How To Use Your Imagination - Neville Goddard (1960)

the purpose of this record is to show you how to use your imagination to achieve your every desire most may not totally unaware of the creative power of imagination and invariably bow before the dictates of facts and accepts life on the basis of the world without but when you discover this creative power within yourself you will boldly assert the supremacy of imagination and put all things in subjection to it when the man speaks of God in man is totally unaware that this power called God in man is man's imagination this is the creative power in man there is nothing under heaven that is not plastic as potters clay to the touch of the shaping spirit of imagination once a man said to me you know Neville I love to listen to you talk about imagination but as I do so I invariably touch the chair with my fingers and push my feet into the rug just to keep my sense of the reality and the profundity of things well undoubtedly he is still touching the chair with his fingers I'm pushing his feet into the rug but now let me tell you another one who didn't touch with her fingers and didn't push that foot of hers unto the board of the streetcar it's the story of a young girl just turned 17 it was Christmas Eve and she is sad of heart for that year she had lost her father in an accident and she's returning home to what seemed to be an empty house she was untrained to do anything so got herself a job as a waitress this night is quite late Christmas Eve it's raining the car is full of laughing boys and girls home for their Christmas vacation and she couldn't conceal the tears luckily for her as I said it was raining so she stuck her face into the heavens to mingle her tears with rain and then holding the rail of the streetcar this is what she did he said this is not rain or this is spray from the ocean and this is not the salt of tears that I taste but this is the salt of the sea in the wind and this is not San Diego this is a ship and I'm coming into the Bay of Samoa and there she felt the reality of all that she had imagined then came the end of the journey and all are out ten days later this girl received a letter from a firm in Chicago saying that her aunt several years before when she sailed for Europe deposited with them three thousand dollars with instructions if she did not return to America this money should be paid to her niece they had just received information of the aunt's death and were now acting upon her instructions one month later this girl sailed for Samoa as she came into the bay it was late that night and there was salt of the sea in the wind it wasn't raining but they were spraying in the air and she actually felt what she felt one month before only this time she had realized our objective now this whole record is technique I want to show you today how to put your wonderful imagination right into the feeling of your wish fulfilled and that it remained there and fall asleep in that state and I promise you from my own experience you will realize the state in which you sleep if you could actually feel yourself right into the situation of your fulfilled desire and continue therein until you fall asleep as you feel yourself right into it remain in it until you give it all the tones of reality until you give it all the sensory vividness of reality as you do it in that state quietly fall into sleep and in a way you will never know could never consciously devised the means that we'll be employing you will find yourself moving across a series of events leading you towards the objective realization of this state now here is a practical technique the first thing you do you must know exactly what you want in this well when you know exactly what you want make as lifelike a representation as possible on what you would see and what you would touch and what you would do when physically moving in such a state for example suppose I wanted at home but I had no money but I still know what I want I without taking anything into consideration I would make as lifelike a representation of the home that I would like with all the things in it that I would want and then this night as I would go to bed I would in a state a drowsy sleepy state the state that borders upon sleep I would imagine that I am actually in such a house that were I to step off the bed I would step upon the floor of that house where I to leave this room I would enter the room that is adjacent to my imagine room in that house and while I am touching the furniture and feeling it to be solidly real and while I am moving from one room to the other in my imaginary house I would go sound asleep in that state and I know that in a way I could not consciously devise I would realize my house I have seen it work time and time again if I wanted promotion in my business I would ask myself what additional responsibilities would be mine were I to be given this great promotion what would I do what would I say what would I see how would I act and then in my imagination I will begin to see and touch undo and act as I would out believe see and touch an act where I in that position if I now desired the mate of my life where I now in search of some wonderful girl or some wonderful man what would I actually find myself doing that would imply that I have found my state for instance suppose now I was a lady one thing I would definitely do I would wear a wedding ring I would take my imaginary hands and I would feel the ring that I would imagine to be there and I would keep on feeling it and feeling it until it seemed to me to be solidly real I would give it all the sensory vividness I am capable of giving anything and while I am feeling my imaginary ring which implies I am married I would sleep this story is told us in the Song of Songs or the Song of Solomon it is said at night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth I found him whom my soul loveth and I would not let him go until I brought him into my mother's house right into the chamber of her that conceived me if I would take that beautiful poem and put it into modern English into practical language it would be this while sitting in my chair I would feel myself right into the situation of my fulfilled desire and having felt myself into that state I would not let it go I would keep that mood alive and in that mood I would sleep that is taking it right into my mother's chamber into the chamber of her that conceived me you know people are totally unaware of this fantastic power of the imagination but when man begins to discover this power within him he never plays the part that he formerly played he doesn't turn back and become just the reflective life from here on in he is the effect of life the secret of it is to Center your imagination in the feeling of the wish fulfilled and remain bearing for in our capacity to live in the feeling of the wish fulfilled lies our capacity to live the more abundant life most of us are afraid to imagine ourselves as important and noble individuals secure in our contribution to the world just because at the very moment that we start our assumption reason and our senses deny the truth of our assumption we seem to be in the grip of an unconscious urge which makes us cling desperately to the world of familiar things and resist all that threatens the terrors away from our familiar and seemingly safe moorings but I appeal to you to try it if you try it you will discover this great wisdom of the Ancients for they told it to us in their own strange wonderful symbolical form but unfortunately you and I missed interpreted their story and took it for history when they intended it as instruction to simply achieve our every objective you see imagination puts us in glee in touch with a world of states these states are existent they are present now but they are Mayr possibilities while we think of them but they become overpoweringly real when we think from them and dwell in you know there's a wide difference between thinking of what you want in this world I'm thinking from what you want let me tell you when I first heard of the strange and wonderful power of the imagination it was in 1933 in New York City an old friend of mine taught it to me he turned to the 14th of John and this is what he read in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there you may be also he explained to me that this central character of the Gospels was human imagination that mansion was not a place in some heavenly house but simply my desire if I would make a living representation of the state desired and then into that state and abide in that state I would realize at the time I wanted to make a trip to the island of Barbados in the West Indies but I had no money he explained to me that if I would that night as I slept in New York City assume that I was sleeping in my earthly father's house in Barbados and go some to sleep in that state that I would realize my trip while I took him at his word and tried it for one month night after night as I fell asleep I assumed I was sleeping in my father's home in Barbados at the end of my month an invitation from my family came inviting me to spend the winter in Barbados I sell for Barbados the early part of December of that year from then on I knew I had found this Savior in myself the old man told me that it would never fail even after it happened I could hardly believe that it would not have happened anyway that's how strange this whole thing is Unruh flection it happened so naturally you begin to feel or to tell yourself what it would have happened anyway and you quickly recover from this wonderful experience of yours it never failed me if I would give the move the imagined mood sensory vividness I could tell you a numbered case histories to show you how it works but in essence it's simple you simply know what you want when you know what you want you are thinking of it that is not enough you must now begin to think from it well how could I think from it I am sitting here and I desire to be elsewhere how could I while sitting here physically put myself in imagination at a point in space removed from this room I'll make that real to me quite easily my imagination puts me in touch inwardly with that state I imagine that I am actually where I desire to be now can I tell that I am there there is only one way to prove that I am there for what a man sees when he describes his well is as he describes it relative to himself so what the world looks like depends entirely upon where I stand when I make my observation so if as I describe my world it is related to that point in space I imagine that I am occupying there I must be there I am not there physically no but I am there in my imagination and my imagination is my real self and where I go in imagination and make it real there I shall go in the flesh also when in that state I fall asleep it is done I have never seen it fail so this is the simple technique on how to use your imagination to realize your every objective here is a very healthy and productive exercise for the imagination something that you should do daily daily relive the day as you wish you had lifted revising the scenes to make them conform to your ideals for instance suppose the day's mail drop disappointing news revise the letter mentally rewrite it and make it conform to the news you wish you had received or suppose you didn't get the letter you wish you had received write yourself the data and imagine that you receive such a letter let me tell you a story that took place in New York not very long ago in my audience said this lady who had heard me owned numberless times I was telling the story of revision it may not knowing the power of imagination he goes to sleep at the end of his day tired and exhausted accepting as final all the events of the day and I was trying to show that man should at that moment before he sleeps he should rewrite the entire day and make it conform to the day he wished he had experienced here is the way a lady wisely used this law of revision it appears that two years ago she was ordered out of her daughter-in-laws home for two years there was no correspondence she had sent her grandson at least two dozen presents in that interval but not one was ever acknowledged having heard the story of revision this is what she did as she retired at night she mentally constructed two letters one she imagined coming from her grandson and the other from her daughter-in-law in these letters they expressed deep affection for and wondered why she had not called to see them this she did for seven consecutive nights holding in her imaginary hand the letter she imagined she had received and reading these letters over and over until it aroused within her the satisfaction of having heard then she slept on the eighth day she received a letter from her daughter and all on the inside there were two letters one from her grandson and one from the daughter-in-law they're practically duplicated the imaginary letters that this grandmother had written to herself eight days before this auto revision can be used in any department of your life take the matter of help suppose you were ill bring before your mind's eye the image of a friend put upon that face an expression which implies that he or she sees in you that which you want the whole world to see just imagine he is saying to you that he has never seen you look better and you reply I have never felt better suppose your foot was injured then do this construct mentally a drama which implies that you are walking that you're doing all the things that you would you if the foot was normal and do it over and over and over until it takes on the tones of reality whenever you do in your imagination that which you would like to do in the outer world that you will do in the outer world the one requisite is to arouse your attention in a way and to such intensity that you become wholly absorbed in the revised action you will experience an expansion and refinement of the senses by this imaginative exercise and eventually achieve vision in the inner world the abundant life promised us is ours to enjoy now but not until we have the sense of the creator as our imagination can we experience it persistent imagination centered in the feeling of the wish fulfilled is the secret of all successful operations this alone is the means of fulfilling the intention every stage of man's progress is made by the conscious voluntary exercise of the imagination then you will understand why all poets have stressed the importance of controlled vivid imagination listen to this one but the great William Blake in your own bosom you bear your heaven on earth and all you behold though it appears without it is within in your imagination of which this world of mortality is but a shadow try it and you too we'll prove that your imagination is the creator

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Published: Mon Jul 27 2015

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