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0:00More than 80 years ago, a dancer from
0:02Barbados began sharing an idea that
0:04would ultimately change the way
0:05generations of people thought about
0:06reality. His claim was that the life you
0:09experience is shaped by what you accept
0:11as true [music] within yourself. And his
0:13name was Neville Goddard. In 1944, he
0:15published a little book called Feeling
0:17is the Secret that distilled this
0:19philosophy into one remarkably simple
0:21idea. To experience something different
0:22in your life, first you have to
0:24experience it within yourself. But that
0:25created a question that almost everyone
0:27who encounters this teaching eventually
0:29runs into. How do you actually feel
0:31something you're not currently
0:32experiencing in your reality? That's
0:34what we're going to explore today. I'm
0:35going to break down Neville's
0:36philosophy, explain what he actually
0:38meant by feeling, and show you how to
0:40begin putting it into practice even when
0:42your current circumstances [music]
0:43seem to contradict everything that you
0:45want to believe. So, let's get into it.
0:50All right, guys. We're going to unpack
0:52Feeling is the Secret by Neville
0:53Goddard. In it, Neville presents an
0:55explanation of how he believes reality
0:57works. So, this book has four short
1:00chapters, and the foundation of all four
1:01is the relationship between your
1:03conscious and your subconscious mind.
1:05So, in Neville's model, your conscious
1:07mind can consider an idea, entertain a
1:10possibility, choose what to focus on.
1:12It's your thinker on a day-to-day basis.
1:14Your subconscious mind is then what
1:17either accepts or rejects the
1:18impressions
1:20that come from the conscious mind. And
1:22the subconscious mind is what actually
1:24brings those impressions into expression
1:26or material realization. So, your
1:28day-to-day thinking can influence your
1:30subconscious mind, but it's not your
1:31day-to-day thinking that is actually
1:33creating your reality. And the way you
1:34impress an idea, or the bridge between
1:37the conscious and the subconscious mind,
1:39is through the mechanism of feeling.
1:41Now, this word is important, because
1:42when people hear feeling, they often
1:45think they need to generate an enormous
1:46amount of emotion. So, the idea is like,
1:49let me sit here and meditate or
1:50visualize and try really, really hard to
1:52manufacture the feeling of what I want.
1:54And ironically, that's one of the
1:56biggest mistakes you can make when
1:57trying to apply this principle. So, some
2:00people think that they need to get
2:02excited enough, grateful enough,
2:04inspired enough. Like, if you can just
2:06turn up the emotional volume or the
2:08frequency, eventually something's going
2:09to happen. But, the distinction I want
2:10you to understand is the difference
2:12between manufacturing an emotion about
2:15something that you want versus feeling
2:18like you already have it.
2:20Okay, those are two completely different
2:21things because you can get very excited
2:23about the idea of a different life while
2:25still feeling underneath that excitement
2:27that it's far away or it's going to be
2:29difficult to accomplish or that it can
2:31happen for other people but not for you,
2:33right? The deeper acceptance
2:36is the feeling that we're looking for.
2:37So, let's talk about what that means,
2:39okay?
2:40I want you to think about something you
2:41already have.
2:43Your job, your business, a relationship
2:45that you love.
2:46So, here's the question.
2:48How hard do you have to work to feel
2:50like you already have it on a day-to-day
2:51basis?
2:52Right, the answer is you don't have to
2:54work very hard at all. Why?
2:57Because you already have it. There's a
2:58naturalness to it. There's an acceptance
3:00to it. There's a what isness to it. It
3:03just is. You just have it. If you have a
3:05relationship in your life that you
3:07really value, you don't have to sit down
3:09for an hour a day and focus on how that
3:10relationship feels, but you still feel
3:13that you have it
3:15because you do. There's a permanency, a
3:17residency in your nervous system to it.
3:21There aren't any doubtful thoughts or
3:22resistance about whether or not you'll
3:24ever have it because you do. You accept
3:27it and that acceptance is a state of
3:29being that you hold. And so, this is the
3:32feeling I think we're looking for is the
3:34already having of it and that's very
3:36different than the person who's trying
3:38to manifest it.
3:39So, let me share a personal story. There
3:41was a time in my life when I didn't have
3:43a relationship. I really, really wanted
3:45a relationship and for a long time I
3:47thought I had to obsess over having one.
3:49I remember hearing Napoleon Hill talk
3:51about a burning desire. So, I thought I
3:53needed to obsess around it, to write
3:55about it every morning, to sit down
3:57every day and occupy the state of being
3:59in a relationship. And so, that's what I
4:01did. I tried really, really hard to feel
4:03like I was in a relationship, but the
4:04truth was that I wasn't.
4:06And then I'd get frustrated. I would
4:08think to myself, "God, this isn't
4:10working at all." And then one day, I
4:12sort of gave up on the whole thing.
4:14Like, I got tired of trying so hard. Can
4:17you guess what happened next?
4:20What happened within a week was I met
4:22the woman of my dreams. I gave up trying
4:24so hard, and then it happened. So, how
4:27is that possible? Well, because the
4:29person who has a thing doesn't try hard
4:32to get it.
4:33The person who is inhabiting the
4:35identity of someone who has something
4:37just has it. You acknowledge it. Of
4:40course, you feel it,
4:42but you don't try so hard because that
4:44wouldn't make any sense if you already
4:45have a thing. And that's why trying too
4:48hard is one of the primary reasons
4:49people aren't successful in
4:50materializing what they want. Does that
4:52make sense? Yes, you have to feel it,
4:55but no, you don't have to try so hard
4:57because when you're putting a lot of
4:58effort into something, then you're not
5:00being the person who has it. And feeling
5:03as though you have it already is the
5:05key, according to Neville, to opening up
5:07the doorway to receiving it. And for
5:10years, this was like a puzzle to me, and
5:11I see so many people getting tripped up
5:13in this sense, especially when they hear
5:15Neville talking about how important
5:17feeling is. And of course, he's right,
5:19but what feeling? Feeling like the
5:21person who already has a thing is very
5:23different than feeling like the person
5:25who's trying to manifest a thing. It
5:27seems like a 2-mm distinction, but those
5:29feelings are miles apart. Now, Neville
5:32also recommends that you embody the
5:34feeling, right? Because feeling is the
5:36secret. Feeling like the person who
5:38already has the thing that you desire as
5:40you're drifting off to sleep. He talks a
5:42lot about sleep, and there's a lot of
5:44support around alpha waves, theta waves,
5:46beta waves, and the wave state of
5:48manifestation and what type of wave
5:50state we're in as we're drifting off to
5:51sleep because certain states allow the
5:53subconscious mind to be more accessible.
5:55And what Neville says is that as you're
5:56drifting off into sleep, that's the time
5:59to do your embodiment practice, right?
6:01His instruction is to use that
6:02transition into sleep to experience what
6:05he calls the satisfaction of your desire
6:08already fulfilled. So, as your body
6:10starts to relax and your attention
6:12begins to turn away from the room around
6:14you, sit in this inquiry. How would I
6:17feel if this were already resolved? If
6:19the thing I'm worried about had worked
6:21out, what would I be experiencing right
6:23here, right now? And then allow yourself
6:25to rest into that feeling, into that
6:27experience. You don't have to solve the
6:30situation in bed. You don't have to
6:31mentally organize every conversation and
6:33every action that would produce the
6:34outcome. That's not the point. You're
6:35practicing the experience of completion.
6:39Now, as I mentioned before, you don't
6:40want to make this another chore, right?
6:42Cuz it's easy to start thinking, "Okay,
6:44I've got to feel it. Am I feeling it
6:45enough? Was that the right feeling? What
6:47if I fall asleep before I do it
6:48properly?"
6:50That's all coming from my own personal
6:52experience. But suddenly you're back
6:54into being who? The person who doesn't
6:56have it. And that's why Neville talks
6:57about relaxation being the key. And I
7:00think this is much more important even
7:01than the feeling. Relax around the thing
7:03that you want. This is where I would
7:05connect it to a formula that we teach
7:06called the golden equation.
7:08It's really a really simple equation for
7:10how manifestation works. And that is
7:12desire plus non-resistance equals
7:15desired result. So, if you have a desire
7:18for something, if you want them
7:19something, and you don't have any
7:20resistance to that thing, there's no
7:22limiting beliefs, there's no urgency,
7:25right? Given a little bit of time, 100%
7:27of the time, consistently and
7:28predictably, you will create that
7:29outcome. So, let the practice be gentle.
7:33Enjoy relaxing into the receiving of the
7:35feeling of already having. And as you do
7:37that, you're practicing the identity of
7:40the version of you that already has it.
7:41This brings us to Neville's third
7:44chapter on prayer. So, for Neville,
7:46prayer involves entering this inward
7:49experience of the answer already
7:51received. And this is a very different
7:52relationship to desire because so often,
7:54even when we're praying, we're actually
7:56reinforcing the distance between
7:58ourselves and what we want. Might sound
7:59something like, "Please help me get
8:01there." You know, "Oh God, please let
8:03this happen. Please change the
8:04situation." And underneath those words,
8:07we may still be feeling helpless,
8:10separate, uncertain whether what we want
8:12is available. And so Neville asks you to
8:15assume the inward attitude of someone
8:17whose prayer has already been answered.
8:20It's a very different kind of prayer,
8:21right? That's more like a form of
8:23Thanksgiving. So proper prayer,
8:25according to Neville, is an
8:26acknowledgement that what you want
8:28already is. You're just waiting in eager
8:31anticipation for its material
8:32realization. Now I want to pause here
8:34because this is exactly where I think
8:36people get stuck. And I want to share
8:38with you a distinction that Neville
8:39teaches that was a literal game-changer
8:42for my capacity to inhabit the feeling
8:44of the wish fulfilled. But before I
8:45continue, I did want to let you know
8:47that I've spent the last 18 months
8:48working on a project that is truly going
8:50to change personal growth forever. And
8:52on December 4th and 5th, I'm going to be
8:54doing a live two-day masterclass. It's
8:56called the Change Mind Masterclass. To
8:58finally reveal what I believe is the
9:00missing piece to creating consistent
9:01sustainable change. And to celebrate
9:03that, I'm doing something I've never
9:05done before called Mindset Month. So for
9:07the next 30 days, I'm inviting you to do
9:08personal growth with me, and it's
9:10completely free. For 30 days, I'll be
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9:14and AI-powered experiences to help you
9:16actually integrate everything we're
9:18talking about here into your daily life.
9:20And then on December 4th and 5th, you'll
9:22join me for the two-day masterclass
9:24where I'm going to break down the system
9:26that we've put together that we are
9:27finally ready to reveal. Right? There's
9:29a link in the description of this
9:30episode. You can go click on it, get
9:32registered for free for Mindset Month,
9:34and we'll be able to do personal growth
9:35together for the next 30 days. Okay? So
9:38check that out for sure. Now, as I
9:41mentioned, a lot of people get stuck at
9:43this point. They understand everything
9:44we've just talked about. They understand
9:46the idea of feeling the wish fulfilled.
9:48They understand the bedtime practice.
9:50They understand that repeating words
9:51while feeling the opposite isn't the
9:53same as accepting something as true. But
9:55then they look at their circumstances
9:57and they say, "David, I'd love to feel
9:59that way, but it isn't true. I'm not
10:02financially free. I haven't met that
10:04person. My business isn't where I want
10:06it to be." And so this entire technique,
10:09this technology that Neville is
10:10recommending, starts to feel like you're
10:11trying to trick yourself or like you're
10:13pretending.
10:14And to me, this is where another part of
10:16Neville's teaching becomes so, so
10:17powerful. Because underneath that
10:19resistance is an assumption. And the
10:22assumption is that the reality that
10:24you're experiencing is the only reality
10:27that exists and the only reality that
10:29you can respond to, what you're
10:31detecting with your five senses. In
10:33other words, if I can see it, if I can
10:34touch it, if I can hear it,
10:36then I believe it. And whatever it is
10:38that I'm experiencing, that's what I'm
10:40allowed to feel. But until then, I have
10:43to wait. And so, Neville challenges that
10:45assumption. In a later book called Out
10:46of This World, he explores what he calls
10:49thinking fourth-dimensionally. Now, I've
10:51done some episodes on this. They're some
10:53of my most popular episodes. But Neville
10:55says, "Look, there are actually two
10:57dimensions existing simultaneously right
10:59now. There's the third dimension, which
11:01is a material dimension that we detect
11:03through our senses, and we usually refer
11:05to that as reality. It's the exclusive
11:07It's the only reality. But he says
11:09existing parallel to the third dimension
11:11is a fourth dimension. It's an equally
11:13valid reality. It's a kind of fabric of
11:16potential that is all around us. It is
11:18an invisible energetic reality where all
11:20possibilities exist right here, right
11:23now. Some people refer to this as the
11:24field. In fact, he says something really
11:26powerful about the fourth dimension,
11:28which is that in the fourth dimension,
11:30creation is already finished.
11:33What he means by that is
11:34everything that ever has and ever will
11:36exist actually exists right here, right
11:39now in the fourth dimension. So, your
11:41dream home, your soulmate relationship,
11:43the successful business, the abundant
11:45bank account, it all exists right here,
11:47right now.
11:49And your ability to materialize that
11:51reality into your third dimension
11:53material physical existence is to align
11:56your thoughts, your emotions, and your
11:58identity
11:59with the thing that you want, to act as
12:01if you are the person who already has
12:03those things. And then those things must
12:05materialize. Now, he's not talking about
12:07some sort of instant manifestation where
12:09a million-dollar bank account just
12:10magically appears on your cell phone.
12:11What he's saying
12:13is that as you align yourself with the
12:15person who already has the thing through
12:17thoughts that you have, actions that you
12:19take, coincidences that occur, given a
12:21short period of time,
12:23it will move from the fourth dimension
12:25into your third dimensional reality. And
12:26I love this idea because for so long I
12:28struggled with this idea that I had to
12:30feel like I had something when I didn't
12:32have it. But when I understood Neville's
12:34fourth dimensional philosophy and I
12:35bought into it, that what I want does
12:38exist right here, right now, then I was
12:41able to truly say, "Okay, look, I know I
12:43have this thing. I'm just waiting for
12:45reality to catch up. I'm waiting for my
12:47frequency to calibrate to that reality,
12:49and then
12:51my circumstances and the space around me
12:53must match that which I've been loyal
12:55to." And that gave me permission to
12:58start feeling as though I had it. And
13:01that's exactly the technique that
13:02Neville is teaching. So, I think this
13:04fourth dimensional concept is really
13:06important and really helpful. Sometimes
13:08I think about it as almost being like a
13:09360° movie screen. And as I change my
13:12frequency, as I start to assume the wish
13:14fulfilled and change my thoughts and
13:15change my emotions and change my
13:17identity, then the movie changes around
13:20me.
13:21And so, this is a really important
13:22distinction that unlocks our capacity to
13:26live as though the wish were fulfilled.
13:29And as Neville pointed out, that feeling
13:31is the secret. So, this has been a
13:32game-changer for me, for my life. It's
13:35how I attracted my wife. It's how I
13:36built my business. It's why I give
13:37myself permission to think big and dream
13:39big and anticipate the having of things
13:42that other people would think are
13:43impossible because I believe to a great
13:46degree I do already have it. It's right
13:49here, right now. And that belief, that
13:51feeling is what then compels my reality
13:53to confirm that as fact. In fact,
13:56Neville suggests that when you're
13:58imagining something, you're not making
13:59it up. You're tuning into the field that
14:02is right here, right now. And that the
14:04evidence of the fact that what you want
14:06is right here, right now is the fact
14:08that you can imagine it.
14:10In other words, your brain is like a
14:11receiver and you're tuning into that
14:13part of the field or the fourth
14:15dimension, you can see your future. And
14:17now the key or the work is to live as
14:20though it were already here because it
14:22actually is. Like this just makes so
14:24much sense to me.
14:26And again, some people will say, "Man,
14:27you're out there, right? You're just
14:28pretending something that isn't real."
14:31And I like to say, "Yes, I'm pretending.
14:35I'm tending in advance to the reality
14:38that I'm creating." Now, if you want to
14:40take what we've talked about today and
14:41actually start thinking
14:42fourth-dimensionally and living
14:44fourth-dimensionally. Again, I want to
14:45invite you into something that I'm
14:46really excited about. Like I mentioned
14:47before, for the last 18 months I've been
14:49working behind the scenes on the biggest
14:51thing I've ever created. What I believe
14:52is the missing piece that explains why
14:54you can do all this work on yourself and
14:56still struggle to make changes stick.
14:58I'm finally revealing it at the Change
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