Prayer: Stop Begging & Bargaining

Part 4 of: Manifesting the Neville Goddard Way

In part 3, we discussed the sacred ritual of sleep. We learned that the mood you’re in when you go to sleep is what will dictate your morning. But what about when you’re wide awake? How do you ask for what you want without being in a state of lack?

Neville Goddard’s third chapter in The Feeling Is the Secret explains a concept that goes against absolutely everything we’ve ever learned about both religion and manifestation: prayer is not a request, it’s a state.

Stop Begging the Universe

Most people pray from a position of “wanting.” They may beg, bargain, and attempt to persuade a higher power to bestow a favor upon them. Neville, however, explains that this is a complete waste of time.

The subconscious mind, which is your creative ability, cannot hear what you’re saying. It doesn’t care about your pleas and prayers. It only hears what you’re convinced about. When you pray for something you don’t have, you’re actually telling your subconscious that you don’t have it.

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for. It gives you what you feel you already have.

The Controlled Dream: How Prayer Actually Works

Neville Goddard describes prayer as an “illusion of sensory perception.” In other words, it is a controlled waking dream. In order to pray, you have to withdraw from the “lying” world of your five senses and focus on a state. You’re not praying to something or someone. You’re actually impressing something new on your subconscious.

The secret to a successful prayer is to make the inner world more real than the outer world.

The Two Keys to Answered Prayer

For a prayer to “harden into fact,” it takes two things:

• A Drowsy, Passive State: This is the same “state akin to sleep” we talked about in Part 3. You need to relax your body and quiet your mind to lower the resistance of your “logic.”
• The Feeling of the Wish Fulfilled: You need to get into the feeling of being the person you wish to be. You don’t think about the goal, you think from the goal.

If you are praying to get well, you don’t think about the sickness. You feel the vitality and strength of a healthy body, now. You don’t wait until you get well, you assume you are well, and that’s it.

Why Your Prayers Fail

The reason prayers fail to manifest is because of Effort.

The moment you start to force the wish to manifest, you are creating tension. And tension is the feeling of doubt. Neville explains, “To yield successfully to the wish as an accomplished fact, you must be passive.”

You are not going to force it to happen, you are going to let it happen. You are going to let go of the “how” and the “when.” You are going to let go and just feel the feeling of the work being finished. If you go back into the feeling of “wanting” after you have finished praying, you have just undone everything you have accomplished.

The Lost Art of “Thank You”

The highest form of prayer is not “Please give me.” It is “Thank you.”

Gratitude is the final state of the wish fulfilled. You don’t say thank you for something you are waiting to receive. You say thank you for something you already possess.

Don’t pray for a miracle. Feel the miracle until it becomes second nature to you.

Master the Art of Prayer

If you’re ready to stop bargaining and start receiving, check out the Chapter 3 breakdown on the Frequency Chapters YouTube channel. This session is enhanced with Solfeggio frequencies designed to help you enter the “inner closet” of the mind and impress your desires with ease:

In the final part of this series, we will wrap everything up with maintaining your new identity when the old world tries to pull you back.