“What we affirm in others, we actually affirm in ourselves.”
I was reading Dr. David Hawkins book “Letting Go”, and I stumbled across this quote “What we affirm in others, we affirm in ourselves.” It rang true for me, even though I didn’t really understand what it meant. I knew it was founded upon Universal Law.
I began comparing the quote to my Known Universal Laws and found multiple that correlate.
- What’s below is above
- What you sow to others will be sown back to yourself in like kind (do unto others as you would do unto yourself)
- What goes around, comes around
Anywhere I looked I found correlations. I began comparing meanings to what I understood. It seems like the way the world works is that we have a SPHERE OF FOCUS. What we attune this FOCUS on is what perpetuates and continues to persist and exist. The Scientology principle is what you give attention to; you give life too.
We always wonder how to have more power; more control and to be magic and make things always go our way. Humans are always seeking better ways to influence their environment. The truth is that we have almost absolute control over our experience of our environment and then finally our environment.
The secret key is to understand, first you must first gain control over how you experience your environment before you can really begin to influence your actually environment. The thing about happiness and sadness is that you can be both. You must decide to be happy before you can be happy.
This article is to show you how you can attune your perceptions of life to be more in alignment with how God would see those people, things and circumstances you face everyday. To see and perceive with the eyes of God. In truth, what I am saying is that you attune your FOCUS to always see the GOOD in everything. Whether the thing is initially good or bad. A flat tire can become a GOOD thing. Anything can almost be turned into a good thing.
There is a scripture from the Bible I love:
“All things work together for my good”.
This statement isn’t just a feel-good quote—it’s a powerful truth. One that, when understood, reshapes how we view others, how we speak to ourselves, and how we create our experience of the world.
What we focus on, we see more of. What we choose to notice in others—whether beauty, strength, wisdom, or even flaws and faults—is a mirror of what we’re noticing, and often reinforcing, in ourselves. That’s not just psychological, it’s universal law. As within, so without. As above, so below.
The world we see on the outside is a reflection of what’s going on inside. When we carry chaos, we see chaos. When we carry peace, we attract peace. Our internal lens becomes our external experience.
The beautiful truth is—we are in control of our focus. Every single day, we are handed the steering wheel of our attention. And whether we fix that attention on the negative, the lack, the pain—or on the growth, the good, and the possibility—determines what multiplies in our reality.
When we affirm strength in others, we begin to recognize strength in ourselves. When we honor someone else’s growth, we give ourselves permission to grow. And when we’re constantly focused on what’s broken, in others or in ourselves, we feed that energy, keeping it alive.
This mindset isn’t about denial of reality—it’s about intention. It’s about choosing to look through a lens of truth, beauty, and potential instead of limitation and judgment. Because whatever we focus on, we perpetuate. That’s the heart of the Multigen Mindset.