Experiencing your dreams and desires isn’t about faith and belief. It’s about confidence and determination. You don’t lose faith in something if it doesn’t happen, you lose confidence that it will happen. Quite simply, you stop being determined to experience whatever it is that you were focused on.

Belief and faith are built on hope, muddled focus, and weakness. Confidence and determination are built on unquestioned choice, supreme focus, and inner power.

Belief and faith suggest a hope that something will come to pass. Confidence and determination suggest knowledge of a foregone conclusion.

Inspirational metaphysical teacher Neville Goddard was fond of saying that “Whatever you desire, if you will but believe you already have received it, you will.”

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This pattern is based upon The Hero: A study in Tradition, Myth and Dreams by Lord Raglan

Incidents which occur with regularity in hero-myths of all cultures:

1. Hero’s mother is a royal virgin;

2. His father is a king, and

3. Often a near relative of his mother, but

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