The Power of Belief

 

 

The power of belief is the key that unlocks your ability to consciously create your reality. To be able to intentionally create your ideal reality, you must believe that you already have or are that which you want to attain or be in the present moment. And the secret to believing is to take what you want for granted. This means to believe, with gratitude, that it has already been given to you. It has been granted, it has been received and there is no doubt. Or else, in the words of Neville Goddard the power of belief is to “persist in the state of your wish fulfilled”.

 

You Take for Granted What you Already Have

You only take for granted what you already have with certainty. The etymology of the word ‘granted’ can be traced back to the Latin word ‘credentem’ meaning ’to believe’ or ’to trust’. Take, therefore, what you want for granted and it will be granted. Herein lies the secret to the power of belief. The words of Jesus Christ in Mark 11:24 could not be clearer on this: “What things soever you ask for when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them”. The power of belief rests on faith. The kind of faith that “is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”.

 

Detachment and the Power of Belief

Although it’s important to be clear about what it is you want to see manifest in your life when you visualize and imagine your intended outcome, it is also important to detach from that outcome because attachment tends to neutralize the power of belief. By constantly wondering where something is, or why it hasn’t shown up yet, or panicking that it won’t, will just keep it away from you because essentially you are focusing on what you do not have and reminding yourself that you do not have it.

 

You Only Desire What You Do Not Already Have

Think about it—you can only desire what you do not have. You do not desire what you already have. When you already have something, you do not sit around wondering where it is—you have it, and that’s it. All manifesting techniques are aimed at experiencing the feeling that you already have what you desire at that moment. And when you feel something to be real often enough, you can maintain that belief of your desire fulfilled in your day-to-day moments. The power of believing always works in your favour.

 

Detachment in my Experience

While I acknowledge the importance of detachment, I must mention my own experience on the subject here. Detachment in the sense of not thinking of your desire and never doubting its manifestation is not as important as feeling and believing that you already have your desire even if just during your visualization sessions and then forgetting about it. Many people unnecessarily get wrapped up in the frustration of being unable to detach, when in practice their frustration is possibly more disadvantageous to attaining their desire than their attachment.

I have had the experience a few times in which a desire has wholly manifested despite some lingering attachment to varying degrees. Even so, endeavour to detach through the power of believing but if you struggle to do so don’t worry about it. It’s far better to imagine your ideal outcome even if attached than not to imagine at all just because you can’t detach.

 

The Power of Belief makes Detachment Effortless

Harnessing the power of belief comes easily when you understand the conscious creation process and know that your mind is one and the same Universal Mind in Its entirety. When you know that whatever you imagine with concentrated thought and feeling is instantaneously created in the Spiritual Plane from which all things manifest, then the magic of belief follows suit and it is only a matter of time before it manifests in the Physical Plane. Believe that you have already received what you want and you will find that detachment becomes effortless.

 

What a Difference Indifference Makes

When you believe you have something, your belief is underpinned by a state of indifference. This does not mean that you do not care but rather that you are care-free because you know that you already have what you want. You know it’s only a matter of time before you experience it in the Physical Plane as all things in the 3D plane require an incubation period to be ‘birthed’.

In the meantime, you don’t wait for its manifestation in the sense of wondering where it is. Through the power of belief, you can sense its presence all around you albeit still invisible to your physical eyes. You will know that you truly believe that you already have what you have imagined when you no longer feel a sense of desperation, attachment or even desire.

 

 

Everything is an Illusion

If you find yourself struggling to muster true belief that you already have what you want because your current reality seems far removed from it, gently remind yourself that everything is an illusion. Your physical reality is an illusion—a projection of your consciousness in the same way that a dream is yet you feel it to be real while in the dream. Albert Einstein said it best: “Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one”. Yes, your reality is real to the physical you that is having the experience but not to your True Self that is above the experience. To your True Self, your current reality is no more real than the reality you desire to experience.

 

 

 

The Power of Belief Rests on Gratitude

Taking something for granted is usually associated with not being grateful for what you have. And indeed, most people want and focus on what they do not have while failing to appreciate what they do have. And in so doing, they land up attracting more of what they do not want.

The best approach is to be grateful for everything you have been for granted, including what you have imagined as being real, knowing that it is already yours by Universal Law and your oneness with Universal Mind. Even though something you have imagined has not yet manifested in the Physical Plane, feel grateful that you already have it. Gratitude is a state of being that together with the power of belief, turbo-charges your thought power. What you appreciate, appreciates—it grows.

 

 

Avoid the Extremes, Be Graceful

Be careful that the power of belief does not send you on a power trip. Pride in the extreme is often accompanied by the greatest of falls. Adhere to the advice to avoid the extremes in all things, including your emotions. Live by the Delphic maxim “nothing in excess”. Do not become conceited or arrogantly self-assured that nothing and no one can stand in your way of attaining what you desire because you may quickly find all your efforts in that direction unravelling around you. Not as some kind of punishment but because of the Universal Laws of Polarity and Rhythm.

For the same reason, avoid becoming overly excited at the slightest of signs that your intention is manifesting in your physical reality. After all, would you truly be excited about something that you already have? The easiest way to avoid extreme emotions while taking what you want for granted is to once again be grateful. And gratitude is not about jumping up and down with excitement. It comes from the word ‘grace’. Adopt the silent inner strength that comes with the graceful attitude of a person who knows they are the supreme I AM within and are grateful for it.

 

 

Manifesting your Dreams

Conscious creation is the process whereby the intentional concentration of one’s mind on a mental image gives rise to the manifestation of that mental image into form in the 3D world. There are essentially three axioms upon which conscious creation rests. The first is that the underlying substance of the Universe is energy, and more specifically Mind. The second is that everything vibrates at different rates of vibration or frequencies and that like-vibration attracts like-vibration. And the third is that all things visible and invisible are manifested through Universal Mind and thinking, whether conscious or not, is the creative activity of Universal Mind that gives rise to form.

This then is the foundation of the conscious creation process, and more specifically of how you create your reality consciously, or in other words intentionally. We will now take a look at each of these axioms in turn and how, together with the factor of time, they complete the equation of the transmutation of ‘energy’ into ‘form’ that is conscious creation.

Axiom 1 of Conscious Creation: All is Mind
Once again, the first axiom of conscious creation is that the underlying substance of the Universe is energy, or more specifically Mind or Consciousness where the terms are used interchangeably. It is the first of the seven Universal Laws, namely the Law of Mentalism that states everything—be it a grain of sand, a thought, or a human being—is Mind. You do not have a mind—your underlying essence is Mind. And more specifically your mind is one with the One Universal Mind of the All-Powerful Absolute.

Axiom 2 of Conscious Creation: Everything Vibrates and Like-Attracts-Like
The second axiom of conscious creation is that everything vibrates at different frequencies or rates of vibration. This is also one of the seven Universal Laws, namely the Law of Vibration. Together with the first axiom, it means that everything visible and invisible is Mind vibrating at different rates of vibration. The Law of Attraction then tells us that like-vibration attracts like-vibration, whereby the vibration of a specific thought ‘attracts’ to the thinker its equivalent vibration in form.

Axiom 3 of Conscious Creation: Universal Mind Creates
The third axiom of the conscious creation process is that all things visible and invisible are created by the activity Universal Mind. And since the activity of mind is thinking, everything is created through Universal Mind’s thinking. Importantly, the thinking process of Universal Mind is impersonal and along unconscious lines without the need for any conscious input, which means that any thought impressed on Universal Mind persistently enough and under the right conditions will be actualised into form. Any thought and from any source, including you as the source of the thought!

Judge Thomas Troward, the New Thought author of the 1904 Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science, expressed thought’s creative power as follows: “the action of Mind [thought] plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form.”

 

 

 

Your Mind is Universal Mind

The definition of Universal Mind as being Omnipresent and Absolute means It is present everywhere at the same time in Its entirety. This then means that your mind must be Universal Mind in Its entirety. Not your mind is a part of Universal Mind and another person’s mind is another part of Universal Mind—that is relative, not absolute. Your mind is Universal Mind and, therefore, when you think, Universal Mind thinks. And what you think, is precisely what Universal Mind thinks. This is the essence of the power of your thoughts and of why it is you that creates your own reality through conscious creation.

 

 

Conscious Thinking vs Unconscious Thinking

Once again, since the activity of Mind is thought, or more specifically thinking, then it is thought that is creative. And thought here refers to all your mental activities, including what you think, what you imagine, what you feel, what you believe, what you assume to be true and so on. What distinguishes human beings from the animal kingdom and human beings between each other is their ability to think consciously. Or in other words, the ability to consciously choose your thoughts and hence consciously create your own reality.

 

 

How Your Mind Creates Your Reality through Conscious Creation

By consciously choosing what you think, you intentionally impress your thoughts upon Universal Mind because, as we’ve seen, what you think Universal Mind precisely thinks. And the environment in which you plant your mental seeds is determined by the nature of your inner world.

Mental soil nourished with joy, gratitude and faith makes for the most fertile soil in which to plant your mental seeds for conscious creation. Whereas mental soil that is lacking in faith and is waterlogged with extreme emotions and attachment will make it challenging for your seeds to grow although not necessarily impossible. Under the right conditions, therefore, concentrated thought begins the process of purposefully transmuting mind in its pure potential state into mind in its actualised visible state, which is the 3D form you experience in your 3D world.

This is the essence of conscious creation and it applies to anything you wish to create in your experience from the material to the abstract. And bear in mind once again that the term ’thought’ and ’thinking’ includes all your mental activities—what you think, imagine, assume, believe and feel.

 

 

 

The Factor of Time in Conscious Creation

Time is an important factor to adjust for in the conscious creation process. On the Spiritual Plane, there is no time as we know it and there is no time lag between cause and effect. This means that the corresponding manifestation of thought is instantaneous such that they appear inseparable. In contrast, the Physical and Mental Planes (albeit to a lesser degree in the latter) are subject to our experience of time and space thereby creating a time lag between the concentrated thought (cause) and its eventual manifestation (effect).

You must, therefore, allow for the passage of time between mentally focussing on your desire and its corresponding physical manifestation. Rest assured that your desire has already manifested in the Spiritual Plane and it is only a matter of time before it manifests in the Physical Plane because the former has directive power over the latter.

The Necessary Incubation Period for Conscious Creation
The necessary time for the transmutation of mind into 3D form in the conscious creation process is called the incubation period, which is present throughout nature and the 3D world. In any pregnancy, time must elapse from the moment of conception to the moment of birth. In gardening, time must elapse from the moment of planting a seed beneath the soil to the moment of the first shoots appearing above it. Even in the baking of a cake, time must elapse from the moment of placing the cake pan with the raw batter in the oven to the moment of having a perfectly baked cake.

 

The Benefit of Time

With this analogy in mind, by understanding that an incubation period must pass for the ‘birth’ of all things in the 3D world then detachment and patience should come naturally. Moreover, this time-lapse is very beneficial because it prevents the immediate actualisation of your unwanted thoughts in the 3D Physical Plane. Time gives you the time to change your mind.

Can you imagine the chaos that would ensue on the Physical Plane if everyone’s thoughts, concentrated or not, were immediately actualised in form? Be grateful for the passage of time, therefore, and use it to your advantage by persisting in your imagination. It is a waste of time to wonder if what you have imagined will come to pass when but Law it must if left undisturbed.

 

The Bridge of Incident in Conscious Creation

In keeping with the theme of time, a series of events will take place during this incubation period to bring about what you desire once you have imagined it purposefully and assumed it to be real. The New Thought author Neville Goddard coined the term ‘The Bridge of Incident’ in naming this series of events, which essentially provides a sense of continuity and realism on the 3D Physical Plane in order to make this illusion of ‘me and outside things and people’ more believable.

Nevertheless, the exact events that will take place between the time you imagine your desire and when it is actualised are none of your concern and in many cases, you couldn’t have possibly thought them up even if you wanted to. Indeed, in the words of Mark Twain, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” Through the above article, we can recommend you the latest dresses.Shop dress in a variety of lengths, colors and styles for every occasion from your favorite brands.

The Conscious Creation Formula
Bringing everything together, here is a simple formula for the conscious creation process:
Static Mind (mind in stasis)
Thought—Imagination (mind in action)
Time Bridge (incubation period)
Manifestation (bridge of incidents)
3D Experience (attracted to source/thinker).

And finally, Neville Goddard summed up conscious creation quite poetically when he said “This is the secret of those who lie in bed awake while they dream things true. They know how to live in their dream until, in fact, they do just that. Man, through the medium of a controlled, waking dream, can predetermine his future. That imaginal activity, of living in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, leads man across a bridge of incident to the fulfillment of the dream. If we live in the dream—thinking from it, and not of it—then the creative power of imagining will answer our adventurous fancy, and the wish fulfilled will break in upon us and take us unawares.”

And about time in the context of conscious creation, he had this to say “Once you have planted this seed in your imagination, do not uproot it by being anxious about how it will be accomplished. Each seed has its own appointed time. Some seeds take a few days; others a little longer. Feel confident that what you have planted will appear in your world.” Give the seeds you consciously plant in your imagination the time to grow. Do not pull on their first shoots to help them along, lest you pull too hard and uproot them. Time’s most faithful companions are persistence and patience.