you are listening to feeling is the secret written by Neville Godard and read in Neville godard's voice presented to you by Elmer o Locker Jr forward this book is concerned with the art of realizing your desire it gives you an account of the mechanism used in the production of the visible world it is a small book but not slight there is a treasure in it a clearly defined road to the realization of your dreams were it possible to carry conviction to another by means of reasoned arguments and detailed instances this book would be many times
its size it is seldom possible however to do so by means of written statements or arguments since to the suspended judgment it always seems plausible to say that the author was dishonest or deluded and therefore his evidence was tainted consequently I have purposely omitted all arguments and testimonials and simply challenge the open-minded reader to practice the law of Consciousness as revealed in this book personal success will prove far more convincing than all the books that could be written on the subject of making men books there is no end Ecclesiastes 12:12 he that would perfect himself
in any art whatsoever let him betake himself to the reading of some sure and certain work upon his art many times over for to read many books upon your art produceth confusion rather than learning old saying chapter 1 law and its operation the world and all within it is man's conditioned Consciousness objectified Consciousness is the cause as well as the substance of the entire world so it is to Consciousness that we must turn if we would discover the secret of creation knowledge of the law of Consciousness and the method of operating this law will enable
you to accomplish all you desire in life armed with a working knowledge of this law you can build and maintain an Ideal World Consciousness is the one and only reality not figuratively but actually this reality May for the sake of clarity be likened unto a stream which is divided into two parts the conscious and the subconscious in order to intelligently operate the law of conscious ious it is necessary to understand the relationship between the conscious and the subconscious the conscious is personal and selective the subconscious is impersonal and non-selective the conscious is the realm of
effect the subconscious is the realm of cause these two aspects are the male and female divisions of Consciousness the conscious is male the subconscious is female the conscious generates IDE ideas and impresses these ideas on the subconscious the subconscious receives ideas and gives form and expression to them by this law first conceiving an idea and then impressing the idea conceived on the subconscious all things evolve out of Consciousness and without this sequence there is not anything made that is made the conscious impresses the subconscious while the subconscious expresses all that is imp impressed upon it
the subconscious does not originate ideas but accepts as true those which the conscious mind feels to be true and in a way known only to itself objectifies the accepted ideas therefore through his power to imagine and feel and his freedom to choose the idea he will entertain man has control over creation control of the subconscious is a accomplished through control of your ideas and feelings the mechanism of creation is hidden in the very depth of the subconscious the female aspect or womb of creation the subconscious transcends reason and is independent of induction it contemplates a
feeling as a fact existing within itself and on this assumption proceeds to give expression to it the creative process begins with an idea and its cycle runs its course as a feeling and ends in a volition to act ideas are impressed on the subconscious through the medium of feeling no idea can be impressed on the subconscious until it is felt but once felt be it good bad or indifferent it must be expressed feeling is the one and only medium through which ideas are conveyed to the subconscious therefore the man who does not control his feeling
May easily impress the subconscious with undesirable states by control of feeling is not meant restraint or suppression of your feeling but rather the disciplining of self to imagine and entertain only such feeling as contributes to your happiness control of your feeling is all important to a full and happy life never entertain an undesirable feeling nor think sympathetically about wrong in any shape or form do not dwell on the imperfection of yourself or others to do so is to impress the subconscious with these limitations what you do not want done unto you do not feel that
it is done unto you or another this is the whole law of a full and happy life everything else is commentary every feeling makes a subconscious impression and unless it is counteracted by a more powerful feeling of an opposite nature must be expressed the dominant of two feelings is the one expressed I am healthy is a stronger feeling than I will be healthy to feel I will be is to confess I am not I am is stronger than I am not what you feel you are always dominates what you feel you would like to be
therefore to be realized the wish must be felt as a state that is rather than a state that is not sensation precedes manifestation and is the foundation upon which all manifestation rests be careful of your moods and feelings for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible World your body is an emotional filter and bears the UN mistakable marks of your prevalent emotions emotional disturbances especially suppressed emotions are the causes of all disease to feel intensely about a wrong without voicing or expressing that feeling is the beginning of disease disease in both
body and environment do not entertain the feeling of regret or failure for frustration or Detachment from your objective results in disease think feelingly only of the state you desire to realize feeling the reality of the state sought and living and acting on that conviction is the way of all seeming Miracles all changes of expression are brought about through a change of feeling a change of feeling is a change of Destiny all creation occurs in the domain of the subconscious what you must acquire then is a reflective control of the operation of the subconscious that is
control of your ideas and feelings chance or accident is not responsible for the things that happen to you nor is predestined fate the author of your fortune or Misfortune your subconscious Impressions determine the conditions of Your World The subconscious is not selective it is impersonal and no respector of persons acts 10:34 Romans 2:11 the subconscious is not concerned with the truth or falsity of your feeling it always accepts as true that which you feel to be true feeling is the ascent of the subconscious to the truth of that which is declared to be true because
of this quality of the subconscious there is nothing impossible to man whatever the mind of man can conceive and feel as true the subconscious can and must objectify your feelings create the pattern from which your world is fashioned and a change of feeling is a change of pattern the subconscious never fails to express that which has been impressed upon it the moment it receives an impression it begins to work out the ways of its expression it accepts the feeling impressed upon it your feeling as a fact existing within itself and immediately sets about to produce
in the outer or objective world the exact likeness of that feeling the subconscious never Alters the accepted beliefs of man it outp pictures them to the Last Detail whether or not they are beneficial to impress the subconscious with the desirable State you must assume the the feeling that would be yours had you already realized your wish in defining your objective you must be concerned only with the objective itself the manner of expression or the difficulties involved are not to be considered by you to think feelingly on any state impresses it on the subconscious therefore if
you dwell on difficulties barriers or delays the subconscious by its very non-selective nature accepts the feeling of difficulties and obstacles as your request and proceeds to produce them in your outer world the subconscious is the womb of creation it receives the idea unto itself through the feelings of man it never changes the idea received but always gives it form hence the subconscious out pictures the idea in the image and likeness of the feeling received to feel a state as hopeless or impossible is to impress the subconscious with the idea of failure although the subconscious Faithfully
serves man it must not be inferred that the relation is that of a servant to a Master as was anciently conceived the ancient prophets called it the slave and servant of man St Paul personified it as as a woman and said the woman should be subject to man in everything the subconscious does serve man and Faithfully gives form to his feelings however the subconscious has a distinct distaste for compulsion and responds to persuasion rather than to command consequently it resembles the Beloved wife more than the servant the husband is head of the wife Ephesians 5:23
may not be true of man and woman in their Earthly relationship but it is true of the conscious and the subconscious or the male and female aspects of Consciousness the mystery to which Paul referred when he wrote this is a great mystery 532 he that loveth his wife loveth himself 528 and they too shall be one flesh 531 is simply the the mystery of Consciousness Consciousness is really one and undivided but for creation's sake it appears to be divided into two the conscious objective or male aspect truly is the head and dominates the subconscious subjective
or female aspect however this leadership is not that of the Tyrant but of the lover so by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of your objective the subconscious is moved to build the exact likeness of your assumption your desires are not subconsciously accepted until you assume the feeling of their reality for only through feeling is an idea subconsciously accepted and only through this subconscious acceptance is it ever expressed it is easier to ascribe your feeling to events in the world than to admit that the conditions of the world reflect
your feeling however it is eternally true that the outside mirrors the inside as within so without As Above So Below as below so above as within so without as without So within correspondence thei of the seven principles of Hermes trism magistus a man can receive nothing unless it is given him from Heaven John 3 27 and the Kingdom of Heaven is within you Luke 17:21 nothing comes from without all things come from within from the subconscious it is impossible for you to see other than the contents of your Consciousness your world in its every detail
is your Consciousness objectified objective States bear witness of subconscious Impressions a change of imp impression results in a change of expression and the subconscious accepts as true that which you feel is true and because creation is the result of subconscious Impressions you by your feeling determine creation you are already that which you want to be and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it to seek on the outside for that which you do not feel you are is to seek in vain for we never find that which we want
we find only that which we are in short you express and have only that which you are conscious of being or possessing to him that hath it is given Matthew 13:12 denying the evidence of the senses and appropriating the feeling of the wish fulfilled is the way to the realization of your desire Mastery of self-control of your thoughts and feelings is your highest achievement however until perfect self-control is attained so that in spite of appearances you feel all that you want to feel use sleep and prayer to Aid you in realizing your desired State these
are the two gateways into the subconscious chapter 2 sleep sleep the life that occupies onethird of our stay on Earth is the natural door into the subconscious so it is with sleep that we are now concerned the conscious 2third of our life on Earth is measured by the degree of attention we give sleep our understanding of and Delight in what sleep has to bestow will cause us night after night to set out for it as though we were keeping an appointment with a lover in a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep
falleth upon men in slumbering upon the bed then he openeth the ears of men and Sealth their instruction job 33 it is in sleep and in prayer a state akin to sleep that man enters the subconscious to make his Impressions and receive his instruction ructions in these states the conscious and subconscious are creatively joined the male and female become one flesh sleep is the time when the male or conscious mind turns from the world of sense to seek its lover or subconscious self the subconscious unlike the woman of the world who marries her husband to
change him has no desire to change the conscious waking state but loves it as it is and Faithfully reproduces its likeness in the outer world of form the conditions and events of your life are your children formed from the molds of your subconscious impressions in sleep they are made in the image and likeness of your innermost feeling that they may reveal you to yourself as in heaven so on Earth Matthew 6:10 Luke 11:2 as in the subconscious so on Earth whatever you have in Consciousness as you go to sleep is the measure of your expression
in the waking 23s of your life on Earth Nothing Stops you from realizing your objective save your failure to feel that you are already that which you wish to be or that you are already in possession of the thing sought your subconscious gives form to your desires only when you feel your wish fulfilled the unconsciousness of sleep is the normal state of the subconscious because all things come from within yourself and your conception of yourself determines that which comes you should always feel the wish fulfilled before you drop off to sleep you never draw out
of the deep of yourself that which you want you always draw that which you are and you are that which you feel yourself to be as well as that which you feel as true of others to be realized then the wish must be resolved into the feeling of being or having or witnessing the state sought this is accomplished by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled the feeling which comes in response to the question how would I feel were my wish realized is the feeling which should monopolize and immobilize your attention as you relax into
sleep you must be in the consciousness of being or having that which you want to be or to have before you drop off to sleep once asleep man has no Freedom of Choice his entire Slumber is dominated by his last waking concept of self it follows therefore that he should always assume the feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction before he retires in sleep come before me with sing and Thanksgiving Psalm 952 enter into his gates with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise Psalm 104 your mood prior to sleep defines your State of Consciousness as you
enter into the presence of your Everlasting lover the subconscious she sees you exactly as you feel yourself to be if as you prepare for sleep you assume consume and maintain the consciousness of success by feeling I am successful you must be successful lie flat on your back with your head on a level with your body feel as you would were you in possession of your wish and quietly relax into unconsciousness he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep Psalm 1214 nevertheless he giveth his beloved sleep so Psalm 1272 the subconscious never sleeps sleep is
the door through which the conscious waking mind passes to be creatively joined to the subconscious sleep conceals the creative act while the objective World reveals it in sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself what more beautiful description of this Romance of the conscious and subconscious is there than that told in the Song of Solomon By Night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth I found him whom my soul loveth I held him and I did not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house and into
the Chamber of her that conceived me preparing to sleep you feel yourself into the state of the answered wish and then relax into unconsciousness your realized wish is he whom you seek by night on your bed you seek the feeling of the wish fulfilled that you may take it with you into the Chamber of her that conceived you into sleep or the subconscious which gave you form that this wish Also may be given expression this is the way to discover and conduct your wishes into the subconscious feel yourself in the state of the realized wish
and quietly drop off to sleep night after night you should assume the feeling of being having and witnessing that which you seek to be possess and see manifested never go to sleep feeling discouraged or dissatisfied never sleep in the consciousness of failure your subconscious whose natural state is sleep sees you as you believe yourself to be and whether it be good bad or indifferent the subconscious will Faithfully embody your belief as you feel so do you impress her and she the perfect lover gives form to these Impressions and outp pictures them as the children of
her beloved Thou Art all fair my love there is no spot in thee Song of Solomon 4:7 is the attitude of mind to adopt before dropping off to sleep disregard appearances and feel that things are as you wish them to be for he calleth things that are not seen as though they were and the Unseen becomes seen Romans 4:17 to assume the feeling of satisfaction is to call conditions into being which will mirror satisfaction signs follow they do not prede a proof that you are Will Follow the Consciousness that you are it will not precede
it you are an eternal dreamer dreaming non-eternal dreams your dreams take form as you assume the feeling of their reality do not limit yourself to the Past knowing that nothing is impossible to Consciousness begin to imagine States beyond the experiences of the past whatever the mind of man can imagine man can realize all objective visible states were first subjective invisible States and you call them into visible by assuming the feeling of their reality the creative process is first imagining and then believing the state imagined always imagine and expect the best the world cannot change until
you change your conception of it as within so without Nations as well as people are only what you believe them to be no matter what the problem is no matter where it is no matter whom it concerns you have no one to change but yourself and you have neither opponent nor helper in bringing about the change within yourself you have nothing to do but convince yourself of the truth of that which you desire to see manifested as soon as you succeed in convincing yourself of the reality of the state sought results follow to confirm your
fixed belief you never suggest to another the state which you desire to see him Express instead you convince yourself that he is already that which you desire him to be realization of your wish is accomplished by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled you cannot fail unless you fail to convince yourself of the reality of your wish a change of belief is confirmed by a change of expression every night as you drop off to sleep feel satisfied and spotless for your subjective lover always forms the objective world in the image and likeness of your conception
of it the conception defin by your feeling the waking 2/3 of your life on Earth ever corroborates or bears witness to your subconscious Impressions the actions and events of the day are effects they are not causes Free Will is only Freedom of Choice choose ye this day whom You Shall Serve Joshua 24:15 is your freedom to choose the kind of mood you assume but the expression of the mood is the secret of the subconscious the subconscious receives Impressions only through the feelings of man and in a way known only to itself gives these Impressions form
and expression the actions of man are determined by his subconscious Impressions his illusion of free will his belief in Freedom of action is but ignorance of the causes which make him act he thinks himself free because he has forgotten the link between himself and the event man awake is under compulsion to express his subconscious Impressions if in the past he unwisely impressed himself then let him begin to change his thought and feeling for only as he does so will he change his world do not waste One Moment In regret for to think feelingly of the
mistakes of the past is to reinfect yourself Let the dead bury the dead m Matthew 8:22 Luke 9:60 turn from appearances and assume the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you wish to be feeling a state produces that state the part you play on the world stage is determined by your conception of yourself by feeling your wish fulfilled and quietly relaxing into sleep you cast yourself in a star role to be played on Earth tomorrow and and while asleep you are rehearsed and instructed in your part the acceptance of the end
automatically Wills the means of realization make no mistake about this if as you prepare for sleep you do not consciously feel yourself into the state of the answered wish then you will take with you into the Chamber of her who conceived you the sum total of the reactions and feelings of the waking day and while asleep you will be instructed in the manner in which they will be expressed tomorrow you will rise believing that you are a free agent not realizing that every action and event of the day is predetermined by your concept of self
as you fell asleep your only Freedom then is your freedom of reaction you are free to choose how you feel and react to the days drama but the drama the actions events and circumstances of the day have already been determined unless you consciously and purposely Define the attitude of mind with which you go to sleep you unconsciously go to sleep in the composite attitude of mind made up of all feelings and reactions of the day every reaction makes a subconscious impression and unless counteracted by an opposite and more dominant feeling is the cause of future
action ideas enveloped in feeling are creative actions use your Divine Right wisely through your ability to think and feel you have dominion over all creation while you are awake you are a gardener selecting seed for your garden but except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die it abideth alone but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit John 12:24 your conception of yourself as you fall asleep is the seed you drop into the ground of the subconscious dropping off to sleep feeling satisfied and happy compels conditions and events to appear in your
world which confirm these attitudes of Mind sleep is the door into heaven what you take in as a feeling you bring out as a condition action or object in space so sleep in the feeling of the wish fulfilled chapter 3 prayer prayer like sleep is also an entrance into the subconscious When you pray enter into your closet and when you have shut your door pray to your father which is in secret and your father Father which is in secret shall reward you openly Matthew 66 prayer is an illusion of sleep which diminishes the impression of
the outer world and renders the mind more receptive to suggestion from within the mind in prayer is in a state of relaxation and receptivity Akin to the feeling attained just before dropping off to sleep prayer is not so much what you ask for as how you prepare for its reception whatsoever things you desire When you pray believe that you have received them and ye shall have them Mark 11:24 the only condition required is that you believe that your prayers are already realized your prayer must be answered if you assume the feeling that would be yours
were you already in possession of your objective the moment you accept the wish as an accomplished fact the subconscious finds means for its realization to pray successfully then you must yield to the wish that is feel the wish fulfilled the perfectly disciplined man is always in tune with the wish as an accomplished fact he knows that Consciousness is the one and only reality that ideas and feelings are facts of consciousness and are as real as objects in space therefore he never entertains a feeling which does not contribute to his happiness for feelings are the causes
of the actions and circumstances of his life on the other hand the undisciplined man finds it difficult to believe that which is denied by the senses and usually accepts or reject solely on appearances of the senses because of this tendency to rely on the evidence of the senses it is necessary to shut them out before starting to pray before attempting to feel that which they deny whenever you are in the state of mind I should like to but I cannot the harder you try the less you are able to yield to the wish you never
attract that which you want but always attract that which you are conscious of being prayer is the art of assuming the feeling of being and having that which you want when the senses confirm the absence of your wish all conscious effort to counteract this suggestion is futile and tends to intensify the suggestion prayer is the art of yielding to the wish and not the forcing of the wish whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish feeling will be the Victor the dominant feeling invariable expresses itself prayer must be without effort in attempting to fix
an attitude of mind which is denied by the senses effort is fatal to yield successfully to the wish as an accomplished fact you must create a passive State a kind of revery or meditative reflection similar to the feeling which precedes sleep in such a relaxed State the mind is turned from the objective world world and easily senses the reality of a subjective state it is a state in which you are conscious and quite able to move or open your eyes but have no desire to do so an easy way to create this passive state is
to relax in a comfortable chair or on a bed if on a bed lie flat on your back with your heat on a level with your body close the eyes and imagine that you are sleepy feel I am sleeping sleepy so sleepy so very sleepy in a little while a far away feeling accompanied by a general lassitude and loss of all desire to move envelops you you feel a pleasant comfortable rest and not inclined to alter your position although under other circumstances you would not be at all comfortable when this passive state is reached imagine
that you have realized your wish not how it was realized but simply the wish fulfilled imagine in picture form what you desire to achieve in life then feel yourself as having already achieved it thoughts produce tiny little speech movements which may be heard in the passive state of prayer as pronouncements from without however this degree of passivity is not essential to the realization of your prayers all that is necessary is to create a p passive State and feel the wish fulfilled all you can possibly need or desire is already yours you need no helper to
give it to you it is yours now call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled as the end is accepted you become totally indifferent as to possible failure for acceptance of the end Wills the means to that end when you emerge from the moment of prayer it is as though you were shown the happy and successful end of a play although you were not shown how that end was achieved however having witnessed the end regardless of any anticlimactic sequence you remain calm and secure in the knowledge that the end has been
perfectly defined chapter 4 feeling not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord of hosts Zechariah 4:6 get into the spirit of the state desired by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you want to be as you capture the feeling of the state sought you are relieved of all effort to make it so for it is already so there is a definite feeling associated with every idea in the mind of man capture the feeling associated with your realized Wish by assuming the feeling that would be
yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire and your wish will objectify itself faith is feeling according to your faith feeling be it unto you Matthew 9:29 you never attract that which you want but always that which you are as a man is so does he see to him that hath it shall be given and to him that hath not it shall be taken away that which you feel yourself to be you are and you are given that which you are so assume the feeling that would be yours were you already in
possession of your wish and your wish must be realized so God created man and his own image in the image of God created he him Genesis 1:27 let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God Philippians 2: 5-6 you are that which you believe yourself to be instead of believing in God or in Jesus believe you are God or you are Jesus he that believeth on me the works that I do shall he do also John 14:12
should be he that believes as I believe the works that I do shall he do also Jesus found it not strange to do the works of God because he believed himself to be God I and my father are one John 10:30 it is natural to do the works of the one you believe yourself to be so live in the feeling of being the one you want to be and that you shall be when a man believes in the value of the advice given him and applies it he establishes within himself the reality of success this
was feeling is the secret read in Neville godard's voice presented to you by Elmer o Locker Jr now let us go into the silence