Part 14 of 46 · Chapter 14 · 8 min 28 sec
You’ve sat with the first half of “Thinking & Speaking.” You’ve read the affirmation books. You’ve watched your self-talk. You know the words you use shape the life you live. None of that is new to you. You’ve done the work.
And yet, if you’re honest, something still isn’t clicking. You catch the negative thoughts. You correct the language. You speak the abundance phrases out loud. But the bank account, the client list, the business — they keep showing you the same picture. You wonder why the practice doesn’t seem to land the way the teachers promised.
It’s not you. It’s not that you lack discipline or faith. The piece nobody handed you is this: there’s a thought behind the thought. David calls it the sponsoring thought. It’s the quiet belief sitting underneath the affirmation. When the affirmation says “I am abundant” but the sponsoring thought whispers “but I’m not, really” — the sponsoring thought wins. Every time.
This chapter reframes the whole project. Your present is not a verdict. It’s a mirror — a reflection of who you were thinking and being a while back. The world you see through your eyes is, in David’s words, an illusion. A kind gift, actually. It’s showing you yourself at an earlier stage so you can decide what to grow into next.
If you’ve ever felt frustrated that “the work” isn’t working — that you’re saying the right things and the results aren’t shifting — this chapter is the missing layer. It teaches you to spot the sponsoring thought, to use the present as a mirror instead of a sentence, and to stop fighting the effect when the cause is what’s asking for your attention.
What this chapter unlocks
- What David Cameron Gikandi means by the “sponsoring thought”: the deeper subconscious belief that sits behind your conscious thought. When they disagree, the sponsoring thought always wins — which is why people pray for abundance from a place of lack and feel nothing changes.
- Why “I am” statements carry weight: the universe carries out “I am” statements as instructions. David suggests saying “I previously had thoughts and states that led to this broke manifestation” instead of “I am broke” — because what you face honestly releases you, but what you declare as identity sticks.
- Why trying to fix the effect doesn’t work: if sales drop, the marketing isn’t the cause. The attitude underneath the work — “I hate this customer task,” “I wish I could just stop” — is the cause. Thought is cause. Physical is effect.
- How to read the present moment correctly: what you see right now is a delayed reflection of who you were being earlier. It’s not a punishment. It’s a live mirror designed to let you observe yourself and choose the next version.
- Why intentions beat preferences and addictions: hold the future with one-mind focus. Accept the present fully. What you resist persists. What you face and bring into the light releases you.
The 30-second test
Listen to the first 30 seconds. If you hear the line about having intentions but not preferences or addictions — and about accepting the present moment as the perfect outcome of your past thoughts — and something in you exhales, this is your chapter. That tension between wanting your present to be different and being asked to accept it is exactly what this chapter resolves.
Why this chapter matters in the series
Part 12 introduced the power of thinking and speaking — the surface layer of how you create. This chapter goes underneath that. It introduces the sponsoring thought, the mirror principle, and the practice of changing cause rather than wrestling effect. From here, the series moves toward awareness, observation, and the daily practices that turn these ideas from theory into something your nervous system actually believes. This is the bridge between knowing about your thoughts and finally getting underneath them.
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have intentions but not preferences or addictions choose future outcomes by our intentions and desires but accept your intentions and desires but accept all present moments present moments are the perfect outcomes of your past houghts States and actions they are a thoughts States and actions they are a gift to you to enable you to experience yourself and grow resisting and cursing the present only perpetuates its nature speak to yourself and ask yourself your questions expecting an answer you will soon develop a knack of getting answers from within they come as feelings not words but you can get what they mean you can get the gist or the Galt of them learn to distinguish between genuine feelings
and thoughts or emotions that mask themselves as feelings when you intend be of one mind have no Alternatives or preferences but practice Detachment in the moment of now accept joyfully what is happening in the present for you have brought it with your previous thought words actions and state of being and it is only here to let you have a look at yourself like a giant live mirror what you resist persists do not wish your present were different live happily in your present be of present mind but make choices about your future and intend your future with one mind single mind focus and precision never stop learning observe and affirm the truth and the truth will
set you free if you were broke say so look at it in the eye admit it then and look to see the errors in your thinking that caused it always affirm the truth for what you resist persists what you face and bring into the light releases you but be careful in your admitting it is more correct to say I previously had thoughts actions and states of being that have led to this broke manifestation that I am now observing than it is to say I am broke in fact never say think or feel that I am statements are always carried out by the universe change the cause not the ffect effect hought is cause physical is
effect hought is cause physical is effect hought is cause physical is effect rying to change the effect directly is trying to change the effect directly is banging your head against the wall for example if your sales have dropped it is not because your marketing is wrong it could be that you have a negative attitude to your business or an aspect of it for example people have attitudes like I hate going to work I hate this job I hate this customer service task I wish I could just relax and do nothing all day if you have them and you are wondering why no matter what you do in your business things are not working out well
these could be a cause dig deep be aware and analyze your state and thoughts they are always at cause now here is something that might ake some time to ring true take some time to ring true understanding of this brings enormous power here we go remember how we saw that you were at cause over things that happen in your world those who have taken time to study and experience this know experientially that every person causes 100% of the world now remember that the thought takes time to manifest into the physical depending on the subject matter so what then are you looking at when you use your eyes to see things what are your eyes seeing
if you are at cause of all you see and thought akes you time to manifest you obviously takes you time to manifest you obviously looking at yourself at various stages of your past read that through again it is all an illusion an illusion designed to allow you to look at yourself so that you can create the next version of yourself design your growth what you see with your eyes is an illusion designed from various stages of your past the real you yourself is very far ahead your thoughts right now are extremely close to the real you dragging behind just a fraction the real you is what causes the thought the wordless you from which thought
Springs The Observer the soul but that’s another topic let us get back to Illusions and how to use them to create wealth the way to use this world you see with your eyes is to see see it as your past and actively use it deliberately to observe yourself and see what the change and grow that is one way to use the illusion which is a gift brought to you kindly so that you may know yourself present results are the effects of previous thoughts in other words when you look at the world today you are actually looking at yourself as you were yesterday the world and any present moment of now reflects your thoughts and state
of being before the present moment of now it is all an illusion use it as the illusion that it is and you will ive wonderfully and live wonderfully and richly insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result what are you doing are you doing the same thing every day and expecting a different result if so have a good laugh now a heart laugh and then change from now there is such a thing as the sponsoring thought this is the thought behind the thought the sponsoring thought is what has more creative Force than the sponsored thought what we normally call thought is actually sponsored thought look at your thoughts closely they have
a sponsor a cause if you think you need to eat food that thought has a cause behind it this the sponsoring thought in this case a belief that you are hungry start becoming aware of it it is from the subconscious mind or what some people call the heart sponsoring thought is the way of thinking that you truly believe in and hold true it is your subconscious programming if your thought and sponsoring thought over something or uncoordinated if they do not agree the sponsoring thought wins that is why people who pray begging to God never get heir prayers answered because their prayers answered because their sponsoring thought is one of not having or lacking be aware
of and correct your sponsoring thoughts science has proven that deep meditation temporarily shuts down the part of the brain that tells you where you end meditate and you will reach vastness of mind and Consciousness that you never thought possible Business Solutions new business ideas and wealth strategies are just a fraction of what will begin to arise it has been said that if you do not go within you go without judge not condemn not it causes negativity and maintains that which you judge or condemn it causes retardation and a whole host of non-productive results expanded perception causes expanding wealth forgiveness causes the xpansion of your perception when you expansion of your perception when you forgive others
and yourself for what you think has been done wrong you become open to see what you and others truly are you become open to see the beauty and capability that you may have miss eeing you become more tolerant and you seeing you become more tolerant and you Embrace freedom and love you start to believe Less in conditionality many things happen that expand your perception an expanded perception expands your Consciousness your abilities your opportunities your contacts and a lot more that leads to wealth you become what you think about most of the time believingly by some accounts you think about 50,000 thoughts a day some are thoughts that make you walk and scratch or control your
physiology others are unconscious Daydreams many are petitive but only a few of them are petitive but only a few of them are petitive but only a few of them are conscious and deliberate start watching your thoughts being aware of them do not let them remain random as they have been make more and more of them conscious and eliberate by becoming aware of your deliberate by becoming aware of your thoughts you will wake up and become a deliberate designer of your life you become aware by simply deciding to be aware turn your mind into a sunny beautiful island that allows in only positive thoughts and influences and absolutely shuts out every negative thought or influence act
as if you have an alert positive mind Defense Force in your head that has 24-hour active duty defending you against internal and external negativity and it has to win all encounters form a mastermind group this a group of people of like mind as you get together frequently and exchange ideas materials and motivation where two r more are gathered the power or more are gathered the power multiplies and the power of the whole is more than the sum of the power of the parts a mastermind group is very powerful it multiplies the power of each participant greatly
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