Keep in mind that this cannot be just an intellectual process. Thoughts
and feelings must be coherent. In other words, this meditation requires that
you drop down about ten inches out of your head and move into your heart.
Open your heart and think about how it would feel if you embodied a
combination of all the traits that you admire and that make up your ideal
self.
You may object that you can’t know how it would feel, because you’ve
never experienced what it’s like to have those traits and to be that ideal self.
My response is that your body can experience this before you have any
physical evidence, ahead of your senses: If a future desire that you’ve never
experienced actually does manifest in your life, you’d have to agree that
you would experience an elevated emotion such as joy, excitement, or
gratitude ... so those emotions are what you can naturally focus on. Instead
of being enslaved to emotions that are only the residue of the past, you are
now using elevated emotions to create the future.
The elevated emotions of gratitude, love, and so forth all have a higher
frequency that will help you move into a state of being where you can feel
as though the desired events have actually occurred. If you are in a state of
greatness, then the signal you send into the quantum field is that the events
have already come to pass. Giving thanks allows you to emotionally
condition your body to believe that what is producing your gratitude has
already happened. By activating and coordinating your three brains,
meditation allows you to move from thinking to being—and once you are in
a new state of being, you are more prone to act and think equal to who you
are being.
Perhaps you’ve wondered why it may be hard to move into a state of
gratitude or to give thanks ahead of the actual experience. Is it possible that
you’ve been living by a memorized emotion that has become so much a part
of your identity, on a subconscious level, that now you cannot feel any other
way than you’re accustomed to? If so, maybe your identity has become a
matter of how you appear to the world on the outside, to distract you and
change how you feel on the inside.
In the next chapter, we’re going to examine how to close that gap and
bring about true liberation. When you can readily feel gratitude or joy, or
fall in love with the future—without needing any person, thing, or
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