Manifestation Portals - Does Law of Assumption mean you caused every bad thing?

What happens when every rough day turns into a search for the thought that supposedly caused it?

The evening after a bad day

Your car won't start so you're late to the thing you've been prepping for all week, and then it gets pushed anyway. It rains all afternoon and the friend you were finally seeing tonight cancels an hour before. 

A completely normal awful day, and then you get home and the real work starts because now you have to figure out which thought did all of this.

So you go back through the week looking for the culprit. Maybe it was Tuesday when you thought this better not fall through. Maybe it was feeling off all Sunday or some old idea about life being hard that you were sure you'd already handled.

I feel like so many of you know this exact evening and it's exhausting. Does believing in assumption really mean you have to find the cause of every bad thing that happens to you? I don't think it does, and I think the investigation is doing you more harm than the bad day ever did.

Why the search feels like taking it seriously

If assumptions shape what you experience then the logic seems pretty simple. Something bad happened so a bad assumption must be sitting behind it, and if you can find it you can fix it. It feels like the serious version of this, like you're someone who really gets it and won't let a single thing pass without looking at it.

The problem is you can't check any of it. There's no record of Tuesday's thoughts you can pull up and match to a dead car battery. So what you're actually doing is writing a story after the fact and treating it like evidence, and somehow the story always ends with you as the reason.

You'll always find a guilty thought

You had thousands of thoughts this week. If you go in searching for a guilty one you'll find one every time, because a normal mind full of normal worries always has something that fits. A flash of doubt or a cranky mood or some sarcastic thing you said in your head about your boss can all be made to look like the cause once you've decided there has to be one.

And the whole thing assumes one random thought on a Tuesday can wreck a day, which isn't how I see this at all. What you keep coming back to and repeating is what shapes things. A passing worry doesn't carry that kind of weight just because it showed up the same week as something annoying.

Then look at what the search does to tomorrow. You walk into it already watching yourself, nervous that the wrong thought is going to cause round two. That's a weird way to use something that's supposed to give you more say over your own life.

Knowing why doesn't change what you can choose

Say you did crack it. You found the exact thought and you're positive it was the one. You'd still be standing in the same kitchen on the same evening deciding what you want to assume from here, and knowing why yesterday happened doesn't give you a single new option for tomorrow.

I think this is the part that gets lost. You use assumption going forward. You pick what you're assuming about your life and you keep picking it, and none of that needs a full report on how the last version of things got put together.

You can choose the experience you want next while having no clue why the car didn't start. The choice counts the second you make it either way. Revision is there if you want to redo a day in your imagination, but even that doesn't ask you to name a culprit first.

Hearing an assumption versus digging one up

Some of you are probably thinking this sounds like a convenient excuse to never look at anything, and that's fair because there is a kind of looking that's useful. If you catch yourself saying nothing ever works out for me five times a day, you don't need detective work because you can hear it. It's right there in how you talk to yourself and you can decide whether you want to keep saying it.

The investigation runs backwards. It starts with an event you didn't want and digs for a hidden cause you never noticed at the time, which means you're guessing. What you can hear yourself repeating right now is something you can actually work with, and a thought you reconstructed after a bad afternoon usually just turns into blame.

A bad day doesn't need a confession

You can look at a rough day and not turn it into a confession. It happened and it was annoying and you still get to decide what you're assuming from here without first deciding what you did wrong. I'd go as far as saying that's what using this with confidence looks like.

You take the philosophy seriously by using it, so you pick the life you want next and keep picking it. You don't owe yourself a hidden mental crime for every single thing you didn't want before. That stuff can stay in the past where it is while you get on with choosing what comes next.

Three things to try after your next rough day

1. Notice the exact moment you start asking which thought did this. You don't have to fight the question or feel bad for asking it. Just ask yourself what you want to be true about tomorrow and give that the time you were about to spend on the other one.

2. Sort what you can hear from what you had to dig up. If an assumption shows up in how you talk to yourself on an ordinary day, that's worth paying attention to. If you only found it by combing through a week of thoughts after something went wrong, treat it as a guess and don't build anything on it.

3. Revise the day if you feel like it and skip the diagnosis. Imagine the car starting and dinner actually happening if that feels good to you. And if you don't feel like revising anything, you can let it be a bad day and move on to deciding what you want next.

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