Dr. Joseph Murphy - The Wonders Of A Disciplined Imagination

welcome to the reality revolution I'm your host Brian Scott today we're returning to the beautiful world of dr. Joseph Murphy who was a master in helping us to influence our subconscious mind and was a wonderful writer of affirmations and a great teacher today we're gonna go into a lecture on imagination I have talked about imagination dozens of times on my channel especially with neville goddard and the more we do it the more important it is check out my episode from christian larson on imagination and the master mind we've explored it in so many ways but this particular chapter that I got from a book by dr. Joseph Murphy I wanted to explore some further in particular it's called maximize your potential through the power of your subconscious mind to create wealth and success and this chapter really talks about the importance of disciplined imagination disciplining and controlling your imagination something that Neville Goddard maybe doesn't explore in the same way and I thought it would be good to add to our understanding of the imagination dr. Joseph Murphy had the same teacher as neville goddard in Abdulla so it's interesting to see the commonalities in both teachers the wonders of the disciplined imagination by dr. Joseph Murphy imagination is the genesis of all action it's the mighty instrument used by scientists artists inventors architects and mystics we are talking about disciplined controlled directed imagination to imagine is to conceive something to impress it on your subconscious mind whatever is impressed on the subconscious is expressed on the screen of space as form function experience and event if you wish to be successful you must first imagine yourself to be successful if you wish to be wealthy you must first imagine yourself as wealthy controlled imagination is one of the primal faculties of humankind it has the power to project and clothe your ideas giving them visibility on the screen of space the human being is a spiritually awakened being who knows the power of controlled imagination when we age we gain wisdom and knowledge of the laws of mind age is not the flight of years it is the dawn of wisdom when the world says it is impossible it can't be done the person with imagination says it's already done imagination can penetrate the depths of reality and reveal the secrets of nature a great industrialist told me one time how he started in a small store he said I used to dream of a large corporation with branches all over the country he added that regularly and systematically he pictured in his mind the giant buildings offices factories and stores knowing that through the alchemy of the mind he could weave the fabric out of which his dreams would be clothed he prospered and began to attract to himself by the universal law of attraction the ideas personnel friends money and everything needed for the development of his ideal just like a seed that dies in the ground bequeaths its energy to another form of itself by subjective wisdom it extracts from the soil everything needed for its development when it comes above the ground by a process of photosynthesis it extracts from the atmosphere and the radiation of the Sun all things necessary for its development so this man truly exercised and cultivated his imagination and lived with these mental patterns of mine until imagination clothed them in form I like to particularly one comment that he made it is just as easy to imagine yourself successful as it is to imagine failure and it's far more interesting people have visions images and ideals in their minds know that there is a creative power that responds to these mental pictures the mental images we hold are developed in feeling it is wisely said that all our senses are modifications of the one sense feeling Judge Thomas the 19th century psychologist who wrote the inimitable text books on the laws of mind said feeling is the law the law is the feeling feeling is the foundation head of power we must charge our mental pictures with feeling in order to get results perhaps as you listen to this you have a dream and ideal a plan a purpose that you would like to accomplish but friends colleagues and others tell you that it cannot be done you may even say to yourself who do you think you are you can't do that you don't know enough you haven't the right contacts well you have the right contact is the God presence within you that gave you the idea the same God presence can bring it to pass in divine order through divine love perhaps other thoughts come into your mind that scoffs at your plan or ambition opposition sets in the way to handle the opposition in your mind is to detach your attention from the evidence of the senses and the appearance of things and begin to think clearly and with interest about your goal or objective when your mind is engaged on your goal or objective you are using the creative law of your mind and it will come to pass lift your ideal or desire up in consciousness exalt it commit yourself wholeheartedly to it praise it give your attention love and devotion to your ideal as you continue to do this all the fearful thoughts will make obeisance to your exalted State of Mind they will lose their power and disappear from the mind through your faculty to imagine the end result you have control over any circumstance or condition if you wish to bring about the realization of any wish desire idea or plan form a mental picture of fulfillment in your mind constantly imagine the reality of your desire in this way you will actually compel it into being what you imagined as true already exists in the next dimension of mind if you remain faithful to your ideal it will one day objectify itself the master architect within you will project on the screen of visibility what you impress on your mind an actor told me one time that at the beginning of his career he was mediocre oh he had small parts but he learned the powers of his subconscious mind every night he played the role of what he wanted to be in his imagination he practiced it over and over again for 15 minutes every night exalting the power of the Spirit within him he created a pattern in his subconscious mind and the nature of the subconscious being compulsive reached the heights in his profession 15 minutes every night regularly and systematically he ran that movie in his mind he was the imaginer yes and he was seeing a premiere created in his own mind he knew the power of the almighty would back him up it came to pass your imagination goes before you it precedes your experience and manifestation a young actress who is very successful told me that every night she runs a mental movie of herself dramatizing a certain role she keeps running it and experiencing it in her imagination over and over again for five or six minutes every night she places a foundation under her dreams it's all right to build castles in the air but be sure you put a foundation under them in that movie that she runs has paid dividends Robbie right a member of my radio staff recently won a prize in a dragster race he said that he psyched himself up before the race he imagined his brother congratulating him he imagined himself winning and receiving congratulations from his friends he felt a supreme power controlling him in the race something came over him that super normal power responded to the image in his mind of victory of triumph of winning the person who constantly Falls has an image of failure oh yes you can use your imagination two ways of course you can use any faculty two ways the person who is chronically ill and always complaining is a person who has an image of ill health and weakness whenever you imagine illness or failure your subconscious creates accordingly it has been discovered that many people who constantly fall have an image of failure in their mind and the subconscious responds accordingly have an image of success you are born to win to succeed alcoholics know that if they use willpower or try to force themselves to give up alcohol it drives them further to drink mental coercion force willpower won't get you anywhere but when you contemplate sobriety and peace of mind and imagine themselves free and back at work doing what they love to do knowing that an almighty power is backing up their mental picture they free themselves of the habit and are healed Walt Whitman had a marvelous imagination he said when the mists filled the valleys he looked upon the mountaintops and when the mountain in darkness disappeared he fixed his gaze upon the Stars imagination can carry you to tremendous Heights or carry you to the lowest depths go beyond the mist and fog of doubt fear and anxiety and get a vision of spiritual reality a vision is what you are looking at what you are gazing at what you were focused upon what you are giving attention to that's where you are going to go in life if you look at the top of the mountain and say I'm going to go there you will but if you say I'm old I might get blisters it's tiresome you won't go to the top of the mountain but you will go to the top of the mountain if that's where your vision is you realize also the malevolent forces and the invisible presence within you will lead you and assist you in the realization of your dream in your journey through life however difficult it may be remember there is a holy place within you the sanctuary of God where you can feel your kinship with the one who forever is the one alone who lives in the hearts of all of us through the power of your imagination you can release the flower of love and beauty from your heart imagination is the workshop of God a workshop is where raw materials are transformed manufactured produced into useful objects and instruments likewise our imagination our workshops where ideas opinions and concepts are transformed manufactured and produced as conditions circumstances and events in our daily lives as we imagine so when we become and so will we accomplish achieve and possess and no experience when we consider for a moment all that we see and find useful and practical in our everyday lives has come forth from the imaginative faculties of men and women the clothing we wear cars we drive seats upon which we rest buildings in which we meet homes hotels roads and planes all these and more first conceived as ideas in the imaginative faculties of the minds of human beings yes all the great paintings and statues are products of inspired imagination as you know your imagination pictures the ideal and it is the ideals that lead humankind onward upward and Godward where is the beautiful madonna depicted on the screen of space or on the canvas doesn't it exist in the mind of the disciplined artist in the Golden Age of Greece that's 2600 years ago or more the Grecians used the law of mind and imagination yes they knew the power of disciplined controlled imagination the workshop of the infinite and mothers who were pregnant what did they do about it they surrounded themselves with beautiful pictures and statuary in order that unborn children might receive from each mother's mind pictures of health the beauty symmetry order in proportion because the mothers would gaze on these beautiful statues and all that and the child would be born in the likeness of beauty order symmetry in proportion simple isn't it of course it's simple all the great truths of life are simple there's the old fable about the Persian prince who had a crooked back who couldn't stand up straight as he engaged a skilful sculptor requesting him to make a statue of himself true to his likeness in all ways but he said I want you to make this statue so that my back is as straight as an arrow I wish to see myself as I ought to be and as God wants me to be while the sculpture completed it he said now place it in a secret corner in the garden the sculpture did and every day regularly and systematically two or three times a day he would come out and meditate upon the statue look upon it longingly with faith and confidence that some day his back would be straight like that statue he paid attention to the straight back he uplifted head and the beautiful brow weeks went by months yes two years went by but the people began to say the princes back is no longer crooked he stands up straight like a nobleman yes and the prince went out the fable says into the garden and behold it was true his back was as straight as the statute beautiful yes he is looking at it gazing at it his vision of a straight back wonders begin to happen as you imagine you are now what you longed to be play the role over and over again you will become that in order to receive you must first conceive or picture your desire the picture the reality of it some years ago I met a young man who had been drafted into the Army and was bemoaning that his plan become a doctor had been thwarted I told him picture yourself as a doctor see the end you have a diploma from a fine medical school telling you that you are now a physician and a surgeon look at it picture the end wake up use the laws of your mind I explained the laws of his mind to him in five minutes while being a medical student having a pre-med he understood he had a mind and he began to do that some time later the army sent him to medical college and today he is a doctor he saw the end having seen the end you will the means for the realization of the end you know archaeologists paleontologists and others tell us who delve into antiquity that prehistoric cave dwellers carved pictures on the walls of the caves of the game the fish and the fowl or the elephant or the animal they wanted and why did they do that they knew instinctively that some power would bring these fish or these animals into their lives so that they could eat that which they pictured in their minds primitive yes but you see they intuitively knew the laws of mind and invariably these things happened the particular animal would come so they could eat these are the powers of imagination they are within you and I would like to tell you something I read by dr. Cal Simonton he's a medical doctor a cancer specialist he says with the aid of relaxation meditation even patients considered terminally ill of cancer have recovered if they really wanted to get well he discussed the role of mind in cancer therapy this is what he said I'm giving you some of the highlights of it because it deals with imagination I started this process he's talking about the mind with my first patient in addition to medical treatment I explained what my thinking was I told this patient through mutual imagery we were going to attempt to affect the disease cancer he was 61 years old with a very extensive throat cancer he had lost a great deal of weight could barely swallow his own saliva and could not eat any food after explaining his disease and the way the radiation worked I had him relax three times a day mentally picture his disease that is you know if I show you a picture of the perfect throat and I am a medical doctor all the cells are in order and everything else and you were going to picture that in your mind again and again realizing that there is a defense mechanism within you that is restoring your throat to that perfect pattern alright he said after explaining the disease and the way the radiation works I had him relax three times a day mentally picturing the condition his treatment and the way his body was interacting with the treatment and the disease so they could better understand his disease and cooperate with what was going on the results were truly amazing now he talks about mutual imagery meaning the doctor is seeing a perfect throat and he is teaching him how to see a perfect throat and realize the power is responding he said when I explained to my colleagues what I was doing they said to me jokingly why do you even bother to turn on the machine my response was I just don't know enough yet that patient is now a year-and-a-half post-treatment with no evidence of cancer in his throat he also had arthritis and he used the same basic mental process to eliminate that in other words picturing yourself as whole doing what you would do ordinarily what would you do if you were healed he said well I'd ride horseback swim and all that this same man also had trouble with impotence he had been impotent for over 20 years couldn't have a relationship with his wife it took him ten days of relaxing and mentally picturing the solution in his mind's eye he now states he is able to have intercourse two or three times a week so when he called me and told me about resolving his impotence I had him explained how he did it just in case I should need the techniques later on in my own life dr. Simonton was a doctor at Travis Air Force Base and he speaks of the first case he treated in the Air Force this case he said was that of an Air Force navigator he was a nonsmoker who had a cancer on the roof of his mouth and also one that was larger in the back of his throat the cancer on the roof of his mouth should have had a cure rate of 20 and 30 to 50 percent the cure rate for the one in his throat was a five to forty percent collectively however the estimated cure rate would probably be about five to ten percent since it definitely worsens the situation to have two cancer's arising at the same time he taught the patient to relax and visualize returning to perfect health he did this visualization three times every day and the results were truly amazing today he no longer has any evidence of cancer in his body dr. Simonton provides further insight into this amazing healing I should emphasize he was an extremely positive patient he was also very cooperative and after one week of treatment the tumor began to shrink after four weeks of treatment the ulceration had no growth evidence of tumor and so it was doing essentially the same thing showing a very dramatic response it was generally outside my experience to get such a dramatic response in two separate tumors in such a short time after one month there was one small ulceration healing nicely and about ten weeks after treatment the roof of his mouth was essentially normal in appearance the truly beautiful response as the one in the mouth and on routine examination it was impossible to tell where the throat had been only three months after he had been taken off flying status this man had unanimous clearance from the head and neck tumor to go back on flying status and resume his profession with the aid of relaxation meditation even patients considered terminally ill of cancer have recovered he brings out that that they must want to get well you know some people don't some people as you know want to be sick well that's very interesting and I thought I'd pass that on showing you the powers of imagination there are of course people who misuse that imagination there's a businessman who's successful prospering and he imagined empty shelves bankruptcy and the poorhouse and all this sort of thing if he keeps that up of course he can go broke but he's prospering the things he's an imaging don't exist at all but he is running a movie of bankruptcy and empty shelves no customers and all that sort of thing if you run a movie like that in your mind it is going to come to pass surely you can imagine sickness you can imagine failure and you can misuse any power but it's foolishness to do so a coat metaphorically is psychologically covering you can wear the coat of fear or faith or confidence or love or goodwill you can wear a wonderful coat can't you you wear a garment physically speaking that is appropriate for the occasion you are certain garments when you engage in sports other garments when you go to work and more elegant clothes when attending a banquet and opera and so forth these are physical attire but we also wear mental garments these are attitudes of mind moods and feelings you entertain you have the capacity to clothe any idea in form you can imagine anything you can imagine what is lovely and of good report of course you can you can imagine your friend who is poor living in the lap of luxury you can see his face light up with joy see his expression change and a broad smile crosses lips you can hear him tell what you want to hear you can see him exactly as you wish to see him that is he is radiant happy prosperous and successful your imagination can clothe and objectify any idea or desire you can imagine abundance where lack is peace or discord is and health where sicknesses imagination is your primal faculty and takes precedence over all the other powers or elements of your mind you have many faculties but your imagination when disciplined enables you to collapse time and space and rise above all limitations when you keep your imagination busy with noble godlike concepts and ideas you will find it is the most effective of all faculties in your spiritual ongoing imagination controls the whole conceptive realm whatever prison you may be in you can imagine freedom can't you imagine yourself back with your loved ones doing what you love to do so the prison was a prison of fear sickness lack or limitation of any kind you can imagine your freedom and continue to do so until it is objectified then after gestation in the darkness the manifestations come and your prayer is answered the man who is hurt on the ball field sprains an ankle a tendon or whatever it might be goes to the hospital doesn't he imagined himself back on the field kicking the ball again if he didn't do that he'd still be in the hospital he'd never leave the hospital he leaves the hospital because he says to himself I'm going to be here four or five days or a week and he's back on the ball field in his imagination you know very well that's true and you know very well if he didn't imagine himself back on the ball field he'd never leave the hospital now I grant you there are people who don't want to get well they rejoice in their misery as they call it they get attention and all that sort of thing well of course you should want to get well God's intention for you is that you express yourself at the highest level that you exercise these the highest me yes are a lot of people in this world friends who do not want a healing they don't yes they rejoice in their misery they talk about it they say my rheumatism and pat on their leg gently you know say my arthritis my migraine and so on consider for a moment a discipline to halan to dark attack he can build a beautiful modern twentieth century city in his mind complete with super highways swimming pools aquariums parks and so forth he can construct in his mind the most beautiful palace the eye has ever seen he can see the building in its entirety completely erected before he ever gives his plans to the builders where was the building it was in his imagination I explained to you to imagine is to conceive whatever you can conceive you can give it conception it is to impregnate your subconscious mind with the picture of the idea the ideal and the invisible things of him from the foundation of the earth are clearly visible yes so that soul the ancients said can see the invisible things in your mind where is the invention where is the new plague where is that secret invention of yours now isn't it in your mind it is real it has form shape and substance in another dimension of mind believe you have it now and you shall receive it with your imagination you can actually hear the invisible voice of your mother even though she lives 10,000 miles from here mentally and spiritually she is right in front of you and she is telling you what you longed to hear after all we are all mental and spiritual beings of course she's there and she is telling you what you longed to hear what is it you longed to hear she's telling you about the miracle of God that is happening in her life how she is vital and alive bubbling over with enthusiasm she is telling you what you longed to hear you love to hear it you can also see her clearly and as vividly as if she were present this is the wonderful power you possess you know very well you can do it you can develop and cultivate this power and become successful and prosperous suppose your mother is sick in the hospital you don't see her in the hospital you have knowledge of truth you are fastening that state on her that would be a frightful thing to do it would be an awfully stupid thing to do if you know the laws of mind you realize the healing power of God is flowing through your mother and divine love is healing her divine love is guiding her divine love watches over her divine love dissolves everything unlike itself divine love is guiding the doctors and nurses and all who minister to her that would be your affirmation but your affirmation has to agree with your image your image must agree with your affirmation and your affirmation must agree with your image therefore you don't see her in the hospital she is right there in front of you and she is telling you a miracle of God has happened how wonderful she heals how she is touched by the Almighty you touched me I feel virtuous and that's what you want to see then you are really praying and then you really understand the laws of mind and you are a good practitioner but if you affirm one thing and you image another that's called hypocrisy and you get no results because your image has to agree with your affirmation nothing could be simpler than that often I say that 99% of the people don't know how to pray oh yes they're using wonderful prayers but they are seeing the father the mother the son in a jail or hospital or sick or something else haven't you heard a sales manager say he had to let John go because his attitude was wrong yes your attitude changed attitude changes everything the business world knows the importance of right attitude your mental attitude means your mental reaction to people circumstances conditions objects in space what is your relationship with your coworkers are you friendly with people with animals with the universe in general do you think the universe is hostile the world owes you a living in short what's your attitude so realize that your attitude is that God is guiding you there is right action in your life and you radiate love peace and goodwill to everyone in the world as you change your attitude you change your entire universe all phases of your life magically melt in the image and the likeness of your attitude if you imagine for example that the other is mean dishonest and jealous notice the emotion you invoke within yourself now reverse the situation begin to imagine the same girl or boy is honest sincere loving and kind notice the reaction it calls forth in you are you not therefore master of your attitude in reality the truth of the whole matter is that it is your real concept of God that determines your whole attitude towards life in general suppose the teacher says your boy slow in school or he is or something he can't learn very well let's assume you are the mother what do you do let's assume that you know the laws of mind and the way of the Spirit do you sit down in your chair or couch relax mobilize your attention you relax first relax the body of course you become quiet you can say to your toes your toes are relaxed my feet are relaxed my abdominal muscles are relaxed my heart and lungs are relaxed my spine is relaxed my neck is relaxed my hands and arms relaxed my brain is relaxed my eyes are relaxed my whole being is completely relaxed from head to foot when you are relaxed your body has to obey you when you relax and believe your prayer is always answered if you do not relax you do not get results relax and believe the almighty power begins to function at that particular moment and when you relax your body you are relaxing your mind your mind becomes quiet and still so what would you with this little boy you would imagine your son right in front of you and Jimmy is telling you mom you know I'm getting all A's the teacher congratulated and you would realize the infinite intelligence is resurrected in the boy the wisdom of God anoints his intellect he is happy joyous and free God dwells within him walks and talks in him you would see a light in his eye he is telling you what you longed to hear as the mother he said the teacher praised me I am doing wonderfully in my subjects and you would run that movie and you'd keep that up and you would resurrect the wisdom and intelligence of God within the boy which is dormant it is there and the mother can call it forth of course she can what is that disciplined imagination the boy will tell you objectively what you heard him tell you subjectively in that passive psychic receptive state now that's as simple as ABC we are talking about disciplined controlled directed imagination we are talking about the laws of mind these things work the modern scientist knows it your dominant idea about God is your idea of life for God is life if you have the dominant idea or attitude that God is the spiritual power within you responsive to your thought and that therefore since your habitual imagery and thinking is constructive and harmonious this power is guiding you and prospering you in all your ways this dominant attitude will cover everything you will be looking at the world through the positive affirmative attitude of mind your outlook will be positive and you will have a joyous expectancy of the best a good example of how one man's imagination created one of the most successful businesses is Howard Schultz the Starbucks man it takes a person with vision fortitude and unswerving confidence to make a new concept succeed Schultz was hired to manage retail sales and marketing for Starbucks then a small coffee distributor that had a few retail outlets in Seattle he was 29 just married he and his wife left their home in New York City to accept his new job about a year later Schultz visited Italy on a buying trip as he wandered around Milan he noticed how important coffee was to the Italian culture typically the workday starts with a cup of rich coffee at a coffee bar after work friends and colleagues once again meet at the coffee bar for a leisurely stop before heading home it is a center of Italian social life Schultz visualized coffee bars like this transfer to America it had never been done but he felt it would work because of the high quality of Starbucks coffee Schultz envisioned hundreds of Starbucks coffee shops across America shops business people would stop at on their way to work and come to after work to relax shoppers would stop for a pick-me-up young people would meet their dates over coffee rather than cocktails friends would come for refreshment before or after the movies it became Schultz obsession he was determined to build a national chain of cafes based on the Italian coffee bar but the starbuck owners were reluctant they were in the wholesale coffee bean business the restaurants they owned were only a small part of their operation to implement his goal Schultz left Starbucks and planned a new company in 1986 Schultz opened his first coffee bar in Seattle it was an immediate success Schultz soon opened another in Seattle and a third in Vancouver the following year he bought the Starbucks company and adopted its name for his enterprise Schultz believes that the quality of Starbucks will own one day alter how every day Americans conduct their lives if Schultz has his way a cup of Starbucks will become a basic part of American culture his concept has paid off Starbucks sales have increased nine fold for every year since 1988 Starbucks incurred losses for three straight years more than 1 million dollars in 1989 alone but he never gave up he had a firm conviction that this was the way to build a company and that the losses would soon turn into profits once his Seattle stores were profitable Starbucks spread slowly into other cities Vancouver Portland Los Angeles Denver Chicago and later to the eastern cities and overseas Starbucks has become a household name all over the world and an exemplar of American Marketing on Genuity it has made Howard Schultz one of the world's richest people many people have a gloomy despondent outlook on life they're sour cynical and cantankerous this is due to the dominant mental attitude that directs their reaction to everything even when you or your family experienced something wonderful your mood of joy is usually short-lived if you are constantly singing the blues a young boy 16 years of age going to high school said to me I'm getting very poor grades my memory is failing I do not know what's the matter the only thing wrong with him was his attitude he adopted a new mental attitude by realizing how important his studies were in gaining entrance grades to college in order to become a lawyer he began to pray scientifically this is one of the quickest ways to change the mentality in scientific prayer we deal with the principle that responds to the thought this young man realized there was a spiritual power within him and it was the only cause and power and furthermore he began to claim that his memory was perfect that infinite intelligence constantly revealed to him everything he needed to know at all times everywhere he began to radiate goodwill to the teachers and fellow students which is very important this young man is now enjoying a greater freedom than he had ever known for years he constantly imagines the teachers and his mother congratulating him on his marvelous work his wonderful reports it is imagining the desired results that have followed the change of attitude toward his studies if you imagine you are successful doing what you love to do and you keep that up regularly and systematically and don't deny what you affirm you have to succeed you must succeed because the law of mind backs you up we have said previously that all mental attitudes are conditioned by imagination we said you could use it two ways of course you can you can use your thought two ways two you can use any force of nature two ways you can use nitric acid to burn the body or paint a Madonna on the windowpane you can use water to drown your child or quench his thirst there's nothing wrong with water the wind that blows the ship on the rocks will take it to safety if you learn the laws of navigation there is nothing wrong with the laws of chemistry they are dependable you can combine these chemicals in a wonderful way to bless humanity and to heal people from various diseases or you can go into the laboratory not knowing the laws of attraction repulsion or atomic weights and blow up the place you can imagine it's going to be a black day today business is going to be very poor it's raining no customers will come into your store they have no money you will experience the results of your negative imagery a woman called me on the phone she been trying to sell a house that had been bequeathed to her by her father was half a million dollar residence I'm a widow I'm all alone and I want to sell this place but people don't have that kind of money today they look at it and they never come back I said look this is what you do stop your nonsense walk through this mansion of yours you're showing it to an imaginary buyer yes an imaginary buyer and you are showing him the whole place the garage and everything else and he is saying I like it I'm going to take it and he's giving you a check for it I said all this is your imagination yes you are happy about it and you are taking the check to the bank the banker is saying congratulations you've sold your place I said all that in your mind you're showing him the whole thing and he is pleased and saying I'll take it I said you dramatize that in your mind you are releasing it because you are selling it in your mind if you don't sell it in your mind you'll never sell it for all the transactions take place in your mind you can't gain or lose except through the mind of course you can't all transactions take place in the mind that's a B C it's almost impossible for me sometimes to understand the thinking of people these things are so simple so utterly simple a child of seven can understand it now if you can't teach it to a child of seven you don't know it because if you know it you can impart the knowledge to that child so you can't want to sell the home except there is someone who wants it in the first place and who has the money to buy it but if I begin to say more to myself who has half a million dollars today money is tight high mortgage rate and all that then you are beaten before you start but there are people who have millions of dollars there are many millionaires you can't sell that home unless someone wants it ABC infinite intelligence knows where that person is that's number two and then you do the simple thing infinite intelligence attracts to me the buyer who wants this home who appreciates it prospers in it and who has the money then you get rid of all these people who don't have a dime but only want to see the home you are not in the sightseeing business therefore decree that only those who have the money can come to see the home then you are showing it in your imagination you are showing it to the buyer he is satisfied you are showing him everything you would show him or you should show him and it sold then that will happen that's the quickest way in the world to sell it one time judge TRO word was walking the streets of London he imagined that he saw a snake in the street fear caused him to become semi-paralyzed what he saw looked like a snake you know there are no snakes in London but Howard had the same mental and emotional reactions as if it were a snake what are you going to imagine while the Bible tells you to imagine whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are honest and of good rapport think on these things and imagine these things what do you about life is it going to be a happy life for you or is it going to be a long life of frustrations you mold fashion and shape your outer world of experience according to the mental images you habitually dwell upon imagine conditions and circumstances in life that dignify elevate please and satisfy imagine your husband telling you what you longed to hear yes sit down quietly and close your eyes and wake up Rip Van Winkle only slept 20 years sit down quietly immobilize your attention and relax if you don't relax you will get no results from your prayer when you relax and believe your prayer always works if you do not relax you do not believe it's as simple as that so stop kidding yourself relax let go and your husband is telling you what you longed to hear he said I love you darling I think you are wonderful he is telling you what you longed to hear he is telling you he is promoted that he is you know he is doing what he loves to do he is telling you what you longed to hear how much he loves you how much he cares for you how he is promoted and how life is wonderful for him and how happy he is in his new assignment he is telling you what you longed to hear hear it and don't deny what you affirm then he will tell you objectively what you heard him tell you subjectively because you were hearing him tell you what he should tell you according to the golden rule and the law of love always have him or her tell you what they should tell you according to the law of love and the golden rule then you can't be wrong can you I receive letters from men and women in different states of the union it's almost unbelievable they say I want this woman to marry me she pays no attention to me will you tell me how to pray and get hurt and all sorts of things that's not prayer I write and tell them that I can't imagine any man in the world wanting a woman who doesn't want him provided the man is in his right mind that's what I say to them if you are a woman I can't imagine you wanting a man who doesn't want you to me that's insanity love is a mutual thing if you are in love there's a natural law of reciprocal relationship there's no confusion it's like the woman who says I'm madly in love with John Jones I said well how does John Jones treat you What did he say did he propose to you did he give you a ring they tell you you were getting married on the 10th of November or something oh no but he smiled at me and he's nice to me good heavens that's why I say so often Rip Van Winkle only slept 20 years if you're in love with someone that person has to be in love with you it's a law of reciprocal relationship love is a state of at one mint we have to love everybody that is to say we have to radiate love peace and goodwill to them cordially Jeannie Lee and wish for them all the blessings of life if you don't you are in trouble and you are in lots of trouble so we have to love everybody in that sense we have to wish for everyone while we wish for ourselves but you don't try to force the other person trying to force the other person to love you or marry you or something that's black magic it boomerangs on you it's crazy that's the only word for it just plain crazy now imagine yourself if you imagine yourself or if you imagine life as cold cruel hard bitter then struggle and pain are inevitable you're making life miserable for yourself because that's what you are imagining imagine yourself on the golf course you are free relaxed full of enthusiasm and energy your joy is in overcoming all the difficulties presented by the golf course the thrill is in surmounting all obstacles now let's take this scene imagine yourself going to a funeral parlor notice the different emotional response brought forward as you picture suit yourself in this particular situation in the funeral chapel if you know the laws of mind if you are not living in the dark ages if you are not mesmerized hypnotized and brainwashed you can rejoice in the person's new birthday you can imagine the loved one surrounded by his or her friends in the midst of indescribable beauty in the next dimension of life you can imagine God's River of peace flowing through the minds and hearts of all those present you can actually ascend the heavens of your own mind wherever you are that's the power of imagination you can lift them all up because it's a new birthday in God in some modern funerals today there is no body the daughter or the son says would you have a memorial service for my father mother or all of us gather together and we have a meditation rejoicing in their new birthday in God that's common sense it's beautiful to see people awakening to these truths today there's no one buried any place you know and if you think someone is buried somewhere you are identifying with cessation finality and limitation you were building a cemetery in your own mind you know the frightful negative results from that don't you a teacher a relative of mine was examining the round towers of Ireland I was with him he said nothing for an hour he remained passive and receptive seeming to be in a pensive mood I asked him what he was meditating on this is what he said he pointed out that it was only by dwelling on the great wonderful ideas of the world that we grow and expand he contemplated the age of the stones in the tower then his imagination took him back to the quarries where the stones were first formed his imagination unclothed the stones he saw with the interior eye the structure the geological formation and the complement reduced it to the formless state finally he imagined the oneness of the stones with all the stones and with all life and with the whole world there's only one substance you know he realized in his Divine imagery that it was possible to reconstruct the history of the Irish race from looking at the Round Tower that's absolutely true it can be done there's only one substance one law one life one truth in the stones of the round tower is the memory of the race why it's subjective it's not hard and solid it's alive the stone is alive there's nothing dead in this universe that stone that you call inanimate matter that's absurd that stone is alive through the imaginative faculty this teacher was able to see the invisible souls living in the round towers and hear their voices the whole place became alive to him in his imagination through this power he was able to go back in time where there was no round tower there in his mind he began to weave a drama of the place from which stones originated who brought them the purpose of the structure and the history connected with it as he said to me I am able to almost feel the touch and hear the sound of steps that vanish thousands of years ago where does that novel come from where does the poetry come from where does the story of humankind come from the subjective mind permeates all things it is in all things and is in the substance from which they are made the treasure house of eternity is in the very stones comprising a building there is nothing inanimate all is life in its varied manifestation truly through your Faculty of imagination you can imagine them invisible secrets of nature revealed to you you will find that you can plumb the very depths of consciousness calling things that be not as though they were and the unseen become seen it is really out of the imaginative human mind that all religions are born is it not out of the realm of imagination that television radio radar super jets and all modern inventions came your imagination is the treasure house of infinity which releases to you all the precious jewels and music art poetry and inventions you can look at some ancient ruin or old temple or pyramid and reconstruct the records of the dead past in the ruins of old churchyards you can also see the modern city resurrected in all its beauty and glory you may be in a prison of want adversity or behind stone bars but in your imagination you can find an undreamed-of measure of freedom I can now see Shakespeare listening to the old stories fables and myths of the day I can also imagine him sitting down listing all these characters in the play in his mind then clothing them one by one with hair skin muscle bone animating them and making them so much alive that we think we are reading about ourselves so Shakespeare stories are stories about you all the characters are within yourself and all the characters of Shakespeare are within you use your imagination to go about your father business your father's business is to let your wisdom and the skill knowledge and ability come forth and bless others as well as yourself you are about your father's business if you are operating a small store and in your imagination you feel you are operating in a larger store giving a greater measure of service to your fellow creatures if you are a writer of short stories you can be about your father's business create a story in your mind that touches something about the golden rule and the law of love for faith works by love and you can have the faith that moves mountains but unless you have love you won't get very far and love is good will its cordiality geniality its goodwill to all people wishing for them all the blessings of life pass the story that you're writing and its characters through your spiritual eyes and highly artistic mentality your article will be fascinating and intensely interesting to your public yes the wonderful powers of imagination are within you it would be a wonderful idea if all of us from time to time would recast our ideas check on our beliefs and opinions ask yourself why do I believe this where did that opinion come from perhaps many ideas theories beliefs and opinions which you hold are erroneous were accepted to be as true without any investigation whatsoever as to whether they're true or accurate so archaeologists and paleontologists studying the tombs of ancient Egypt through the imaginative perception reconstruct ancient ruins of course they do the dead past becomes alive and audible once more looking at the ancient ruins and hieroglyphs the scientists tell the age when there was no language communication was done by grunts and groans and signs because there was a time when man did not speak the scientists imagination enables them to clothe the ancient temple with roofs and surround them with Gardens pools and fountains the fossil remains are clothed with eyes sinews muscles and they again walk and talk the past becomes a living present we find in imagination there is no time or space through your imaginative faculties you can be a companion to the most inspired people of all ages God shall wipe all tears from all your eyes you can succeed in all of your endeavors you can surmount adversity and poverty and failure you cannot fail but to be successful and wealthy in a nutshell if you wish to be successful you must first imagine yourself to be successful if you wish to be wealthy you must first imagine yourself as wealthy when the world says it is impossible it can't be done the person with imagination says it's already done imagination penetrate the depths of reality and reveal the secrets of nature through your faculty to imagine the end result you have control over any circumstances or condition if you wish to bring about the realization of any wish desire idea or plan form a mental picture of fulfillment in your mind constantly imagine the reality of your desire in this way you will actually compel it to into being your imagination can clothe and objectify any idea or desire you can imagine abundance where lack is piece where discord is and health where sickness is whatever you can conceive you can give it conception it is to impregnate your subconscious mind with the picture of the idea the ideal the soul can see invisible things in your mind where is that success you deeply desire isn't it in your mind it is real it has form shape and substance in another dimension of mind believe you have it now and you shall receive it through your imaginative faculties you can be a companion of the most inspired writers people of all ages God shall wipe all tears from your eyes you can succeed in all of your endeavors you can surmount adversity and poverty and failure you cannot fail but to be successful and wealthy so I chose this particular lecture by Joseph Murphy because of imagination is something we've discussed a lot but in particular there is some really good examples of what to do in certain situations for instance how to imagine being healthy he gives an example in first person of seeing a throat that is healthy and merging that using a positive outlook spending time imagining that the healing occurring also imagining the conversations with other people saying that you're healthy these are things that neville goddard teaches as well and they work sometimes it's hard to imagine properly for these events if you imagine somebody in the hospital getting well they're still in the hospital so you have to imagine them in a healthy situation and there's pretty interesting conversation about getting the love of another here he's saying you need the other to love you and you have to radiate love so I would definitely go back to that if that's something that you're trying to manifest because that's very helpful and he pointed out several specific techniques that I really enjoyed this is a later teaching by dr. Murphy and he still his same old self in many ways the story about Howard Schultz and Starbucks was very interesting and a very good example of how to imagine whatever your business is to become real anything is possible if you imagine properly I've done my best with possibly a hundred episodes on something that seems so simple and that's imagining but disciplined imagination is the key your imagination will work against you when you imagine terrible things happening and things not working out you mold and fashion and shape your outer world of experience according to the mental images you habitually dwell upon so you will need to imagine conditions and circumstances in life that are wonderful that have dignity are satisfactory and perfect in every way I hope that these examples help you and broaden your understanding of imagination at a minimum as my teachings often do this is very repetitive if you listen to haunt my episodes you've heard a lot of these teachings before but as he explains the most powerful teachings are very simple but you must be reminded on a regular basis stop imagining that it's not gonna work out stop imagining that you're not going to heal stop imagining that you won't get the money that you need and imagine properly please leave in the comments how you have used your imagination to create your reality all episodes of the reality revolution can be found at the reality revolution calm & welcome to the reality revolution you

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