Faith of our heart will be manifested in our physical reality without distortion, if that faith is carried over to our mind as well. If what we want in our life is to be manifested in our physical reality without distortion, our heart should first believe that it will be manifested in our physical reality and that belief should be carried forward to our mind until it is manifested in our physical real world.

If faith of our heart is not carried over to our mind, then activities of our mind are likely to distort the faith of our heart leading to physical manifestation that can be significantly different from what we desired.

In our life we have witnessed many more under-accomplished goals and ambitions than the ones that fully succeeded, haven't we? Why? Why does our mind refuse to believe in what our heart believes in? Why is our heart influenced by our mind?

We are almost always carried away by our past experiences. Our mind with its rich memory believes only in what we have already experienced.

But our goals and ambitions are something to do with future experience we desire to happen in our life. Obviously our mind will refuse to believe that such future experience will happen in our life that is contrary to our past and present experiences.

Our heart tends to follow our mind. It is easy for our heart to believe in what our mind believes in, though it is quite possible, but of course, slightly difficult, for our heart to believe in what our mind refuses to believe in.

Visualization technique employed for the realization of our goals and ambitions in our physical reality exactly serves this purpose - to develop faith in our heart. It bypasses our mind to directly convince our heart to believe in the fulfillment of what we desire.

No doubt, Visualization is a powerful technique to convince our heart. However, when our mind does not believe in the fulfillment of what we desire, the skepticism of our mind distorts the faith of our heart to such an extent that manifestation could be significantly different from what we desired.

Let me illustrate. Consider the case of a bank employee Mr.Y living in the bank's officers' quarters with his family in a two BHK apartment in a city. His wife craved for a four BHK independent house allotted to the branch manager of that bank. She often visualized her family living in that residence. She continued her fantasy for months. One fine morning her husband was transferred to another branch of that bank in a remote village where he was offered a two BHK independent house. Is it what Mrs.Y wanted? What happened?

Simple. During those few months when Mrs.Y practiced Visualization, Mr.Y convinced his wife that he could not get promotion that year. While Visualization tried to create the faith of her family living in four BHK independent house, the skepticism of her mind related to the promotion of her husband modified the faith created in her heart.

How to convince our mind to believe in the fulfillment of what we desire? We can use Affirmation technique to create faith in our mind. Of all manifestation methods employed for the realization of our goals and ambitions in our physical reality, Affirmation is the easiest technique to practice. We design an affirmation statement that serves to nullify the skepticism of our mind that is liable to modify the faith of our heart, and read and/or write it a few times a day until we realize what we want in our physical reality. That's all.

For an example, if you are in debt and you want to get enough money, you'll read statements like 'Money is good' and 'I love the rich' to convince your mind, assuming that your prejudice against the rich modifies the faith of financial freedom in your heart.

A common mistake many manifesting aspirants do is to try to directly create faith of heart using Affirmation. It won't work. When you are in debt and read affirmations, 'I am financially free' or 'I am rich', your mind will reject it outright and nothing will go down to your heart - the existing faith of financial shortage will continue. Only Visualization can be used to directly create faith of heart.

This is because our heart innately cannot perceive the Time division. It doesn't, by default, differentiate between the future and the present. It has to depend on our mind to perceive the Time division. Note that we hardly feel the passing time during dreamless deep sleep when our mind is absent. We can create the state of heart that will, under certain conditions, happen in future, in the present itself. Visualization bypasses mind and tricks the heart to get a state in the present that can be normally reached only in the future.

But it won't work with our mind because our mind is very much aware of the Time division. Affirmation uses our mind; it cannot bypass it. If you try to use Affirmation to create a state in the present that can be normally reached only in the future, your mind will not only reject it outright but it will also ensure that it doesn't go to your heart either.

Well, we are not discussing here how to create the faith of our heart using Affirmation. We are discussing here how to transfer the faith of heart created by Visualization to our mind using Affirmation.

From the above discussion it is clear that we can't use affirmations like 'I am rich' to convince our mind to manifest wealth. We have to use the power of gratitude for assistance in manifestation. Then it will work. Thus, the affirmation 'Thank You God for Your assistance for me to be financially free' will work.

Let me explain. Faith of our heart is manifested in our physical reality. But how? By whom? Our serious passionate emotional desires, thoughts and words have a creative potential. The universal Consciousness, that is pervading this entire material universe, brings towards us persons, things, events and circumstances in our life consistent with our desires, thoughts and words in order to manifest the faith of our heart in the physical reality. For an example, when we crave for wealth positively and when we think about wealth positively and when we talk about wealth positively, we trigger the universal Consciousness into action. Then we get opportunities for doing business; we get opportunities for repaying our debt, and so on. So, manifestation of faith of our heart is always executed by the universal Consciousness of God.

When we express gratitude to the universal Consciousness of God for Its wonderful assistance in manifesting what we want, we recognize Its presence and function, which, in turn, creates in our mind faith in the manifestation process.

So, the affirmation 'Thank You God for Your assistance for me to be financially free' will work. How? Mind will assimilate it as the faith, 'With the help of God I'll manifest financial freedom' and work in sync with the faith of our heart 'I am financially free'. Note that faith of mind is in future tense and dependent on reason whereas faith of heart is in present tense and independent of logic. If you are not comfortable with God, you may replace It with universal Consciousness or simply Universe.

Similarly, the popular affirmations like 'I am peaceful', 'I am prosperous' and 'I am happy' are useless crap. Substitute 'Thank You God for Your assistance for me to be peaceful', 'Thank You God for Your assistance for me to be prosperous' and 'Thank You God for Your assistance for me to be happy' respectively for them.

Therefore, gratitude for manifestation assistance convinces our mind ensuring that manifestation will be closer to what we desired. For an example, if you are in debt and you want to accumulate money, you can read the affirmation, 'Thank You God for Your assistance for me to be financially free'. Let us assume that your prejudice against the rich has resulted in the manifestation of shortage of money. Now the practice of this affirmation creates faith in your mind that you can manifest your financial freedom. This faith neutralizes your prejudice against the rich and ensures that faith of financial freedom in the heart created by Visualization is manifested without distortion.

However, things are not that simple. The memory of our mind is quite rich. It is a very big database and you don't know what data will be retrieved and processed in a given situation. It is not always easy to convince our mind. In this example, you could have learnt many different lessons from many different experiences throughout your life right from your childhood that led to this prejudice against the rich. Your parents, teachers, relatives, friends and others could have influenced your view point for you to arrive at this prejudice against the rich.

When such factors that are liable to modify the faith of heart are very intense, which is invariably the case in many of our manifestation exercises, it is impossible to neutralize those factors with Affirmation exclusively. Then, we'll have to resort to Consciousness Manifestation Methods that we'll see later. Before that let us see one more important Traditional Manifestation Method.

End of chapter 3.