How to Imagine Correctly | Neville Goddard’s Imagination Technique — Transcript

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1. 0:01Almost everyone who practices this
2. 0:04eventually asks me the same thing
3. 0:08they've sat with their eyes closed
4. 0:11built the scene maybe even felt something stir
5. 0:15and afterward they open their eyes
6. 0:18and wonder whether any of it counted
7. 0:23was that right ?
8. 0:25did I do it properly...?
9. 0:29tonight
10. 0:30we're going to answer that today
11. 0:32in the most practical way possible
12. 0:36in a few minutes we'll do the whole thing together
13. 0:40and afterward
14. 0:42I'll show you how to tell whether it took hold
15. 0:46through a woman who went to sleep in the wrong bed
16. 0:50and woke up to exactly what she wanted
17. 0:58before we begin
18. 1:00put down a few worries you probably been carrying
19. 1:04how clearly you see the scene
20. 1:07is far less important than you've been told
21. 1:11some people see vivid pictures
22. 1:13some barely see anything
23. 1:15and both can imagine perfectly well
24. 1:20how long you sit there doesn't decide it either
25. 1:24I've known an hour of effort to accomplish nothing
26. 1:27and a few quiet minutes to change a life
27. 1:32and you don't need a flood of emotion
28. 1:37when I speak of giving your Assumption
29. 1:39the sensory vividness of reality
30. 1:42I mean it should feel real from the inside
31. 1:47the way your own room feels real to you right now
32. 1:52rather than look like a film you're watching
33. 1:56so let those go
34. 1:59here's what we'll do instead
35. 2:03find somewhere you can lie down
36. 2:05or at least lean back and let your body go loose
37. 2:13if it's evening and your own bed is close at hand
38. 2:17so much the better
39. 2:20let your breathing slow a little
40. 2:23let your arms grow heavy
41. 2:27there's nowhere you need to be for the next few minutes
42. 2:32bring to mind the thing you want
43. 2:36don't picture it arriving
44. 2:38instead ask yourself one quiet question
45. 2:44if this were already done
46. 2:47where would I be sleeping tonight ?
47. 2:51perhaps it's the same bed
48. 2:53but the worry that usually lies down with you is gone
49. 2:58perhaps it's a different bed altogether
50. 3:00in a different house in a different city
51. 3:04wherever it is go there
52. 3:08feel the mattress under you
53. 3:12notice which side the window is on
54. 3:15listen for the sounds that would be there
55. 3:18a quiet street the sea
56. 3:21someone you love breathing beside you
57. 3:26now...
58. 3:27let the day that's just ended play back in your mind
59. 3:32the way it would have gone if everything were settled
60. 3:37you did what you did you spoke to whom you spoke to
61. 3:42and nothing in it needed fixing
62. 3:46it was a good day and it's over
63. 3:52stay there
64. 3:54don't rush to see more and don't reach for anything
65. 3:58let your body sink into that bed
66. 4:01as though you've been sleeping in it for months
67. 4:05if your mind drifts back to your present room
68. 4:08or your present problem... that's fine
69. 4:11gently return to the other bed and lie down in it again
70. 4:18and when you're ready
71. 4:20let yourself fall asleep right there
72. 4:24or if it's daytime
73. 4:26open your eyes slowly and carry that room with you
74. 4:30for a while
75. 4:33so how do you know whether what you just did was right
76. 4:38there are two things worth checking
77. 4:41and each one comes from people who came to me for help
78. 4:46the first is where you were
79. 4:50a prominent woman in New York
80. 4:53once needed to rent her apartment
81. 4:55and quickly
82. 4:57she also had a home in the country
83. 5:00most people in her position
84. 5:02would sit and imagine a tenant
85. 5:05walking in and signing the lease
86. 5:08I suggested something else
87. 5:12that very night I told her
88. 5:15drift off to sleep
89. 5:17imagining yourself not in this apartment
90. 5:21but in the place
91. 5:22you'd be sleeping if it had suddenly been rented
92. 5:27so she did....
93. 5:29she fell asleep feeling that she was lying in her other bed
94. 5:33in her country home
95. 5:35the next day
96. 5:36a highly desirable tenant took the apartment
97. 5:40on the condition that he could move in
98. 5:42that very day
99. 5:45she never imagined the tenant at all
100. 5:48she imagined being where she would be
101. 5:50after the tenant came
102. 5:53that's your first check
103. 5:56if in your imagining
104. 5:58you were still waiting in the middle of the problem
105. 6:01you were looking at the wish from the outside
106. 6:05if you were already somewhere
107. 6:08the problem had no place you were in it
108. 6:13the second is how it ended...
109. 6:17a banking executive
110. 6:18had no prospect of advancement where he was
111. 6:21I asked him every night before he fell asleep
112. 6:25to imagine coming to the end of a successful day
113. 6:29having actually closed the deal
114. 6:32that very day in the kind of position he wanted
115. 6:36if he did this, I told him...
116. 6:39he would feel a definite sense of relief
117. 6:43and the contentment that comes
118. 6:45when a desire is fulfilled
119. 6:49before long, the director of a large foundation
120. 6:53asked whether he joined them
121. 6:55handling their investments and he accepted
122. 7:00that relief is your second check when it's right
123. 7:05the imagining ends in what I call complete acceptance
124. 7:11nothing in you is still arguing
125. 7:14and you feel no need to go back and do it again
126. 7:18just to be sure
127. 7:22that's really all there is to it
128. 7:25where you lie down and how you let the day close
129. 7:31neither of these people saw anything spectacular
130. 7:36one of them went to sleep in a different bed
131. 7:40the other ended an ordinary evening feeling content
132. 7:45and in both cases... "life rearranged itself"
133. 7:50around the place they had already moved into
134. 7:55you can do the same tonight
135. 7:57choose the bed you'd sleep in if it were done
136. 8:01close the day as someone with nothing left to chase
137. 8:05and let sleep carry the rest
138. 8:09if you wait tomorrow
139. 8:11and the old room is still around you
140. 8:14don't be troubled by it you know where you really slept
141. 8:20now let us go into the silence