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Changing Your Intention

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Your intention is the sentence you return to three times a day. You can change it, and sometimes you should. The app puts a light limit on how often, and this page explains both the how and the why.

Changing it

Open your intention from the app and edit the text. The app also has a guided editor that helps you reshape a sentence into something more believable rather than starting from an empty field, which is usually the better route if you are not sure what is wrong with the current one, only that something is.

Save, and the new wording is what the next session will ask you to write.

Do this immediately afterwards

Refresh the voiceover. This is the step people forget, and it produces a problem that looks unrelated.

The spoken version of your affirmation is generated from the text and stored alongside it. Change the text without regenerating the audio and the two fall out of step, which leaves you with either silence or the old sentence being read over the new one.

Go to the settings screen headed CONTROL, find VOICEOVER TONES under SYSTEM CONFIG, and tap the small refresh icon beside it. Wait for the confirmation. Full detail is in No Sound? How to Fix Voiceover Tones.

Why there is a limit

You get a small number of changes per week, four by default, tracked as change tokens. When they are used up you wait until the week turns over.

This is not an arbitrary restriction, and it is not there to make the premium tier look better. It exists because rewriting the sentence is the most reliable way to avoid practising it.

The 3-6-9 rhythm works through repetition of one specific sentence over time. A sentence that changes every second day never gets the repetition that makes it familiar, and the discomfort that prompts the rewrite is often the thing worth sitting with. An intention that feels slightly too big is doing its job. An intention you have swapped nine times in a fortnight is a way of feeling productive without practising.

When a change is genuinely right

There are good reasons to rewrite:

  • The goal has actually changed. The job you were writing about is no longer the job you want.
  • It is not believable. If reading it makes you flinch, it is too far from where you are, and the resistance will win. Scale it back to something you can say without arguing with yourself. Understanding Why Some Affirmations Create Resistance covers this properly.
  • It is not specific enough to act on. “I am successful” gives you nothing to do tomorrow morning.
  • You have achieved it. This is the best reason, and it is worth pausing on before you move to the next thing.

What happens to your history

The Past Manifestations list in 369, showing previous intentions with their dates and session counts

Past manifestations. Every intention you have practised is kept with its date and the sessions you completed under it.

Changing the intention does not delete anything. Your previous intentions are kept, along with when you started each one and how long you sustained it, so you can see what you have practised over time. Your streak carries across a change: it tracks the practice, not the sentence.