Intentionality: A Guide to Breath, Consciousness, and Radical Self-Transformation
Finnian Kelly
Hay House LLC (June 2024)

Only you can pave the path to identifying how you REALLY want to feel about…everything

Long ago, Socrates asserted that an unexamined life isn’t worth living. More recently, Henry David Thoreau observed, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

I was again reminded of these comments as I begun to read Intentionality in which Finnian Kelly explains what he what he characterizes as a “new approach” to identifying how almost anyone can examine how they feel about their life now,  and then — over time —  identify how they really want to feel about themselves. The approach is one that is “less binary and more a merging of mindsets that accurately represent the full spectrum of [one’s] background and beliefs.”

Perhaps most importantly, “this book will inspire you to take action, because reading on its own will not be enough. And because in its simplest terms, that’s what Intentionality is — identifying how you want to feel and taking incremental steps toward that reality.”

Kelly carefully organizes his information, insights, and counsel within five Parts:

I: Your interconnected system of breath, multilayered mind, and energy centers
II: Your coding of all experiences that have been accumulated within your subconscious mind
III: Recoding capabilities (deeply engrained belief loops) available within the subconscious mind
IV: Practical behaviors and tools that facilitate daily reinvestment during one’s Intentiality journey
V: Scientific manifestation capability that can enable a quantum leap to tangible of progress during Intentionality journey

These are among the passages of greatest interest and value to me, also listed to suggest the nature and scope of Kelly’s coverage:

o Introduction (Pages xi-xvii)
o Your Unconscious Mind (12-14)
o The Barin Connection (18-21)
o Arrangement of Chakas (28-30)
o The Ego (41-43)

o Kelly’s Core Belief Loops (46-49)
o Two Realities (70-73)
o How fedelingsd can be weaponized (77-82)
o Reposition: Leverage Energy Over Time (91-97)
o Practice Presence over Comparison (116-121)

o Prioritize Feelings over Outcomes (124-129)
o Psychedelics (139-140)
o Behaviors and Tools (155-157)
o Leveraging Energy: Tools (166-171)
o Embracing Discipline: Behaviors  (173-181)

o Embracing Discipline: Conscious Tech Use (185-187)
o Choosing Love:Tools (199-203)
o Practicing Presence:Behaviors (206-212)
o The Three Cs: Clarify, Conceive, and Claim (235-240)
o Making Your Miracles (253-258)

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Long ago, Thomas Edison asserted that “vision without execution is hallucination.” Only you can you apply the relevant knowledge and common sense wisdom that are provided in this book. However, you will need help from others and probably some luck such as “being in the right place at the right time.” You also need to know when an opportunity is “knocking on your door,” and be prepared to take full advantage of it. (Sometimes it whispers.) You can also benefit from having role models.  There is a great deal of value to learn from their successes and, especially from their [begin italics] failures [end italics].  However, to repeat, your success (however defined) ultimately depends on you.

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Here are two other suggestions while reading Intentionality: First, highlight key passages Also,  perhaps in a lined notebook kept near-at- hand, record your comments, questions, action steps (preferably with deadlines), page references, and lessons you have learned as well as your responses to key points posed within the narrative. Also, record your responses to specific issues or questions addressed, especially at the conclusion of articles.

These two simple tactics — highlighting and documenting — will facilitate, indeed expedite frequent reviews of key material later.