Five Lessons

by Neville Goddard

EXPERIENCE IN THE IMAGINATION WHAT WE WOULD EXPERIENCE IN THE FLESH WERE WE TO ACHIEVE OUR GOAL.

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

Secondly, construct an event which you. believe you would encounter FOLLOWING the fulfillment of your desire --an event which implies fulfillment of your desire -- something which will have the action of Self predominant.

Thirdly, immobilize the physical body, and induce a condition akin to sleep by imagining that you are sleepy. Lie on a bed, or relax in a chair. Then, with eyelids closed and your attention focused on the action you intend to experience in imagination, mentally feel yourself right into the proposed action; i...

You must always participate in the imaginary action; not merely stand back and look on, but feel that you are actually performing the action so tha...

The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure.

restrict the imaginary action, to condense the idea which is to be the object of our meditation into a single act, and to re-enact it over and over again until it has the feeling of reality.

We must, with the minimum of effort, permeate the mind with the feeling of the wish fulfilled.

To an assumption, all means which promote its realization are good. It influences the behaviour of all, by inspiring in all the movements, the actions, and the words which tend towards its fulfillment.

The observation of an event before it occurs implies that the event is predetermined from the point of view of man in the three-dimensional world.

what holds your attention has your life.