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Every ExtraLife member is gifted a Tree of Life Intention Stick — a handcrafted pendant you wear close to your heart, filled with the intention words that define who you are becoming. When you wear yours, you join thousands of souls around the world united by the same practice.
“To unify humanity through a global, spiritual awakening, ignited by the realization of the power held by positive intention.”
The Core Truth
The Intention Stick is an expression of unconditional love, from which intention gifts your attention — for meaningful connections and extraordinary experiences.
The stick itself is a mirror of our own physical vessel. It is hollow, waiting to be filled. When we fill it with our chosen intentions, we fill ourselves up with all we are depleted of — activating the most powerful force in human experience: the power of positive intention.
If you put out stress, worry, and anxiety, only more of that comes back. If you put out love, more love comes back. If you put out gratitude, that's what you receive. Whatever you give your intention to, you gift your attention to — and attention is the single most valuable resource you have.
“It's not being better than anyone else in this world — it's being better than who you were yesterday. We are here to grow and learn.”
22 Intentions
Each Intention Stick comes with 22 intention words — received through meditation by the movement's founders. Every word is a verb, because to live is an action. Nearly every intention you could hold falls within one of these 22 words. Choose one to three, and place them inside your stick.
The Practice
The Tree of Life Intention Stick isn't a product — it's a practice. A ritual. A commitment to yourself and to the thousands of souls walking this path with you.
Step 1
Your Tree of Life Intention Stick arrives with your ExtraLife membership — a handcrafted pendant, blessed with intention by its creators. Hold it. Feel the hollow vessel in your hands. Like you, it is waiting to be filled.
Step 2
22 intention words come with every stick. Choose one to three that speak to where you are right now — what you need, what you're called to become. Each word is a verb, because to live is an action. Place your chosen words inside the hollow stick, filling it with your deepest intention.
Step 3
The Intention Stick hangs on a 22-inch chain, resting close to your heart. The synergy between the stick and your body sends your chosen intention into the universe. Every time you feel its weight, you gift your attention back to what matters most.
Step 4
You are not doing this alone. Thousands of souls around the world wear their own Intention Stick — setting intentions, gifting attention, walking wounded toward healing. Your intention joins theirs in a collective field of human transformation.
The Neuroscience
The ancient practice of intention setting isn't mysticism — it's applied neuroscience. Every element of the Intention Stick practice maps to a documented mechanism in the brain. This is how ExtraLife bridges 5,000 years of wisdom with frontier brain science.
Your Brain's Search Engine
When you choose an intention word and wear it daily, you program your RAS — the neural gatekeeper that decides what enters your conscious awareness. Your brain literally starts filtering reality to match your intention. Opportunities, people, and ideas aligned with your word suddenly appear everywhere. They were always there — your brain just wasn't looking.
New Neural Pathways in 21 Days
Repeated intention-focused thought physically rewires your brain. Every time you touch your stick and recall your intention, you strengthen specific neural pathways while weakening old patterns of stress, doubt, and distraction. Neuroscience calls this Hebbian learning: neurons that fire together, wire together. Your intention literally reshapes your brain architecture.
40,000 Sensory Neurons in the Heart
The heart has its own nervous system — 40,000 neurons that communicate directly with the brain. Wearing the Intention Stick close to your heart isn't just symbolic. HeartMath Institute research shows that heart-focused intention creates measurable coherence between heart and brain rhythms, reducing cortisol, boosting DHEA, and shifting your entire nervous system from survival mode to creation mode.
Physical Touch = Stronger Commitment
Your brain doesn't just live in your skull — it's distributed throughout your body. Holding a physical object tied to an abstract goal activates sensorimotor regions that reinforce commitment. This is why the Intention Stick works where affirmations alone fail: the weight, the texture, the act of placing words inside — every sensory input strengthens the neural commitment loop.
47% of Waking Hours on Autopilot
Research by Killingsworth & Gilbert (Science, 2010) shows we spend nearly half our waking life mind-wandering — lost in rumination, anxiety, and mental noise. The Intention Stick acts as an interrupt signal. Every time you feel it against your chest, you snap back to intention. Over time, this trains your default mode network to return to your chosen state instead of spiraling into negativity.
42% Higher Achievement Rate
Research by Dr. Gail Matthews (Dominican University, 2015) found that people who physically wrote down goals were 42% more likely to achieve them. But the Intention Stick goes further — you don't just write it, you carry it on your body. The combination of written commitment, physical embodiment, and daily sensory reinforcement creates the strongest possible goal-encoding loop neuroscience has documented.
“The practice is ancient. The proof is modern. ExtraLife exists at the intersection — where soul meets science, and intention becomes transformation.”
Only at ExtraLife
No one else combines frontier peptide science with ancient intention practice. ExtraLife optimizes your body at the cellular level AND programs your mind for transformation. This is the full stack of human optimization — and the Intention Stick is where it all comes together.
BPC-157 repairs your gut lining. Epithalon protects your telomeres. TB-500 accelerates tissue regeneration. ExtraLife's peptide protocols optimize your biology at the cellular level — building the physical foundation that makes transformation possible.
A healthy body without direction is just surviving. The Intention Stick practice programs your reticular activating system, rewires neural pathways, and creates heart-brain coherence — giving your optimized biology a purpose and a destination.
When your cells are regenerating AND your mind is focused, when your cortisol is dropping from both peptide optimization AND intention practice — that's when exponential transformation happens. Body and mind amplifying each other. This is what ExtraLife was built for.
The ExtraLife difference: When your cells are regenerating from peptide protocols AND your RAS is programmed for success AND your heart-brain coherence is activated by the stick on your chest — transformation isn't additive. It's exponential. This is what “The Science of More” actually means.
The Symbol
The Tree of Life is the oldest symbol of human interconnection, and it wraps around every Intention Stick. The roots sink deep into Mother Earth — the subconscious. The trunk is knowledge and consciousness. The branches bring us all together — unifying all of humanity.
When you hold your Tree of Life Intention Stick, you are connected to every person around the world who holds one too — a living network of thousands of souls setting intentions, gifting attention, and becoming who they were meant to be.
The Pledge
“The Intention Stick is an expression of unconditional love, from which intention gifts your attention, for meaningful connections and extraordinary experiences.”
I pledge to attend to self.
I pledge to share positive intentions.
I pledge to strengthen positive attention — for myself, my family and friends, my community, and the world.
The Living Wall
Intentions set by people around the world. Each word represents a commitment carried close to the heart.
Gratitude
Scottsdale
Courage
Tokyo
Trust
London
Love
Sydney
Faith
Tel Aviv
Consciousness
New York
Joy
São Paulo
Mindful
Berlin
Peace
Mumbai
Inspire
Vancouver
Light
Cape Town
Health
Seoul
Believe
Phoenix
Compassion
Amsterdam
Success
Dubai
Happiness
Chicago
When you join ExtraLife, your intention joins this wall.
The Story
The Intention Stick was created by Scott and Marla Berger, Scottsdale jewelers and visionaries. What began as a Tree of Life pendant designed for their 21st wedding anniversary became a calling — when the same 22 intention words came to both of them independently during meditation.
Their vision was recognized internationally when the Royal Family invited them to Windsor Castle alongside 23 other visionaries for a consciousness summit, where they were told: “This is not just a foundation you are starting, it's a movement — it's much bigger than you could possibly ever have dreamt or imagined.”
Today, the Tree of Life Movement spans the globe. Every stick receives a personal blessing of intention. The mission is rooted in tikkun olam — the ancient concept of healing and repairing the world. ExtraLife is honored to partner with this movement, gifting every member their own Intention Stick as a cornerstone of the ExtraLife Mind practice.
The Impact
The Tree of Life Movement is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Every Intention Stick supports real people and real causes around the world.
For every Intention Stick gifted, one tree is planted in your honor — a gift to Mother Earth. Your intention takes root, both figuratively and literally.
Every Intention Stick is hand-packed with love by individuals with autism, cerebral palsy, and Down syndrome at the Gompers organization in Phoenix, in recycled packaging.
The Tree of Life Movement Foundation (501c3) works alongside relief agencies to support at-risk children — helping them connect with a positive sense of self: that they are loved, and can will their dreams into fruition.
The Question
This is the question at the heart of the Intention Stick practice. Not asked in despair — asked in wonder. When you live a life of intention, you live a meaningful and purposeful life, which ultimately connects you to your higher self and consciousness.
Everyone is walking wounded, regardless of wealth or status. The Intention Stick is a tool for filling yourself back up — for making soul-to-soul connections that transcend the surface. When you can touch another soul and watch them fill themselves back up and heal — that's what brings us our bliss.
Everyone is walking wounded. The CEO and the college student. The parent and the patient. The person who looks like they have it all together and the one who knows they don't. It doesn't matter how much money you have, how successful you appear, or how put-together your life looks from the outside.
We are all depleted of something.
The Intention Stick doesn't ask you to be fixed. It asks you to be honest — to look at the 22 words and find the one that speaks to what you're missing. To fill your vessel with what you need. And then to carry that intention on your chest, close to your heart, as a daily act of radical self-honesty and unconditional self-love.
“When you can touch another soul and watch them fill themselves back up and heal — that's what brings us our bliss. That's what this is all about.”
— Scott & Marla Berger, Founders of the Tree of Life Movement
Gifted with Every ExtraLife Membership
Every ExtraLife member is gifted a Tree of Life Intention Stick as part of their protocol — because we believe the mind and soul deserve the same attention as the body. Your membership includes a charitable donation to the Tree of Life Movement Foundation 501(c)(3).
With every ExtraLife membership
A cornerstone of the Mind pillar
Daily Intention Setting
Begin each day by holding your stick. Feel the weight of your chosen words. Let intention gift your attention before the world competes for it.
Meditation Anchor
Pair your Intention Stick with breathwork and meditation. Inhale your intention. Exhale what doesn't serve. The stick becomes your bridge between worlds.
Community Ceremonies
At ExtraLife gatherings — virtual and in Scottsdale — we set intentions together, amplifying each other's commitment through shared practice and unconditional love.
Soul Connection
Wearing your stick is a signal — to yourself and the universe — that you are living with purpose. It connects you to the global field of light, love, and gratitude.
AI-Powered Intention Coaching
ExtraLife's AI companion Claudia integrates with your Intention Stick practice — daily check-ins, guided reflections, and personalized coaching that deepens your relationship with your chosen intention.
“Good morning. Your intention is Courage. What does courage look like for you today?”
“You chose Gratitude this week. What's one thing that happened today that you're grateful for?”
“You've chosen Trust three times this month. That pattern is telling you something. Let's explore it.”
“You started with Health and moved to Inspire. Your journey shows beautiful growth. Ready for your next word?”
The Intention Stick was never meant to be sold. It was meant to be gifted — an act of unconditional love passed from one soul to another. Every ExtraLife member can gift a stick to someone they care about, extending the chain of intention around the world.
When you gift an Intention Stick, a tree is planted in that person's honor. Their name joins the global intention wall. And the ripple of your love extends further than you'll ever know.
One stick. 22 words. Thousands of souls. The simplest practices are the most transformative — and this one connects you to something far bigger than yourself.
Every ExtraLife membership includes a Tree of Life Intention Stick, a tree planted in your honor, and a charitable donation to the Tree of Life Movement Foundation.