Manifestation: Part 3

If you want to learn more from the granddaddy of the Law of Assumption, listen to Neville Goddard or read his books. The best book to read is the short, easy-to-understand Feeling Is the Secret.

Goddard has many lectures on You Tube, but because he was long ago and You Tube is now, there are many questionable and AI versions of his lectures. I have listened to parts of a couple of his lectures, and there is one  (at least) manifestation coach who often posts a video where she picks aparts and explains his lectures.  More about her in the next post. I have his complete collection of books, but I don’t know if I will ever get through them. They are pretty repetitive — and as I probably said last week — contain many Biblical references.

OK, so you want to manifest something: A new love, an old love you want back, money, a successful business, a Maserati, a beautiful house in the country, a better relationship with your mother, a free trip to Belize. What do you do?

Well, you could make a vision board and stare at it every now and then. Never worked for me, but many people find them helpful. But it likely isn’t enough. You could pray for it (which is pretty much like manifesting if you really believe). Or you can think about it all the time and wish for it. Likely not enough.

The key is that you must feel as if it is already yours. That is the tricky part. Should you be delusional and believe it is yours even though you can see in the 3-D (physical) world that you don’t have it? And even if you could see doing that, what about all you picked up as a child and beyond: I can’t have that! I am not good enough for her! I will never have money because my parents were poor!

So, you need to get rid of the limiting beliefs, or at least recognize that they are there and work on them. Coaches do disagree on these points. BUT you do need to somehow feel it is already yours. If it involves a relationship with someone, manifestation does not imply that you can change them. It is very clear that you can change only self. So, you must change in order to be the version of yourself that would have what it is that you want. Coaches vary: some say if you want to be married, wear a wedding ring and act as if you are married. Most say there are infinite versions of you (and maybe infinite universes that we move through), so you need to be that version of yourself that has what you desire. 

How do you get there? You don’t need to do anything to get there except believe. REALLY BELIEVE. There are techniques to help you get there, but the techniques are only tools. They themselves do not manifest. You need to get to the end in your mind.  Here are some of the techniques; you may have heard of some.

1. Affirmations – Telling yourself positive things to help clean up your self concept. Everything always works out for me. I am perfect as I am. I am beautiful. Loves comes easily to me. I have all the money I need. My partner loves me.  You get the idea. Some coaches love them; others don’t. I don’t. Sometimes it is just saying things to yourself you don’t believe, but some say after a while you believe them. Everyone prefers different techniques and finds certain ones more beneficial.
2. Scripting – Obviously writing something down. I have not really done scripting per se. You would write out maybe a conversation you would be having with a friend about your new relationship and how wonderful it is. Something to indicate you are living in the end and have your desire.
3. Inner conversations – This is pretty much like scripting but without writing. I do this sometimes. It could be a conversation with your boss congratulating you on the promotion you are  trying to manifest. Or maybe you are sitting with your new spouse at the kitchen table talking about how happy you both are. Or going into the showroom and buying your new Maserati with cash. These are conversations, not to be confused with the next technique.
4. Visualization – This is by far my favorite and the one I use most of the time. You picture the manifestation as already done by some scene you create. You don’t need to use the same scene all the time, but you can. Up to you. Some rules: You need to be in the scene, not watching it like you are watching yourself on a screen. It is best to use as many of your senses as possible: obviously sight, as detailed as you can get it, even it you have to make it up; sound; smell; touch; all of it, or as much of it as you can. Apparently some people cannot visualize and see only black, but I have never had that problem. So what is the difference between visualization and daydreaming, you ask? Daydreaming is wishful thinking. Visualization is living in the end, believing so much that what you desire is yours that you assume (law of assumption) that it will happen —  to the point that when it comes, you are not surprised.

Well, I think I might need two more posts to complete this. So next week, a couple of other “techniques” and some odds and end before the last installment where I talk about some of the coaches.