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that your life is important; begin with it and where there is any -may suddenly change from the
you are. Do not deride yourself because you have dialogue that you remember; or the entire scene and
not reached some great ideal, but start to use those action may quickly alter. Any of these occurrences
talents that you have to the best of your ability, can be hints that you are beginning to glimpse the
knowing that in them lies your own individual probable variations of the particular scene or action.
fulfillment. It is, however, the subjective feeling that is the
important clue here, and once you experience it
Any help that you give to others will come through there will be no doubt in your mind.
the creative utilization of your own characteristics
and no one else's. Do not get upset with yourself Some people will have little trouble with the
when you find yourself dwelling on negative issues exercise, and others will need to exert persistence
in your life. Instead, constructively ask yourself before finding any success at all. This method is
why you are doing so. The answer will come to you. even more effective if you choose from your past a
scene in which a choice was involved that was
Use the knowledge as a bridge. Let whatever important to you.
emotions are involved happen. If you do this
honestly, feelings of self-worthlessness or In such a case, begin imaginatively, following
despondency will go through and vanish, changing through with the other decision or decisions that
of their own accord. You may even find yourself you might have made. At one point a shadowy
impatient with the feelings themselves, or even effect -grayness, or other characteristics just
bored, and hence dismiss them. Do not tell yourself mentioned -will occur. One or several of these may
automatically that they are wrong, however, and be involved, but again your subjective feeling is the
then try to apply a 'positive' belief like a band-aid. most important clue. Imagination may bring you a
clear picture, for example, that may then become
Have a sense of humor about yourself -not a fuzzy, and in that case the blurred quality would be
malicious one but a kindly humorous regard for your hint of probable action.
yourself. High seriousness is fine when it comes
naturally and is not forced. But it can become Until you have tried the exercise and become fully
pompous if it is prolonged. acquainted with it, you will not understand its
effectiveness.
If you allow yourself to be more and more aware of
your own beliefs, you can work with them. It is silly You will know, for instance, when the remembered
to try to fight what you think of as negative beliefs, event and imagination intersect with another
or to be frightened of them. They are not mysterious. probability.
You may find that many served good purposes at
one time, and that they have simply been Whether or not you have any great success, the
overemphasized. They may need to be restructured exercise will begin a neurological reorientation that
rather than denied. will be most important if you hope to glimpse
realities that are outside of your present
neurologically accepted sense-reality.
Session 676 Glimpsing probable variations of past
events Take any remembered scene from your own This exercise is a mental and biological doorway
past. Experience it as clearly as possible that can expand both your concepts of yourself and
imaginatively, but with the idea of its probable reality.
extensions. Sometime, immediately or after a few
tries, a particular portion of the scene will become
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There may be instances in which it seems that little you. The picture can be from the past or the present,
progress is made during the exercise itself. During but try to see it as a snapshot of a self poised in
the day, however, having made an important perfect focus, emerging from an underneath
decision in one direction, you may begin to feel the dimension in which other probable pictures could
reality of the opposite decision and its ramifications. have been taken. That self, you see, emerges
The exercise may also result in a different kind of a triumphantly, unique and unassailable in its own
dream, one that is recognized within the dream state, experience; yet in the features you see before you -
at least, as an introduction to a probable reality. You in this stance, posture, expression -there are also
deal directly with future probabilities in the dream glimmerings, tintings or shadings, that are echoes
state in any case. For example, in a series of dreams belonging to other probabilities. Try to sense those.
you may try out various solutions to a given
problem, and choose one of these.' That choice Session 695 Discover other probable paths for your
becomes your physical reality. life Take another photograph of yourself at a
different age than the first one you chose. Ask
yourself simply: 'Am I looking at the same person?'
Session 687 Trace the path of a probable event ('A How familiar or how strange is this second
photograph of a given person represents one photograph? How does it differ from the first one
experienced probable identity, focused in a you picked this evening? What similarities are there
recognized time sequence. Its validity is dependent that unite both photographs in your mind? What
upon the other invisible snapshots not taken, even experiences did you have when each photograph
as the given notes that make up a symphony are was taken? What ways did you think of following in
important because of the implied notes not actually one picture that were not followed in the other one?
used. 'In the same way, a Picture of the species Those directions were pursued. If they were not
represents only one version of the species, 'snapped' pursued by the self you recognize, then they were
in a particular time sequence, valid because of the by a self that is probable in your terms. In your
invisible realities not focused upon, but upon which mind follow what directions that self would have
reality rides.)' Take any incident that happens to taken, as you think of such events. If you find a line
you the day you read this page. See the particular of development that you now wish you had pursued,
chosen event as one that came into your experience but had not, then think deeply about the ways in
from the vast bank of other probable events that which those activities could now fit into the
could have occurred. framework of your officially accepted life. Such
musings, with desire -backed up by common sense -
Examine the event as you know it. Then try to trace can bring about intersection points in probabilities
its emergence from the thread of your own past life that cause a fresh realignment of the deep elements
as you understand it, and project outward in your of the psyche. In such ways probable events can be
mind what other events might emerge from that one attracted to your current living structure.
to become action in your probable future. This
exercise has another part: When you have finished We have been speaking about probable men, and
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