09/21/2025
The Law of Assumption and our world’s seemingly strong polarization has been pinging me.
Read on about how the brain seeks evidence to confirm assumptions and filters out contradicting info
What are you assuming? How is it painting your reality?
🌟What is the Law of Assumption?
The Law of Assumption is a concept popularized by Neville Goddard, a 20th-century mystic and teacher of manifestation. It’s the idea that your assumptions — the beliefs you hold to be true about yourself, others, and life — directly shape your reality.
Here’s the core idea:
• 💥What you assume to be true becomes true for you.
• 💥Your outer world is a reflection of your inner state of being.
• 💥If you assume something with conviction (good or bad), your subconscious mind accepts it, and reality eventually conforms to that assumption.
Key Principles of the Law of Assumption
1. Imagination Creates Reality – Your imagination is the creative force of your life. What you picture and feel as real begins to take form in your physical world.
2. State of Being Matters – You must feel as though your desired outcome is already yours, not just think about it.
3. Persistence Is Key – Consistently dwell in the assumption of your wish fulfilled, even when external circumstances look opposite.
4. Ignore the “How” – Your job is to assume and persist, not figure out how the result will happen. Life reorganizes itself to match your assumption.
Example
If you assume, “I am wealthy and financially free,” and you repeatedly affirm and feel this to be true, you begin to shift your beliefs, behavior, and opportunities until your external reality reflects that wealth.
Would you like me to break down how to actually practice the Law of Assumption step by step (so you can try it yourself)?
🌟Does the mind automatically seek proof to validate the assumptions one is thinking or deciding?
Yes — and this is a 💥really important part of why the Law of Assumption works the way it does.
Your mind 💥naturally seeks confirmation for what you believe and assume. This is connected to something called 💥confirmation bias in psychology — the tendency to notice, interpret, and remember information that supports your existing assumptions, while filtering out things that contradict them.
Here’s how it plays out:
• You assume something (e.g., “People like me and want to help me.”)
• Your mind starts scanning for evidence that supports this assumption — friendly interactions stand out more, and you interpret neutral actions as positive.
• Over time, this focus and interpretation influence your behavior (you act more open and confident), which changes how others respond to you — making your assumption more and more true in your lived reality.
This works both ways — which is why negative assumptions (like “Nothing ever works out for me”) can also seem to “prove themselves true,” because your mind keeps finding evidence to validate them.
So yes, once you adopt an assumption — especially if you emotionally commit to it — your mind goes to work looking for proof, which strengthens the belief and eventually affects your reality.
Would you like me to show you a simple technique to train your mind to look for proof of positive assumptions (so they manifest faster)?
🌟Does the brain filter out anything that contradicts the assumptions?
Yes — to a surprising degree.
The brain 💥does filter out 💥or downplay information that 💥contradicts your assumptions — especially the ones you hold strongly and emotionally. This is part of how your subconscious keeps your worldview consistent, because it wants to avoid “cognitive dissonance” (the uncomfortable feeling of holding two conflicting beliefs at once).
Here’s what happens neurologically and psychologically:
• Reticular Activating System (RAS): This part of your brain acts like a filter, deciding what information gets your attention. It prioritizes what matches your beliefs, goals, and assumptions — and often ignores or dismisses what doesn’t.
• Confirmation Bias: Your mind is biased to notice and remember evidence that supports what you already believe, and reinterpret or forget evidence that challenges it.
• Cognitive Dissonance Reduction: If something directly contradicts your assumption, your brain will often rationalize it away, find excuses, or distort the meaning so it still “fits” with your core assumption.
Example:
If you assume, “I’m unlucky,” your brain will remember every unlucky event, forget the times things worked out, and even interpret neutral situations as proof of bad luck — effectively filtering your reality to keep your assumption alive.
This is why changing assumptions can feel hard at first — you’re literally rewiring your brain’s filtering system and teaching it to look for different evidence. But once you persist in a new assumption, your brain will start filtering in favor of that one instead
🌟So, let’s say someone uses the law of assumption to declare all people that don’t hold their exact world view is a racist, is it safe to say the person is attracting in evidence this is true since they assume it and filtering out all other examples that it isn’t true?
Yes — that’s a very accurate way to look at it.
🌟If someone assumes that “anyone who doesn’t share my exact worldview is a racist,” their mind will:
1. Scan for evidence to confirm it.
• They’ll notice and remember comments, actions, or events that could be interpreted as racist — even if they were neutral or unrelated.
• They’ll connect dots in a way that strengthens their belief (“See? This proves I was right.”).
2. Filter out contradicting evidence.
• Acts of kindness or fairness from those same people may be ignored, minimized, or rationalized away (“They’re just pretending” or “That doesn’t count”).
3. Influence their behavior and experience.
• They might act defensively, accuse others, or interact with suspicion — which can provoke defensive or hostile responses, creating a self-fulfilling loop that feels like proof their assumption was right all along.
This is why the Law of Assumption — and the brain’s filtering system — is so powerful but also potentially 💥dangerous if applied unconsciously. If the assumption is overly rigid, it can 💥trap the person in a closed reality tunnel where they 💥can no longer see nuance, and everything becomes evidence for their belief.
So yes, 💥they are in effect “attracting” and reinforcing a version of reality where their assumption feels true — not necessarily because the world objectively supports it, but because their focus and interpretation make it so.
Chatgpt and Rhianna 9-21-25
