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This series on The Power of Faith is not something that I want you to read, agree with and then forget about. It is one that I know can change your life if you take the right actions. That’s why, in this last part of the series, I would like to give you a specific assignment to follow for the next 21 days.

First of all, choose something you would like to achieve through The Power of Faith. This can be anything you wish: losing weight, getting in shape, increasing your income, getting a better job, learning a new language, developing better family relationships, etc.

Once you have decided what you want to achieve, ask yourself what steps need to be taken to accomplish this task. For example, if you want to learn a new language, you might need to obtain some books or audios which contain the tuition materials you need. You would also need to set aside a certain amount of time each day to study these materials and practice the new language.

Now bring in The Power of Faith and believe that you have already succeeded in achieving your goal. If you find this difficult, pretend that you have succeeded in achieving your goal. Visualize yourself speaking the new language with confidence – perhaps communicating fluently with native speakers in their own country.

Finally, take action and ignite the dynamite of faith. Study the materials, practice the language whenever you can and commit yourself to taking one new step each day towards the fulfilment of your desire.

The result of all this will be the manifestation of your goal, no matter what that goal is. Although I have given learning a new language as an example here, precisely the same strategy can be used to increase your income, get your physical body in shape, revitalize your love life or master new metaphysical techniques such as astral projection.

All you need to do to succeed in anything is unleash the power of faith in your life by believing that you are already successful and then taking action towards your goal on a daily basis.

It may sound simple, and it is, but this strategy for making changes in your life is awesomely powerful. One man I know used the technique to start his own business on a shoe-string budget of $200. In less than two years the business has flourished and now generates more than $100,000 per year in profits! Another person I know used the technique to improve her work skills and ended up obtaining a better job at twice her old salary!

The conclusion is clear. The Power of Faith really works when you adopt the strategy that I have outlined in this tutorial. So don’t make excuses any longer. If there’s something you want to change in your life, make it happen. Believe in yourself, believe in your ultimate success and then put that belief to work by taking practical steps towards the attainment of your goal. If you do this then you will be able to create good things in your life with ease.

Neither genuine nor emulated faith will work wonders unless you follow through with action. As even the Bible states quite simply, faith without works (meaning action) is dead. Why? Because action is the way you say to the universe, ‘Look, I really do have faith and I really am expecting to get results.’ People who don’t take action can pray, visualize, affirm, chant and meditate all day long, but they will seldom, if ever, get the results they want.

It doesn’t matter what you want to change, be it your income, sex life, love life, career, attitude, state of health or family relationships, taking action is the key to success. Faith – whether real or emulated – is like a bundle of dynamite sticks. It has power but no ignition. Actions provide the sparks which can ignite that dynamite and create real and lasting change in your life.

Remember, action is you taking control. If you want more money then it is easier to go out and get it than it is to make it come to you. Both methods work from a metaphysical point of view, but going out and getting it – the pro-active choice – is almost always the faster route to manifestation.

Spiritual stories and parables found in all major religious texts talk of Masters taking action in addition to meditating or praying. When Jesus of Nazareth wanted a coin to pay his taxes, he didn’t just sit on his faith and ask God to send him a dime. Instead he took his faith and arranged for a fish to be caught. When the fish was opened up, there was the coin he needed for the tax-man. The end result of having a coin manifest in his life was no less miraculous because of the action he had taken – it was just a lot easier that way.

You too have this choice in your life. You can study, do your affirmations, visualize your desires and so on without taking action, and in ten years time the chances are that you will still be where you are now.

Or you could continue studying, affirming and visualizing, but ignite these faith works with action. Join a gym if you want to lose weight and get in shape. Start a savings plan if you want to buy a new car. Get a better job or start your own business if you want more income. Smile more if you want to feel happier and experience more joy in your life. Quit smoking if you want to stop worrying about cancer. And so on. If you take this route then in ten years the change will be enormous. It’s a fact.

Pretending to have the power of faith might sound strange, but it really works to help you create good things. It opens up the possibility of a manifestation taking place, and as you follow your emulated faith with action, results happen automatically.

This is why religious and spiritual leaders throughout the ages have told their followers to imitate them. Because by imitating a spiritual leader who had total genuine faith, the follower himself taps into the power of conviction emulation and results happen just as they would with real faith.

But the magic doesn’t stop there. For as soon as a result has been achieved by acting on emulated or ‘pretend’ faith, your real faith is boosted a notch. For example, the book you wrote based on pretend faith may lead you to a legitimate writing assignment. This would boost your confidence and faith in your natural writing abilities and the need for conviction emulation is reduced until eventually you don’t need it at all because you have the genuine article – true faith.

Now all of this might sound a little complex, but really the rule of conviction emulation is simple:

Have faith that your goal has already been achieved. If you can’t generate total faith, pretend that you can. Pretend that your goal has already been achieved, then put that faith into action. Manifestation will follow. Repeat this process until a strong sense of genuine faith has been allowed to develop.

You will know when you have genuine faith when you find that you have no need to pretend. When you think of a goal and say, ‘I CAN DO THAT!’ automatically and without deliberation, a plateau of genuine, wonder-working faith has been reached. From that point on, the strategy of conviction emulation can be discarded.

Conviction emulation works because the power of faith is not something which is based on the exterior world, but on our interior representations. People get well after taking placebo drugs not because the drugs actually contain any medicinal quality, but simply because they believe the drugs to be medicinal. In other words, their healing comes not from the external reality, but from the faith within – even when that faith in the placebo drug is totally unfounded!

Now that’s the power of faith!

What we need is an easy and enjoyable way of developing the kind of rock-solid faith that enables us to create good things makes things happen. A strategy, if you will, which we can follow again and again to get the faith we need and achieve the goals we want to achieve every single time. Well, I have a strategy which fits the bill perfectly. It is easy to follow, fun to use and – most importantly – it works!

I call this strategy ‘Conviction Emulation’, but the name is more complex than the method itself. Basically, conviction emulation is the strategy of pretending to have total faith until total faith is actually generated. Let me explain how this works in practice….

Let’s imagine that you have a goal to do something that you have never done before. For example, imagine that you want to write a book. At present, you might not have faith in yourself or your abilities. You might constantly tell yourself how foolish such an idea is, how difficult it is to write a book and how small the chances of success are. This lack of faith actually prevents you from taking action and getting the book written because you don’t want to waste your time chasing empty dreams. Thus your lack of faith becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The book never gets published because you never get around to writing it.

The strategy of conviction emulation simply says this: Pretend that you have what it takes to succeed. Pretend that your success is assured. Pretend that you have already got all the talent, discipline and skill it takes to write a book.

So you do. You spend some time ‘getting into character’ and then you act as if your success as an author is assured. You put the hours in, write the pages and send them off to a publisher. Not because you had genuine unswerving faith, but simply because you emulated that kind of faith. Your emulated conviction allowed you to take action and get the job done.

This is a very practical application of the conviction emulation strategy, and the power of faith is always practical. If you want to get a better job, just have faith that a better job is out there, then go out and find it. If you can’t muster the faith, pretend that you already have the faith and act on that emulation. Similarly, if you want to increase your income by ten per cent, don’t wait until you feel genuinely convinced of your ability to earn more. Simply pretend that you are convinced and act on that pretence.