r/NevilleGoddard

So, I’ve been manifesting a lot of things into my life for a long time. And I finally figured out that this paradox is actually the realist thing in the world!

So here’s the paradox:

Whenever I really wanted something - that’s when it would never come.

Whenever I didn’t care if I got it or not - that’s when I got it without effort!!

So, I eventually realized that the feeling of wanting is a feeling of lack which pushes what you want further away from you.

SO NOW, I only focus on feeling like I already have it. I give thanks knowing that the only things I will get in this life is not my manifestations, BUT things that are even better than my manifestations! Things I’m not even thinking about, but that would be amazing to have!

And now after working on shifting my mindset (takes a lot of effort but worth it) I’ve seen so many great things come into my life… but even better than the manifesting things, life feels so great! It’s great loving the moment you’re in instead of trying to be somewhere else.

If you want a great life, remember this… life gives you who you are NOT what you want. Once you stop wanting your desires, is when you actually start getting them!

That’s the paradox…. Now you know ❤️🙏

"Do not try and bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon. Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself."

Manifestation is not something you do. It’s not a spell or witchcraft that you perform, it is how the world (reality) functions. You are never not manifesting and it’s not something you stop doing or turn off. I actually hate the word manifesting / manifestation because it makes it sound like some woo woo BS, like something we do outside of ourselves to get something outside of ourselves.

There is nothing and no one outside of you.

You are the operant power of YOUR reality. Which means you control all things in YOUR reality; the things that happen to you, the way people act towards you. Reality shows up and appears to you based on what you’ve decided for yourself and who you claim you are: I am rich, I am loved, I have the best house and car, I have the man of my dreams….or I am poor, I am never chosen, I don’t have enough, the person I love doesn’t love me.

This is how you control it, and how you can change it. For example: your reality presents the unfavorable to you, a nasty and impossible circumstance. For those that continue to live unaware of the power they have over reality and why it’s appearing the way it is, it is true and set in stone and out of their control to change. But for those who understand the workings of manifestation, and what it really is, which is the physical presentation of your inner thoughts and world, it is a redirection within themselves to align to the version of themselves that lives in the reality they desire.

Our brains receive millions of information bits every second but our conscious mind only process 10% of that. Where does the other 90% go? It’s still there, but because we are not aware of it (and aware of something else) we only see the 10%. But that 90% is obtainable once you become aware of it and exist there.

This is reality, but the world has kept many people stuck….texts like the book of Thomas and Mary were abolished from the church in fear of not being able to control humanity. For if every person knew they were god, the world would be a different place. And that is why some achieve greatness, a life of fulfillment, heaven on earth while others spend life in fear, lack and worry, reaching their own personal hell before they even die. Because heaven and hell were never places you went to in the afterlife, they are realms of existence in your living life.

Regardless of the spiritual teachings, this concept of reality and how it works is what countless scientific studies of both physics, biology and psychology have proven. Manifestation is merely understanding how reality works. It’s not a thing you do, it’s the backbone of the human experience and therefore you’re doing it all the time. The key is being aware of what it really is and how to actually control it in your favor.

Oi, pessoal! Tenho uma dúvida. Como vocês assumem algo sem ficar constantemente pensando que precisam fazer alguma coisa para conseguir isso?

É realmente apenas aceitar isso como verdade e simplesmente se permitir vivenciar aquilo como se já fosse seu?

Estou perguntando porque estou pensando em assumir uma aparência desejada e gostaria muito de saber como vocês lidam com isso. Você pode simplesmente aceitar e deixar por isso mesmo?

Eu agradeceria qualquer conselho! 🩵

I have made a list of my desires at the beginning of 2026, this list included very small things but as well as very big things for me such as purchase of a house and closing of an ongoing legal case for over 10 years. All of them happened without me moving a finger so far. Except the purchase of the house, i didnt use any technique except putting my wish like a grocery list on an old notebook. For the purchase of the house, i shared here, i did only SATS and that is it. Even the money i borrowed for the house, was found through a third party for me - i still will pay it - but even for that i didnt do anything except telling this third party i needed a loan.

Why? Because somehow i didnt have any emotional attachment to them. It was just like a grocery list. Even the legal case, i didnt even have to appear before the court, after 10 years a friend went there and case was closed at the first hearing, done and gone.

Now this list contains one wish - that has been outstanding. It has so much emotional attachment to it, so much pressure, i cried over it, i begged, i got angry, you name it.

But this week, while i was working on limited beliefs through EFT tapping for this specific desire, i realized and 'encountered' immense amount of sadness in me. It was not even limited belief itself but what came out was how sad 'i'was because of the internal pressure i have put on myself.

Who is this me? Who is the one putting the pressure on? What have i asked from her - to act certain way, not to ask certain way, to meditate, not meditate so much, live in the end, not to live in the end... i have realized it was rather insanity to ask my human self to 'achieve' all these goal posts always kept moving. Whether 3D or 4D, i needed to stop this insanity.

Then last night i woke up in the middle of the night and i thought what happens to the world when i am sleeping? The world goes on even if i am sleeping. I can still wake up and recieve some news that happened while i am not 'awake aware'.

Where am i going with this? While we are the only authority in our world we are part of the 'bigger' consciousness. If we think as the ocean being the entire consciousness, we are a wave in this cosciousness. We are not running the entire ocean with our awareness but we certainly cannot say we are not the ocean.

Where does our 'states' we occupy and our awareness in terms of manifestation falls? Think as occupying a state (of the wish fulfilled) as changing your coordinates in the ocean, or your relationship with the ocean. The entire ocean arranges itself with you (because you are part of it) in accordance with the state you are occupying. The ocean has no other option to do this because you are part of it. But you are not running the ocean by yourself.

Why i think this is so important? Because i think there are so many of us out there becoming 'spent' like me for one simple wish, whether putting the wish on a pedestal, or thinking they have to 'run' the show and putting so much pressure on themselves if they are doing it right or wrong or how many times which techniques etc.

But maybe, i hope to help someone with this, we should change our relationship with the ocean and become neutral; not asking something from the ocean in lack (please give me this give me this) or not thinking 'i am god, i have to run the show, i cannot rest, and put ourselves on a 'pedestal' naturally causing so much pressure on ourselves.

After this realization, i became completly 'natural' with the ocean and my wish. I am part of the ocean, ocean - whether is a dream or not- has its own flow and i am part of it, i am so naturally part of it that i am neither below nor above. It gave me such a relief of pressure because i am not running the entire show but it also gave me my position back from 'lack' and putting myself 'below' to ocean (as begging for smt). I am one with the ocean. I AM.

And when i change the state i am occupying, the ocean changes and adjusts itself. Why? Because i am part of it, ocean cannot and will not push me out, ocean does not push its wave out and purge it. It can only flow in flow with the wave. As long as you realize you are part of the ocean you will see and realize the ocean will always flow with you . It will ride with you and it will ride you. So ocean will always 'reflect' your state - i think even reflect cannot be used here because it would imply separation. So i dont like the mirror analogy for that matter. So not only events but other people also ride you, hence once you change your state of being, ocean changes, entire ocean changes, it has no other option. By changing your state, you are changing your wave and the entire ocean changes.

So where i arrived with this personally? I became neutral not only to the ocean but also to my desire. I came to I AM in a very unexpected (personally) and much more of a healthy way for me. Almost as if i could care less if my desire happens or not. I am not sure if this is sabbath or not at this point but i just wanted to share - hoping it may give different perspective and help someone.

Any comments are welcome. Thank you.

I want to share this experience with the community because I personally feed myself for my manifestations of their testimonies.

It happens that my wife is in Mexico with her family and I'm in Spain working, so she wanted me to go in December but because of work I saw it complicated so well anyway I used my imagination some nights imagining that that trip was made.

It turns out well, it hasn't been in December but it will be now in September, the details? I didn't even have the money for the ticket, in my work things began to happen such as finding out that my boss had told some colleagues to take a vacation now because an important work season was coming.

And the funniest thing is that my mother just told me, how curious how everything has fit, and I laugh to myself and say "Thank you father, because you always listen to me

If imagination is reality...then who am I fighting with to give me my desire? If imagination is reality...then who can I go to for my desires to be fulfilled? If imagination is reality...then I don't have to wrestle with anyone to be a fulfilled being.

Neville's right when he spoke on imagination being reality. That must include the fulfilled self because everything was once imagined. So we don't have to necessarily question our desires or control things. We leave them alone and have trust in what we are imagining.

To have trust in one's imaginal acts means to surrender. That you don't have the answers as to how this must come to express. You eventually have to let go in conditioning your desires and go to full trust in its acceptance of being fulfilled.

Most of the times the issue isn't the thing we desire. It's actually our lack of faith in what we are imagining. Because if imagination is the only reality then we don't necessarily have to do anything. We don't have to condition how it will happen or how all this stuff "works".

Christ says to believe you have received it and it will be yours. That is the imagination speaking to the "sense man". How it is not our job to condition what we desire, but to accept as being the one who has it. We do that by having full trust and faith in it already being so.

So when you go to imagining yourself having the thing that you want, realize that it has to come into this world because it has already happened in the imagination. Let go of controlling things, people, circumstances and go fully in trusting what you've done inside. Then drop it entirely.

And before you know it, as you've placed your full trust and faith onto your imaginal father which is ultimately you, the inner-self, you will come to see your harvest. Then you will walk with full knowing that this whole world was made for you.

I'm currently finding great confidence and reinforcement in reading the "case histories" present in Neville's works, "The Power of Awareness," and especially, "The Law and the Promise," which is, basically, a series of short teachings followed by supportive case studies.

I know a lot of us find inspiration in reading success stories in this sub, and I do too, but I have to tell you, Neville's short case histories are astounding. The practices are simple, and the people who practiced them, "common," but the results are incredible. I think it's important, since your confidence in yourself to create your desires can be greatly increased by immersing yourself in these real life stories.

I've only just started digging deeply into the case histories, as I spent a number of years only slightly influenced by Neville. I just recently found inner cause to truly put his teachings to the test. I'm enjoying a paperback copy of Neville's works, but I know you can at least find PDF's of both "The Power of Awareness" and "The Law and the Promise" linked on the sub's homepage. Have a read for yourself. It's a treasure trove hidden in plain site.

Is anyone else enjoying the "case histories?" I'm curious how it's affecting your confidence, mindset, and results in imagining, creating, and revising your reality.

This has always been something I’ve wondered about when it comes to the law. I understand some schools of thought require keeping your desires secret, but in his writings, Neville himself seems to openly discuss with others what he / they are currently manifesting.

I think of sports events for example. Players on opposing teams manifesting a win and the feeling of holding the trophy. Who wins?

Hello everyone, here is a quick and easy way to follow NG’s teaching on living-from-the-end. But, before I get to that, let me tell you what you are doing wrong! You are putting the feeling of the wish fulfilled on a pedestal! What do I mean by that? You are saying that I will feel that feeling when I get that money, when I meet that person, when I get that thing! And, because of that you are not only delaying your manifestation, you are making it an impossibility, you are chasing the chase! Because as NG rightly pointed out, your assumptions harden into fact; not the other way around, your assumptions create the reality you are living.

So, what do you have to do? Just loosen up, and start feeling your way into the scenario, ask yourself what would it feel like when you get that job, when you marry that person, when you get that thing? What would it feel like? And, just like eating an ice cream, and let that feeling just melt inside your body, feel that feeling. As the sun hits your skin, feel that warmth and morph it into that feeling, it’s actually that simple. As the wind blows in your face or the cold-air from the AC vent hits your head, feel that feeling of the wish fulfilled, and let all these jus make it natural for the wish to get fulfilled naturally.

Love the NG way! Live the NG way!!

I’ve been into the teachings of Neville Goddard and the whole premise of reality “creation” for some time now. I am someone who aspires for very big things life. I have very big goals for myself in terms of life experiences, career wise, absolute financial freedom and many other things. Many of the things I want for my life might seem too out there for a lot of people. But hey, if this is what I want and if the law makes it possible for me, then who am I to get stuck on what the world deems as possible or impossible, right?

I see many people on here and other manifestation subreddits focusing on things like a person, a different job, an apartment, and other things that fit in the norm of societal expectations and realistic goals. (I will not get into the health aspect because health is absolutely important and everyone deserves to wish for and live a life in perfect health). How many of us have heard “stay grounded in reality and don’t think you’re the exception”?

Now, I am absolutely not judging other people’s desires. On the contrary, I think it’s really cool that in this game of life there is so much variety. And I’m very happy to see people getting over the hurdles and difficulties of their circumstances. However my question is, how many people on here put limits on themselves for what their lives could be? What is stopping you from dreaming outside the box and be unhinged and bold enough to go after what you would have never thought was possible before you came across this knowledge? Is it because you genuinely don’t desire to go THAT wild, or are you deep down still afraid that it isn’t possible for you?

Hi all!

I wanted to quickly share this thing that happened in the last 24 hours. At the start of this month, my cat (almost 6 now) was diagnosed with acute kidney disease with a creatinine of 11.5!! Funnily, she showed no symptoms at all. When she skipped two meals, I took her to the vet. Over the last 15 days, she was given fluids through IV and subcutaneously.

Ever since her diagnosis, I have been affirming that she is fine. And she is. She still has no symptoms and her creatinine is down to 2.7. BUT she has nausea. Like a lot of it. She has been on medicines obviously but was not "really eating". She would go to her bowl but won't eat so I was sure it is her nausea. She has lost almost 500 grams in weight and I was not happy at all.

Just yesterday, I started saying an affirmation - "My baby is eating well" and I kid you not, within 20 mins, she went to her bowl and ate food. I was so happy to see her eat but kept saying the affirmations. An hour later, she finished all of her food!!! She ate a complete meal after almost 15 days. Then today, I had to take her to the vet and gave her a gabapentin (which I do when I take her to the vet). An hour after giving her gabapentin, she ate a whole packet of wet food !!! I was so happy and mentioned that to the vet. He said if that is the case, you can give her gabapentin for a few days as it is safe to give daily!! After we came back from the vet, she finished another packet of wet food 🤣

So, from not really eating for almost 15 days to eating 3 packets of wet food in less than 24 hours. I will of course have to monitor her but I know she is completely healed (another affirmation I say) and back to her usual cute lifestyle. Right now she is a bit woozy but that just means she gets extra cuddles!!

Techniques used -

• Affirmations ("my baby is eating well", "my baby is completely healed", "my baby of perfectly happyy and healthy"
• My blanket affirmations - "My life is perfect" and "All is well" ( I say this like a mantra irrespective of a specific desire)
• I did visualise her finishing her food bowl clean a couple of times. And playing that in my head made me so happy that I had a constant smile on my face.

Time - Less than 24 hours.

I’ve successfully manifested many things I once thought would make me feel fulfilled... beautiful trips, yacht trips in Ibiza, and even an engagement to someone good and kind and wealthy who wanted to provide for me generously.

I’m grateful for those experiences, but I also discovered that it’s possible to manifest wonderful things and still feel empty inside.

After what I can only describe as a non-dual awakening, my desires began to change. I’ve started appreciating the simplest things so much more. Nature. Lying in the grass and admiring the clouds. Peace. A yummy pancake shared with my mom. Being deeply seen and known. Sharing life with people I love.

Recently, I reread Harry Potter as an adult and realized that what I’ve always wanted most is a beautiful life story. A wonderful unfolding. A life that feels meaningful.

I want purpose. I want deep, extraordinary friendships with people who truly see and know me. I want friends to go on adventures with, create with, and maybe even fulfill our purposes alongside one another.

I want true love... not simply someone who can give me a beautiful life, but someone with whom life itself becomes beautiful. Someone I can deeply inspire and who deeply inspires me, so we can help each other become our highest selves.

Has anyone else found that after manifesting some of the external things they wanted, their deepest desires became less about possessions or status and more about love, purpose, friendship, and adventure?

I’m curious how people go about manifesting those things... not just material things.

Ultimately we’re here to experience a story that makes us feel fully alive.

Sitting in meditation today, I watched my attention become absorbed in a matter; my internal self was considering various ways of handling a financial situation. I recognized this as an attempt of control, which represents a lack of trust in the process of all that is. The mind was absorbed in managing a situation to reach a favorable result or avoid an undesirable outcome.

I began to imagine plan A working out or having already worked out. This was to imagine that it was already done - that I already have what I was seeking. Soon, my mind began to consider a plan B just in case... I realized that my mind was still seeking assurance through back up plans. If plan B gives me peace - a worse case scenario - then I will act out of peace from that reality imagined. Then, a series of events will unfold from that state. Seeing this, I quickly considered that I could be much better off finding in peace in plan A already being complete and letting that peace become my feeling and guiding principle.

I do not think having a back up plan is inherently wrong. I just noticed the automatic process my mind would take to be "safe" and redirected it back to my true desire, not a consolation. I was using safety plans to release worry or stress, which might be a good starting point for some who get lost in a negative state. The next step from that is to relax your logic/reasoning and fully accept that plan A is already done, which will bring you peace when it is known.

This is the only rule you need to remember… who do you think you are?

When you think of your past is it lovely? Is it rich?

If not, change it!! There is nothing stopping you from deciding that your past was the cause of your current greatness! Look upon your past as the most prestigious school in the world. You passed with flying colors, and now your living fully in the present with the heart of someone who has it all!! ❤️🙏

“As soon as man assumes the feeling of the wish fulfilled, his four-dimensional self finds ways for the attainment of this end, discovers methods for its realization.
I know of no clearer definition of the means by which we realize our desires than to experience in imagination what we would experience in the flesh were we to achieve our goal. This experience of the end wills the means.” -Out Of This World, page 6

For a bit of background ever since coming to college Ive wanted a job. When my first year ended a while ago and I was gonna be home for the summer I applied for some jobs. It was either no one replied until months later, no reply, or Id get rejected after doing interviews. I was doing SATS, detaching, everything I didnt understand why I wasnt getting a job. It wasnt until I visited some friends and we went out for the night and I met someone. At this point I was done with getting a job but the person I met would be a manager at an ice cream chain. A while later we would be in a groupchat together and they would offer me a job since I couldnt find one. So now I have a job and I even have another friend that offered me a job at the local library in case I needed something else! I thought the other job manifestations were failures but they were just delays for my perfect opportunity!

I heard a book by this title and while I haven't read it, the title is certainly true.

I realized I am transgender (MtF), and my self denial and hatred got projected into my reality every fucking day. As a child I was brutally abused, especially for being girly or feminine and now I think it is okay to tolerate abuse. that it's okay to tolerate being treated like shit and as dirt by those around you.

I had brutal limerence for anyone who was who I wanted to be (so mostly women), and now I realize I was looking to salvation from the outside world.

I realize life isn't meant to be this goddamn hard every day, that I should have been treated better and deserve to be treated better. My mind immediately found bridges of incidents from this point, and I'm realizing in the end I am okay, instead of it being "Go, go go!!" and "Somethings wrong" every day.

The core is self love though. Do I love myself enough? Because the fear comes from thinking of how others will treat me every time.

Wondering if anyone has had a similar experience.

I’ve been thinking about EIYPO (Everyone Is You Pushed Out) and there’s one point I’m struggling to understand.

According to the theory, if I change my identity/assumptions and act with a person — whether that person is someone I love, a family member, a friend, etc. — that person can eventually reflect those assumptions back to me in the 3D.

So here’s my question.

Let’s take a completely different example: imagine a man goes to a club and approaches 100 random women.

If EIYPO means that everyone in our reality is reflecting our assumptions, why wouldn’t all 100 women respond according to his self-concept?

For example, if his identity is:

“Women find me extremely attractive, they desire me, and they love talking to me.”

why might 20 women be very interested, 30 neutral, 30 reject him, and 20 not even engage?

Aren’t all 100 of them part of the same projected reality?

And if we say that we can assume a different version of one person and eventually experience that version of them, why would the same principle not automatically apply to random people we encounter?

In other words:

Why can a special person conform to an assumption while random people may apparently behave completely differently from that assumption?

Is the explanation that we hold different assumptions about each individual?

Is there a difference between a general self-concept such as “I am desired” and a specific assumption such as “this particular person desires me”?

Or, within EIYPO, would the theory actually say that if the man completely embodied “every woman I approach is attracted to me,” then eventually all 100 should reflect that?

I’m genuinely trying to understand the internal logic of EIYPO here rather than argue against it, so I’d especially like to hear from people who have studied Neville deeply.