Thinking FROM the End

Step by step

1. Clearly define your desired end or aim in life.
2. In your imagination, assume the feeling of being in that desired state.
3. From this assumed state, look out at your world and describe it as if the desire is already fulfilled.
4. Ensure your perception of the world aligns with your assumed state (e.g., if you assume security, you should see evidence of security, not insecurity).
5. Persist in this assumption until it externalizes.
6. Identify the desired end.
7. Imagine yourself already possessing or experiencing that end.
8. Perform inner actions (sensory vividness, feelings, thoughts) that would naturally follow the fulfillment of the desire.
9. Maintain this state of 'being' in imagination until it externalizes.

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Sound Investments

Define your desired end, then imaginatively occupy that state. Feel yourself into the situation of the end, viewing the world and describing it from that fulfilled perspective, rather than merely observing the desire from a distance.

I said that when a man learns the art of thinking from the end, that man is master of his fate, for he defines his end, he formulates an aim in life, and then feels himself right into the situation of that end. So he thinks from it instead of thinking of it. The average man defines his dreams but he remains back here looking at them before he's thinking of them. The wise man occupies the state of his dreams, so he radiates from it, he thinks from it. And then to use this little illustration. I'm standing here looking out at the auditorium, and I would describe this theatre based from this angle, for I am seeing it from the stage. You, sitting in the auditorium, or sitting in the balcony, you are looking at it from that state, so you would see the screen and the speaker. So the difference between us we see the same theatre from different angles. I would define it from here; you would define it from there. If I desired to get your point of view, while standing here I would assume that I am seated where you are and therefore within my imagination look from that position. I would then have to see the stage, not the auditorium; I would see the thing behind me, this cyclorama, and I would describe the theatre from that position which I am assuming that I am. Now, if that position represents, say one of security and this one of insecurity I would then assume by physically standing here assume that I am now secure. And to prove that I am, I would then look from the state of security, so I would describe the world relative to my assumption. If I am still seeing what I saw when I was insecure, I have not succeeded in occupying that desirable end; I am still only thinking of it. So the wide difference between thinking from and thinking of must be clearly seen and then see the wisdom in learning the art of thinking from a desired end.

This technique is the key to mastering one's fate. It requires a complete shift in perspective, moving from an external observer of a desire to an internal inhabitant of its fulfillment. If one still perceives the world from the old, undesirable state, the technique has not been successfully applied.

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The Law And The Promise

To fully embody the feeling and experience of the desired outcome as if it has already happened. This involves performing inner actions in imagination that correspond to what one would physically do after the wish is fulfilled.

We must actually BE, in Imagination. It is one thing to think of the end, and another thing to think from the end. To think from the end; to enact the end, is to create reality. The inner actions must correspond to the actions we would physically perform "after these things should be."

This technique is the active creation of reality by immersing oneself in the subjective experience of the fulfilled desire, rather than merely wishing for it. The inner state dictates the outer manifestation.

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