MANIFESTING_TECHNIQUE
Imagining the Wish Fulfilled (Fox and Grapes)
This technique involves using imagination to contemplate and feel the reality of a desired state as if it were already true. Instead of dismissing a desire…
Step by step
- Identify an ambitious dream or noble concept you wish to realize.
- Instead of focusing on current limitations, ask: 'What would it be like if I had already realized this?'
- Contemplate the feeling of being the person you want to be or having the desired outcome.
- Rejoice in that imagined state as though it were already true, generating a strong emotional response.
- This emotional response is the 'seedtime' that will lead to the 'harvest' of your desire.
Related ideas
ImaginationFeeling of the wish fulfilledEmotional responseSeedtimeAssumption
Seedtime And Harvest
This technique involves using imagination to contemplate and feel the reality of a desired state as if it were already true. Instead of dismissing a desire as unattainable (like the fox calling grapes sour), one actively imagines and rejoices in the feeling of its fulfillment, thereby planting the 'seed' for its manifestation.
There is a little fable given us to show us how it is done. If you will study the fable carefully, you will see the importance of imagination. The fable is the fable of the fox and the grapes. You all know it. When he failed to obtain the grapes then he persuaded himself that the grapes were sour, and by imagining the grapes to be sour he evoked in himself a change of attitude. He no longer felt about the grapes as he formerly felt. Now that's a little fable on a negative tone or a tragic tone. You and I take the same story but now we put it on a positive tone. We contemplate our ambitious dream, our noble concept of life. It may seem we haven't the talents to realize it - instead of saying what the fox did, that the thing is beyond us and therefore it is sour anyway, we can take the same technique and wonder what it would be like had we realized it. What would the feeling be like were we - (and we name it) - if I can contemplate what the feeling would be like were I the man that I want to be, were you the person that you want to be, and rejoice in that state as though it were true, I am producing in myself that emotional response necessary for seedtime.
By consciously evoking the emotional response of the wish fulfilled, one initiates the 'seedtime' for the desired reality, regardless of current external circumstances or perceived limitations.