The story you tell yourself internally about who you are creates your external world. Everything that happens to you, every experience, every event, was generated by your self-image.
Because you construct yourself and your experience through this very self-definition.
Every word, every thought you have during the day or discuss with yourself, originates from this self-concept. And the world, which eventually always aligns, reflects back to you the sum of all your internally bundled assumptions about yourself.
These are not abstract, philosophical considerations or theories; this is pure physics. This is how consciousness works. And you are consciousness; that is your true identity.
If you are reading this text today, it is because somewhere deep inside you have begun to sense that the story you have been telling yourself about who you are is not the one you actually want to live.
That is good. Because that is your turning point. The moment you realize that you are the author of your life story, you can pick up the pen and rewrite everything. Because it is your reality, and you can simply do it.
In everyday life, one usually doesn't even think about how one sees and defines oneself. One is convinced that one simply is who one is – shaped by the so-called “past,” the words of parents, teachers, and simply by circumstances or what one has experienced.
You ultimately ended up on this page because you are interested in the Law of Attraction. And to truly use this law purposefully, it is essential to grapple with your self-image.
When you begin to do so, accept first that there is only consciousness, that you yourself are this consciousness, and that the entire external world around you shows nothing more than its projection. This applies especially to your identity, your self-image.
“We are spiritual beings living in a physical body, acting as "dumb terminals" for our minds.” (Bob Proctor)
(Transl.: We are spiritual beings living in a physical body, acting as “dumb terminals” for our minds.)
“We are a spiritual being having a human experience.” (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
(Transl.: We are a spiritual being having a human experience)
So, if you are pure consciousness, then your current personality cannot be set in stone. While it was imprinted upon you by birth and childhood experiences, it is not immutable.
Because how you see and experience yourself is merely a habit of thought; it is part of your paradigm. A script you have repeated in your mind so often that it started to feel true to you.
And because it became your conviction, it has solidified in your world.
However, there is a key that can unlock the door to this inner fortress: your will.
Through it, you can simply assume something else about yourself at any time. It works.
You can tell yourself a new truth in this very second and thus change your self-concept.
When you make this decision and implement it consistently, without compromise, the entire structure of your life experience rearranges itself. Because your inner world creates your outer world.
What is the best way to do this?
You must find the film you are unconsciously playing over and over again.
When people on the street are asked to describe themselves, they usually report their resume or their social role: “I am a teacher,” “I currently have financial worries,” “I just don’t have any luck in love.”
However, these are all just descriptions of these individuals’ current external world. To identify your self-image, which is composed of your convictions and core beliefs, you must go much deeper.
You should find the quiet, persistent voice that runs far beneath your conscious thinking. Because it comments on every one of your experiences, interprets every result, and thus creates your narrative—the story about yourself that you then believe.
These very inner conversations are the cause of your current life circumstances. They arise from the words you reflexively direct at yourself again and again.
If you tell yourself that you are constantly coming up short, that good things only happen to others, or that you have to struggle extremely hard for every success, then you will experience exactly that identity in the outer world.
The external world provides you with the evidence for it because it is created by your internal world. As within, so without.
Unwanted events do not manifest in your life because they correspond to an objective truth, but because you attract them into your life on an energetic level through your thoughts, feelings, and especially through your self-image, which chooses the latter.
Your self-assumption is anchored in your subconscious; that is the seat of your feelings, the builder of your world.
It does not question your instructions. It does not distinguish between right or wrong, good or evil.
If you impress upon it through constant repetition: “I am always lagging behind, people don’t take me seriously, my talent just isn't enough,” the subconscious simply says “Yes” and builds the corresponding circumstances for you.
Neville Goddard often spoke of a woman who came to him in despair. She visualized, used affirmations, read all the books on the Law of Attraction, and spent years trying to improve her finances and her love life. Nothing worked. Neville asked her a simple question: “What do you say to yourself in silence about yourself when something goes wrong? What role do you see for yourself when you think about the future?”
And suddenly she understood:
Despite all her spiritual exercises, the story of limitation was running continuously in the background. Her inner foundation was: “I am someone who has to struggle; an easy life is simply not meant for me.”
Exactly that is very often overlooked and ignored. People try to superimpose a new wish onto an old, unchanged self-image. One imagines wealth while the self-image considers itself poor at its core.
One wants to manifest love while holding the inner belief that one is not lovable.
And that is why many manifestation processes do not work. Or the manifestation succeeds, but after some time, one loses what was manifested again because the subconscious never changed the dominant assumption.
It acts like the autopilot of an airplane that has briefly drifted off course. The computer soon corrects the deviation and brings the plane back to the programmed course.
Perhaps you are thinking now: “But my story is based on facts! My bank balance is real, I am factually alone, I have failed in the past.”
You are wrong if you think about yourself this way. These are not facts. They are simply different states of consciousness. And you are not bound to the past, nor to the current external world. You have no contract with the past, and certainly not with the external world. Both are totally unimportant when it comes to shaping your future.
(Also read my blog article on Revision Technique)
Your past did not create your reality today. Neither did the external world. It is always just the state of consciousness that shifts reality – and your current external world merely reflects the state you were in previously.
And when you change this state of consciousness, it must manifest with a time delay exactly as you feel it now from this new state of being.
Another example from Neville Goddard’s teachings illustrates it very aptly:
A highly qualified man had been unemployed for months. Every job interview he had fizzled out. He didn’t get a job, no matter how hard he tried or what techniques he used. It just wouldn't work.
He told himself: “I am unemployable, nobody wants me.”
When he asked Goddard why the universe was against him, he replied:
“The universe is not against you. You are against yourself. You are telling the story of rejection, and the world is simply agreeing with you.”
The man countered that he was only acknowledging reality, as the rejections were real.
But Goddard answered: “You are not just acknowledging them, you are creating them. Change the assumption, and the so-called facts will change.”
Under Goddard’s guidance, the man stopped observing the external world.
He learned to adopt the state of “already having,” to feel it and hold it, even though the external world showed the opposite. He persisted in the feeling that he had a job, that he was needed and valued there. By incorporating sensory perceptions, he made this state real within himself.
It took less than 2 weeks, and he had a job.
That was not luck. He got the position because he had stopped being the man who couldn’t find work. His world rearranged itself, and after a while, the external world mirrored his new state of consciousness.
I will give you two steps to a new self-image here.
Step 1: Determine your new identity (The "I am").
What you are on the inside, you will get on the outside.
Ask yourself:
If you were living the life you wish for – who would you be? What would you think about yourself? What behaviors would you have and, very importantly: how would you feel?
Formulate a simple, clear statement in the present tense from this.
“I am.” Here is an example regarding money:
If your old conviction was: “I always have trouble paying my bills,” you can use the following affirmation:
“I pay all my bills with ease and immediately. I am so happy and grateful because money loves me and comes to me easily and continuously in ever-increasing amounts from various sources, because I am a money magnet and always have been.”
Further examples: “I am wealthy,” “I am loved,” “I am free,” “I am healthy.”
Step 2: Observe your thoughts very carefully - and thus expose your core beliefs.
I will give you a tip on how to manage to bring your hidden thinking about yourself to light.
Get a notebook and observe what thoughts go through your head immediately after waking up. Monitor them repeatedly throughout the day and write them down (without judgment).
You will be amazed at what you will now discover about “yourself.”
While writing this article, I have identified 7 negative thoughts/assumptions about myself, which I have noted down and will transform in the coming days.
The feeling is the secret
Back to Step 1. You will not achieve change by mechanically reciting words and affirmations. Because your subconscious reacts only to feelings, not to recited vocabulary.
So, when you say: “I am wealthy,” feel the security and relief that come with it.
When you affirm: “I am loved,” feel the warmth and acceptance of other people.
If you are not able to generate these positive feelings, then go back to any situation from your “past” in which you felt loved and accepted.
This can be any moment of your life that you have associated with positive feelings. It does not matter at all which situation you choose. The only important thing is that you associate it with a pleasant, joyful feeling.
Return to that warmth and vibration from back then, linger in it for a moment, and then transfer exactly that feeling into your chosen affirmation.
Think of a small video clip (maximum 3–5 seconds long) to go with it, which you then let play internally together with the feeling. This is how you can reach your subconscious.
Also use the SATS method and your sleep
A detailed guide on how to use SATS will be available here on the blog shortly.
For now, just this much: SATS is a procedure with the help of which you drift into sleep in the state of consciousness of the already fulfilled wish or a desired self-image.
Since your consciousness is almost entirely switched off at night, your subconscious takes the lead. Whatever you imprint upon it during sleep, it will accept. That is why you can also play audio recordings of your affirmations while you sleep.
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