Your Reality is Lying to You
Part 2 of: Manifesting the Neville Goddard Way
In Part 1 of this series, we explored the reason why many of us are stuck in the “waiting room” of manifestation. We also discussed the Law of Assumption that is now taking over because people are done with surface-level hacks and are ready for the deeper truth.
The deeper truth is this: Your current reality is lying to you.
What you are seeing in your bank account, your relationships, or your physical body is not the truth. According to Neville Goddard, it is just a shadow of what is already past, a delayed manifestation of what you felt to be true in the past.
In order to change what is on the screen of your life, you have to take your eyes off the screen and look at the projector.
The Two Sides of Your Mind: The Chooser & The Creator
Neville takes the world of psychology and makes it very simple: The human mind is made up of two sides: The Conscious Mind, also known as The Chooser, and The Subconscious Mind, also known as The Creator.
The Conscious Mind is the personal architect of our lives. This is the part of our minds that dreams, thinks, and decides what we want.
The Subconscious Mind is the engine room of our minds. This part of our minds does not think or question; it just builds.
As Neville puts it: “The conscious impresses. The subconscious expresses.” The soil does not care if you plant a rose or a weed; it will grow both with equal power.
Why Fear Manifests Faster Than Desire
Have you ever noticed how one “What if everything goes wrong?” thought feels like a weight, while one “I am a millionaire” affirmation feels like you’re just reading words off a script?
There is a reason for this. Your subconscious mind does not speak English; it speaks Emotion.
Fear manifests fast because it carries a massive emotional weight. When you fear, you are not just thinking; you are feeling the reality of that fear. Your subconscious mind hears this “feeling command” and goes to work to make it a reality.
Desire, on the other hand, rarely manifests because it is still just a wish or a dream. When you say “I want something,” you are actually feeling the emotion of not having it.
The Secret: Feeling is the Command
In order to manifest like Neville, you must grasp one fundamental idea: feeling is what matters, not thinking.
Not thinking about what you want.
Not wishing for what you want.
Not hoping that what you want shows up someday.
You must feel like you already have what you wish for.
This means you don’t wait until you have security or love before you feel it; you feel it now, and security or love shows up now.
Your Nightly Gateway: The State Before Sleep
If you only grasp one idea from Neville’s first chapter, let it be this: control your state before you go to bed.
As you’re falling to sleep, your conscious mind gets out of the way and the door to your subconscious opens wide. This is the most powerful time of your day.
If you go to sleep thinking about your bills or an argument you had earlier in the day, you’re providing a “blueprint” for your subconscious to follow and create for you tomorrow.
Instead, use this time to envelop yourself in the feeling of your desire being fulfilled. Don’t try to figure out how it happened. Don’t try to understand the logic of it all. Just feel what it’s like to be a person who already has what you desire.
This YouTube video quickly summarizes the first chapter of Neville Goddard’s book, The Feeling is the Secret, which instructs how you must feel your way to your reality:
This is Part 2 of a five-part article series on Manifesting the Neville Goddard Way. In the next article, we’ll discover the sleep secret to manifestation.
I read this and kept nodding, because I have seen how the mind can paint the day like a finished verdict when it is only yesterday’s echo. In my own life, some of my hardest seasons did not start with the problem itself. They started with the feeling I kept rehearsing about the problem. Fear feels like truth because it has weight, and once it has weight, it starts steering decisions without asking permission.
I also like the “screen and projector” idea. It matches real life. When my bank balance looks bad, it is easy to start obeying it like a god, then the body tightens, sleep becomes shallow, and you carry tomorrow’s defeat into tomorrow. But when I can settle myself, even for a few minutes, the choices I make become cleaner, and the day shifts. Maybe that is not magic. Maybe it is the nervous system finally leaving survival mode so the brain can see options again.
My question is about balance. How do you teach “feeling as the command” without pushing people into denial, where they ignore real responsibilities, real sickness, or real debt? What is your line between “assumption” and “avoidance”? And for someone who goes to bed stressed no matter what they do, what is one simple nightly practice you would recommend that does not require forcing happy emotions, but still changes the state before sleep?
John
John,
First, I want to thank you for your insightful comment, as we all have been there and many of us are stuck. How do we manifest when we are currently living in the issues? Although the Neville Goddard method of manifestation has been around, the popular chatter about manifestation has buried the true method to manifest successfully. At the end of the day, we ARE manifesting our lives by how we think, but we don’t always CONTROL what we are manifesting until we understand certain principles (all spiritual texts, including the Bible, give us the commands for manifesting, but the narrative has been manipulated for power reasons).
Part 3 of this series goes into exactly how to manifest in SATS the “State Akin to Sleep.” Sleep is where we manifest for the next day. Here is a link to the video that the next blog post will discuss: The Sleep Secret
The answer to your question is simple, but in the same token, hard for typical thinkers to do. Forcing happiness isn’t even it. So I’ll ask you to think about all the self-made, powerful billionaires in the world…how do you think they handled “thinking” about debt when they were still working on their dreams? Their dreams were bigger than their debt, so their minds obsessively thought about what they wanted in the end, not their current state. We say that’s “avoidance,” which keeps us in the rat race trying to pay off that debt with debt in the front of our minds instead of success or wealth.
The truth is, you have to be delusional to manifest big things. We are brainwashed to NOT be delusional, as the working class makes the world go round. Change the way you think, and you can change your life. At the very least, control what you think about before sleep, as the next day is formed by those “thoughtful” moments.