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SATS: The One Sleep Technique That Works Every Time · Neville Goddard Mindset

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  A woman came to me once after one of my lectures in Lowe's
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  Angels. She was 41 years old, a school
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  teacher, and she had been trying for 11 years to find a husband.
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  She had prayed, she had asked, she had waited, and nothing had
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  come. She sat in the back row that
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  evening, arms folded, not sure she believed a word I was
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  saying, but she was there, and that is always the beginning.
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  I told her something that night that I will tell you now.
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  I said. The trouble is not that your
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  desire is too large. The trouble is that you keep
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  asking from the wrong state. You fall asleep as a woman who
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  wants a husband, and so that wanting crystallizes around you
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  like a shell. You wake each morning, and the
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  wanting is still there because the state you carried into sleep
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  is the state you carried back out.
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  She looked at me then, for the first time without her arms
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  folded. I said, Tonight, when you lie
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  down, do not ask. Do not want.
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  Instead, feel what it would feel like if it were already served.
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  That conversation changed her life, and what I taught her that
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  night, I will teach you now. In these next 30 minutes, I'm
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  going to give you the single most powerful technique I ever
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  taught. I called it the state akin to
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  sleep, and I used it myself for decades.
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  Every crystallization of assumption I ever experienced,
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  every door that opened, every circumstance that rearranged,
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  came through this one practice. This is not theory.
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  I'm not asking you to believe me on faith alone.
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  I am asking you to try it tonight, one night, and then
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  tell me what happens. The state akin to sleep is not a
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  meditation. It is not an affirmation.
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  It is not a ritual. It is a precise in an act
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  performed at the threshold between waking and sleep, where
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  your conscious mind relaxes its grip and the deeper power of
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  consciousness becomes fully operative.
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  You are imagination, and imagination creates reality.
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  And tonight I will show you exactly how to use that power.
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  Let me begin where everything must begin, which is with the
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  nature of consciousness. You believe you live in a
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  physical world. You believe that the things
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  around you, the walls, the street, the people in your life
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  are solid and primary. And you believe that you are a
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  small thing inside that world, hoping and trying and waiting
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  for it to respond to you. I tell you from my own
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  experience, that is precisely backwards.
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  Consciousness is the only reality, what you observe as the
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  outer world. World is a projection.
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  It is a shadow cast by what you carry within your assumptions.
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  Not your wishes, not your hopes, but your deep, felt, inhabited
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  assumptions. These are the causes of
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  everything that appears in your life.
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  Now most people understand this as a concept.
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  They nod their heads, they say yes, I understand that my
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  thoughts create my reality. And then they go back to
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  worrying, doubting, rehearsing what they do not want and
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  wondering why nothing changes. The trouble is not the
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  understanding. The trouble is the state.
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  A state is not a thought. You think once a state is the
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  felt reality you inhabit. When you are truly in a state,
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  you do not think about your desire, you think from it.
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  You see the world through the eyes of the person who already
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  has what you want. The assumption is not something
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  you hold, it is something you wear like a garment until it
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  becomes your skin. This is the critical
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  distinction, and it is why technique matters, because the
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  conscious waking mind is a doubter.
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  It observes the current facts of your life, the empty bank
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  account, the silent phone, the condition that has not changed.
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  And it says this is real. I must deal with this, I cannot
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  pretend otherwise. And it is right.
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  In the waking state, with your conscious defenses fully active,
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  you cannot easily override what your senses report to you as
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  real. But there is a threshold, there
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  is a borderline between waking and sleep, where the conscious
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  mind releases its grip, the body begins to relax, the critical
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  faculty dims. And in that state, what I call
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  the state akin to sleep, the imagination becomes fully
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  operative. What you impress upon yourself
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  in that state goes directly into the deep subconscious, bypassing
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  all resistance. This is what I taught for 30
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  years and This is why I called it the operant power of
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  consciousness working at its most accessible moment.
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  The man in the Bible understood this when it is written that God
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  caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and while he slept he
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  shaped the rib into woman. This is not a historical account
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  of bone surgery. This is a teaching about states.
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  God, which is your own consciousness, acts upon you
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  most powerfully in the state akin to sleep.
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  What is shaped there becomes fact in the outer world.
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  I tell you from my own experience, I have used this
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  technique to cross oceans without money, to find and
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  housing in impossible circumstances, to heal
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  conditions that physicians had declared permanent, not once,
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  many times, and always through the same door, the threshold of
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  sleep where imagination becomes the only law.
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  Let me now tell you precisely how it is done.
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  Because there is a method, there is a technique, and when you
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  understand it, truly understand it, not as theory but as
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  practice, you will never again go to sleep the way you did
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  before. We have established something
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  important together. We have seen that consciousness
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  is the cause, not the effect, of the world you inhabit.
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  We have seen that your assumptions, not your
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  circumstances, determine what crystallizes around you.
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  And we have seen that there is a specific doorway, the state akin
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  to sleep, where the imagination operates without resistance.
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  But knowing the doorway exists is not the same as walking
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  through it. What I am about to give you is
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  the precise method, the exact inner moves, the way you
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  position your imagination, the scene you construct, and the
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  feeling you must inhabit before you allow yourself to drift into
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  sleep. Stay with me.
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  This is where everything changes.
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  The state akin to sleep begins, as all true states do, with the
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  body before anything else. You must be still, not merely
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  quiet still. Lie down, close your eyes, Let
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  the body release its tensions 1 by 1, beginning with the face,
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  which holds more tension than most people realize, moving
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  through the shoulders, the chest, the hands.
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  You are not forcing relaxation, you are simply allowing it.
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  You are giving your body permission to stop performing.
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  As the body stills, you will notice something.
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  The mind begins to produce images spontaneously, random
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  fragments, faces, places, objects without context.
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  This is the hypnagogic state beginning the borderland I have
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  spoken of. This is the threshold you are
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  seeking. Many people try to use
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  affirmations at this moment. They repeat words, phrases,
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  statements of what they want and they wonder why nothing comes of
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  it. The answer is simple.
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  Words are not states, words are symbols and the subconscious
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  does not respond to symbols, it responds to feeling.
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  What you need as you enter the state, akin to sleep is not a
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  statement, it is a scene. I want you to construct a single
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  specific sensory scene that implies your wish fulfilled. 1
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  scene. Not a montage of all the things
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  you want. Not a vision of your whole new
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  life. One small, intimate sensory
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  scene that could only exist if your desire were already a fact.
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  If you want to be married, do not imagine a wedding.
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  Imagine the weight of a ring on your finger as you go about an
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  ordinary morning. Imagine glancing across a room
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  and meeting the eyes of your beloved with the easy
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  familiarity of someone who has done this 1000 times.
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  If you want money, do not imagine a number in a bank
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  account. Imagine the feeling in your body
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  as you write a check for something you could never have
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  afforded before. And the feeling is ease, Not
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  excitement. Ease because this is normal now.
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  This is your life. If you want to be healed, do not
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  imagine tests and results. Imagine the simple, unremarkable
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  feeling of a body that works. Walking up a flight of stairs
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  without thinking about it. Waking in the morning without
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  bracing for pain. The must be specific, it must be
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  sensory, and it must be short enough to repeat in your mind
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  like a loop. Now, as your body relaxes and
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  the threshold approaches, you begin to play your scene.
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  You do not watch it as though it were a film.
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  You inhabit it. You feel the sensations from the
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  inside. You feel the weight of the ring,
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  you feel the texture of the check beneath your fingers.
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  You feel the air in your lungs as you climb those stairs
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  without effort. As you repeat the scene, allow
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  it to feel normal. This is the key that most people
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  miss. They inject excitement into
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  their imaginal act, and excitement is a signal that The
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  thing is still outside, still future, still not here.
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  The feeling you are cultivating is not excitement, it is
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  normalcy. The quiet, settled feeling of a
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  desire already crystallized, the feeling of it being so ordinary
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  that you barely notice it anymore.
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  Persist in this scene until you feel what I call the click.
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  A moment of settling, like something locking into place, or
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  until you drift naturally into sleep while inhabiting the
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  scene. Either is sufficient.
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  Either means the impression has been made.
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  If your mind wanders, return gently to the scene.
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  Do not fight distraction with force.
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  Force is the enemy of this state.
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  Simply return again and again if necessary.
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  With each return you go a little deeper.
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  Some nights the scene will feel vivid and real immediately.
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  Other nights it will feel effortful, flat, like moving
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  furniture in a dark room. Do not interpret the quality of
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  the feeling as evidence of the technique working or failing.
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  The subconscious receives the impression regardless of whether
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  the waking mind is satisfied with the performance.
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  What matters is that you showed up, that you persisted, that you
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  did not go to sleep as the person who wants but as the
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  person who has. I must tell you something about
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  persistence because it is the quality that separates those who
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  crystallize their assumptions from those who spend years
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  wondering why nothing changes. The world does not rearrange
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  itself in response to a single imaginal act, usually.
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  Sometimes it does. I have seen it happen with a
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  speed that leaves the person breathless.
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  But for most desires, in most circumstances, the law requires
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  what I call persistence in the assumption.
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  This does not mean endless effort.
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  It means returning to your scene night after night with the same
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  faithful expectation that the farmer returns, returns to his
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  field after planting. The farmer does not dig up the
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  seed each morning to see if it has sprouted.
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  He knows the law of the harvest. He plants, he waits, he trusts,
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  and in due season what he has planted emerges.
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  You are planting imagination into the soil of the
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  subconscious through the state akin to sleep.
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  And the world, your world, the only world that concerns you,
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  will rearrange itself to conform to what you have planted.
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  The state you occupy determines the world you see.
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  Plant the state of the wish fulfilled.
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  Water it each night at the threshold of sleep, and do not
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  be moved from your assumption by what your senses report in the
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  days that follow. The gap between imaginal act and
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  physical fact is simply the season of growth.
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  It is not evidence of failure. I tell you from my own
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  experience, the law is perfect. It has never failed.
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  When it appears to fail, the cause is always the same.
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  The assumption was not truly inhabited, or it was abandoned
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  before the season of growth was complete.
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  The law itself does not fail. Let us place what we have
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  covered together. You now know the method.
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  You know how to steal the body, how to enter the threshold, how
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  to construct the one specific scene that implies your wish
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  fulfilled, how to feel from the inside rather than observe from
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  the outside. And you know that persistence,
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  faithful, steady, unshaken persistence, is the quality that
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  carries the assumption from imagination into the world you
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  can touch. Now, I'm going to give you the
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  precise application, and then I'm going to guide you through
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  your first session of the state, akin to sleep right here
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  together, before tonight, before you lie down and close your
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  eyes, there is preparation that will serve you well.
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  The first preparation is the scene itself.
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  You must choose it before you attempt the state.
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  Do not try to construct your scene as you are drifting
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  towards sleep. The mind is too loose then, too
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  prone to wandering. Choose your scene now, while you
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  are alert. Choose it deliberately.
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  Ask yourself what is the single image that could only exist if
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  my desire were already a fact? Write it down if you must.
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  Make it specific. Make it sensory.
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  Make it small, not a panorama of your whole new life, but one
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  moment within it, the moment that implies all the rest, the
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  congratulations being offered, the question being asked at the
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  dinner table as though it is normal to ask it.
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  The comfortable weight of the the thing you have been wanting,
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  now simply there. Second, preparation.
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  The approach to sleep itself. In the hour before you lie down,
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  guard your attention. Do not consume content that
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  stirs anxiety, conflict, or fear.
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  Do not rehearse what you do not want.
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  The state you enter sleep in is the state you deepen through the
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  night. Begin to move inward gently as
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  you would approach a flame you do not want to extinguish.
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  Third preparation, the breath. When you lie down and close your
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  eyes, take 3, 3 slow breaths before you begin anything.
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  Not forced, not dramatic, simply 3 slow, complete breaths that
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  signal to the body. We are releasing now.
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  We are done with the day. What begins now is different
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  from what came before. And then you begin your scene.
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  I want to address something practical that many people
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  struggle with. What do you do when doubt arises
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  during the state, When you are lying there inhabiting your
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  scene, and suddenly a thought intrudes?
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  This is foolish. Nothing has changed.
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  This will never work. Do not argue with it, do not try
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  to suppress it. Simply notice it as you would
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  notice a sound from the street outside your window and return
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  your attention to the scene. The doubt is simply the
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  conscious mind doing what it always does, reporting what it
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  observes as real. You are not fighting it, you are
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  simply not giving it your dwelling place.
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  You are choosing moment by moment, where you live in
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  consciousness. Now there is one mistake I must
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  warn you against, because I have seen it undo more people than
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  any other error. It is the mistake of checking
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  after your session of the state, akin to sleep the next morning,
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  or the day after, or the week after.
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  The human tendency is to look for evidence, to examine your
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  outer world, for signs that something is happening, to watch
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  the phone, the mail, the behavior of other people, for
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  proof that the imaginal act is working.
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  Do not do this. The moment you begin checking,
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  you have shifted back into the state of wanting, of not yet
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  having, and that state inhabited with feeling will crystallize
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  its own reality just as surely as the state of the wish
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  fulfilled. What you must cultivate instead
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  is what I would call confident indifference.
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  Not denial of what your senses report, not pretense that
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  conditions have changed when they have not, but a deep
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  settled confidence, like the farmers, that what you have
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  planted is growing, and that the harvest comes in its own right.
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  Season according to a law that is perfect and without
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  exception. Go about your day, live your
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  life, let the imaginal act do its work beneath the surface,
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  and when doubt arises, because it will arise, remind yourself
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  of the law, persist in your assumption, and return each
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  night to your scene. This is the practice, this is
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  the discipline. And I tell you from my own
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  experience, there is no circumstance so fixed, no
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  condition so stubborn, no door so firmly shut, that this
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  practice cannot open it. close your eyes now.
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  Let the body settle. Let the shoulders drop.
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  Let the hands open and rest. Take one breath, let it go
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  slowly. Now bring to mind the scene you
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  have chosen, the one small, specific moment that implies
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  your wish fulfilled. See it from the inside.
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  You are not watching yourself from a distance, you are there,
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  looking out through your own eyes.
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  What do your hands feel? Let them feel it.
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  Now what do you hear? The sounds of that moment, near
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  and familiar. What is the quality of the air
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  around you? Is there light, a particular
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  warmth? Now let the feeling settle in.
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  Not excitement, normalcy. This is your life, this is
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  simply how it is. Now stay in this moment, breathe
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  gently. Let the scene become natural the
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  way familiar rooms become natural.
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  You stop noticing the details because they are simply home.
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  Feel the ease of it, the quiet, the doneness.
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  Stay here as long as feels natural.
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  And when your mind wanders, return gently, without judgment,
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  to this moment, this one small, real moment in your new life.
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  Breathe. You do not need to rush back.
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  Stay here a little longer. This is the state akin to sleep.
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  This is the door I told you about, the woman who came to my
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  lecture in Lowe's Angels, 41 years old, eleven years of
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  wanting arms folded in the back row.
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  She tried what I taught her that night.
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  Not perfectly. She told me so herself.
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  The first night the scene felt strange, effortful.
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  She drifted into sleep, still wondering if she was doing it
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  correctly. But she returned night after
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  night, and she cultivated gradually the feeling not of
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  wanting a husband, but of being a woman whose husband was simply
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  there. She stopped rehearsing the
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  absence. She began began in the threshold
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  of sleep to rehearse the presents.
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  Seven months later she married a man she had known for years but
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  I've never truly seen, because she had not before occupied the
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  state in which he could appear to her as what he truly was.
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  She told me I did not find him. I became the woman he was
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  already looking for. That is the law.
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  You do not acquire what you want by trying harder in the outer
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  world. You crystallize it by inhabiting
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  the inner state as though it were already so.
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  The world, the world must then rearrange itself to conform.
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  It has no other choice. This is not poetry.
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  This is the law of consciousness.
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  And it works every time without exception, there to assume the
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  feeling of the wish fulfilled tonight, not tomorrow, not when
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  the conditions improve. Tonight, at the threshold of
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  sleep, inhabit the scene you have chosen and let your
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  consciousness do what it was built to do.
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  The most important conversation you will ever have is the one
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  you hold with yourself in those final moments before sleep takes
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  you. Choose that conversation
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  carefully. Persist in your assumption.
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  The world must conform to it. If these teachings speak to
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  something within you, you will find more of them here.
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  Return when you are ready. I will take you deeper.
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  There is always more to discover.