I especially got goosebumps when I read the part about retrocausality in terms of the Big Bang. They speculate as to whether living consciousness created the unfolding of the universe after it already unfolded. Or to put it more like they did, life creating the universe to support life. Hee hee! Too much fun!

The Lake House! It was a beautiful and subtle time line shifter! It’s actually a remake of the Korean motion picture Il Mare (2000) which I haven’t seen.

Another great film on backward causation (retrocausality) is Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes (2001)

You might like this quote to help the realist in you. It’s by one of our most respected thinkers of the 20th century. At the quantum level, it is understood that “what the observer will do in the future defines what happens in the past.” –John Wheeler 1977

For a good historical overview of the physics of retrocausation (the future changing the past) have a read of ‘Science hopes to change events that have already occurred’ by Patrick Barry.

Thank you everyone for sharing your insights on this. One of my favorite movie genres is time travel romances (Somewhere in Time, The Lake House, The Time Traveler’s Wife)…

It’s such a profound concept that we can go back in time and change the way we feel about an event, and in the process, change our future.

Sometimes the realist in me makes it difficult for me to contemplate alternate futures, but I’m working on it!

Coming here makes it easier for me to let go, so thank you all!

I love these examples of manipulating time to suit you!

Also, I never even thought of approaching a future event as if it had already happened and then feeling and expressing gratitude that it went so well! I guess this is similar to the “remembering the future” concept, but (for me, anyway) takes it deeper and makes it more compelling, practical and useful.

Thank you!

First, I looked this up all over the web, and found this article (http://www.articlesbase.com/goal-setting-articles/recreate-your-past-to-attract-a-profoundly-positive-future-199551.html) by Anisa Aven, and it gave me the confidence to try this on something that actually happened.

I went to a general audition at a very big and very successful theatre in the area. I got called back, and when I thought about it later, I wasn’t so excited about my audition. But I knew that thinking I did badly would only make that contribute to the truth more. So I revised the image by opening up a blank document (I WAS at work, after all, and couldn’t just sit and close my eyes) and writing about the situation as I WISHED it had happened. A lot of it was emotion–feeling confident, grounded, free, etc.

Writing this I started to feel freer, too, and then, AS I’M WRITING, I see I have a new email, check it, and it’s from the casting director who isn’t offering me the role, but lets me know the director wants to see me again, this time for a different role. I was floored.

I didn’t get that role, either, but it was a huge success in my book. And I’ve had better successes since (like dreaming, TWICE, about when I’d get a call with some good news and having it be accurate).

The other time thing I like to do is really just to calm nerves–if I’m about to do something that makes me anxious, I pretend it’s in the past, thinking things like, “I’m so glad that went so well! It was so much easier than I thought!” NOt only does it shift vibration, it also literally calms anxiety.

And Madisen, glad you’re as excited as I am about the resource list from Kim & Janette!

Thanks for posting you, two!

This whole concept blows my mind! Thank you and Everyone who commented here. Can’t wait to try this stuff out!

Kim, I love your personal example of you and your dad….just the simplicity and allowance.

I think it was especially poignant and revealing to me in an “Aha!” sort of way because what came up for me the question “When does revisionist personal histories become an avoidance mechanism or a smokescreen for not dealing with issues considered too painful?”

But this post and your example, Kim — as well as all of these other comments — ask us to go beyond what we may think we know.

I remember an exercise I offered in a group coaching program earlier this year where I asked students to go beyond just visualizing and to “remember the future,” as we easily do when recalling past events.

What is time but a convenient way to measure a day that we’ve all agreed upon? How empowering to bend it conveniently for my own purposes!