How Neville Taught His Students to Shift States Before Sleep | Neville Goddard’s teachings — Transcript

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1. 0:00Tonight I shall speak of a method I have
2. 0:02given to many of my students, a method
3. 0:05by which numerous men and women
4. 0:07have witnessed their desires take form
5. 0:10without strain and without effort.
6. 0:13It does not require the building of
7. 0:15scenes or the arrangement of pictures.
8. 0:18It is a simple shift of being,
9. 0:22a direct movement into the end.
10. 0:24As you prepare for sleep, lie up on the
11. 0:27bed of the life you desire.
12. 0:30This act is not limited to a house or a
13. 0:32room. It may concern any realm of life
14. 0:35you choose to occupy.
15. 0:37If you seek a new role, a new level of
16. 0:40achievement,
17. 0:41a new way of being,
18. 0:43then rest as the one who already holds
19. 0:46that position.
20. 0:48The place you select in imagination need
21. 0:51not resemble your present surroundings,
22. 0:54for the scene is never the cause. The
23. 0:57cause is the state you assume.
24. 1:00And every path adjusts itself to that
25. 1:03acceptance.
26. 1:04This single act has carried many into
27. 1:07new experiences.
28. 1:09Its power rests upon one truth. The
29. 1:11state accepted at the edge of sleep
30. 1:14descends to the deepest level and later
31. 1:17emerges as the world you meet.
32. 1:20Therefore, tonight, allow yourself to
33. 1:23rest elsewhere, not upon the bed the
34. 1:26senses report, but upon the bed that
35. 1:28belongs to the life you claim.
36. 1:31Feel another sheet beneath your hand.
37. 1:34Feel a blanket with a different weight.
38. 1:37Sense the arrangement of a room that
39. 1:39does not match your present
40. 1:41surroundings.
41. 1:43Let the atmosphere suggest the place
42. 1:45that belongs to the life you have
43. 1:47chosen.
44. 1:49Even if unfamiliar to the eyes,
45. 1:52do not force this act. Permit the
46. 1:55sensation to form.
47. 1:57When the feeling settles and holds its
48. 2:00shape,
49. 2:01you have entered a new state.
50. 2:03This work asks only one question, where
51. 2:06do I dwell in consciousness?
52. 2:09For the world reshapes itself according
53. 2:12to the state that has been accepted. And
54. 2:14nothing remains unchanged once that
55. 2:18acceptance is made.
56. 2:21Many who have entered this act with
57. 2:23conviction have spoken of swift
58. 2:25movements in their affairs.
59. 2:27Doors opening without request.
60. 2:29Offers appearing without search.
61. 2:32And circumstances forming in harmony
62. 2:34with the state they assumed.
63. 2:37Yet none of it feels extraordinary to
64. 2:39the one who has lived there in
65. 2:41imagination.
66. 2:43For the expression of a claimed state
67. 2:45arrives with the ease of any ordinary
68. 2:48event.
69. 2:50Enter this act night after night
70. 2:53until the state begins to feel natural.
71. 2:56Duration is never the power. The power
72. 2:59lies in the sincerity of the act.
73. 3:02Some find the shift in a single night.
74. 3:04Others in several. But all who remain
75. 3:07steady in this simple practice find that
76. 3:10the inner claim prevails and the outer
77. 3:13world follows.
78. 3:15So tonight close your eyes and lie where
79. 3:18you choose to live.
80. 3:20Let that acceptance be the final
81. 3:22condition
82. 3:23carried into sleep.
83. 3:25For the bed claimed in imagination
84. 3:27becomes the ground upon which you rise
85. 3:31in the world of fact.