Question #4731: How to cultivate faith

[AskSatanOperator]

When envisioning a goal, a scene, an item, a person, anything for a spell, I feel like an impostor, as if I'm deluding myself. The best way to explain it I have figured out is using the placebo effect. Say I am under a placebo, because I do not know the inner workings of said placebo, or because I trust the person who induced it, I automatically and subconsciously place full faith in it. This faith gives power to the placebo and allows it to fully manifest in reality as much as it can. In magic I believe the same principle must be applied. As I envision something, I need to develop such a strong faith that I believe either one of two things: that I will get what I am performing the ritual for, or that I already have it. The more daring it is, the more I faith I need to have, but I always fall short. Every time I visualize and affirm something that is not as if it is in the present time, my mind loves to "snap back to reality" and remind me otherwise. My efforts to perform these rituals is rendered moot because of it. The only way I have found to more or less get the visualization and affirmations going without resistance is if I perform a meditation before sleep. However, I can't focus that much at that moment, and I sometimes miss counts and pronunciations. I figured that the best way to fight it is using void meditation, but the problem is not that I have intrusive thoughts, or that I can't control them while meditating. I can perform my ritual successfully for a day, but in a random moment during that same day my brain reminds me of reality and then I remember the meditation, and it feels like everything just fell apart. I'm having a hard time explaining this. I hope you can more or less grasp what I mean. Have a nice day.

 

[Sun King]

As I envision something, I need to develop such a strong faith that I believe either one of two things: that I will get what I am performing the ritual for, or that I already have it.

You don't need to do that. Trying to "develop faith" causes resistance in your mind. You can't force your mind to have something it doesn't, like "faith".

What you can do is play-pretend that you have what you want. Ever seen 5-year-olds playing? They pretend to be doctors, billionaires, rock stars, famous politicians and so on. Just pretend in a playful way just like children do and you'll soon get the feeling. That's how you do it, not by forcing yourself, but in a very playful and lighthearted way.

 

[sinbad]

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When you affirm something to be true, it has already begun to take formation in the astral, but it's manifestation into reality comes as a result of you continuing to fuel it.

However, if you do not continue to do this until it has fully manifested into reality, it will simply dissipate.

You do not have it yet, you have merely planted a seed, which is almost like a "mirage" - until it is no longer a mirage.

Remind yourself that it already exists in the astral, but not yet "here", down on this "level" - and that you just have to wait for it to manifest, meanwhile you continue to persist in the work.

 

[Power of Justice [JG]]

If you have faith that means you have certainty that something will happen. You are so confident in the outcome that you just know it's going to happen. Most people are not like that and confuse it with hope. Hope is a beggar. You pray that something will work out because you lack faith.

But you don't really need either. You just need to feel what it would be like to have what you want. An emotion is the end product of an experience, which means that if you feel like you already have what you want, your mind thinks it has already happened, which is why you feel the way you do. I wrote an article about this Magick And Getting What You Want

 

[Charlotte666]

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Here are some links that may be of use to you. It's important to consider that there may be blockages present that you are not aware of, such as from past lives or astrological factors.

Additionally, playing calming music while you are performing a working/meditating can help a lot with getting your mind to calm down and really focus. I hope this helps!