Mind Power Into the 21st Century JOHN KEHOE(© 1996 by John Kehoe. All rights reserved First printing 1987 Mind Power Seventeenth printing 1995 Revised and extended 1996 - First Edition Mind Power Into the 21” Century Eleventh printing 2005, Reprinted with Foreword 2006 Fourth printing 2008 Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Published by Zoetic nc. P.O. Box 48823 Bentall Centre, 595 Burrard Street Vancouver, British Columbia V7X 1A6 Canada Kehoe, John Mind power into the 21" century: techniques to harness the astounding powers of thought Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Kehoe, John Mind power into the 21st century / John Kehoe, -- 1st South Africa ed, ISBN 0-9739830-0-0 ISBN 978-0.9739830-05, 1L Thought and thinking. 2. Success, |. Title. BF637.S8K43 2005 158.1 ¢2005-907642-9 John Kehoe into wooded seclusion to spend three years in intensive study and contemplation of the inner workings of the human mind. By borrowing freely from a wide variety of scientific and spiritual sources, and by applying his own shrewd obser- vations and insights, Kehoe was able to forge the first straightforward and successful program for developing mind power, In 1978, he began teaching people the principles he had formulated, and by 1980 the phenomenal success of his speaking tours had grown to encompass the globe. Kehoe has spent the last twenty years teaching, and he currently resides with his wife in the Pacific Northwest, from where he continues to write and tour. | n 1975 John Kehoe withdrewAcknowledgments 0 Joyce Hamilton, who Ties me make the tran- sition from speaking to writing and whose coaching helped make this book come alive, To Ric and Jennifer Beairsto for their suggestions and editing, to Soraya Othman, my business partner and friend, whose insistence that “the book get done!” propelled me into action, and finally to my wife, Sylvia, for her love, support and companionship. Thank you all. John Kehoe Foreword 1. Another View of Reality 2. Consciousness 3. Visualization 4, Seeding 5. Affirmations 6. Acknowledging 7. The Subconscious Mind 8 Intuition 9. Dreams 10. Reality 11, Concentration and Contemplation 12. Beliefs and Imprinting 13. Self-Image 14. Creativity 15. No Problems, Only Opportunities 16. Healing Ourselves, 17. Prosperity Consciousness 18. Fulfilling Relationships 19, ‘Training for the Magnificent Pay-off Suggested Readings Contents 103 109 n9 131 143 147Foreword am one of more than two million people who have had their lives impacted by this self-help classic. I first read Mind Power Into the 21st Century in 1997, and I was immediately impressed by both its simplicity and the profound truths it revealed. I began practicing the tech- niques outlined in the book and quickly started seeing noticeable changes in my life. One of the many gifts this book gave me was a deep and pro- found realization that nothing happens by chance, that the qual- ity of my life is brought about by the quality of my thinking, I became an avid student of Mind Power and began observing my thinking, examining my beliefs about money, relationships, health and all the other important areas of my life. was surprised to discover that although I considered myself a positive person, I still held many negative limiting beliefs. It is our beliefs, I discovered, which create our reality, and by practicing the techniques outlined in this book I created new empowering beliefs for myself. My life changed and I found myself in a whole new world, a new reality, one in which I was the creating force. Before Mind Power, I believed that I would never achieve great success in my life, due to the fact that I came from a disadvan- taged background. I barely managed to complete my secondary education, and as a result I was unable to attend university. I also believed that I would always struggle financially, as most of thepeople around me did, because that was simply the reality of my situation. Now I find myself in a position that previously would have seemed only a dream. Through an amazing set of circumstances, I met John Kehoe and studied personally with him. It was during this process that we entered into a mentorship, after which he offered me the opportunity to teach his Mind Power course. I have never looked back since. I have the most stimulating, finan- cially rewarding career, traveling the world and sharing this pro- found message with literally thousands of people every month. I believe I am helping to change the world by assisting people to change their lives. ‘We have at our disposal the most incredible mechanism known to man, our own mind. Most of us, however, have never been shown how to use it. This book can be your instruction manual, and will guide you to awaken your own personal power. It will open new avenues and opportunities in all areas of your life. ‘There is magic contained in these words, Read them, and most importantly, practice the principles, and you will be amazed at how many apparent coincidences will begin happening for you. If this book has found itself in your hands, this may well be the beginning of a whole new life. My greatest wish is that it will open up for you an exciting journey into personal power and self- knowledge, as it has for me, For in the truest sense, You are a pow- erful creative force, and you can indeed make a difference. Robin Banks ONE Another View of Reality There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of by ‘mere mortal men. —Shakespeare 0 work with mind power T=: do not hve to under ™ stand the laws of physics or how reality manifests itself just as you don’t have to un- derstand how a carburetor works or how spark plugs fire in order to drive a car. Few of us understand automotive me- chanics, but that doesn’t stop us from driving, Likewise, in the science of mind power, anyone can quickly and success- fully master the basics and effectively put them to work in his or her life. We begin by examining the nature of reality, especially the startling new discoveries in science over the last twenty yearsMIND POWER which have helped us to understand more clearly how the mind creates its own reality, These discoveries explain why creating visualizations in our minds is not just idle daydream- ing, but is 2 creative process which helps us control and di- rect the same energies that hold matter together, change water into steam, or cause a seed to sprout and grow. Understanding the nature of these energies assists us in understanding the mind, and shows us why inspiration, prayer and intuition are not supernatural phenomenon at all, but follow patterns and laws which we can discover and use ‘at our will. Like everything else in the known universe, the powers of the mind are governed by laws which, robbed of their scientific jargon and clearly presented, can be easily un- derstood by anyone. Let me take you on a short adventure into these new dis- coveries, Modern physics now sees the universe as a vast, insepara- ble web of dynamic activity. Not only is the universe alive and constantly changing, but everything in the universe af- fects everything else. At its most primary level, the universe seems to be whole and undifferentiated, a fathomless sea of energy that permeates every object and every act. Itisall one. Tn short, scientists are now confirming what mystics, seers and occultists have been telling us for thousands of years— ‘we are not separate but part of one giant whole. “When a blade of grass is cut, the whole universe quivers.” —ancient Upanishad saying Modern physics has changed our concept of the material world, Particles are no longer seen as consisting of any basic “seuf?”; rather they are seen as bundles of energy. They may make sudden transitions, “quantum leaps,” behaving at times Another View of Reality like units, yet on other occasions like waves of pure energy. Reality is fluid. Nothing is fixed. Everything is part of a pat- tern that is in constant motion; even a rock is a dance of en- ergy. The universe is dynamic and alive and we are in it and of it, dynamic and alive ourselves. THE UNIVERSE IS A GIANT HOLOGRAM. ‘The theories that enabled the development of the hologram were first formulated in 1947 by Dennis Gabor, who later won a Nobel Prize for his discovery. A hologram is an entity in which “the whole” is contained in each and every one of its parts. For example, a starfish exhibits certain holographic patterns. If you cut a point from a starfish it will grow anew point. Not only that, the point will grow a whole new starfish, because the genetic imprint is contained in each and every one of its parts, I was at a holographic exhibition several years ago in which I saw an exhibit of photographs done with holography. In one of the pictures was an image of a woman standing up- right. If I moved to the right of the picture the woman changed suddenly and she was now smoking a cigarette; if I moved to the left of the picture it changed again and she had her hip thrown out in a suggestive pose. If one were to drop this holographic plate onto the floor and it shattered into pieces, each piece would reveal not what you would expect to see—a piece of her shoe or dress or maybe her eye—but the image of the whole woman. And if one moved any one of the little pieces from side to side, you would still see her smoke that cigarette and throw out her hip. Every single one of the small pieces would have the whole picture contained within it. It now appears that the nature of reality is. holographic,MIND POWER and that the brain operates holographically as well. Our thinking processes seem to be identical to the primary state of the universe and made up of all the same “stuff” The brain is a hologram interpreting the holographic universe. ‘The main architects of this astounding idea were two of the world’s most eminent thinkers: University of London physicist David Bohm, a protégé of Einstein's and one of the world’s most respected quantum physicists, and Karl Pri- bram, a neurophysiologist at Stanford University. Coinciden- tally, they arrived at their findings independently of each other while working in totally separate fields of science. Bohm became convinced of the universe's holographic na- ture after years of frustration with the inability of more stan- dard theories to explain all of the phenomena and results he was encountering in quantum physics. Pribram, in studying the human brain, also realized that standard theories’ expla- nations of various neurophysiological puzzles simply didn’t add up. For both men, the holographic model suddenly made sense and resolved a lot of unanswered questions. Both pub- lished their findings in the early 1970s. Their work received enormous response but unfortunately little of it was under- stood outside of the scientific community. While they had their detractors and skeptics (What new theory doesn’t?), many of the world’s most prominent physicists and scientists soon came on board. Cambridge's Brian Josephson, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in physics, described Bohm and Pri- bram’s discoveries as involving “the most revolutionary breakthroughs in understanding the nature of reality.” Dr. David Peat, a physicist at Queen’s University in Canada and author of the book, The Bridge Between Matter and Mind, was another to agree: “Our thought processes are much more in- timately connected to the physical world than any of us would suspect.” ‘Another View of Reality In 1979 at Princeton University, Robert G. Jahn, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, established a research program to explore the “role of consciousness in the establishment of physical reality.” After thousands of con- trolled experiments, Jahn and his associates published their findings, stating that there was now sufficient evidence to in- dicate unequivocally that the mind can and does directly af- fect physical reality. By 1994 eminent scientists, educators and physicians from around the world were meeting at Princeton University to discuss how this startling new infor- mation might be extended and applied within their own fields and institutions. All this is truly exciting news, and the implications are nothing less than staggering when one considers how we might use this new knowledge. How consciousness and the physical world interact is now much less of a mystery: consciousness is but energy in its finest and most dynamic form. This helps explain why events are affected by what we imagine, visualize, desire, want or fear, and why and how an image held in the mind can be made real, ‘These discoveries about the nature of reality can be a ma- jor force for our continued change and growth. If we know and understand that we are a part of an open and dynamic universe, and that our minds play a decisive part in con- structing reality, then we can choose to live more creatively and powerfully. We need no longer stand on the sidelines watching things happen to us, for with our new understand- ing we now realize that there are no sidelines to stand on, nor were there ever. Everything is affecting everything else. Wherever we go, whatever we do, our thoughts are creating our reality, “Discovering a new theory,” Einstein once said, “is likei i 6 MIND POWER climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views.” This is what you are doing by reading this book, and soon your men- tal climb will be rewarded by an open and exhilarating view of your true potential Two Consciousness So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see, Jor so, in truth, it is, —Book of Mirdad f you think of your thoughts | as a reality existing side by . side with what we call “the physical reality,” you will be closer to understanding the unique relationship between the two. You are living simultaneously in two worlds, two realities: the inner reality of your thoughts, emotions and attitudes, and the outer reality of people, places, things and events. Be- cause we fail to separate these Inner and Outer worlds, we al- low ourselves to become dominated by the Outer world of appearances, and we use the Inner world solely as a “mirror” for whatever happens to us. Our Inner world reacts con- stantly, and because we spend all of our time simply reacting, we never experience our power. Ironically, you begin chang. ing your reality the day, the hour, the minute you cease con- stanily reacting to it.MIND POWER ‘Your inner consciousness is a powerful force whose in- fluence is felt in every aspect of your life. Itis, in fact, the ma- jor and most important part of who you are, and it is the main cause of your success of failure. Everything at its purest and deepest essence is energy, and whenever you think, you are working with an immense amount of this energy in the quick, light, mobile form of thought. Thought is forever attempting to find form, is always Jooking for an outlet, is always trying to manifest itself. It is the nature of thought to try and materialize into its physical equivalent, Our normal thoughts can be compared to sparks from a fire. Though they contain the essence and potential power of the flame, they normally dissipate quickly. They last only a few seconds, fly into the air and quickly burn out. ‘Although a single unaided thought hasn’t much power, through repetition the thought can become concentrated and directed, and its force can be magnified many times. The more the thought is repeated the more energy and power it generates, and the more readily it is able to manifest itself, Weak and scattered thoughts are weak and scattered forces. Strong and concentrated thoughts are strong and concentrated forces. ‘Toillustrate this, picture « magnifying glass through which the sun’s rays pass. If the magnifying glass is moved about from spot to spot, the power of the sun's rays is diffused and not apparent. If however, the magnifying glass is held still and focused correctly at the proper height, those same rays become concentrated, and that diffused light suddenly be- comes a force powerful enough to ignite a fire. So it is with our thoughts, As you progress in your study of Consciousness mind power you will learn how to develop and concentrate your thoughts so that they become much more powerful. At this point, just realize that thoughts have power in them- selves. Your deeply held beliefs, your fears, your hopes, your worries, your attitudes, your desires, and each and every thought you think, all have an effect on you, others, and your environment. Most of us go through our waking hours taking little no- tice of our thought processes: how the mind moves, what it fears, what it heeds, what it says to itself, what it brushes aside. For the most part we eat, work, converse, worry, hope, plan, make love, shop, play—all with minimal attention paid to how we think. We might be far more willing to learn how to use our mental mechanisms if we imagined for a moment that for every thought we either gained a dollar or lost a dollar, de- pending on the type of thought. Considering we think thou- sands of thoughts every day, this is quite a proposition. Imagine an accounting system noting our every thought and recording which ones gained us money and which ones lost us money. How diligent we would be in controlling and di- recting our thoughts! How enthusiastically we would create those thoughts which made us money, and how carefully we would avoid those which cost us money. This is, in fact, more or less what is already happening in- side you, though with energy, not dollars. There is a big ac- counting system going on; it’s called the universe, and no thought produced there is without its effect. ‘This world of ours is no dead pile of brick and stone. It is a living, vibrant system of energy. Every thought you think im- presses itself upon this system, and its effect is indisputable. Whether you like it or not, you are forever creating your re- ality through what you are thinking,10 MIND POWER Consciousness " The beginning step to a new and more successful life is ab- surdly easy. You have only to pay attention to the flow of thoughts inside your mind and direct it accordingly. ‘Your life is entirely of your own making, so look at the way you are living, You claim you want financial abundance, yet you are constantly bemoaning your lack of money and how expensive things are. You dwell on what you don’t have and the bills coming in. You worry and wonder how you will get along. You may want financial abundance, but because your consciousness is of lack and worry, you will never experience that abundance. (Or maybe you wish you could find a new job, something interesting and challenging that would use your creativity and pay you well. If you constantly tell yourself these jobs are impossible to find, that it will never happen, it is very un- likely it ever will happen. 7 Perhaps you wish you could be a more outgoing individ- ual, bold and spontaneous, full of assurance and confidence, yet if you constantly focus on your inferiorities and inade- quacies and put yourself down, reminding yourself again and. again of your problems, you are not likely to become that type of person. You may want strength, but if your conscious ness is of weakness, you are fooling yourself to think you will ever possess that strength. Tn short, wanting something badly will not make it happen. Hoping for something different will have no effect. Simply working hard, even if it’s twelve to fifteen hours a day, is not enough. You will always remain where you are unless—and it’s a big unless—you change your thinking. “To them that hath ... more shall be given. To them that hath not, even what little they have will be taken away.” —Luke 19:26 When I first read this quote I didn’t think it was fair. It didn’t seem fair that “them that had” would get more and “them that had not” would lose what little they had. It just didn’t seem right. I thought it would be more just if “them that had not” were given more, but that is not what the Scripture says. This, according to the Bible, is not the way the universe works, But then, upon reflection, I realized that it was indeed fair. In fact what could be more fair than every person's freedom to choose for himself or herself thoughts which will, in turn, create their reality? There is great fair- ness in the complete freedom to determine the quality of one's life. Want to change your circumstances? Develop the neces- sary consciousness. A successful person has a success con- sciousness. A wealthy person has developed a prosperity consciousness, and his thoughts are on abundance, success and prosperity. This is how he thinks. “Easy for him,” you say. “When you're successful it’s easy to think success, and when you're wealthy it’s easy to think prosperity, but my situation is totally different. I'm not suc- cessful; I’m not wealthy. The situations and circumstances of my life keep me down.” WRONG! Dead wrong! Your circumstances and situations never keep you down. The only things that keep you down and keep you stuck are your thoughts. With work and prac- tice you can learn to direct your thoughts and create any con- sciousness you choose. Your reality will change only after you've developed your new consciousness, not before, The new consciousness must come first. ‘What is it that you want in your life? Do you know? More health? Then get health consciousness. More power? Then get power consciousness. More prosperity? Get prosperity con- sciousness. More happiness? Get happiness consciousness.12 MIND POWER ee More spirituality? Get spiritual consciousness. Everything ex- ists as a possibility. All that’s required is for you to feed in the necessary energy until your objective becomes yours. How reassuring it is to think that no matter what a per- son’s past or present situation, no matter how many times he or she has previously failed, if that person would but regu- larly feed his or her consciousness, his or her situation would change! This remarkable ability has been given to each and every one of us to use or to ignore. It costs no money. It takes no special talent. It takes only the decision on your part to take the time and put forth the necessary effort to develop the appropriate consciousness. That's all! Everything else will automatically fall into place. ‘Your mind is like a garden which can be cultivated or ne- glected, and you are its master gardener. You can cultivate this garden, or you can ignore it and let it develop whatever ‘way it will. But make no mistake: you will reap the harvest of your work or your neglect! Your mind creates your reality. You can choose to accept this or not. You can be conscious of it and set your mind working for you, or you ‘can ignore it and allow it to work in ways that will hinder and hold you back. But your mind will always ‘and forever be creating your reality. THREE Visualization There is no thought in my mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power and organizes 4 huge instrumentality of means. —Ralph Waldo Emerson yhat is it that makes a ‘person a winner? What distinguishes those who succeed from those who fail? “It’s all in the mind,” says Amold Schwarzene, multimillionaire, successful real estate tycoon, ee body-builder, five-time winner of the Mr Universe title, Arnold has it made, But it wasn’t always so. Arnold eat remember back when he had nothing except a belief that his mind was the key to getting where he wanted to go. ‘When I was very young, I visualized myself being and having what it was I wanted. Mentally I never had any doubts about it. The mind is really so incredible. Before I won my first Mr. Universe, I walked around the tournament like I owned it. The title was already mine. I had won it so many14 MIND POWER times in my mind that there was no doubt I would win it. Then when I moved on to the movies, the same thing. I visu- alized myself being a successful actor and earning big money. Tcould feel and taste success. I just knew it would all happen.” Chris Poellein was a member of the world-renowned West German freestyle ski team that won the European Cup six times between 1976 and 1982, “Part of our training program involved working with a psy- chologist to increase the power of our minds. After training on the slopes we were placed in a state of meditation and en- couraged to totally repeat the slope runs in our minds, visual- izing each bump and movement of the routine. We worked as hard training mentally as we did physically. Excellence in athletics—or indeed any endeavor—depends primarily on having a clear mental picture of that activity.” Chris should know; she not only has her six medals, but she now has her own successful consulting firm working with business and sports groups to show them how they, too, can benefit from the same techniques. Bryan Edwards, a man of infectious good humor and high spirits, sells life insurance. I met him on one of my tours and he has become a good friend. Each evening, before he goes to bed, he spends ten minutes running over in his mind his next day’s calls. He pictures himself making his presentation to each client, He sees them being receptive and gladly taking out a policy with him. He imagines a very productive day with lots of sales. He does this for ten minutes before he goes to bed and ten minutes upon rising in the morning, a total of twenty minutes each day. Bryan Edwards sells more insur- ance in one week than most people sell in six months, and is consistently in the top one percent of his profession every year. Three totally different people with totally different goals oO Visualization and objecives in life, yet all are using the same technique to create ai fluence it i create and influence ther reality—the technique of visual Visualization is using. i it _ Vis using your imagination to see yourself in a situation that hasn't yet happened, picturing yourself having or doing the thing you want, and s Sf i or ding the thin successfully achieving the __ For example, let us say you want to be more confident, Us- ing visualization you picture yourself as confident. You see yourself doing thing talking to people, all with great conf- lence. You picture yourself in situations that normally give you difficulty and you see yourself in these situations at ease, confident, and performing well. You might picture your fiends and associates complimenting you, congratulating you on your new-found confidence. You feel the pride and satisfaction of both being a confident person and of enjoying the things that happen to you as a result of your confidence, You visualize everything that would or could happen to you and live as if it really is happening to you. HERE'S HOW TO GO ABOUT ‘A SUCCESSFUL VISUALIZATION 1. Decide what you want to do: pass an exam, gain a promotion, meet someone new, make lots of money, be more confident, win the squash game. 2. Relax. Spend several minutes unwinding so that you are comfortable in body and mind. 3. Spend five to ten minutes visualizing the reality you want. Linger on thoughts of doin, i i g and having the thing you want, not as some future reality that might happen or nould 15