MANIFESTING_TECHNIQUE
Imagining for Others
To help others, mentally represent them to yourself as already embodying the desired state or condition you wish for them. See them as healthy, employed, or…
Step by step
- Identify a friend or loved one who needs help or a desired change.
- In your imagination, represent them to yourself as you would like them to be (e.g., healthy, employed, happy).
- Mentally 'push' this image, holding it as real in your mind's eye.
- Assume that this desired state for them is already a fact within your Imagination.
- Identify a desire for a 'seeming other'.
- Mentally enter a scene where they are expressing their good news or fulfillment.
- Hear their voice, see their joyful face, feel the thrill of their success.
- Subjectively appropriate this hope, believing it is real.
- Do not doubt the reality of this imaginal act.
- Watch it come to pass in the physical world.
- Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled for yourself.
- Extend this practice to your family and friends, imagining their desires fulfilled.
- Understand that in doing so, you are also giving to yourself, as there is no other.
- Identify the person and their desire.
- Bring the person before your mind's eye.
- Construct a brief, vivid scene that implies their desire is already fulfilled (e.g., them thanking you, a positive news report about them).
- Engage with this scene until it feels real and natural.
- Release the desire, knowing it is done, without needing external confirmation or thanks.
- Identify someone who needs help or has a problem.
- Clearly define the desired outcome or state for that person.
- Imagine them experiencing that desired state as if it were already real.
- Do not be swayed by any negative external reports or appearances.
- Remain faithful to your imaginal act, knowing it is the sole cause, and do not attempt to physically aid or advise the person.
- Identify what another person desires.
- In your imagination, create a scene where they are telling you they have received their desire.
- Hear their words, feel their joy, and make the scene as real as possible.
- Persist in this imaginal act, knowing that your imagination is the creative power.
- Do not concern yourself with the 'how' it will manifest for them.
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Imagination
To help others, mentally represent them to yourself as already embodying the desired state or condition you wish for them. See them as healthy, employed, or prosperous, and 'push' this image in your mind's eye, knowing that all you behold is within your Imagination.
You will think of a friend, and if he is distressed, you represent him to yourself as you would like him to be. If he’s unemployed, you represent him to yourself as gainfully employed. If he is earning less than what it really takes to live well in this world with his obligations, you represent him to yourself as living well and earning a decent living and assuming full responsibility of his job, and you push him in your mind’s eye. So you widen your circle.
This technique extends the Law of Assumption to others, based on the principle that 'all that you behold...is within, in your Imagination.' By imaginatively seeing others as fulfilled, one helps to bring about their desired state, expanding one's circle of influence and demonstrating universal interconnectedness.
Imagining Creates
To help another, imagine them already possessing their desire. This involves mentally hearing their good news, seeing their joy, and feeling the thrill of their fulfillment, knowing that in reality, there is no 'other' and you are imagining for yourself.
When you imagine for a seeming other you are blessed, for there is no other and you are giving your imaginal gift to yourself! Hear your friend tell you his good news, see the joy on his face, feel the thrill of fulfillment, and let it take place in your world. And as it does, recognize your harvest. Realize you are responsible for its consummation. ... You will save one who is unemployed by mentally hearing him tell you he is now gainfully employed and making more money than ever before. Having heard his good news, you will subjectively appropriate your objective hope and never turn back by doubting the reality of what you have done. You will simply watch it come to pass.
Imagining for others is a powerful act because there is only one 'I AM'. By giving an imaginal gift to another, you are giving it to yourself, and you are responsible for its manifestation in your shared world.
Live The Answer Now
Apply the principle of assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled not just for yourself, but also for your family and friends. Recognize that when you imagine good for others, you are ultimately doing it for yourself, as all are interconnected within your consciousness.
Take the challenge of scripture and assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled - not only for yourself, but for your family and friends. When you imagine for another, you are really giving it to yourself, as there is no other. The whole vast world is only yourself pushed out.
Imagining for others is a powerful application of the law, as it reinforces the truth that there is no separation. Since the entire world is a projection of one's own consciousness, imagining for another is effectively imagining for oneself, leading to reciprocal benefits.
Order Your Conversations Aright
When someone asks for help, bring them before your mind's eye and imagine a scene that implies their wish has been fulfilled. For example, imagine receiving a letter or hearing them express thanks for the successful outcome.
So, I bring before my mind’s eye the one who has asked of me if I know them. If I do not know them, I imagine that I have heard from them. They will not always confirm it, but I imagine they wrote me and thanked me.
Since all consciousness is one, imagining for another is as effective as imagining for oneself. The act of assuming the wish fulfilled for them, and feeling the reality of it, sets the creative process in motion, regardless of whether they acknowledge your role.
Read Order Your Conversations Aright on MyNevilleGoddard.com
The Foundation Stone Imagination
To help another, imagine them in their desired, improved state. Once the imaginal act is complete, do not waver or attempt to physically intervene, even if external circumstances seem to contradict your imaginal act. Remain faithful to the initial assumption.
If tonight there is someone very ill who needs your help and you imagine the best for him and then you get news that he is worse tomorrow, do not be impatient, but remain faithful to the one stone laid in Zion. What more can you do after you have imagined? Someone writes to you about a problem. Imagine for them what they desire and then do not turn aside to do anything to make it come true. You remain faithful, and it will create the conditions necessary to bring fulfillment.
The power of Imagination is universal and interpenetrates all beings. Imagining for another, with unwavering faith, sets in motion the conditions necessary for their desired state to manifest, without the need for physical action or advice.
Read The Foundation Stone Imagination on MyNevilleGoddard.com
How To Manifest Your Desires
To help another, imagine them already possessing their desired outcome. This involves creating a sensory-rich imaginal scene, such as hearing the friend tell you the good news, and persisting in that imaginal act, recognizing that you are praying to your own imagination (God).
Soon after this, a friend asked Ben to pray for him. He wanted to be the property manager of the company he worked for. Although he had been passed by year after year, Bennie told him what to do, and imagined hearing the friend tell him the job was now his. A few months later the job was vacated and his friend was given the position with an increase in salary and greater responsibility, just as he had imagined. What did Bennie do? He imagined! To whom did he pray? To his own wonderful human imagination!
This technique demonstrates that one's imagination can be used to manifest desires for others, as all imaginations are interconnected and ultimately one God. The key is to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled for the other person.