It’s you shaping you.
But until mastery then there is a technique.
— Neville Goddard
I had won $15,000. Except, it wasn’t directly me. But, I still won it. It was through somebody else. But I had written it down several times. I had, created an image of that sum of money coming to me. The image I created, was someone without a face.
All I saw was a man in a suit, reaching out to me, giving me that much money. Me feeling the excitement. But also, and I thought this was important, like the money was mine. Like I owned it.
My wife was invited to a televised Game Show. She was invited back to this Game Show, a week after I was on it. That first week, I only won $300. But I’d assume that I would win something. I just didn’t label what it was.
But I persisted that that amount would show up somehow. On the way back home, on the drive, we both were so excited. Then the thought occurred to me, that why doesn’t she go?
So seven days later, on television, my wife won $15,000. The money didn’t have to come through me. But get this, it did.
Neville states that when you were in the state, when you achieve the state, when you live in the state as if it’s already happened, people and things will start moving around you in relationship to the new state.
This is important. Because I was the one who created the scene. I was the one who accepted it is true. I didn’t always believe it. I didn’t do it perfectly. But somewhere deep inside of myself, I knew it was going to happen.
So that event had to happen. It had to happen that way. But the common denominator? It wasn’t my wife. It wasn’t the Game Show. It wasn’t even my belief. It was me.
Now, I know we can get a little bit obsessed about techniques. But one thing I’ve learned about this, and I think this is a really crucial to understand. Is you are the technique. I am the technique. Not belief. Not repetition. Not 1000 affirmations. Not how beautiful your scenes are mentally. You are the technique.
So then what are the techniques? The techniques are the way you shape self-concept here. The techniques are not the answer. The techniques are not your savior. They’re only to help you to get to master. If you get stuck in techniques, then you either fear mastery which is your own power, or you don’t understand that all the power comes from you within.
Now, I could sit here and write all of the different techniques that I use. I could focus on the numbers and how much repetition was involved, or even how much doubt was involved. But do you know what’s still the common denominator in all that? Me. It is self concept. That’s what techniques are used to do to help you shape the self-concept into the person who already has everything you desire.
So the question isn’t, what techniques should I use? Those will change throughout your life. It’s what kind of person has what I desire already? That is the person you become now. That is the person you accept. That is the person, if you need techniques, that you begin using to help shape yourself into.
That’s the metaphor of the Potter’s house— the process of you shaping you. In behavioral science, we refer to this as expectancy of effects.. it is what you train your perception, your body, your choices, and your emotions all to believe except is true about the world that you are in. THIS is where your project begins. Use all of those elements and begin asking who is that person? The person who has the money. What would their perception, their posture, their choices, and their emotions all feel like? Would they accept us automatically true and all of those various?
Answer those honestly. And that is weird liberation begins.