Assuming the Wish Fulfilled (Joseph Berlay's Method)

Step by step

1. Identify a desire (e.g., extra money, new clothes).
2. In your mind's eye, assume the desire is already fulfilled.
3. Engage your senses and feelings to experience the joy and reality of the fulfilled wish.
4. Mentally live in that assumed state, even if briefly, ignoring sensory evidence to the contrary.
5. Persist in this inner feeling until it externalizes.

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Consigned To Disobedience

Joseph Berlay, as a boy, imagined a cashier making a mistake and giving him silver instead of copper. He then mentally walked back, feeling the joy of having the extra money and planning how he would spend it, even though his senses denied it. The next day, the mistake actually occurred.

At that moment he assumed that the cashier did, and in his mind’s eye he took the things and then walked back to the store. He knew the cashier had not done it, but he simply wiped it out and played a little game. And he walked back feeling that the cashier had made the mistake and he wondered: “Now what would I do? I will go into a restaurant and eat for the first time in my life to where I feel satisfied. I will eat until it comes through my ears, then I’ll buy a pair of shoes and then I’ll buy a pair of slacks.” He knew that it would cover that much. When he got back to the store the man hadn’t made a mistake, but he had the joy of walking in that assumption. The next day the man made that mistake.

This story illustrates the power of sustained assumption and feeling the reality of the wish fulfilled, even when denied by the senses. The inner act of imagination, when imbued with feeling, externalizes into physical reality.

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