18/03/2026
The Law of Assumption
An assumption, though false, if persisted in, will harden into facts
-Neville Godard.
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, and hell of heaven."
- John Milton.
The law of assumption simply states that it is your unseen beliefs and assumptions that are continually changing the realities that you see. We continually arrange the person that we are BEING according to your chosen beliefs and assumptions, which in turn creates the results that are the consequences of these beliefs and assumptions. EVERYTHING that we think about other people stems from the assumptions we have made about them. Once we drop or alter those assumptions, the person changes.
When you understand how the law of assumption works, you will live life like a sporting game where you decide the rules. You can alter a bad boss into an excellent boss in one minute. When I say you decide the rules, it means that if you choose assumptions and beliefs that cause you to perform a certain way, you can change the rules at any time if the outcomes don’t suit you. Let’s say that you are paid $1,000 per month in wages, and you are sad. You can erroneously think that it is the $1,000 that is making you sad. But when you sit down to check the assumptions causing the sadness, you will find out the following:
1. The $1,000 has no life of its own.
2. You have somewhere below conscious awareness assumed that you need more than $1,000 to be happy.
3. At this time, you realize that your assumption is the cause of the sadness and not the $1,000.
At this stage, what you need to do is go back to the outcome that you want in this game. The outcome that you deeply want may be happiness and not $1,000,000,000.00. This gives you an opportunity to make a new choice or change the rules in this game called life. Immediately, you can decide to change the tagline for happiness to be $1,000.00. We are always the ones choosing the conditions for our happiness. In the words of Werner Erhard,
"The quickest way to be happy is to choose what you already have,"
Understanding the law of assumption will make you so superhuman that people who don’t know this law may constantly wonder what kind of “fool” you are. But their wonder isn’t a problem for you – you set the thermostat of your life, and you don’t allow the assumptions of another person to dictate your choice. What you want, really, at the end of the day is that you are full of joy, you are always full of energy, and you live a life full of excitement.
As humans, we have the power of interpretation. What we have forgotten, however, is that the parameters of interpretation are set by us and that they do not really exist.
Think about any area of your life that is making you sad today. Examine the underlying beliefs and assumptions that are giving you the judgment you see as the outcome: You will see that all the judgment is founded on some hidden assumptions with which you decided to look at life. If you are encountering any psychological pain because of your child’s performance in school, you have created the psychological pain because of your hidden set of assumptions outside of your view. When you begin to interrogate where this pain is coming from, you will see that you created the system causing your pain. Once you take out the system, the pain goes. If this is the first time you are coming across an understanding of this kind, it may take some work on your part to develop the skill of looking inward. My book, Realizing Mental Resilience, will give you a fast understanding of this subject. Take, for example, that your son failed and was expelled last year from the university, and you began to feel sad and lacking in excitement about your life. You can interrogate the beliefs and assumptions causing this state of being in the manner below:
Why am I lacking in excitement in the matter of my son? Take a few minutes to really question the assumptions that you have made, causing this state of being.
Let’s say one possible occurrence exacerbating the pain you feel is that your brother’s son, who happens to be in the same class as your son, had distinctions in all subjects and was the valedictorian. Ask yourself, who created the assumption that your son is supposed to be better than your brother’s son? Or that your son ought to graduate from school the same year as his cousin, or your son should have at least gotten a score close to his brilliant cousin?
Is there anyone who has been able to attain what you call success without this certification?
Who defined what success is?
Can you set your own rules for success?
Ask yourself more probing questions to unearth what is causing the pain that you are currently experiencing ……………………………….? …………………………………………?
You will discover that all of what you call your life traumas and excitement have been created by you through the power of assumptions and beliefs that you invented unconsciously. If you invented the assumptions causing your pain, you can uninvent them
Let me remind yourself of these words from the lips of Jesus in Matthew 6: 25 – 32
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?
As you read the words above, you may see that all the road signs that you have erected to guarantee you the excitement of life have been created by you and you only. Here is the good news: if you created them, you can uncreate them. I leave you with these words from the poet Rumi –
'Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.'
