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!
