Imagining Others' Praise (Wife's Producer)

Step by step

1. Identify a person whose attitude or behavior you wish to change.
2. Stop any negative inner conversations, criticisms, or judgments about them.
3. In your imagination, create a vivid scene where they are praising you, expressing appreciation, or acting in the desired positive manner.
4. Mentally engage with this scene, feeling the reality and naturalness of their positive response.
5. Persist in this imaginative act, knowing that your inner change will compel their outer change.

Related Bible passages

• 1 John 4:19

Related ideas

Many Mansions

To change how someone treats you, stop negative inner conversations about them and instead imagine them praising you or acting in the desired positive way. Sustain this imaginative act, and the outer person will conform to your inner vision, reflecting the principle 'We love Him because He first loved us.'

Now, stop it, and allow him to praise you for your work. He’s always condemning and always criticizing. Walk to work. You only walk five blocks from where you live to the Music Hall. Just imagine that he is not only praising you for your work, but he wants to use all of your designs, and the budget will not allow it, so he goes to your father and asks your father to increase the budget, that he may be allowed to use all the designs. ... So, as she walked the street she simply imagined he walked with her, praising her for the work that she had done. And in twenty-four hours he praised her, and [she] hoped her father would increase the budget, that he could use all of them.

The outer world reflects the inner. By initiating the desired 'love' or positive interaction in imagination, one causes the external person to respond accordingly, demonstrating that the change must begin within oneself.

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