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The Spirit Daughter Podcast

Why Set Intentions: Your Intention Is Not a Wish, It Is an Instruction

Sep 25, 2026 · 18m

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You have set intentions before. On a New Moon. On the first day of the year. On a night when something in you decided things were going to be different. And then two weeks later you could not remember what you wrote. So this episode is not about how to set an intention. It is about why. Why this one practice sits at the center of everything I teach, when it takes ninety seconds and nobody is checking your work. The answer is not that the universe is waiting to take your order. It is that your brain is listening. An intention is not a wish you send out. It is an instruction you send in. Before I was an astrologer I was a neuroscientist, and in this one I hand you the science. Your brain…