He shares a lot of his thoughts in writing in the various ways I stay connected to him as a student. I just recognized I would like to share some here both for myself and others to re-visit and contemplate about.

Here is some recent gems from Dov I really love:

“There is only one way to make sure your life is a failure live it by Someone else’s rules.” ~Dõv Baron

“’Too far’ and ‘too much’ are excuses we have all overcome when what we needed to do mattered more than the excuse we held!”~Dõv Baron

‎”Who you will become is latent within you…Everyone got some crappy messages about who they are, that doesn’t mean that those are the only messages you contain, look deeper.” ~Dov Baron…

In life you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you believe you deserve – Dov Baron

We can only have what we can own, as the old testament says; With all your heart, all your soul and all your might!

How powerful can you accept that you are…. “Without conscious beings (that includes you) the Universe would just be an ever expanding, super position of possibilities where nothing ever solidly came into form. You are an active creator of the Universe.” ~Dov Baron

“I am powerful!
I am a force to be reckoned with!
I am committed to standing in integrity and operating in all my dealing with integrity
I am defining myself in each given moment.
…I learn and grow from each and every experience
I am an immovable force in the pursuit of what I know honours my soul.
I am here to honour all, especially the younger me!

My Life, My power, NO excuses!”

I’ve finished reading the book but by no means is this the end of my study of it. In fact I’ll use this book as a fundamental reading guide for my continual study and application of the principles and techniques John Kehoe teaches. The study and application is more important than reading and comprehension. Knowledge is just the beginning. Application of the knowledge with continual practice is the only way to create what we desire for our life. That is what I’m committed to for my own life.

So I’m recommending you use whatever I’ve shared here that you sense can work for you too. The only way to find out is apply and develop your own daily practice into your life. I hope in some way my sharing of blog entries here can make an impact on you starting to really make your mind work more *for* you. I know I gain a lot personally just by me sharing my thoughts here. Taking my time to express in writing what I’m beginning to understand deeper, results in me getting it deeper myself. I’ve become more committed to my own practice as a result of following through on what I started here. It is exciting for me. I see what is working for me and what I can do better and refine my own way of applying these techniques into my mind power practice. It is feeling like an art now for me. I love that.

I finished previous blog entry sharing what I understood of the chapter on beliefs and the imprinting technique. There are seven more chapters beyond that, however, covering the techniques and foundational skills needed to develop and begin using mind powers consciously was my main intention for this series of blogs I’m sharing about this book.

The last few chapters covers John Kehoe’s thoughts on applying the techniques in improving different areas of life. Some of those are; working on improving self-image. Tapping into your creativity. Health and healing suggestions. Developing a prosperity consciousness and finally building and maintain fulfilling relationships.

The final chapter is about the need to have dedication to training the mind if we have any serious ambitions of developing and using mind power. The following is a portion of the chapter that I am going to highlight here to end this series of blogs studying this excellent book on mind powers.

“This book contains the methods by which you can learn the necessary skills and thereby harness your mind for maximum potential. But it takes more that just reading this book. You must train your mind.

Do you have the vision of what training mentally will do for you ?……
…It is only the grand vision of what we can do and become that propels us to work regularly at creating our new reality “

Just What Is Reality To You?

We Live Simultaneously In Two Worlds

Deciding To Think In A New Way

Practing Successful Visualization

Not Giving Up On Our Dreams and Finding the Real Seeds to Grow Within Us

Seeding Technique With Our Mind

Affirming, Declaring and Proclaiming

The Acknowledgment Technique

Our Deeper and More Powerful Mind

More On Deeper Realms of The Mind

Improving Our Relationship With Our Subconscious Partner

Be Realistic or Be Pro-active ?

Prerequisite for Using Mind Power

Imprinting Beliefs Consciously Chosen

We have to ignite a dream deep within and bring it into our life as a living reality for us to experience. We need to be using our inner world creatively to ignite it into our outer world reality. This means harnessing our ability to think thoughts with feeling again and again. When we can really focus our mind on our desires, the burning desire is going to eventually be fueling us to take the actions we need to take. That is what will start attracting the means in our outer world to achieve our dreams. Every dream we have is going to need supportive beliefs working for us deep in our mind. So we have to consciously plant beliefs within.

It is our own responsibility to examine our beliefs around whatever area of life our dream is related to. That is what a dedicated mind powers student does. Where we find we already have supportive beliefs in place be grateful for those beliefs. Next is to add any other beliefs that would allow us to become a path of least resistance to our dream happening in our life. If we identify we have self-defeating beliefs in place that do not support our dreams happening then we have to find our own way of destructing them. Or, at the very least, deny giving it any more energy that feeds it’s existence in us. The other approach is consciously choose empowering beliefs that will put us in resonance with our dreams and crowd the old beliefs from having room to breath in us anymore. Let them wither and fritter away.

As John Kehoe writes in his chapter on beliefs and imprinting
“When new beliefs are accepted by your subconscious mind whole new realities will open up”

His challenge to us all, is choose wisely and aim for greatness for our life experience.

“Challenge yourself to create new, more supportive beliefs even if on the surface you don’t believe them. Remind yourself that you can voluntarily plant in your subconscious mind any thought, idea or belief you desire, and your mind will accept it provided it is introduced with feeling and reinforced with repetition. “

He suggest using an imprinting technique to implant these beliefs within our subconscious mind. He also suggest work to sticking to imprinting one or two new beliefs per month. (Rome was not built in a day)

This is where previous techniques taught such as contemplation and affirmations can be used together to work for us.

This is how he teaches us to use the imprinting technique.
Once we’ve consciously chosen a belief to support the new reality we want to create we then give our the mind the job to work on it. How we work it, is, we affirm to self the belief as a statement and do this for a few minutes. Straight after this we then actually spend several more minutes contemplating the actual statement we’ve chosen to empower us. Probe what it means to us personally for our life and the implications this belief represents. In doing this exercise I find can easily emotionally get invested in the process and that is all important to getting through to our subconscious mind. Feeling is what the subconscious mind recognizes best. That is how we impregnate a new belief. A belief has to be conceived before it’s effects can show up in our outer world reality.

John Kehoe says we need to treat a new belief we are in the process of implanting like a “tender shoot, nurture it through its first struggling stages”

He also points out every belief that is being implanted in our subconscious mind has to go through a germination period before it “will take root and flourish in our consciousness.”

He suggests this is likely to be from one month to three months time of imprinting sessions every day in our creative period.

How much do you want to change your reality?

Now you got a clear idea of what it takes to start making it happen for you. Are you willing to put in the effort ? I wonder if you got the hunger inside you to make it happen for your life.

If you are not willing to learn how to focus your own mind, how do you expect you could learn to create your own reality in a conscious manner ?

There is so much conditioning we’ve been subjected to as we grew up where we’ve accepted belief systems in our self that we did not *consciously* choose at all. Furthermore, it is rare for humans to even questions beliefs that were instilled in them early in life.

There are beliefs unconsciously running our lives. Maybe there are many that are not serving us well and allowed to go on running various parts of our lives unchallenged.

So hopefully you really get this point I’m bringing up here. Anyone that considers themselves a student of the art of manifesting consciously needs to develop the skill on this path to instill new empowering beliefs. To seriously learn how to *consciously* plant new empowering belief systems into our mind and therefore create life in a way we desire means doing inner work. We have to come to the realization that training the mind with exercises and techniques so we develop skills for manifesting consciously is the first step. It is foundational for the practice of mind powers.
Reading about manifesting to understand more is helpful in understand the processes and dynamics of manifestation. However, that in itself is not training the mind. Giving the mind something to work on is.

Training the mind is the real inner work. It is similar to getting our body in shape. To get fit physically, we each need to condition our body with exercises. Whether we desire to get our body in shape or our mind in shape, we have to be willing to give these aspects of us a workout… and regularly if we truly desire to make it a lifestyle.

If you are a person that meditates then I’m sure you recognize that increases your ability to concentrate. That really helps to then apply that ability to concentrate to when you are in the creative period in your day you set aside to focus on what you are manifesting in your life. Remember from last blog, the creative period is about focusing on new realities with your mind. Present reality has no part what so ever with the creative period set aside in your day. Really get that, it is important.

Now, if you feel you don’t have a skill of concentrating already in place in your life , or, you want to learn to concentrate even more then John Kehoe shares an excellent technique for developing this skill in our mind power practice.

I will share some words from his chapter here to explain further:

“The technique of contemplation is the single best way I know of for developing your powers of concentration. And not only will it sharpen and strengthen your mind, but it will also give you greater insight into whatever it is you are exploring. The practice of contemplation forms an integral part of our training. “

This is how to practice it instructions:

” Contemplation is using your mind like a searchlight to seek out new information, It is to take up one idea, thought, law or truth and probe it deeply. It is disciplining your mind to remain focused on whatever it is you’re contemplating as you rearrange it contents, thinking them over, establishing new relations, discovering hidden likenesses and previously un-thought of connections.
You may contemplate anything that inspires you, or something you wish to understand more clearly.”

He then goes on to explain an example of the process of doing this with one of the six laws of the mind and what you might experience during the time you are giving your mind the job to contemplate the idea that thoughts are real forces.

I won’t share all that here, because to be honest, I hope you actually choose to practice it for yourself and experience doing the technique for five whole minutes.

I will just add only the parts of what the job of your mind would be for this example of having your field of attention engaged in, during those five minutes

“.. begin to focus on “thoughts are real forces.” Lose yourself in the idea, thinking deeply about it. Ask yourself questions such as, “What does this mean? What are its implications? How does this effect me?
Can I make this work for me?” Maintain your contemplation for the allotted time;don’t allow your mind to wriggle out of the experience.”

oh.. and feel free to share here any insights you gain during this experience. Before you consider doing that in comments here, a good idea is to write down the insights you gain for yourself in a personal journal for your mind powers practice.

Have fun and enjoy your mental workout.

It is one of the more brave movies made in our time. It questions, in an entertaining way, just how much do us humans collectively understand the nature of reality. It really is worth seeing if you interested in consciousness role in our perception of reality and how we might consider what quantum physics area of science may shed more light about the very nature of reality.

In John Kehoe book he suggest reality is a delayed reflection of our own consciousness. Meaning, whatever you or I are experiencing right now has its causes and roots in the past. He suggests a good analogy to consider when consciously applying mind power practices to change your reality of your life is to consider how the light we see from star in the night sky outside is not actually the present reality of that physical star. The light entering our eyes on our earth was emitted from the star many years before but because it is such a vast distance away it takes a long time for us to *see* what has already past…..Maybe it has gone supernova and is so long away we don’t even physically get the light transmitted from that actual real physical event until well in our future time on earth.

It is an amazing illusion of our reality to consider what we see with our own eyes before us can be from back in time. So keeping this in mind, with regards to the effect of our own thoughts on what we experience as personal reality of our life, we might not be able to physically see thoughts or measure thoughts but thoughts are indeed a real force impacting our own reality and the very perception of it. Anything that has energy is a force in our world. Our thoughts have energy to them in every moment. The challenge with our thoughts is because we are forever experiencing them we can tend consider them like a backdrop to our reality rather than an amazing substance and gift and powerful force we have to work with like an artist every amazing moment of our life.

So going back to John Kehoe suggesting our reality is a delayed reflection of our consciousness, our present reality is good to remember the cause for it is in the past. If the present is something you are enjoying, fantastic, work with more of that enjoyable energy to create more wonderful things in your life. As John Kehoe writes “reality is a process, a continuous happening, and not something fixed and rigid.”

If you are not enjoying present reality, find a way to be pro-active and realize although it indeed is your present reality, the cause for it is in the past. You actually do indeed have a choice whether you react to it. You don’t need to dwell on it. You got an amazing ability of thinking thoughts. Present reality does not need to dominate or bully what you allow to be going on in your inner world. Every moment you have your inner world of your thoughts to work with to create new possibilities for yourself. Learn the mind power techniques to work with your thoughts. Learn the techniques to stop negative thoughts in their track and control how you are running your mind. We can insert any thought of any kind at any moment if we really decide to cultivate our consciousness and develop skills to make this a habit of mind power.

The most important thing in gaining mind powers is to every single day make time in our day to have a creative period where we are completely pro-active with using our mind. In a creative period of your inner world, present reality of things in our life is given no attention and no avenue to distract us from being the creator of our reality for what can become reality for us. Mind powers is not about being realistic. Being realistic is for people hopelessly caught up in a world where they become products of their environment. Mind powers is about being pro-active and creating new realities. What is important to do, is actually develop mind powers as a practice. A creative period in our day. Find time for this. Plan for it. Make it important. Schedule time for this inner creating period. John Kehoe says “this period can be anything from five minutes to thirty minutes so long as you observe it every day.” This does mean working to make it a habit. We have have to put our own precious energy into making changes in life. Change is going to happen anyway in life, that you can be assured of. Nothing stays the same. “Everything in existence is continually in the process of becoming something else”

The question for each of us to ask for our own life is, are we going to pro-actively be changing our life for our own progress?

As Ghandi famously is quoted as saying “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

It has to be important to us to realize if we really are dedicated to change in our life that it is a cumulative process and not a magic overnight change. It takes commitment, vision and persistence of passion in us each to make mind powers a practice and not just a nice philosophy. Philosophy is nice. Mind powers is an active process. A practice.

Nobody else can run our mind for us. We have to take the responsibility in our own self to learn the techniques and skills to practice mind powers every single day we are in this amazing journey of human life.

Do you approach your life being realistic or by being pro-active?

I know which approach I’m into.

I will end this blog with wonderful quests John Kehoe challenges us to be up for as mind powers students from a segment towards the end of his chapter called reality:

“Will you dare to believe in your vision as being stronger and more potent than your present circumstances?

Will you persevere, trusting in your daily practice and refusing to believe otherwise, even in the face of seemingly unchanged or contradictory conditions?”

I’m exploring this inner relationship with deeper realms of my mind so I’m using his steps as a guide to establish this working relationship as John Kehoe writes about in his book. However, it is interesting that as I spend time doing the exercises to work with my subconscious mind like it is a partner in creating my life, that I feel drawn to just follow my own lead once I begin on the steps as the guide. It does not for me, follow the way the steps are written for each time I begin on the process. Even though I start out with that approach as described in three steps something else than those exacts steps tends to unfold for me. Nevertheless, I keep John Kehoe’s steps as a guide to establish this relationship.

Some of the suggestions John Kehoe gives for using our own intuition is to contemplate for a few minutes each day “My subconscious mind is my partner in success”.

John Kehoe explains that he believes that the nature of the universe is holographic and the concepts of holograms is that every part of the whole contains within it a connection and the information for the whole.

If you follow this type of the belief that our universe is holographic in nature then it makes sense that the aspect of our human being that is holographic is our consciousness. With our own mind, the subconscious part of our mind is the doorway for the connection and information within our own self to the whole universe.
I guess you could say we are plugged into the whole thing.

It makes sense to me why the subconscious is so mysterious and unknown because our own identity as being an individual person, works in a way to close down the communication within us to the rest of the universe. That is our usual human experience. To experience being an individual person as a human being means making the deeper aspect of our own self sub-conscious.

To once again, tap into our connection to the whole universe takes some conscious effort to listen to the deeper aspect of us and get beyond just working purely with conscious part of our own mind. Hunches and funny feelings within our own being is what I consider the moments we experience the subconscious part of us connected to the whole universe communicating through us to get our attention beyond the stream of thoughts going on in our conscious mind.
Letting our conscious mind *know* there is the deeper part of our mind to listen to and work with as a partner is not going to be easy thing to establish overnight. Persistence like most things in life is a key.
I’m finding this is so for myself but it is exciting to work at establishing this working relationship. The contemplation exercise John Kehoe suggests to start with I think is a good foundation to practice with.

The tricky part of this relationship with deeper self is recognizing when the intuitive part of myself is communicating with me and when it is just my conscious ego part of me. I’m going to have to work at this to get better in knowing when it is purely my intuition. There are moments in life it is obvious but if we have not regularly tuned in with our intuition or neglected it then it can be tricky to establish that inner trust of knowing which is which at any point in time. This will take more practice to really get good at.

The chapter on dreams is another way the deeper realm of our mind communicates with us. The challenge is it happens when we are asleep and interpreting what those dreams are telling us is not easy as it tends to be most symbolic. That is a big challenge to overcome but must be an interesting realm to explore. Personally I’ve rarely even tried. I’ve barely made much conscious effort to even remember dreams when I awake. John Kehoe suggests keeping a dream journal next to your bed to write down as much as possible when you awake if you want to explore this area. I might do this at some stage in future but for now I’m working more on my waking moments of my mind to explore and get better at creating life in ways that my waking dreams lead me to desire to make my reality. He does mention we can program our mind to dream before we go to sleep. I sense I will explore that first as that sounds more productive area to discover more about.