set intention is by kinda showing the spell what I want it to do; so instead of visualizing energy I visualize the outcome I would like to get. like I made a spell for good luck on my exams so I visualized taking it, what my professors could say, and what the mark could be in as much details as possible. it might be the wrong way of doing it but it worked for me so far
Thank you for this video! There is a lot of good advice and insight here. I really like your thoughts on talking out your intention while doing a spell. I do it a lot also, and find it a tremendous aid' I started doing Qi Gong as a way of learning to raise and move energy throughout my body. The simple movements combined with breathing and visualizing the energy moving has helped me to learn so much how energy works and how to relax and allow yourself to "sense" the flow of it. But my biggest revelation came when i realized one day that the energy was moving because I had "intended" it to move! I remember reading somewhere that emotion is simply energy in motion: E-motion! Most of the time it is not our intention that is moving our energy , but simply our emotions. And since we are not always in control of our emotions, the energy moves and manifests in a lot of unwanted ways. But with intention, we direct our energy and our emotions toward a chosen result. . . . et voila! . . . - magick! However, I have also begun to understand that most of us don't really have a clear picture of what our intention really is. We think we want one thing when we really want something completely different. And so it becomes very necessary to establish a clear picture of our intentions and why we want what we do. It amazes me how the simple acts of engaging in magick leads us naturally into self-inspection and self-understanding!
Visualization is everything for me. I have always seen my energy and magick in color. So I do visualize beautiful swirls of color coming up from the earth into my body working it's way to my hands and fingertips. Even which colors I see have meaning in how they correlate to my intention. By the time I am well into the spells ingredients and workings, I can sense and visualize that strong color energy in my hands and fingers. I see it moving even while placing it into spell ingredients. For example the bay leaf (I work with that a great deal) I just touch my finger to the leaf and I can see that color moving through the veins of the leaf. When I see and feel that item filled with the energy I've manifested, I move onto the next item. It's an extraordinary sensation - emotionally, visually, all of it. If for some reason the energy doesn't feel like it's moving in me or I just cannot see the colors, I do set it aside for a bit and maybe meditate or just calm myself because that is my sign that I haven't worked on bringing the intention up and out. I love this part of my craft. It makes me feel strong, present, and genuinely in tune with the energy in and around me. Lovely video m'dear and describing or teaching how to find and effectively work with your intention is not easy :) you did really well with it.
There are countless books on this subject, and you just explained it brilliantly in 10 minutes. Extremely helpful and inspiring. Thank you, and peace be with you friend.
My girlfriend introduced me to your channel and really loves your videos. She's taught me some really cool stuff. I'm really happy to see so many women embrace this craft to better shape their lives and foster positive mental health. Appreciate you.
I love the way you talk and express yourself through hands movements and facial expression. You seem so wise, so kind, so calm. You're so beautiful, under so many different perspectives. Btw, intention in Buddhism is said to be what actually creates the result of an action. Is the first component of karma. So it makes total sense that the main, root ingredient of magic is intention.
I think that using intention in any aspect of your life makes the outcome better! and focus is really hard for some people. mindfulness, focus and intention trifecta! thanks for sharing xoxo
Idk if anybody has said this yet, but your videos really relax me. The nice cinematography, the soft voice, and the kind nature of each and every one of your videos, and I learn a lot about the positives of witchcraft from watching your content. I hope you keep on uploading. Sometimes I play your videos in the background of me doing normal life stuff because your stuff really does make the atmosphere feel peaceful. Thanks!
Iv ran across this video right after doing my first “protection ritual” I don’t consider myself a witch. Just a very spiritual person using all the spiritual tools that feel good for me. I was just making a point to feel my intention. Iv always felt and said that intention is the most important. Iv found myself and others feeling inferior because they don’t have the flashy things…but I truly believe with a few tools and LOTS of heart and soul..it’ll be done. I enjoyed this video very much. Thank you for sharing your point because it helps me feel more secure.
Thank you SO MUCH for this explanation. I'm still quite new to contemporary witchcraft and noticed the phrase "set your intention" used so often I lost sense of it's dictionary definition, let alone understanding its meaning in a magickal context. I feel confident about its meaning now and how to incorporate it into my practice. Much appreciated!
You are so magical……your energy is like a forest dew in the early morning or late at night…..you have wisdom and ability to communicate with plants and animals❤️
Intent is so important I really would enjoy hearing more on the subject especially focus my mind get so busy my focus quite often gets interrupted . I really love the soothing calmness of your videos I could listen to you all day 🥰thank you for another brilliant video 🙏
I am so happy that I was referred to your channel by a friend. I mentioned to her that I was feeling kind of overwhelmed by all the things I thought I needed to learn right away and do perfectly. Regarding plants I've been intuitive with them as long as I can remember and they love me and thrive. I love how you explain things so calmly and slowly and my brain went to, don't worry, be happy. Thankyou. You help me to feel comfortable in my new journey at almost 65. Never to old to learn.
I really enjoy the calmness and tone of your voice. Due to this magickal calmness, we have the ability to learn so much. Life is about the calmness and tranquility that is needed for our spell work. Im ever so grateful I found your channel.
Such a beautiful video, thank you. I also make sure that my intention is “for the highest good” and not just for personal gain alone. For example if I want to earn enough money to go on a retreat the intention is about increasing my ability to learn (and then share with others). I think when are intentions come from a place of serving the greater good they are amplified a thousand fold. Thank you for your beautiful videos and teachings ❤️🙏
Even when you've been practising for a while, it's good to get back to basics and be reminded from time to time of the A,B,Cs of magick. Especially when the lessons come from an accomplished witch such as Annabel 👍
Firstly, I love that colour of top on you, it looks really good! Secondly, this is a tricky subject to explain, like you said, it can be so unique to each individual practitioner! But you explained this so well!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you for this. I am one of the people who can not visualize and with so much being about visualization and I have always feared truly starting because I couldn't do what seemed like the most important part. This makes me feel so much better. Again Thank you so much.
I feel a sense of freedom, embracing this without enduring that jugement of Christians ✝️ that raised me. You have helped me more with looking at witchcraft as a lovely thing. I am very happy! Thank you, Green Witch! For a long time, I saw it as a bad thing. Like a time I was 5 and went to a Halloween fest and I met a pretend witch. She took me into a dark room and stuck my hand in a couldran of nasty feeling things. I was disturbed when I pulled out a black heart! Hahahaha! But of course now i know it was all pretend, but, your channel is wonderful! I am writing my own book 📖 of shadows and am learning a lot despite being new to this. I'm treating this as seriously As a college course am am fascinated 😮 so thanks 😊
I feel like im decent at intent. As a singer, each vocal take i record has to have a delivery that has all of my heart, mind, and soul behind it. Thank you so much for this video 😮 it is inspiring and informative 😊
These days I have so many projects going on at once that my kitchen witchcraft is often exclusively intention-based, as I all too frequently forget to add any specific ingredients into my cooking for witchy purposes.
Thank you for sharing. I consider myself spiritually agnostic, but always felt connected to witchcraft yet afraid I would fail at it. But the way you explained this subject was very lovely and helpful. Thank you again!
I wanted to thank you. I've recently found your channel and watched several of you witchcraft 101 videos and I realized I was hyper focusing on very small parts of the craft without really trying to integrate it into my life. So once again thank you.
Very well said, I'm in my 60's and this gift of the craft has been handed down to me from generations to generations in my family, you have described the Master of intention perfectly, your videos are a blessings with the teachings of the real craft. Thank you.
Yay i needed this video since ive been truing to manifest good results for my exams coming up! You are the sweetest and i love you videos ❤️ hope you are doing amazing 🌙
This video is so inspiring! The music, the visuals, and of course, the message. I usually multitask while listening to TH-cam videos, but this one really drew me in and I found myself really focused on what you were saying and able to imagine the ways in which I'd like to be more clear in my intentions. I've been going through some big life transitions and scrambling for answers and essentially not trusting myself. It's been all fear and stress. This video let me step out of it and start to dream up what I really want again. Thank you!
Thank you so much for including non-visualizing options. My wife has aphantasia and finding mediation and intention resources that don't fully rely on visualization is difficult.
It's so lovely that you show the world that there are so many ways to create a practice... and how there are many more ways to work than what the mainstream shows. I think it's so very helpful to those who are curious but cannot connect to the style of a more "gothic" practice.. so to speak. Naturally, each to their own... and that's really the best gift you give to the community... making daily practice personal. Thank you for giving us an intimate peak into your work. You are such a beautiful soul... inside and out~
The subject of intention stuck a chord with me. I've just started watching different vlogs like yours from several different women of the craft. I'm very new to pagan teachings but I have noticed that a lot of what's being said by everyone is also taught t in Buddhism. I've been practicing Buddhism for 6 years now. The Idea of setting an intention sounds very similar to what one does in certain types of Meditation. For instance, there's the practice of Lovingkindness Meditation, the idea is to cultivate warm-hearted friendly feelings toward ourselves first and then to all those around us, even those we don't really like. this helps reduce our anger, jealousy, and ego. It's like setting an intention in our minds to spread lovingkindness to all beings. Through the mental energy produced with various types of meditation, it can be a tool that helps us cultivate the good human qualities we already possess within us and little by little lessens our own suffering and the suffering of others. Especially at this time of year, I have been focusing on practicing the Buddhist concept of healthy mindfulness of death, our own, and the death of those who have passed on and those who will die. If we want to die well it's important to live well and prepare for our departure long before it happens. All of life is impermanent and follows the wheel of birth, life, death, and rebirth which is the point of this exercise and the reduction of our own ego. The fact that the veil between the world of the dead and the living is at its thinnest we can celebrate those who have passed on and remember that like them this life one day will no longer be. I visited the cemetery the other day to really get the feeling of this season of letting go of all those things that no longer serve us any good and embracing new positive energy as we move closer to the new year. May all beings be well. May all beings be happy. May all beings be peaceful. Blessed Be. We are one!
Thank you for this! I love looking at the background of your home. All the plants and flowers .so clean and peaceful and green witch! Thanks for all you do.
Your voice, your way of expression, your sincere sharing of knowledge are already magical. I love hearing and listening to you. Warm. Calm. Sweet. So positive. When I listen to you with my eyes closed I feel like I am listening to a relaxing healing music. Thank you for sharing your being with me. Long blissful life to you!
The clear way you approach this topic really pleases me. It's truly a topic about which little is communicated in our circles, especially in public. - - - And by the way: while watching and letting my thoughts fly their own ways, the brilliant idea flew into my mind how to restart my channel: thanx for that, you're a blessed transformer/catalyst :-)
My preferred method is meditative practice. I use a piece of software called Soundself: A Technodelic as a meditative focus in Virtual Reality, and then I project my intent by vocalizing the primordial Ohm, visualizing, and feeling the stirring of emotion in my heart. Spellwork in a superconscious state is sublime. Much love.
Thank you so much for addressing that not everyone can visualize. I have aphantasia, the word visualize has been thrown around forever because yes it does help. But it’s been expressed as the only way, and in guided meditation videos it asks you to visualize and I just never could. I’ve been trying for so long to visualize in the way I could which was very splotchy and I didn’t connect with it. I felt like I was never going to achieve my goals because I was fundamentally lacking that tool. This certainly helped me to understand that there are other ways and the point of witchcraft is to connect with it in the way that is best for you.
I feel like most places (and people) tells me that visualisation is the same as intent and there is no other way to use intent than visualisation, that the other methods are just bonuses you can spice up with, besides visualisation. It makes it really inaccessible when you think visualisation is something you have to do no matter what. But as you explain, that is not true.
Intention is the intersection of focus, inspiration, and empathy. Magic is very much about connection and community-- being in tune with life. There's a symphony around you at all times, and while you cannot contradict it, at the right moment you may elevate a particular melody through use of your instrument.
Great video! I see in my own craft that simple small spells work best for me, as I can really put the right energy/intention into it, just a visualization already does wonders. So indeed, without fancy tools you can already accomplish a lot :)
Very much. Yesterday, during that amazing blood super flower moon, I did a coming of age ritual for someone at a thirteen-year milestone. I only said "Hail and Welcome" at three of the four quarters lol but it was an amazing ritual full of meaning and joy nonetheless that I will always look back on with total joy! Blessed be!
This was a great video! You are so right…we see a lot of “intent” the word and the necessity of it when spell working..but not a lot of explanation and instruction on what intent means and looks like. Thanks for this 💗I love the idea of singing over a spell…I’ve not ever done that but it intrigues me. 😊~Krislynner
I cant tell you haw amazing your videos are for me. With the some recent events rocking my life to its core I have begun to question my beliefs. At the moment I am unsure of where my feelings lay and I sought out this channel to begin learning new things. I am new to the study of spirituality let alone witchcraft. I was brought up my whole life to fear magic and those who practiced it but the draw was ever present. Your explanation of intent and energies makes me feel less scared. Moreover it is starting to make far too much sense to me. Growing up I always had good health. I could recover fast and even relieve others pain quite easily. I just thought is was some weird quirk or just coincidence but the more I learn about spellcraft the more I feel like I had been subconsciously using intent to heal and repell sickness. I would like to hope I have a gift that spellcraft can expand upon becasue someone I love is very very sick. I know I cant save them from what is to come but I want to make their pain lesser if I can. Your channel gives me hope that I can, at least, try to do something for them. I know nothing of healing magics however. On top of that I had always heard that witches were very LGBTQ+ friendly. As a trans woman, I want very much to embrace my feminine elements and I feel witchcraft can assist with that. I treasure any place where I can be free to be myself and just do my own thing. I was not disappointed. You have an amazingly friendly vibe about your channel. You make me feel safe exploring my femininity through spirituality which I was too scared to do for the longest time. I have subscribed to your channel. I look forward to watching your videos and learning more about this amazing practice.
In this video I hope to outline the baseline understanding of intent and how to apply it in it’s most basic form to simple spellwork - there are quite a few layers of how it works and as with anything this is going to be vastly different for every practitioner. I hope to cover some more of its complexities in some videos to follow so let me know what questions you have and I’ll try my best to answer them here or in a future video! Thank you so much and I hope you enjoy!
Hello I'm sorry to bother you but I was wondering if there was any way I could reach out to you? I keep getting pulled back to your channel for some reason and I'm a beginner witch. I really need some guidance and tips. If you are okay with that I'll give you my email. I don't want to seem creepy I'm just really struggling.
@@aprillxve6068 It's not true that u will end up in hell..do u understand what witchcraft means. In old days practitioner of naturopathy were known as witches because as she said. They work with tools and those tools are herbs, intentions, visualisation,feelings..except herbs if u just keep intention, visualisation, feelings u know what it's called Reki.. means projections energy and all of it together is a pure science of crafting something but a very old science.. hence it's called witchcraft
So now a question for you.. their are modern scientists as well.. do u think they all will go to hell because they practice the knowledge that they have gained over years?
Now in brief I will give u ur answer in her words.. going to hell or heaven depends upon ur intentions, visualisation of ur goal and ur feelings towards that endeavour.. for that thy actions will be one to decide which way thy ends.. heaven or hell 🙏
Thank you for another wonderful and educational video!
Thank you very much, Annie! This video is very useful :)
Hallo, I practice 3-4 years and now I see spells need time to come true. I got disappointed as results were delaying for some spells I had performed. But then, after some time, I saw spells did work and what I had asked, happened...
I remember as a child, when I would blow out the candles on my birthday cake, I would think of what my wish was, then inhale deeply and as I blew out the candles, I believed I was blowing life into the wish. I didn't start practicing my craft until well into my 30s, after both of my parents past away. When I would read about 'setting my intent' for a spell, it just seemed a natural reaction to 'blow life into it', just as I did as a child. Now that I think about it- my birthday wishes almost always came true! Though I never did find a unicorn in the forest behind my house, guess it was just too muggy for such an ethereal creature in the pine forests of Florida, lol. I love your videos and the way you explain things on such an easily understandable level. Keep up the amazing work- but remember, you and your mental and physical health must come first! ~Jenn
That's funny, that was a pagan tradition, from what I know it was done in the honour of Artemis (the circular cake was meant to represent the moon)
Reading this comment randomly really made me smile on a very bad day. So thank you ☺️
I hope you come back as a unicorn in your next life
That’s amazing. I also had a few small wishes come true. I would just wait for them to happen. I never doubted my wishes.
Oh! I love this!
I like the idea of singing my intention over the craft
I do everything in a tune 🎵
I do. I will also scream to cleanse if something is being stubborn about leaving.
I am a practicing witch and I am entering college as a music therapy major in the fall. I am so excited for the potential for healing and love I have by incorporating a bit of magickal intention into what is already magic in itself.
Agree!
To me it seems that song, dance, a walk in nature, and speaking out my spells all kind of go together.
There's something magical about passionate intentions that are vocalized towards a specific thing.
I think this is why we can more easily hurt someone with our flippant words than anything else. it's that sharp intense poignant jab that does the most harm (or good if you're able to pull it off!).
Perhaps it's because we all know the meaning and "spirit" behind such words and actions; and so does the one saying (doing) the thing... it's literally "magic in action".
Apologies don't cancel spells, nor curses, so be careful what you say and think, especially those we repeat with emotional charge.
It appears the Universe takes all things as matter- of- fact and simply puts them into action; black, white, good, bad, negative, positive... it's all the same process behind the curtain, because it's all about the emotion.
I'm sure if there were a great single point that started our universal cosmic clock, it was emotionally charged and exceeded anything before it and after!
I love this idea!
“the worst that can happen is nothing” needed to hear that. thank you.
A little tip for people with ADHD. I often forget what my spells are for so i like to right a little description and information about it and tie it with a string of the spell or but it under depending on what its in. Its really helpful :)
What I appreciate most from your content is the calm, unhurried, enjoyment of the moment you bring. I have been so stuck on trying to "visualize" that I've been overlooking feeling the sensations, a pressurized current kinda thing. I forget steps/stuff from rushing. You remind me to breathe and enjoy.
Thanks for mentioning methods other than visualization! As a person with aphantasia (no mind's eye), I really appreciate it. So many people seem to assume that everyone can "just picture" whatever. It's lovely to feel included for once!
Does drawing a sketch, or a rough sketch help with visualization?
I also have difficulty visualizing, but there are times I have clear seeing in my mind’s eye.
Everything that helps is appreciated.
Sometimes it’s damming hard to just trust the process after shit hits the fan in the mundane but it is so worthwhile
I completely agree!
because they do not up the game
I know this doesn't have anything to do with the video, but I just wanted to say that you are a serious inspiration. You are a woman that came out as a practicing witch and as part of the LGBTQ+ community, and even after all of that you still keep pushing and show your authentic and true self and that is amazing. Have a great day, Blessed Be💜
I agree, you're adorable and inspiring sister and I just love you!🧙♀️💜
Can I just take a moment and say how much I love your new haircut!!! I'm in love! It really suits you 😁
I love how you explain each thing you pick to share with us. Even us older long time witches need to return to the basics again to refresh. We forget pieces over time or we just need a reminder from a fresh, calm voice. Blessed be my sister!
Everytime I watch your videos I'm blown away. The quality, the story and the education is always so we'll put together. 💕
Wow, thank you!
Agreed 100%! I am new here, but I’m loving it! 💯❤️✨
I'll second that 100%. Very classy and dignified approach.
The way I express magic to my daughter is intent, preparation and hard work. When you focus with an affinity for nature and pure good thought and purpose life is magic!
Your videos are always so gentle, enlightening, and lovely. Thank you for all the beauty you share with us.
Thank you, I'm so glad!
Thank you so much beautiful soul! 🥰
Thank you SO MUCH for this. I'm new to all of this at the tender age of 48! I have just come to the realization that witchcraft and all things witchy, might be for me. I stumbled into the TH-cam-Verse a few months ago and found you and absolutely love your teachings. I struggle with READING the tons and tons of books out there (reading puts me to sleep instantly and I don't retain shit) And I've seen video after video talking about adding your intent...and I get the gist but you made it make sense. So thank you! 😊
This is such a nice explanation of what intention is meant to do and feel like, however I think there are many many forms that intent can manifest itself in. My personal manifestation is a physical sensation, like shivers of cold, that run through my body and into my hands. Visualization, though often talked about, I think is the most difficult way to work with intent. Many people, even visual-minded folks like artists and the like, have a hard time visualizing an abstract concept to go along with the 'light' or whatever visual they choose as their intention. I think sometimes people are so focused on visualizing the visual portion of their intent that their actual intent gets lost. Writing or speaking is definitely the most beginner friendly, or even finding a song that fits the emotion. Anyway, for those of you who are just beginning, your preferred manifestation of intention will present itself the more comfortable you get with your craft and there's nothing saying you have to change what works for you, even if you still with the thing you first learned.
Whenever I'm doing work to help focus my intent I create music playlist to listen to while I work and it's my favorite method alongside visualization.
I’m a visual person so I always imagine my intent as a clump of earth and as it build in my heart it sprouts and green lush vines work their way from my core and down my arms and reaches out and wraps around my target and then flourishes into a beautiful wonderful other worldly flower and then releases from me and continues to exist on whatever I was focusing my intent on.
This is the best explanation of intention I have seen. Thank you!
Yes. Thank you so much for this valuable information. I resonate with what you are talking about, and I have learned so much from you. blessed be.
I just have to say that I absolutely love you…your videos, your knowledge, your kindness, your overall being, and ability to inspire so many with all that you offer. You’re a beautiful soul.
Intentional energy is so important 💕 would love to see a video about how to better cultivate that energy
Honestly your videos are beautiful put together and so helpful so thank you 🥰
Thank you, that means a lot to hear
Loved the video, Annie. I actually just explained to my kids (who desperately wanted their first wands) that without intent, it's just a fancy stick.
Something that's helped me so much is realizing I don't need to think the intention, I can just feel it. Lots of people have said things about how to word your intent making sure it sounds like it's already in the works. This confused me and got me hung up on simple spells. Instead I don't visualize my intent, I feel it. I let the energy I want to fulfill take over my body and infuse my ingredients. Works so much better for me :)
Thank you so much! I've struggled a lot with visualizing and I find telling far easier. This is one of the first times I've heard someone else mention it and it's extremely validating.
Great explanation! I often "feel" my intentions, not much visualizing, so I often struggle to explain it to others
the way I set intention is by kinda showing the spell what I want it to do; so instead of visualizing energy I visualize the outcome I would like to get. like I made a spell for good luck on my exams so I visualized taking it, what my professors could say, and what the mark could be in as much details as possible. it might be the wrong way of doing it but it worked for me so far
Thank you for this video! There is a lot of good advice and insight here.
I really like your thoughts on talking out your intention while doing a spell.
I do it a lot also, and find it a tremendous aid'
I started doing Qi Gong as a way of learning to raise and move energy throughout my body.
The simple movements combined with breathing and visualizing the energy moving has helped me to learn so much how energy works
and how to relax and allow yourself to "sense" the flow of it.
But my biggest revelation came when i realized one day that the energy was moving because I had "intended" it to move!
I remember reading somewhere that emotion is simply energy in motion: E-motion!
Most of the time it is not our intention that is moving our energy , but simply our emotions.
And since we are not always in control of our emotions, the energy moves and manifests in a lot of unwanted ways.
But with intention, we direct our energy and our emotions toward a chosen result. . . . et voila! . . . - magick!
However, I have also begun to understand that most of us don't really have a clear picture of what our intention really is.
We think we want one thing when we really want something completely different.
And so it becomes very necessary to establish a clear picture of our intentions and why we want what we do.
It amazes me how the simple acts of engaging in magick leads us naturally into self-inspection and self-understanding!
Visualization is everything for me. I have always seen my energy and magick in color. So I do visualize beautiful swirls of color coming up from the earth into my body working it's way to my hands and fingertips. Even which colors I see have meaning in how they correlate to my intention. By the time I am well into the spells ingredients and workings, I can sense and visualize that strong color energy in my hands and fingers. I see it moving even while placing it into spell ingredients. For example the bay leaf (I work with that a great deal) I just touch my finger to the leaf and I can see that color moving through the veins of the leaf. When I see and feel that item filled with the energy I've manifested, I move onto the next item. It's an extraordinary sensation - emotionally, visually, all of it. If for some reason the energy doesn't feel like it's moving in me or I just cannot see the colors, I do set it aside for a bit and maybe meditate or just calm myself because that is my sign that I haven't worked on bringing the intention up and out. I love this part of my craft. It makes me feel strong, present, and genuinely in tune with the energy in and around me. Lovely video m'dear and describing or teaching how to find and effectively work with your intention is not easy :) you did really well with it.
There are countless books on this subject, and you just explained it brilliantly in 10 minutes. Extremely helpful and inspiring. Thank you, and peace be with you friend.
Thank you so much for presenting witchcraft for what it truly is. There is so much truth in what you speak. 😊 Thank you for sharing your heart.
My girlfriend introduced me to your channel and really loves your videos. She's taught me some really cool stuff. I'm really happy to see so many women embrace this craft to better shape their lives and foster positive mental health. Appreciate you.
You have came so far. You are a blessing to all. Your journey will be a great one. Love from this old witch...
Following. And I must say, you are the prettiest witch I have ever seen.
I like this, it is calm and informative. Well done.
Your voice and presence is so comforting and majestic. Thanks for your wisdom. 🖤
I love the way you talk and express yourself through hands movements and facial expression. You seem so wise, so kind, so calm. You're so beautiful, under so many different perspectives. Btw, intention in Buddhism is said to be what actually creates the result of an action. Is the first component of karma. So it makes total sense that the main, root ingredient of magic is intention.
I think that using intention in any aspect of your life makes the outcome better! and focus is really hard for some people. mindfulness, focus and intention trifecta! thanks for sharing xoxo
Idk if anybody has said this yet, but your videos really relax me. The nice cinematography, the soft voice, and the kind nature of each and every one of your videos, and I learn a lot about the positives of witchcraft from watching your content. I hope you keep on uploading. Sometimes I play your videos in the background of me doing normal life stuff because your stuff really does make the atmosphere feel peaceful. Thanks!
Watching this channel is a blessing to my life - thank you!
Iv ran across this video right after doing my first “protection ritual” I don’t consider myself a witch. Just a very spiritual person using all the spiritual tools that feel good for me.
I was just making a point to feel my intention. Iv always felt and said that intention is the most important. Iv found myself and others feeling inferior because they don’t have the flashy things…but I truly believe with a few tools and LOTS of heart and soul..it’ll be done.
I enjoyed this video very much. Thank you for sharing your point because it helps me feel more secure.
Thank you SO MUCH for this explanation. I'm still quite new to contemporary witchcraft and noticed the phrase "set your intention" used so often I lost sense of it's dictionary definition, let alone understanding its meaning in a magickal context. I feel confident about its meaning now and how to incorporate it into my practice. Much appreciated!
I’m not really a beginner but I love learning abt others
This women voice is so soothing to my soul ...and she's just amazingly beautiful...really enjoy your videos thanks for tips
You are so magical……your energy is like a forest dew in the early morning or late at night…..you have wisdom and ability to communicate with plants and animals❤️
Intent is so important I really would enjoy hearing more on the subject especially focus my mind get so busy my focus quite often gets interrupted . I really love the soothing calmness of your videos I could listen to you all day 🥰thank you for another brilliant video 🙏
I'm an artist and I never thought about drawing my intent or spell. I LOVE that and will be trying it.
I am so happy that I was referred to your channel by a friend. I mentioned to her that I was feeling kind of overwhelmed by all the things I thought I needed to learn right away and do perfectly. Regarding plants I've been intuitive with them as long as I can remember and they love me and thrive. I love how you explain things so calmly and slowly and my brain went to, don't worry, be happy. Thankyou. You help me to feel comfortable in my new journey at almost 65. Never to old to learn.
Watching your videos is so incredibly calming
I really enjoy the calmness and tone of your voice. Due to this magickal calmness, we have the ability to learn so much. Life is about the calmness and tranquility that is needed for our spell work. Im ever so grateful I found your channel.
Such a beautiful video, thank you. I also make sure that my intention is “for the highest good” and not just for personal gain alone. For example if I want to earn enough money to go on a retreat the intention is about increasing my ability to learn (and then share with others). I think when are intentions come from a place of serving the greater good they are amplified a thousand fold. Thank you for your beautiful videos and teachings ❤️🙏
I find your voice vert calm and relaxing
Even when you've been practising for a while, it's good to get back to basics and be reminded from time to time of the A,B,Cs of magick.
Especially when the lessons come from an accomplished witch such as Annabel 👍
Firstly, I love that colour of top on you, it looks really good! Secondly, this is a tricky subject to explain, like you said, it can be so unique to each individual practitioner! But you explained this so well!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Attention and intention!
You're explanation in your sweet calm voice is perfect! ❤ Intent is so important!
Thank you for this. I am one of the people who can not visualize and with so much being about visualization and I have always feared truly starting because I couldn't do what seemed like the most important part. This makes me feel so much better. Again Thank you so much.
I feel a sense of freedom, embracing this without enduring that jugement of Christians ✝️ that raised me. You have helped me more with looking at witchcraft as a lovely thing. I am very happy! Thank you, Green Witch! For a long time, I saw it as a bad thing. Like a time I was 5 and went to a Halloween fest and I met a pretend witch. She took me into a dark room and stuck my hand in a couldran of nasty feeling things. I was disturbed when I pulled out a black heart! Hahahaha! But of course now i know it was all pretend, but, your channel is wonderful! I am writing my own book 📖 of shadows and am learning a lot despite being new to this. I'm treating this as seriously As a college course am am fascinated 😮 so thanks 😊
I feel like im decent at intent. As a singer, each vocal take i record has to have a delivery that has all of my heart, mind, and soul behind it. Thank you so much for this video 😮 it is inspiring and informative 😊
Perfect clarification! Finally, the basics made simple!❤️❤️❤️
These days I have so many projects going on at once that my kitchen witchcraft is often exclusively intention-based, as I all too frequently forget to add any specific ingredients into my cooking for witchy purposes.
Thank you for sharing. I consider myself spiritually agnostic, but always felt connected to witchcraft yet afraid I would fail at it. But the way you explained this subject was very lovely and helpful. Thank you again!
Nicely put sister 🧙 Blessed be 🌜🌝🌛✨🪴🌬🔥💦
I wanted to thank you. I've recently found your channel and watched several of you witchcraft 101 videos and I realized I was hyper focusing on very small parts of the craft without really trying to integrate it into my life. So once again thank you.
Very well said, I'm in my 60's and this gift of the craft has been handed down to me from generations to generations in my family, you have described the Master of intention perfectly, your videos are a blessings with the teachings of the real craft. Thank you.
Yay i needed this video since ive been truing to manifest good results for my exams coming up! You are the sweetest and i love you videos ❤️ hope you are doing amazing 🌙
Thank you, you are too kind! Good luck on your exams!!
This video is so inspiring! The music, the visuals, and of course, the message. I usually multitask while listening to TH-cam videos, but this one really drew me in and I found myself really focused on what you were saying and able to imagine the ways in which I'd like to be more clear in my intentions. I've been going through some big life transitions and scrambling for answers and essentially not trusting myself. It's been all fear and stress. This video let me step out of it and start to dream up what I really want again. Thank you!
As someone super new to witchcraft, this was extremely helpful! Thanks ❤
Thank you so much for including non-visualizing options. My wife has aphantasia and finding mediation and intention resources that don't fully rely on visualization is difficult.
Beeing in a biiig depression at the moment, this video really helps me today. Thank you so much for this, it is a lot for me!
It's so lovely that you show the world that there are so many ways to create a practice... and how there are many more ways to work than what the mainstream shows. I think it's so very helpful to those who are curious but cannot connect to the style of a more "gothic" practice.. so to speak. Naturally, each to their own... and that's really the best gift you give to the community... making daily practice personal. Thank you for giving us an intimate peak into your work. You are such a beautiful soul... inside and out~
The subject of intention stuck a chord with me. I've just started watching different vlogs like yours from several different women of the craft. I'm very new to pagan teachings but I have noticed that a lot of what's being said by everyone is also taught t in Buddhism. I've been practicing Buddhism for 6 years now. The Idea of setting an intention sounds very similar to what one does in certain types of Meditation. For instance, there's the practice of Lovingkindness Meditation, the idea is to cultivate warm-hearted friendly feelings toward ourselves first and then to all those around us, even those we don't really like. this helps reduce our anger, jealousy, and ego. It's like setting an intention in our minds to spread lovingkindness to all beings. Through the mental energy produced with various types of meditation, it can be a tool that helps us cultivate the good human qualities we already possess within us and little by little lessens our own suffering and the suffering of others. Especially at this time of year, I have been focusing on practicing the Buddhist concept of healthy mindfulness of death, our own, and the death of those who have passed on and those who will die. If we want to die well it's important to live well and prepare for our departure long before it happens. All of life is impermanent and follows the wheel of birth, life, death, and rebirth which is the point of this exercise and the reduction of our own ego. The fact that the veil between the world of the dead and the living is at its thinnest we can celebrate those who have passed on and remember that like them this life one day will no longer be. I visited the cemetery the other day to really get the feeling of this season of letting go of all those things that no longer serve us any good and embracing new positive energy as we move closer to the new year.
May all beings be well.
May all beings be happy.
May all beings be peaceful.
Blessed Be.
We are one!
You are so eloquent and articulate I love watching your videos! Blessed be
Thank you for this! I love looking at the background of your home. All the plants and flowers .so clean and peaceful and green witch! Thanks for all you do.
Your voice, your way of expression, your sincere sharing of knowledge are already magical. I love hearing and listening to you. Warm. Calm. Sweet. So positive. When I listen to you with my eyes closed I feel like I am listening to a relaxing healing music. Thank you for sharing your being with me. Long blissful life to you!
Annabelle, you are a beautiful woman in your soul and body.. I admire your integrity and honesty; your innocence and your philosophy of life.
The clear way you approach this topic really pleases me. It's truly a topic about which little is communicated in our circles, especially in public. - - - And by the way: while watching and letting my thoughts fly their own ways, the brilliant idea flew into my mind how to restart my channel: thanx for that, you're a blessed transformer/catalyst :-)
Thank you. I have wondered and second guessed myself for years. Appreciate the suggestions and direction.
My preferred method is meditative practice. I use a piece of software called Soundself: A Technodelic as a meditative focus in Virtual Reality, and then I project my intent by vocalizing the primordial Ohm, visualizing, and feeling the stirring of emotion in my heart. Spellwork in a superconscious state is sublime. Much love.
You see and feel so healer make me so pace full
I adore your calmness
Thank you so much for this explanation. I’m very new and wondered about intention and how to get it right. Here I’ve been doing it right all along. 😊
Thank you so much for addressing that not everyone can visualize. I have aphantasia, the word visualize has been thrown around forever because yes it does help. But it’s been expressed as the only way, and in guided meditation videos it asks you to visualize and I just never could. I’ve been trying for so long to visualize in the way I could which was very splotchy and I didn’t connect with it. I felt like I was never going to achieve my goals because I was fundamentally lacking that tool. This certainly helped me to understand that there are other ways and the point of witchcraft is to connect with it in the way that is best for you.
What a beautiful, loving and thoughtful channel! Thank you!
Thank you! This was very helpful! Yes, it is definitely easier to infuse intent with the use of magical herbs/tools
Your voice and energy seem so calming and alluring
I feel like most places (and people) tells me that visualisation is the same as intent and there is no other way to use intent than visualisation, that the other methods are just bonuses you can spice up with, besides visualisation. It makes it really inaccessible when you think visualisation is something you have to do no matter what. But as you explain, that is not true.
Intention is the intersection of focus, inspiration, and empathy. Magic is very much about connection and community-- being in tune with life. There's a symphony around you at all times, and while you cannot contradict it, at the right moment you may elevate a particular melody through use of your instrument.
thank you i totally agree i'm 75 you are in top of things
Thank you I'm a beginner and your direction is very helpful to me. Blessed be
Great video! I see in my own craft that simple small spells work best for me, as I can really put the right energy/intention into it, just a visualization already does wonders. So indeed, without fancy tools you can already accomplish a lot :)
Very much. Yesterday, during that amazing blood super flower moon, I did a coming of age ritual for someone at a thirteen-year milestone. I only said "Hail and Welcome" at three of the four quarters lol but it was an amazing ritual full of meaning and joy nonetheless that I will always look back on with total joy! Blessed be!
Literally taking down notes!! I’m a newb and find your videos to be such a gift and an inspiration.
This was a great video! You are so right…we see a lot of “intent” the word and the necessity of it when spell working..but not a lot of explanation and instruction on what intent means and looks like. Thanks for this 💗I love the idea of singing over a spell…I’ve not ever done that but it intrigues me. 😊~Krislynner
Thanks for sharing! I would like to see more on focusing intent/energy. I know I need to improve on that.
Your videos are lovely, and I am so grateful to you for sharing your experience, understanding and knowledge. I hear you!
I cant tell you haw amazing your videos are for me.
With the some recent events rocking my life to its core I have begun to question my beliefs. At the moment I am unsure of where my feelings lay and I sought out this channel to begin learning new things. I am new to the study of spirituality let alone witchcraft. I was brought up my whole life to fear magic and those who practiced it but the draw was ever present. Your explanation of intent and energies makes me feel less scared. Moreover it is starting to make far too much sense to me.
Growing up I always had good health. I could recover fast and even relieve others pain quite easily. I just thought is was some weird quirk or just coincidence but the more I learn about spellcraft the more I feel like I had been subconsciously using intent to heal and repell sickness.
I would like to hope I have a gift that spellcraft can expand upon becasue someone I love is very very sick. I know I cant save them from what is to come but I want to make their pain lesser if I can. Your channel gives me hope that I can, at least, try to do something for them. I know nothing of healing magics however.
On top of that I had always heard that witches were very LGBTQ+ friendly. As a trans woman, I want very much to embrace my feminine elements and I feel witchcraft can assist with that. I treasure any place where I can be free to be myself and just do my own thing. I was not disappointed. You have an amazingly friendly vibe about your channel. You make me feel safe exploring my femininity through spirituality which I was too scared to do for the longest time.
I have subscribed to your channel. I look forward to watching your videos and learning more about this amazing practice.
Your intros are always so beautiful!💕