Neville Says: Attract What You Want By Assuming the Feeling of The Wish Fulfilled

© Copyright 2009 Patrice Walker All rights reserved

A Favorite "New Thought" Author

One of my favorite new thought authors is a gentleman by the name of Neville Goddard. Neville, as he is affectionately known, was a Christian metaphysician born on the Caribbean island of Barbados in 1905. He came to the U.S. to study theater, but after meeting and studying with several teachers of his time, he devoted his life to writing and speaking on the subject of how thought and feeling create reality.

His most profound statement is that you must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled to bring about the manifestation of your desire. What exactly does this mean? It is much more than simply affirming what you want to create. When you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you actually feel the feelings that you would feel as if your desire had already been achieved.

Adding the feeling component magnetizes your desire and attracts its fulfillment to you. It tells your very impressionable subconscious mind that you, in fact, already have what you desire.

Your subconscious mind does not know if what it is receiving is real or imaginary. It simply takes as fact whatever you are thinking and feeling and works behind the scenes to bring it to you. This is why it is so important to monitor your thoughts and feelings to be sure you are thinking and feeling what you want, as opposed to what you do NOT want.

I had a very powerful experience of this principle several years ago when my daughter was in high school. She called me to her bedroom one evening, crying about a very nasty looking, pus-filled bump that had been lingering for a while. One look at it and I exclaimed, “We have to go to the hospital and get that lanced!” Talk about the wrong thing to say! This sent her over the edge into hysterics, screaming and sobbing that she did NOT want to go to the hospital.

What is a mother to do? I could not calm her down or reason with her, so I decided to go back to my bedroom, close the door, and sit quietly in the darkened room, affirming and feeling that she was already healthy and whole. I affirmed this over and over again. Soon, an incredible feeling of joy, relaxation, and peace came over me. And then, an image appeared on my mind’s inner screen of my daughter soaking in the bathtub. Immediately, I knew what she had to do. I rushed back to her bedroom and told her to run a bath as hot as she could stand it, add Epsom salts, and soak. When she finished her bath, she came to me, much calmer, showing me that the bump had already started to shrink in size. I recommended she do this again the following night. A few days later, all signs of the nasty bump were gone.

It would have been impossible to try to sit with her to figure out what to do because of both our emotional states; we were too stressed out to think clearly. Moreover, the conscious mind is limited; it cannot know everything. However, the subconscious mind has access to all memories and is connected to Infinite Intelligence. All answers lie within it if we just give it an opportunity to work for us.

Neville made another profound statement, namely, that assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled wills the means of its realization. In other words, everything required to bring the desire to us is contained in that felt assumption that we already have it. If we will just get quiet enough to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, the steps required to make it so, as Star Trek Captain Jean-Luc Picard loved to say, are revealed to us. They may not come as immediately as they did to me; but they will come.

Therefore, we need to be vigilant for these inner promptings that move us in the direction of our desire. Instead of trying to figure it out, we act when inspired. Inspiration comes intuitively and can appear in several ways.

See my hub on how to recognize intuitive guidance to discover what your dominant mode(s) of reception are.

Assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled is simple:

1. Decide what you want.
2. Take time often to get quiet and imagine that you already have what you want; let the feelings of joy, satisfaction, fulfillment, etc. wash over you. Bask for a while in these wonderful feelings.
3. Go about each day relaxed and confident, assured that your desire is on its way to you (i.e., don’t worry about how or when  it will come).
4. Act when inspired.

The only way you will know if this works is to try it out for yourself. Let your experimentation be playful, and you will soon see that assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled does indeed will the means of its realization.

Wayne Dyer has taken the principles and concepts of Neville Goddard, a 20th century mystic, and clarified them for modern-day, 21st century readers. When you change your concept of yourself and assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, manifesting your desires is assured. Wishes Fulfilled shows us how.

Wayne Dyer is well known for demystifying the works of ancient mystics like St. Francis of Assisi and Lao-Tze, making their teachings accessible to modern-day readers.

He's done it again in his latest book, Wishes Fulfilled, in which he explains the importance of "being able to feel in your body what you desire to manifest" and to "live 'from that end,' as if it had materialized into the physical realm." (Wishes Fulfilled, pg. 11) This is exactly what Neville's "assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled" means.

If you find Neville's writing a bit to esoteric, then begin with Dyer's Wishes Fulfilled. What's great about the book is that he shows you, in modern language, how to move from changing your concept of yourself (where it all begins) to manifesting your heart's desires by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled.