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Live In The End Like It Is Already Yours | Neville Goddard · Neville Goddard Mindset

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  Why is your desire not here yet? You have done everything you
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  were told, you have visualized, you have affirmed, you have
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  written it down, spoken it aloud and believed in it with
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  everything you have. And still, still, the thing you
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  want sits somewhere out there in the future, tantalizingly close
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  but never quite arriving. Why?
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  Because you have been living in the wrong place.
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  Not the wrong city, not the wrong house, the wrong place in
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  consciousness. You have been living in the
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  journey instead of the destination.
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  You have been standing at the beginning of the road, staring
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  at the horizon when the law requires you to stand at the end
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  and look back. I tell you from my own
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  experience, the answer to every unfulfilled desire is not more
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  effort. It is not a better technique.
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  It is not a longer meditation or a more detailed vision board.
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  The answer is a shift in where you stand in your own
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  imagination. It is called living in the end.
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  And tonight I will teach you exactly what it means and
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  exactly how to do it. My name is Neville, and for over
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  4 decades I taught a single principle in 1000 different
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  ways. That assumption if persisted in
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  hardens into fact. And the most powerful form of
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  assumption is not hoping for the future or working toward the
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  future. It is occupying the end, the
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  completed desire as your present reality.
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  This is not a meditation technique.
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  This is not positive thinking dressed up in mystical language.
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  This is the fundamental operation of consciousness
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  itself, and every result you have ever produced in your life,
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  wanted or unwanted, was produced by this exact mechanism.
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  In this teaching, I will show you why living in the end is
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  different from visualizing why most people unknowingly live in
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  the wrong end, and how to make the shift that collapses the
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  distance between you and everything you desire.
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  By the time we are finished, you will understand that your desire
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  is not in the future. It never was.
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  Let me lay the foundation with a distinction that most teachers
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  fail to make. There is a difference between
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  thinking of your desire and thinking from your desire.
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  It is a small difference in language.
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  It is an infinite difference in result.
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  When you think of your desire, you are observing it from a
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  distance. You are here.
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  The desire is there and the space between you is the problem
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  you are trying to solve. Every visualization done from
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  this position, no matter how vivid, no matter how emotional,
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  reinforces the gap. It tells the subconscious mind
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  this is not mine, yet I am reaching for something I do not
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  have. When you think from your desire,
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  you have eliminated the gap entirely.
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  You are standing in the completed state.
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  You are looking out at the world from the position of someone who
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  already has what they want. The desire is not ahead of you,
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  it is behind you. It is done.
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  You are imagination, and imagination creates reality, but
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  imagination creates reality only when it operates from the end,
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  not toward it. This is the law of assumption in
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  its purest form. The state you occupy determines
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  the world you see, and if you occupy the state of the wish
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  fulfilled, not hoping for it, not reaching for it, but resting
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  in the felt reality of it being already done, your subconscious
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  mind receives that state as a blueprint and begins
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  constructing the physical evidence to match it.
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  Consciousness is the only reality, and your consciousness
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  right now, in this moment, is either standing at the
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  beginning, looking forward with longing, or standing at the end,
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  looking back with satisfaction. One of these positions produces
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  desire, the other produces fulfillment.
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  They are not the same thing. Let me give you an example to
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  make this concrete. A man desires a new home.
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  He closes his eyes each night and imagines the home he wants.
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  He sees the the front door, the garden, the kitchen.
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  He adds detail upon detail. He imagines it so vividly he can
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  smell the wood floors and feel the granite countertop under his
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  fingertips. And nothing happens.
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  Why? Because he is imagining the home
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  of something he wants, something out there, something he is
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  looking at. He is thinking of the home, not
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  from it. Now imagine this same man doing
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  something different. Instead of imagining the house
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  from the outside, he imagines himself already living in it.
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  He is lying in bed. Not his current bed, but the bed
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  in the new home. He can feel the different
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  mattress, the different sheets, the different quality of light
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  coming through the window. He hears the sounds of a
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  different neighborhood. He feels the deep, settled piece
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  of someone who is simply at home, not excited about a new
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  purchase, not overwhelmed by the change.
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  Just home. The way you feel when you have
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  lived somewhere for months and it is simply where you are that
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  is living. In the end, the difference is
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  not one of detail, it is one of position.
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  He has moved from standing outside the desire looking in,
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  to standing inside the desire looking out.
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  And when he sleeps in that state, when the state akin to
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  sleep carries that impression to the subconscious, the
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  subconscious does not receive a wish.
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  It receives a fact, and it immediately begins constructing
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  the bridge of incidents that will carry the man to his new
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  home, there to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
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  Let me tell you about a woman who tested this principle and
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  proved it beyond any doubt. She was a nurse in Philadelphia.
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  She had been divorced for six years, and she wanted more than
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  anything to be in a loving marriage again.
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  She had tried everything the world recommends, Dating
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  services, social events, the advice of well meaning friends
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  who told her she was too picky, not picky enough, trying too
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  hard, not trying hard enough. She came to one of my lectures,
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  and she heard me explain the difference between thinking of a
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  desire and thinking from it. And that night she changed her
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  approach entirely. Instead of lying in bed
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  imagining the face of some unknown future husband, instead
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  of wondering who he might be, where she might meet him, what
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  he might look like, she did something far simpler.
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  She imagined herself lying in bed in the dark, and she felt
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  the weight of a hand resting on her left hand, a ring on her
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  finger. Not a new ring, but a familiar
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  1/1 she had worn for a long time.
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  She felt the warmth of someone sleeping beside her.
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  She heard his breathing, slow and deep.
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  And she felt the most important thing of all.
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  She felt ordinary. She felt the deep, unremarkable
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  piece of a woman who had been married for years and was simply
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  lying beside her husband on a Tuesday night thinking about
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  nothing in particular. She did not try to see his face.
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  She did not try to construct a scene of romance or passion.
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  She simply felt married. The way you feel about something
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  that has been true for so long that it that no longer excites
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  you, it simply is. She did this for five weeks and
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  within three months she met a man through a completely
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  unexpected channel, a colleague's retirement party.
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  She had almost decided not to attend, and within a year she
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  was wearing the ring she had felt on her finger in the state
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  akin to sleep. She did not attract this man
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  through effort. She did not find him through
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  strategy. She occupied the end, the
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  settled, ordinary, unremarkable end of being married, and the
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  subconscious mind built the bridge of incidents that carried
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  her there, that is, living in the end, not hoping for the
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  wedding, feeling from the marriage.
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  So far I have shown you the distinction between thinking of
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  your desire and thinking from it.
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  You understand that living in the end means occupying the
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  completed state in consciousness, not observing it
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  from the outside, but inhabiting it from within.
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  But here is where the teaching deepens, because most people,
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  when they hear this principle for the first time, make a
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  subtle but devastating error. They try to feel excited about
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  having the thing. They try to generate the emotion
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  of receiving. They try to manufacture the
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  thrill of arrival. And this is precisely the wrong
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  feeling. What I am about to share will
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  correct this error permanently. And once you correct it, you
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  will find that living in the end becomes the most natural thing
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  in the world, because it requires less effort than what
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  you have been doing, not more. The feeling of the wish
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  fulfilled is not excitement, it is not thrill, it is not the
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  rush of receiving something you have long desired.
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  It is peace. Think about anything you already
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  have, something so ordinary, so settled in your life that you do
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  not think about it with excitement.
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  Your bed, your favorite chair, your morning routine, these
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  things are yours. You do not wake up thrilled that
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  you have a bed. You do not feel a rush of
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  gratitude every time you sit in your chair.
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  You simply use them. They are part of the fabric of
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  your life. They are assumed.
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  That is the feeling of the wish fulfilled, not the peak emotion
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  of receiving the quiet naturalness of already having.
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  When you live in the end correctly, the dominant feeling
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  is not excitement, it is calm. It is settled.
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  It is the deep, unremarkable piece of someone whose desire is
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  so thoroughly fulfilled that it no longer registers as a desire
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  at all. It is simply life.
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  This is why so many people struggle with this technique.
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  They're trying to generate a dramatic feeling when the law
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  requires an undramatic one. They are trying to feel the
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  wedding day when the law asks them to feel a Tuesday morning
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  six months after the wedding, when the ring on their finger is
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  something they no longer notice because it has been there so
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  long. The most important conversation
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  you will ever have is the one you hold with yourself.
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  And when you live in the end, that conversation is no longer
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  about wanting. It is no longer about becoming.
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  It is about without being quietly, naturally, without
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  fanfare. I tell you from my own
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  experience, when I discovered this distinction, every desire I
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  held began to crystallize with a speed that astonished me.
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  Not because I changed what I imagined, but because I changed
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  how I felt about it. I stopped reaching, I started
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  resting. What you desire, you already are
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  in eternity. Living in the end is not a trick
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  to get what you want. It is the recognition that in
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  the dimension of consciousness, where all things are created,
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  you already have it. Your only task is to feel from
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  that position with enough naturalness that the
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  subconscious accepts it as the current state of affairs.
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  And it will, because the subconscious cannot tell the
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  difference between an experience that is physically real and an
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  experience that is assumed with genuine feeling in the state
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  akin to sleep. Now let me give you the
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  practical steps. Step one.
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  Define your desire with precision.
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  Not a category, not a general improvement, a specific state.
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  I do not want more money. I want to be someone who looks
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  at their bank account and feels secure.
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  I do not want a relationship. I want to be someone who falls
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  asleep beside a person they love and wakes to them every morning.
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  The end state is not the thing. The end state is the version of
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  you who already has the thing. Step 2.
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  Identify the naturalness. Ask yourself, if this were
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  already true, if it had been true for months, what would an
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  ordinary moment feel like? Not the celebration, not the
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  announcement. A random Wednesday, a quiet
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  evening. A moment so unremarkable that it
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  would never make it into a story because it is just life.
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  That is your scene, that is your feeling.
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  That is your end. Step three.
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  Enter the state akin to sleep. Lie down.
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  Breathe. Let the drowsiness come, let the
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  conscious guard relax. You know this doorway, you have
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  crossed it before. Step 4.
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  Occupy the end, not watching yourself in the end, being in
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  the end, looking through your own eyes, feeling the
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  ordinariness of it, feeling the peace of someone for whom this
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  desire was fulfilled so long ago that it has become background.
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  Just life. Sleep as though the wish were
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  fulfilled, wake as though it is already so.
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  Step 5. Persist.
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  Not by trying harder, by returning when doubt comes and
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  it will. You do not fight it.
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  You simply redirect. You return to the end.
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  You return to the naturalness. You remind yourself it is done.
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  The subconscious has the blueprint.
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  My job is to stay in the state, persist in your assumption, and
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  the world must rearrange itself to conform.
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  There is a common misunderstanding I want to
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  correct before we go further. People here living in the end
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  and they think it means denying the present.
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  They think it means pretending their current circumstances do
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  not exist. They think it means walking
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  through a life that is not working and pasting a smile over
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  the cracks. That is not what I teach.
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  That is not what the law requires.
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  Living in the end does not mean ignoring the present.
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  It means understanding what the present is.
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  The present is not a fact. It is the residue of a previous
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  assumption. What you see around you right
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  now, your bank account, your relationship, your health, your
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  career, is the crystallized result of what you once assumed.
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  It is the harvest of seeds planted in the past.
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  It is yesterday's consciousness made visible today.
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  When you change the assumption, when you occupy a new end, you
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  are planting new seeds, and the old harvest will naturally,
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  inevitably, give way to the new one.
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  But you do not hasten this process by fighting the old
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  harvest. You hasten it by ignoring it.
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  Not in the sense of pretending it does not exist, but in the
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  sense of withdrawing your emotional investment in it.
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  You stop feeding it with attention, worry and the
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  constant monitoring that says this is real, this is permanent,
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  this cannot change. The state you occupied
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  determines the world you see, and the state you withdraw from
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  loses its power to persist. One mistake I see often people
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  practice this beautifully at night, then spend the entire
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  next day living from the old state.
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  They assume the wish fulfilled before sleep, then wake up and
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  immediately check whether anything has changed.
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  That checking is the old state, that scanning for evidence is
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  the position of someone who does not yet have what they want.
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  Living, in the end, is not a night time exercise.
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  It is a position you hold throughout the day, not with
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  strain, not with forced positivity, with quiet
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  certainty. The way you know your name, the
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  way you know where you live. You do not affirm these things.
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  You do not visualize them. You simply know them.
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  That is the feeling. Man's imagination is the only
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  redemptive power in the world, and when imagination occupies
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  the end, truly occupies it. With the naturalness and peace
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  of something already accomplished, the
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  three-dimensional world has no choice but to catch up.
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  I want to guide you into the end right now. close your eyes, take
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  a breath, let the body soften. Think of the thing you most
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  desire, but do not reach for it. Do not picture yourself
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  receiving it. Instead, move past the
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  receiving. Move past the excitement.
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  Move to a moment, weeks, months after the fulfillment, when this
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  desire has become so normal, so settled, so thoroughly part of
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  your life that you barely think about it anymore.
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  Feel the ordinariness of it. Feel the peace of it.
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  Feel the deep calm of someone for whom this is simply how
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  things are. You are not wishing.
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  You are not hoping. You are remembering from the
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  end. Isn't it wonderful?
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  Not as a question, as a quiet recognition of what is already
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  true in the dimension where all things are created.
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  Rest there. Let the feeling settle into the
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  the body. This is living in the end.
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  This is where your desire has always been.
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  Not ahead of you here. Now, in the state you occupy,
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  you may release the scene. I want to address one final
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  thing before I leave you tonight because it is the question I was
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  asked more than any other in all my years of teaching.
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  People would come to me and say, Neville, I can do this at night.
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  I can feel the end before I sleep.
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  But in the morning, reality hits.
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  I open my eyes and nothing has changed.
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  The old circumstances are still there.
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  How do I live in the end when the present contradicts it and
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  my answer was always the same. The present is not a fact.
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  The present is the crystallization of a previous
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  assumption. What you see around you right
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  now is not reality. It is the residue of what you
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  once assumed. It is yesterday's consciousness
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  made visible when you change the assumption.
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  When you occupy a new end, the present has no choice but to
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  dissolve and reorganize around the new state.
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  But it does not happen overnight.
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  There is a bridge. There is a period during which
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  the old scenery is still visible even as the new assumption is
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  being built beneath it. Your job during that period is
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  not to be deceived by appearances.
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  Your job is to remain in the end, to walk through the old
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  world with the consciousness of someone who has already moved to
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  the new one. Not pretending, knowing the
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  state you occupied determines the world you see occupy the
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  end. The world will follow.
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  If this teaching has clarified something you have been
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  struggling with, if you now see that the problem was never your
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  desire but the position from which you were holding it, then
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  I ask you to test it tonight. Choose one desire.
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  Move past the wanting. Move past the receiving.
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  Find the natural, ordinary, unremarkable feeling of already
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  having lived with it for months and sleep in that feeling.
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  If these teachings speak to something within you, you will
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  find more of them here. Return when you are ready.
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  Each time we go deeper into the principles I spent a lifetime
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  testing. Your desire is not in the
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  future. It never was.
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  It is in the end, and the end is wherever you choose to stand.