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1. Refer to your experiences and find an incident or sensation that you would never want to relive. For example, you might not want to be rejected or used; be out of money; you don't want to ever get angry again, or hurt someone, or go nuts.
2. Spend a few moments hoping that "it" will never happen again.
3. Now take a deep breath and feel for a while that "this" will never happen again. If your common sense does not take this as an opportunity, just imagine for a moment that you can anticipate such a future.
Have you felt the difference between hope and anticipation that this will never happen again?
Compare, and you'll probably notice that anticipation made you feel confident about being free from future manifestations of this unpleasant experience, while hope sowed uncertainty about being safe from future trouble. Thus, the subjective experience of hope that you will never be rejected again is an unstable suspension of the desire to be accepted and the realization of the possibility of being rejected anyway; at the same time, the premonition that you will no longer be rejected is a pleasant state of knowing that it will be. The inner process underlying the subjective distinction between hope and anticipation is this: when we hope, we simultaneously maintain inner images of what we want and not get what we want.
(You can test this by looking at your own hopes and noting how that hope is expressed.) When we have a presentiment, the inner image of only one possibility is maintained. (If other possibilities are imagined, they don't merge with what is anticipated.
You can experiment by noting the content of the images, anticipating or anticipating something in the future). Now let's move on to the next stage of our experiment.
1. Refer to your current hopes and choose one (for example, that you will remain close friends with someone, that you will have a lot of money, you will go traveling, master a sport or musical instrument, etc.).
2. Now erase all the possibilities except for the one with which you are bound by hope, imagining the image of only one remaining possibility; notice how your subjective experience has changed.
(For example, imagine only that you will make a lot of money, or just that you will not make a lot of money).
You may have noticed that when you were left with just one imaginary possibility, your experience immediately shifted in the direction of anticipating this future. (The premonition scares you or gives you pleasure - it depends on the imaginary, whether it is only an unwanted opportunity or only a desired opportunity). This model makes it impossible for two possibilities to exist simultaneously.
1. Choose some decidedly unpleasant incident that you currently anticipate (dump a fool on a date, get a huge bill from the tax office, and remain a fool for the rest of your days, etc.), and feel that this is happening. ..
2. Now draw a picture for yourself that everything is not going the way you anticipated (on a date you turned out to be simply charming, a tiny bill came from the tax office, the work is still in your hands, etc.), and put it in front of you both pictures at once. Notice how your subjective experience changes.
Here you may have noticed that you suddenly became hopeful. Whereas before you had a presentiment of, say, dumping the fool on a date, now (with the imaginary possibility of being charming as well) you hope you're not dumping (or hope you'll be charming).
A significant difference in subjective experience appears with the transition from anticipation to hope, you can see for yourself by experimenting with the model. This difference will be expressed in behavior. A person who has a presentiment that he is dumping a fool on a date will react in a very different way to the possibility of failure than a person who hopes that he does not dump (or will be charming)
The difference between hope and foreboding, with which you were just experimenting, is one of dozens of phenomena that we discovered when modeling the internal processes of many people who either hoped or had a presentiment of something.
Having understood the underlying model, we were able to meaningfully (and often deeply) influence our own experiences and the experiences of others through this model. That is, we presented the internal processes underlying "hope" and "anticipation" so that they could be transferred in the form of an ability to someone who needed and wants to have it.
2. Spend a few moments hoping that "it" will never happen again.
3. Now take a deep breath and feel for a while that "this" will never happen again. If your common sense does not take this as an opportunity, just imagine for a moment that you can anticipate such a future.
Have you felt the difference between hope and anticipation that this will never happen again?
Compare, and you'll probably notice that anticipation made you feel confident about being free from future manifestations of this unpleasant experience, while hope sowed uncertainty about being safe from future trouble. Thus, the subjective experience of hope that you will never be rejected again is an unstable suspension of the desire to be accepted and the realization of the possibility of being rejected anyway; at the same time, the premonition that you will no longer be rejected is a pleasant state of knowing that it will be. The inner process underlying the subjective distinction between hope and anticipation is this: when we hope, we simultaneously maintain inner images of what we want and not get what we want.
(You can test this by looking at your own hopes and noting how that hope is expressed.) When we have a presentiment, the inner image of only one possibility is maintained. (If other possibilities are imagined, they don't merge with what is anticipated.
You can experiment by noting the content of the images, anticipating or anticipating something in the future). Now let's move on to the next stage of our experiment.
1. Refer to your current hopes and choose one (for example, that you will remain close friends with someone, that you will have a lot of money, you will go traveling, master a sport or musical instrument, etc.).
2. Now erase all the possibilities except for the one with which you are bound by hope, imagining the image of only one remaining possibility; notice how your subjective experience has changed.
(For example, imagine only that you will make a lot of money, or just that you will not make a lot of money).
You may have noticed that when you were left with just one imaginary possibility, your experience immediately shifted in the direction of anticipating this future. (The premonition scares you or gives you pleasure - it depends on the imaginary, whether it is only an unwanted opportunity or only a desired opportunity). This model makes it impossible for two possibilities to exist simultaneously.
1. Choose some decidedly unpleasant incident that you currently anticipate (dump a fool on a date, get a huge bill from the tax office, and remain a fool for the rest of your days, etc.), and feel that this is happening. ..
2. Now draw a picture for yourself that everything is not going the way you anticipated (on a date you turned out to be simply charming, a tiny bill came from the tax office, the work is still in your hands, etc.), and put it in front of you both pictures at once. Notice how your subjective experience changes.
Here you may have noticed that you suddenly became hopeful. Whereas before you had a presentiment of, say, dumping the fool on a date, now (with the imaginary possibility of being charming as well) you hope you're not dumping (or hope you'll be charming).
A significant difference in subjective experience appears with the transition from anticipation to hope, you can see for yourself by experimenting with the model. This difference will be expressed in behavior. A person who has a presentiment that he is dumping a fool on a date will react in a very different way to the possibility of failure than a person who hopes that he does not dump (or will be charming)
The difference between hope and foreboding, with which you were just experimenting, is one of dozens of phenomena that we discovered when modeling the internal processes of many people who either hoped or had a presentiment of something.
Having understood the underlying model, we were able to meaningfully (and often deeply) influence our own experiences and the experiences of others through this model. That is, we presented the internal processes underlying "hope" and "anticipation" so that they could be transferred in the form of an ability to someone who needed and wants to have it.
