Powerful ideas from top nonfiction
Try Blinkist to get the key ideas from 7,500+ bestselling nonfiction titles and podcasts. Listen or read in just 15 minutes.
Start your free trial
Blink 3 of 8 - The 5 AM Club
by Robin Sharma
Listen to the Intro
Intentionality summary
Finnian Kelly
A Guide to Breath, Consciousness, and Radical Self-Transformation
15 mins
Brief summary
Intentionality by Finnian Kelly explores how deliberate actions and conscious decision-making can transform our lives, providing practical guidance to achieve clarity, purpose, and fulfillment in both personal and professional spheres.
Table of Contents
Intentionality
Summary of 4 key ideas
Audio & text in the Blinkist app
Key idea 1 of 4
Understand your system
Becoming familiar with the intricate connection between your body, mind, and spirit – your system – is the essential first step on your journey to intentionality.
Central to this connection is the breath, which not only sustains life but also bridges the conscious and subconscious minds. Unlike most automatic functions of the body, breathing can be consciously controlled, making it a unique tool. Through mindful breathwork, you can create a moment of pause and presence, helping you respond to life’s challenges thoughtfully rather than reactively. Achieving this sense of pause and presence is vital for reaching a state of heart coherence, where your emotions, thoughts, and physical state exist in harmony, allowing for optimal decision-making and learning.
Optimal decision-making also requires an understanding of the mind’s different layers. The conscious mind, which governs your rational thinking and deliberate choices, serves as the guide and protector in your day-to-day life. However, beneath this lies the subconscious, a powerful reservoir of ingrained behaviors and emotions largely shaped during your early years. These subconscious patterns can unwittingly steer your actions. So, if you want to attain true inner peace, it’s crucial to align your conscious desires and the deep-seated programming within your subconscious.
Beyond the conscious and subconscious mind is the universal mind, a limitless source of wisdom and energy that connects you to a higher plane. Tapping into this universal mind allows you to access profound insight and unconditional love, facilitating and strengthening your spiritual experience.
Here, it’s important to distinguish between the brain, a physical organ, from the mind, which transcends the material. Similarly, it helps to become aware of the body’s energy centers – which also transcend the material – and how they influence your overall well-being. These energy centers are commonly referred to by their Sanskrit name, chakras, and each links to specific physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of your being. When these energy centers are blocked, it can manifest as mental, emotional, or physical distress. Engaging in practices such as bodywork, asana yoga, or sound modalities can be hugely beneficial, and are effective means of uniting the physical and spiritual aspects of your system. These practices needn’t be labor-intensive, either. Fifteen minutes of yoga or chanting meditation can go a long way.
Understanding your system – your body, mind, and spirit – equips you with the foundational insights to living more intentionally. In the next section, you’ll extend this insight so that you can develop a greater awareness of what’s making you operate.
Want to see all full key ideas from Intentionality?
Key ideas in Intentionality
More knowledge in less time
Read or listen
Get the key ideas from nonfiction bestsellers in minutes, not hours.
Find your next read
Get book lists curated by experts and personalized recommendations.
Shortcasts New
We’ve teamed up with podcast creators to bring you key insights from podcasts.
What is Intentionality about?
Intentionality (2024) delves into the concept of living a life with purpose and awareness, in order to make conscious decisions that align with values and goals. It explores how intentional actions can lead to greater fulfillment, personal growth, and a deeper connection with oneself and others. Through practical guidance and reflective exercises, it empowers individuals to create a meaningful and purpose-driven life.
Who should read Intentionality?
- Personal growth pursuers
- Aspiring keynote speakers or life coaches
- Purpose-driven entrepreneurs and leaders
Categories with Intentionality
Book summaries like Intentionality
People ❤️ Blinkist
Sven O.
It's highly addictive to get core insights on personally relevant topics without repetition or triviality. Added to that the apps ability to suggest kindred interests opens up a foundation of knowledge.
Thi Viet Quynh N.
Great app. Good selection of book summaries you can read or listen to while commuting. Instead of scrolling through your social media news feed, this is a much better way to spend your spare time in my opinion.
Jonathan A.
Life changing. The concept of being able to grasp a book's main point in such a short time truly opens multiple opportunities to grow every area of your life at a faster rate.
Renee D.
Great app. Addicting. Perfect for wait times, morning coffee, evening before bed. Extremely well written, thorough, easy to use.
People also liked these summaries
4.7 Stars
Average ratings on iOS and Google Play
33 Million
Downloads on all platforms
10+ years
Experience igniting personal growth