Changing Your Concept of Self for Future Transformation

Step by step

1. Define your highest ideal.
2. Concentrate your attention on this ideal until you identify with it.
3. Assume the feeling of being this ideal, as if you are embodying it now.
4. Persist in this assumption, regardless of sensory evidence.
5. Check your progress by observing your mental conversations with others: if they reflect your new self-concept, you have succeeded.

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To change your future, define your highest ideal and concentrate on it until you identify with it, assuming the feeling of already being that ideal. Persist in this assumption, even if senses deny it. A successful change in self-concept is indicated by a change in your mental conversations with others, where you interact with them as if your new ideal is a physical fact.

Define your highest ideal and concentrate your attention upon this ideal until you identify yourself with it. Assume the feeling of being it – the feeling that would be yours were you now embodying it in your world. This assumption, though now denied by your senses, "if persisted in" – will become a fact in your world. You will know when you have succeeded in fixing the desired state in consciousness simply by looking mentally at the people you know. This is a wonderful check on yourself as your mental conversations are more revealing than your physical conversations are. If, in your mental conversations with others, you talk with them as you formerly did, then you have not changed your concept of self, for all changes of concepts of self result in a changed relationship to the world.

This technique emphasizes that a true transformation of self, rather than mere alteration of circumstances, is necessary for changing the future. The internal shift in self-concept, evidenced by changed mental interactions, is the key to manifesting a new reality.

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