MANIFESTING_TECHNIQUE
Praying for Friends by Changing Their State
To forgive and help others, one must mentally lift them out of their current undesirable state by completely forgetting their past actions and envisioning…
Step by step
- Identify a friend or person who is in need or experiencing an undesirable state.
- Completely forget their past actions, perceived faults, or current negative circumstances.
- Mentally envision and persuade yourself that they are already in their ideal, desired state (e.g., healthy, prosperous, happy, in a state of grace).
- Maintain this imaginative vision, understanding that the person was merely expressing a state, not inherently that state itself.
- Recognize that this act of imaginative transformation and forgiveness for others will also result in the lifting of your own undesirable circumstances or 'captivity.'
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The Book Of Job
To forgive and help others, one must mentally lift them out of their current undesirable state by completely forgetting their past actions and envisioning them in an ideal, desired state (a state of grace). This imaginative transformation for another will simultaneously lift one's own 'captivity' or undesirable circumstances.
Now that is where you come in: to completely forget yourselves in the love of a friend who is in need. Without raising a finger, you lift him mentally out of one state and put him into another. No matter what he has been in the past, forget it and put him in another. He was only expressing in a state, he was never the state that he expressed. We condemned him thinking he was the state, but Job prayed for his friends, lifting them out of that state of self-righteousness and divine justice, and he saw them in the state of grace. It doesn’t matter what they have ever done in the past. It is now what he sees them to be – and at that moment Job’s captivity was lifted. And so the whole thing hinged upon man’s ability to forgive.
Job's act of praying for his friends, which lifted his own captivity, demonstrates that true forgiveness and effective help involve perceiving others not as their current or past states, but as the ideal state they are meant to embody, thereby moving them into grace.