Pure Intent & The Purification of Emotion
by Haydn 'H'

The catch phrase ‘Pure Intent’ is a term I coined a few years back to try and explain the difference between fostering ‘intent through will alone’ and purifying intent so that it was not a by-product of ego but rather a transcendence of it. In fact, the term became so popular a guy I used to train has a training business with that very term as its name. Unfortunately, most people I train still fail to grasp the very essence of what pure intent really means.

In a similar error to modern sports psychology most people wrongly associate certain emotions with ‘the zone’ or that frame of mind we are referring to being ‘pure’ in its intent. If you read books on modern sports psychology or read about athletes describing their amazing performances you will come across an inconsistency of emotional states. For some, they describe feelings of intense anger, for others profound peace and inner quiet. Still others describe watching and not caring while others feel scared but can’t seem to do anything wrong. Some concentrate hard while others are completely carefree.

And this is where we get to the heart of the issue. If you look at the words I’ve highlighted in the paragraph above you’ll read intense, profound and completely. You see it’s not the emotion itself that is important it is the intensity or completeness of that emotion that purifies the intent of the individual. It’s not whether you are angry, it is whether you are anger. It is not whether you feel calm it is whether you are serenity itself. When an emotional state becomes intense enough you no longer exist as a separate ego entity in an emotional state. You become that state as much as it becomes you.

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