THE KAHUNA MIND
Every human being sees the world through an invisible lens shaped by experience, belief, emotion, and conditioning. Most of us were never taught how that lens works, yet it shapes every decision we make and every relationship we have. This book shows you the machinery, and how to stop being run by it.
Change your thinking. Change your life.
Inside, You'll Discover
Not a book about what to think. A book about how to think, so you can respond more consciously and live more intentionally.
- Where did I get me? Trace how much of your personality, beliefs, and fears was consciously chosen, and how much was installed before you could question it.
- The Invisible Lens. How perception filters reality before you ever get to think about it, and how to start seeing the lens itself.
- The mind's bag of tricks. Anchoring, sunk costs, motivated reasoning, the halo effect, and why the crowd feels like evidence. Learn to catch them in real time.
- Memory is a story you keep rewriting. Why you can be completely certain and completely wrong, and what that means for the past you're carrying.
- Fear as navigator. When the alarm system starts steering, and how to find the space between the event and your response.
- The Balanced Ego. You need an ego. You just don't want it flying the plane.
- The Observer and the Higher Mind. Discover the part of you that can watch your thoughts, and let it weigh fear, ego, reason, and intuition instead of obeying the loudest one.
- Rewriting the code. Change old programming not by denying the past, but by building new behavior, new experience, and new evidence.
"What would I believe if I had never been told what to believe?"From the Foreword
Inside The Book
Fifteen chapters, from the mind you inherited to the mind you are becoming. A two-dimensional mind asks who's right. A 3-D mind asks, what am I missing?
The Mind You Inherited
Where your thinking came from, and the lens it has been looking through all along.
- 1. The Greatest Mystery You'll Ever EncounterThe instrument we use to solve every mystery.
- 2. How Did I Become Me?Where did you get you?
- 3. The Person You Think You AreWhat happened to you versus who you became.
- 4. The Invisible LensThe filter you have never seen.
The Machinery
The tricks, rewrites, motives, and alarms running beneath your decisions.
- 5. The Mind's Bag of TricksAnchors, sunk costs, halos, and the crowd.
- 6. Memory: The Story We Keep RewritingRemembering is rebuilding.
- 7. The Motive Beneath the MotiveThe reason behind the reason.
- 8. Fear: When the Alarm Becomes the NavigatorProtection that turns into confinement.
Who Has the Controls?
Ego, the voice in your head, and intuition, each competing to fly the plane.
- 9. The Balanced EgoThe engine and the rudder.
- 10. The Voice Inside Your HeadThe narrator you never elected.
- 11. Intuition: Knowing Before You Know WhyIntuition versus impulse.
Taking Back the Mind
Find the Observer, engage the Higher Mind, and begin rewriting the code.
- 12. The Observer: Who Is Watching?The river and the bank.
- 13. The Higher MindThe captain does not control the ocean.
- 14. Rewriting the CodeNew behavior, new evidence, new future.
- 15. The Kahuna Mind Is ChangingStrong enough to believe, humble enough to question.
This Book Is For You If…
You've started to suspect that some of what you believe was never really your choice.
- You know better, and still catch yourself doing it anyway.
- Fear or worry makes more of your decisions than you'd like.
- You get pulled into arguments you later wish you'd stepped back from.
- You want to trust your intuition without confusing it with impulse.
- You're ready to own your mind instead of being run by it.
About Paul Lemal
Paul Lemal is an author, trader, entrepreneur, and kahuna. He founded the American Integrated Healthcare Association in 1990 and the BigKahunaLife.com platform. His editorials on alternative medicine have been published in Time and Newsweek.
The Kahuna Mind draws on decades of study, real-world experience, and his time at the Swan Center for Intuitive Living. He lives in Texas with his wife, Eleanor.
Own Your Mind.
You can't always control what happens.
But you can learn to control how you think about it.