Five lessons

The first step in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know what you want.

Construct an event which you believe you would encounter FOLLOWING the fulfilment of your desire - an event which implies fulfilment of your desire something which will have the action of Self predominant.

Immobilise the physical body and induce a state akin to sleep. Then mentally feel yourself right into the proposed action, imagine all the while that you are performing the action HERE AND NOW. You must participate in the imaginary action, not merely stand back and look on, but FEEL that you are performing the action, so that the imaginary sensation is real to you.

It is important always to remember that the proposed action must be one which FOLLOWS the fulfilment of your desire, one which implies fulfilment. For example, suppose you desired promotion in office. Then being congratulated would be an event you would encounter following the fulfilment of your desire.

Having selected this action as the one you will experience in imagination to imply promotion in office, immobilise your physical body and induce a state bordering on sleep, a drowsy state, but one in which you are still able to control the direction of your thoughts, a state in which you are attentive without effort. Then visualise a friend standing before you. Put your imaginary hand into his. Feel it to be solid and real and carry on an imaginary conversation with him in harmony with the FEELING OF HAVING BEEN PROMOTED. You do not visualise yourself at a distance in point of space and at a distance in point of time being congratulated on your good fortune. Instead, you MAKE elsewhere HERE and the future NOW. The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualising yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure.

The difference will be appreciated if you will now visualise yourself climbing a ladder. Then, with eyelids closed imagine that a ladder is right in front of you and FEEL YOURSELF ACTUALLY CLIMBING IT.

“Experience has taught me to restrict the imaginary action which implies fulfilment of the desire, to condense the idea into a single act, and to re-enact it repeatedly until it has the feeling of reality. Otherwise, your attention will wander off along an associational track, and hosts of associated images will be presented to your attention, and in a few seconds, they will lead you hundreds of miles away from your objective in point of space and years away in point of time.”

Neville Goddard

Awakened Imagination

“Experience has convinced me that an assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact, that continuous imagination is sufficient for all things, and all my reasonable plans and actions will never make up for my lack of continuous imagination.”

Neville Goddard

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