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Published by Bob on 05 Jan 2009

Linking To Your Dreams: Part Two

Each flavor/essence you have linked to also represents a particular pathway in your day-to-day life.  

As you may already know if you’ve been following this blog – a pathway is very much like a “channel” in which what you desire – can move toward you and you toward it.

Remember:  The time it takes to manifest a dream is always limited to the pathways which you have in place at any given time.

The more pathways – which are the relationships, situations and things –  and other links you already have in place – you create –  the faster you are able to manifest…

Back to the dream cake:

By focusing upon the unique flavor which represents your dream – instead of attempting to rationalize how it’s going to look and feel with the limiting aspects of your current intellect – you will literally “feel your way” into the set of circumstances where you dream is possible – much faster than any kind “planning/contriving/striving” will ever get you.

Embrace the flavor and you’ll become sensitized to other – relative – flavors

That’s the linking process

Since each dream is made of many flavors which come together to create the unique dream flavor – you will become aware of the individual flavors as the opportunity to link to them becomes available to you.  

When the linking process reaches a certain “critical mass” – an obvious course of action – combined  with your own natural confidence – makes itself known to you.

Manifesting your dream using this process makes the dream always seem just the next natural step in your journey – because it is!

-Bob Baran

Published by Bob on 05 Jan 2009

Linking To Your Dreams

Linking to your dreams is a powerful technique that “tunes” you into the zone – where the possibilities exist that can turn a dream into reality…

How do you begin the linking process?

What I’ve found is the very first step necessary is to identify the “essence” of what you want.

This is very different than what many “positive mental attitude” purveyors will tell you – they say get a very detailed image of what it is you want – which is fine if you want to buy a car – but highly limiting if your manifesting a dream.

Your dream has a unique emotional flavor associated with it

This is the key to linking – the essence I’m talking about is the very flavor of emotion which accompanies your thoughts about what your particular dream may be.  Emotion is a language of feeling – closely associated with what we experience with music.  Unlike music, which in it’s current popular form is limited to twelve notes – the flavors or individual “colors” of emotional feelings are unlimited…

Everything in your day-to-day life has a corresponding emotional flavor –  which you have already “linked” to. Think about your favorite something or other – like your favorite set of clothes or your favorite food –  the way you feel about these things are very different than the feelings you have about other things.– The feelings about your favorite things are in fact the essence of those things. You feel your favorite clothes before you see them or touch them because you are linked to their essence – which is that unique flavor of feeling associated with them.

The flavor of emotion you feel –  which is tied to things, situations and relationships in your life –  can be linked together with other “flavors” or essences to create an overall feeling which “tunes” you into the zone –  which will most easily manifest your dream.

Think of flavor linking like putting together the recipe for your favorite cake

A cake is made up of several different flavors.  Each ingredient has a flavor that can stand alone – but when combined together with other ingredients and their unique flavors – you create a overall flavor which is the sum of the parts – you have “linked” together to create the ultimate “cake flavor” you desire.

Making your dreams come true works the same way.

By linking the most desirable unique flavors together from experiences, things and relationships – you are able to create the unique “dream flavor” –  which is not limited by your analytical mind’s attempt to quantify and rationalize –  within it’s own limited understanding of what is possible… Focusing on the essence/flavor of your dream begins the process of linking to the other similar flavors within your day-to-day reality – which are the necessary ingredients for your dream (cake)…

Did you understand this explanation?

If you have any questions or comments you can always use the chat feature on my web page www.intentionalprosperity.com and I’ll be happy to have a conversation with you…

-Bob Baran

Published by Bob on 29 Dec 2008

Where Will You Be 12 Months From Now?

When I was nineteen years old — I spent New Year’s Eve at home (my parents house) alone – they were at a party.

It was one of the most miserable experiences I ever had.

I told myself, “Next year it’s going to be very different”.

The next New Year’s Eve I was in a band (“Godfather”) playing in a 450 seat nightclub!

It was the most exciting New Year’s Eve I could have imagined at that point in my life.

The point is this:

Because I declared my intention to have a very different experience — I became aware of a different set of opportunities which took my life path in a very different direction than the year before.

I never could have imagined I would be playing in a band the following New Year’s Eve — when I was so miserable only the year before.

But a lot can happen in only 12 months.

Whatever your current situation is, you must allow yourself to believe it is possible to change it into something better…

Then put yourself into new situations which could create new possibilities.

I didn’t know any of the people in the band I ended up playing in a year later — when I spent that miserable New Year’s Eve by myself.

But I told myself next year was going to be different…

…And it was.

-Bob Baran

Published by Bob on 08 Dec 2008

Poverty Affects Children’s Brains

Poverty dramatically affects children’s brains according to an article in USA Today.

Comparing the brain functioning of “children of poverty” to that of stroke victims was a not so surprising – for those of us who understand the direct relationship between what we “think” and the neurological pathways – what we think –  create inside the brain.

In the Intentional Prosperity™ System I clearly explain how a “poverty mindset” literally creates an expectation of poverty within an individual –  which then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.  

It’s not surprising that the scientific community is finally beginning  to “discover” what many of us who have been students of the “human operating system” have long accepted as “common sense”:

You Become What You Believe 

Why has it been so hard for the scientific community to accept consciousness as the ultimate determination of what we perceive and experience as our day-to-day  physical reality?

Maybe consciousness – as cause –  is too easy.  After all, “where you place your focus and attention – becomes your reality” - sounds too much like pretending.  You know: I’m going to pretend I’m this and because I’m putting all my attention on it I will actually become what I pretend to be.

But that’s how it really works – it’s that easy

We – that is our mind –  needs to create a rationale for what it will believe so it tends to dismiss as “not credible” anything that just seems “too easy”.

Where’s the dissertation?  The research – the corroborating authors and scholars?

Focus + Attention = Reality

It can’t be that easy!

But it is… Accepting and practicing that formula – now that’s a challenge.

-Bob Baran

Published by Bob on 03 Nov 2008

Hope Or Dread — It’s All Just Your Imagination

Something is going on in the world right now that no agency of government or all of the world’s governments combined has any real power to control…

What we citizens of the world know as our shared reality has always been based upon a thin thread of belief —  we agree to recognize and maintain as our day-to-day life. This thin foundation of shared belief  has allowed us to progress out of the caves —  inhabited by our primitive ancestors —  and inspired us to create great civilizations.  

We have learned to use our imaginations to create beauty and wonder… to make mistakes and try again until we succeed.

Everything we have come to know — outside of the natural world –  is the direct result of our combined belief in the power of our imagination and the unfailing determination to prove to ourselves –  that what ever we believe —  we can and will achieve.

But now the most  primitive of mankind’s  emotions is rapidly gaining power over reason and hope.

It’s a dark shadow that sucks the light of hope into a shapeless abyss. We have become possessed by a feeling of dread amplified by  panic — and this feeling is moving over us stealing our dreams and robbing us of hope.

And yet, everything we experience as life is only an extension of our imagination. 

It’s all a matter of what you believe is possible.  You have been given the infinite capability to choose to dream any outcome and then experience it as your life.  You can choose dread or choose hope. 

If you choose hope —  you take back your control over the outcome of your life — because hope is expansive. If you choose dread your energy will become implosive and self-destructive.

The key point here is that either decision takes the very same primal life energy and directs it to an outcome that you choose.

That’s right:  

Living your dreams or being frozen in fear — it’s all fed by the same life energy.

You’re the one who determines what part of your imagination your life energy is going to mirror and turn into your day-to-day reality…

It’s called “free will”

-Bob Baran

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