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Here’s a way you may want to play with. Think about what you want as if they were FOND MEMORIES.

In other words, although it hasn’t happened yet, fantasize about it, as if it were something in your PAST, even something a week or year or so ago.

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Originally posted by Phil:
“In the mental realm, enter at once into the full enjoyment of the things you want.” -- Wallace Wattles

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A Few More Thoughts On This,...

just in case it's helpful.

Create A New MOLD

When you imagine what you want (and imagine HAVING what you want) it’s like creating a new mold. Taking the time to imagine, clarify and FEEL what you want is the work of molding your life into the ‘shape’ you really want it to be. And as you create this mold and clarify it, all the energy that flows through you (and to you) fills the mold.

As it is, we each already have a mold only, for the most part, we don’t know it. Therefore, we’re imprisoned by it. If you want to know your mold, it is your life, not so much as it currently is, but how you currently EXPERIENCE it. Your mold is how you currently experience what occurs in your life; your current reactions and responses. If you do not like how you are responding, in some circumstance or relationship, you can change yourself. You can create a new mold, a new more constructive pattern of response or behavior and feeling. And as you do your experience and conditions will change. They will because they MUST. You cannot change your responses and how you experience, and have nothing change in your life. As YOU change how you respond, your life MUST also change. Do you see this?)

What we need is a new mold that is inline with the design of a life that we really want, a new mold that will give us the experience of feeling more alive, more glad to be alive, and of being set free.

Some people, when they first get an inkling of their personal power and ability to have what they want, simply try to go out and get the 'things'. They imagine what they want, and then they jump into physical action. But very often what happens is, they fall short, get rejected, or fail miserably. Then they begin to conclude that they must have been wrong; that they cannot really have what they want.

For example, a boy wants to be a success with girls. So he begins to imagine what this might be like. He gets excited and leaps into action. But he ‘leaps’ before instilling within himself a strong belief of success. And then he just encounters rejection after rejection and begins to believe he’s not very good with girls.

Or, a salesperson imagining the rewards and benefits of being great at sales jumps into action. He hits the phones or the streets and sets out to make those sales. Only, after experiencing rejection after rejection he gives up more and more. He begins to conclude, “Well maybe I’m not very good at selling,” and thinks of giving up.

What happened? Why did they fail? Was it true? Were they ‘not meant to’ succeed? Did they not ‘want it enough’? No. They wanted what they wanted VERY much. Most people sincerely want a better life. So, it’s not a matter of not wanting it enough.

If they failed it’s because they INITIALLY failed to create the FOUNDATION for eventual success. (Well, there could be other reasons but that's another piece.) Suppose the boy had FIRST taken the time to build a very strong belief, maybe like, “I am a blessing for the best kind of woman and therefore I am attactive to the best women,” how do you think he’d react to so-called rejection?

Or if the salesman firmly believed and felt that his product was definitely valuable and worth the asking price when matched to the right customers, he simply would not rest until he’d made some sales.

In other words, if they were as much clear and confident on what they were GIVING as much as what they were trying to GET, and if they somwhow KNEW there are enough people who want what they have, their success rate would be better.

Here’s a quote that threebears posted:

"It should be the work of your leisure hours to use your imagination on the details of your vision and to contemplate them until they are firmly fixed upon memory. If you wish speedy results, spend practically all your spare time in this practice." -- Wattles, SOGR, p.45

So, we are directed to use our leisuretime to imagine what we want, in detail, “,.. until they are firmly fixed upon memory.”

And what do we normally think is a ‘memory’? We normally think of a memory as somethng that has already happened.

When we fix something in memory like this we do something to our subconscious. We give our subconscious a new and better ‘directive’ or belief through which to filter all our experiences. (A new 'mold'.) For example, if you have done the inner work to fix ‘being wealthy’ in your memory, you will have established with your subconscous this is a part of who you are. Then, you are no longer ‘wanting’ to be wealthy. It is already a part of who you are.

Here’s a test. If you notice you are generally feeling very good you have probably at least to some good degree ‘fixed in your memory’ the right mindset. But if you notice that you still struggle to feel good, you may not have yet done enough inner work to establish this condition within you.

Regarding the possibility of feeling good, in even dire circumstances, and the consequences of doing so, consider this:

"It is never too late to find a good feeling place about anything. Things will constantly change to match the feeling you have inside." Abraham-Hicks

Consider this: Whatever are your current circumstances, they are not causing you to feel one way or another.

What causes how you experience your experience? And, why is this good to know?

What causes HOW you experience your experience? Your physical senses do not. Your senses bring you awareness of what they sense, but they do not cause HOW you experience them. Let me explain.

Your eyes give you visual information. Your ears give you auditory information. The same goes for your tastes buds and your ability to smell odors, and your sense of touch. These senses make you aware of certain kinds of information. But they do not determine HOW you experience this information.

For example, if they did then, if only ONE person loved the taste of sushi (raw fish) then everyone would love sushi. Or, if ONE person loved the sound of the rock band, Guns & Roses, everyone would love to hear them. But as we can easily discern, this is not the case.

Our senses allow us to be aware of certain kinds of information (auditory, visual, etc.) but the way we EXPERIENCE this information is entirely up to another ‘sense.’

This other sense is the one that is made up of our beliefs, thoughts, prejudices, biases, preferences, etc. And since this is the ‘sense’ that varies from one person to another, it is the one that causes HOW we experience WHAT we experience.

Now, why is this good to know?

If you truly understand that the EXPERIENCE of success and happiness is only determined by your beliefs, thoughts, feelings, etc., then you will no longer be AT THE MERCY of the information that your physical senses bring to you. (You will not be at the mercy of circumstances.) You will understand that HOW you experience the physical-sense-information is entirely up to how you evaluate, believe, think and thus, feel.

So, with that in mind, consider again:

"It is never too late to find a good feeling place about anything. Things will constantly change to match the feeling you have inside." Abraham-Hicks

Phil