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| The Human Capacity for Achievement has Scarcely Been Tapped. |
Just before the end of the academic year, a student who was about to take her final examinations consulted me for relief from the anxiety which had been interfering with her ability to prepare for them.
I asked her to think of a time in her life when she was happily and productively engaged in working toward a much-desired goal. When she was able to visualize this clearly, I asked her to re-capture that mood, concentrate on it, and bring it back into the present, even if she had to do so repeatedly, using a variety of situations from her past, until the new pattern was successfully established. She later reported that this method had successfully helped her to "lose the blues" while srudying.
When regularly incorporàted into the practice of multiversal meditation, the following suggestions have been shown to be effective, drawing in the future rather than the past: "Whenever you have a goal that you can deeply believe in with all your heart, you will be able to visualize the rewards of a future goal that you deeply believe in so clearly that you can believe it will happen, expect it to happen, and feel it happening, as you act, think, and feel as if it were impossible to fail!"
