Mental Diets LP Side B by Neville Goddard (1955)

Nelville Goddard 1955 LP, also known as a record, also known as a long play. This is side two. Mental DIETS Talking to oneself is a habit everyone indulges in. We could no more stop talking to ourselves than we could stop eating and drinking. All that we can do is control the nature and the direction of our inner conversations. Most of us are totally unaware of the fact that our inner conversations are the causes of the circumstances of our life. We are told that as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. But do we know that man's thinking follows the tracks laid down in his own inner conversations? To turn the tracks to which he is tied in the direction in which he wants to go, he must put off his former conversation, which is called in the Bible the Old man, and be renewed in the spirit of his mind. Speech is the image of the mind. Therefore, to change his mind, he must first change his speech. By speech is meant those mental conversations we carry on with ourselves. The world is a magic circle of infinite possible mental transformations, for there are an infinite number of possible mental conversations. When man discovers the creative power of inner talking, he will realize his function and his mission in his life. In life, then he can act to a purpose. Without such knowledge, he acts unconsciously. Everything is a manifestation of the mental conversations which go on in us without our being aware of them. But as civilized beings, we must become aware of them and act with a purpose. A man's mental conversations attract his life. As long as. No. As long as there is no change in his inner talking, the personal history of the man remains the same profound statement. First, a man's mental conversations attracts his life. Okay. As long as there is no change in his inner talking, the personal history of the man remains the same. There was an old quote somewhere. Someone said they had 20 years experience doing something and someone else says, no, I think you only had one year experience 20 times. Well, that is exactly what that just said. As long as there is no change in his inner talking, the personal history of the man remains the same. To attempt to change the world before we change our inner talking is to struggle against the very nature of things. Man can go round and round in the same circle of disappointments and misfortunes, not seeing them as caused by his own negative inner talking, but as caused by others. Again, man can go around and around in the same circle of disappointments and misfortunes, not seeing them as caused by his own negative inner talking, but as caused by others. This may seem far fetched, but it is a Matter which lends itself to research and experiment. The formula the chemist illustrates is. Is not more certainly provable. Than the formula of this science by which words are clothed in objective reality. One day a girl told me of her difficulties in working with her employer. She was convinced that he unjustly criticized and rejected her very best efforts. Upon hearing her story, I explained that if she thought him unfairly, it was a sure sign that she herself was in need of a new conversation piece. There was no doubt but that she was mentally arguing with her employer. For others only echo that which we whisper to them in secret. She confessed that she argued mentally with him all day long. When she realized what she had been doing, she agreed to change her inner conversations with her employer. She imagined that he had congratulated her on her fine work. And that she in turn had thanked him for her for his praise and kindness. To her great delight, she soon discovered that her own attitude was the cause of all that befell her. The behavior of her employer reversed itself. It echoed, as it always had done, her mental conversations with him. I rarely see a person alone without wondering to what conversation piece is he tied? On what mysterious track is he walking? We must begin to take life consciously, for the solution of all problems lies just in this. The second man, the Lord from heaven in all of us, is trying to become self conscious in the body that he may be about his Father's business. What are his labors? To imitate his Father, to become master of the word, master of his inner talking. That he may mold this world of ours into a likeness with. With the kingdom of love. The prophet said, be ye imitators of God as dear children. How would I imitate God? Well, we are told that God calls things that are not seen as though they were seen, and the unseen become seen. This is the way the girl called forth praise and kindness from her employer. She carried on an imaginary conversation with her employer from the premise that he had praised her work. And he did. Our inner conversations represent in various ways the world we live in. Our individual worlds are self revelations of our inner speech. We are told that every idle word that men shall speak, and they shall give account thereof. Boy, oh, boy. For by their words they shall be justified, and by their words they shall be condemned. We abandon ourselves to negative inner talking, yet expect to retain command of life. Our present mental conversations do not recede into the past as man believes. They advance into the future to confront us as wasted or invested words. My word, said the prophet, shall not return unto me void, but it shall Accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in all the things whereto I sent it. I believe that's what we read in our very first lecture on this. On this channel of Neville's. I believe it's in one of the very first few. It might be in your faith is your fortune or in, I think I forget the name of the other one at your command. Maybe that was in the very first lecture and it's right there again. And it's definitely has a complete different feeling of meaning. I mean I knew what it was when I first read it, but it definitely has a new depth to it. My word shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in all the things whereto I sent it. How would I send my word to help a friend? I would imagine that I am hearing his voice, that he is physically present, that my hand is on him. I would then congratulate him on his good fortune, tell him that I have never seen him look better. I would listen as though I heard him. I would imagine that he is telling me he has never felt better. He has never felt happier, never been happier. And I would know that in this loving, knowing communion with another, a communion populous with loving thoughts and feelings, that my word was sent. And it shall not return unto me void, but it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation. It is only what is done now that counts, even though its effects may not be visible until tomorrow. We call not out loud, but by an inner effort of intense attention. To listen attentively as though you heard is to create the events and relationships of life. Are your word made visible? Most of us rob others of their willingness and their ability to be kind and generous by our fixed attitudes towards them. Listen to the sentence. Most of us rob others of their willingness and their ability to be kind and generous by our fixed attitudes towards them. Excuse me. Our attitudes unfold within us in the form of mental conversations. Inner talking from premises of fulfilled desire is the way to consciously create circumstances. Our inner conversations are perpetually out pictured all around us in happenings. Therefore, what we desire to see and hear without, we must see and hear within. For the whole manifested world goes to show us what use we have made of the word. If you practice this art of controlled inner speaking, you too will know what a thrill it is to be able to say, and now I have told you before it come to pass that when it come to pass, ye might believe you will be able to consciously use your imagination to transform and channel the immense creative energies of your inner speech from the mental emotional level to the physical level. And I do not know what limits, if any, there are to such a process. What is your aim? Does your inner talking match it? Very simple question. First you must know your aim. We have to start somewhere then does your inner talking match it? If you want health, and that is your name, then why are you talking about everything that makes you sick? If you want wealth and that is your aim, why are you talking about the high cost of everything? You, as a wealthy individual, you are not concerned about prices of anything. If you want a loving relationship, why are you talking about how few men there are in the world worth dating? You can't want one and be full of the speech of the opposite. That speech is showing what the talking is going on in here. This to change, it has to change here. For your experience to change, it has to change here. Now what's around you is catching up to that four dimensional image, to the reality, the outside of you, the shadows, they are going to catch up in their own due time. The prophet Samuel said, the Lord spake by me and his word was in my tongue. If the Lord's word was in the prophet's tongue, then the Lord's mouth that uttered the word must be the prophet's mind. For inner conversations originate in the mind and produce little tiny speech movements in the tongue. The prophet is telling us that the mouth of God is the mind of man, that our inner conversations are the word of God, creating life about us as we create it within ourselves. In the Bible you are told that the word is very near to you in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil, blessings and cursings. Choose life. The conditions and circumstances of life are not created by some power external to yourself. They are the conditions with. Excuse me, they are. They are the conditions which result from the exercise of your freedom of choice. Your freedom to choose the ideas to which they will respond. Excuse me. To which you will respond. Your freedom to choose the ideas to which you will respond. Now is the accepted time. This is the day of salvation. Whatsoever things are of good report, think on these things, for your future will be formed by the word of God, which is your present inner talking. You create your future by your inner conversations. You create your future by your inner conversations. The worlds were framed by the word of God. That is your inner talking. See Yonder fields. The sesame was sesame, the corn was corn. The silence and the darkness knew. So is a man's fate born the light of Asia. For ends run true to origins. If you would reap success, you must plant success. The idea in your mind which starts the whole process going Is the idea which you accept as truth. This is a very important point to grasp, for truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, the not upon facts. When the girl imagined that her employer was unfair, his behavior confirmed her imagination. When she changed her assumption of him, his behavior reflected the change, proving that an assumption, though false, if persisted in, will harden into fact. The mind always behaves according to the assumption with which it starts. Therefore, to experience success, we must assume that we are successful. We must live wholly on the level of the imagination itself. And it must consciously and deliberately. I'm sorry. And it must be consciously and deliberately undertaken. It does not matter if at the present moment external facts deny the truth of your assumption. If you persist in your assumption, it will become a fact. Signs follow. They do not precede. To assume a new concept of yourself is to that extent to change your inner talking or word of God, and is therefore putting on the new man. Our inner talking, though unheard by others, is. Is more productive of future conditions than all the audible promises and threats of men. Your ideal is waiting to be incarnated, but unless you yourself offer it human parentage, it is incapable of birth. You must define the person you wish to be. And then assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled in faith, that the assumption will find expression through you. The true test of religion is in its use, but men have made it a thing to defend. It is to you that the words are spoken. Blessed is she that believed, for there shall be an accomplishment of those things which were spoken unto her from the Lord. Test it. Try it. Conceive yourself to be one. Conceive yourself to be one that you want to be. And remain faithful to that conception. For life here is only a training ground for image making. Life here is only a training ground for image making. Mm. Now what does that mean? This is like preschool. This. This is like kindergarten. Kindergarten. This is the beginnings of our learning. If we're only image making, we've got a ways to go. This is preschool we're trying to get out of. Okay, Try it and see if life will not shape itself on the mold of your imagination. Everything in the world bears witness of the use or misuse of man's inner talking. Negative inner talking, particularly evil and envious inner talking are the breeding ground for the future battlefield are the breeding ground of the future battlefields and penitentiaries of the world. Through habit, man has developed the secret affection for these and negative inner conversations. Through them he justifies failure, criticizes his neighbors, gloats over the distress of others, and in general pours out his venom on all. Such misuse of the word perpetuates the violence of the world. That's where it comes from. The transformation of self requires that we meditate on a given phrase, a phrase which implies that our ideal is realized. And inwardly affirm it over and over and over again. Until we are inwardly affected by its implication, until we are possessed by it. Hold fast to your noble inner convictions or conversations. Or hold fast to them. Nothing can take them from you but yourself. Nothing can stop them from becoming objective facts. All things are generated out of your imagination by the word of God, which is your own inner conversation. And every imagination reaps its own words which it has inwardly spoken. Excuse me. And every imagination reaps its own words which it has inwardly spoken. The great secret of success is a controlled inner conversation from premises of fulfilled desire. The only price you pay for success is the giving up of your former conversation. Which belongs to the old man, the unsuccessful man. The time is ripe for many of us to take conscious charge in creating heaven on earth. To consciously and voluntarily use our imagination to inwardly hear and only say. That which is in harmony with our ideal is actively bringing heaven to earth. Every time we exercise our imagination lovingly on behalf of another. Every time we exercise our imagination lovingly on behalf of another, we are literally mediating God to that one. Always use your imagination masterfully as a participant. As a participant, not a onlooker. Super important sentence. Always use your imagination masterfully as a participant, not an onlooker. One is creating, one is consenting. Simple former participant is the Creator. In using your imagination to transform energy from the mental emotional level to physical level, extend your senses. Look and imagine that you are seeing what you want to see, that you are hearing what you want to hear and touching what you want to touch. Become intensely aware of doing so. Give your imaginary state all the tones and feelings of reality. Keep on doing until you arouse within yourself the mood of accomplishment and the feeling of relief. This is the active, voluntary use of the imagination. As distinguished from the passive, involuntary acceptance of appearances. It is by this active, voluntary use of the imagination. That the second man, the Lord from Heaven, is awakened in man. Men call imagination a plaything, the dream faculty. But actually it is the very gateway of reality. Imagination is the way to the state desired. It is the truth of the state desired and the life of that state desired. Could you realize this fully then? Would you know that what you do in your imagination is the only important thing within the circle of our imagination? The whole drama of life is being enacted over and over again through the bold and active use of the imagination. We can stretch out our hand and touch a friend 10,000 miles away and bring health and wealth to the parched lips of his being. It is the way to everything in the world. How else could we function beyond our fleshly limitations? But imagination demands of us a fuller living of our dreams in the present. Through the portals of the present, the whole of time must pass. Imagine elsewhere as here, and then as now. Try it and see. You can always tell if you've succeeded in making the future a dream. Excuse me? You can always tell if you have succeeded in making the future dream a present fact by observing your inner talking. If you are inwardly saying what you would audibly say were you physically present and physically moving about in that place, then you have succeeded. And you could prophesy it from these inner conversations and from the moods which they awaken within you what your future will be. For one power alone makes a profit. Imagination. The divine vision. All that we meet is our word made visible. And what we do not now comprehend is related by affinity to the unrecognized forces of our own inner conversations and the moods which they arouse within us. If we do not like what is happening to us, it is a sure sign that we are in need of a change of mental diet. For man, we are told, lives not by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. And having discovered the mouth of God to be the mind of man, a mind which lives on words or inner talking, we should feed into our minds only loving noble thoughts. For with words or inner talking we build our world. Let love's lordly hand raise your hunger and thirst to all that is noble and of good report. And let your mind starve ever you raise your hand to a cup of love did not fill or a bowl of did not bless, that you may never again have to say, what have I said? What have I done? Oh all powerful human word. Oh my goodness. That is a heck a second side of a record album. Man, oh man, that was profound. Wow. Just wow. I don't even know what to say. I'm just like. Again, it's the law of reverse. You can back into it you can say, okay, I can feel it. And then it's so. But you can also go, it's so now I can feel it. If I know that being in love and married is going to make me happy when. Well, then I know then being happy is going to also cause this one, causes the other as much as the one that the other is going to cause the one. All right, the same thing here. You know, your words that you're thinking are also the words that were coming out. They're also going back in. Funny how all of our senses are two touch, right? You have two eyes, two ears, two nostrils. Touches too, but except the voice. It's not a sense. Taste is a sense. Excuse me. I was going somewhere else, I guess. But the point is, there's all of this obviousness when you're saying it, and you don't know if you've arrived at that desired effect by your sats, by your falling asleep. I see myself as married. I see myself as in love, in a relationship, as a family. Am I able to sense what my thoughts are? Have they changed? And is what I'm saying to my girlfriends or guy friends, has it changed? Am I now saying, if I'm a female, am I now saying all men are loving, caring, nurturing. Am I hearing that come out of my mouth? Is it in my thoughts? Have I changed from saying all men are? Just think of three negative things. Don't say them out loud, don't even think them. But just know you've had them before. But now that you've changed to all men are loving, caring, nurturing, is it automatic? Does it show up when you think to yourself as you're falling asleep, all men are. Do you think loving, caring, nurturing. And if your girlfriend says all men are, with that vicious temper, do you think loving, caring, nurturing? Of course. Do you say that? Do you hear that? Or do you let her take over the conversation and say three negative words? Because if you haven't heard it and you're not saying it, you haven't arrived yet. There's more work to be done. It's not that big of a deal. It doesn't mean the world's over. It means just go back to the beginning and play it again as you're falling asleep. Play it again. Just play your scene again. You're at the altar, you're walking in the house. You're coming home from the honeymoon. Do it again. Sooner or later, those words are going to change. They're going to change here. They're going to Obviously change here because this follows this. This follows this, follows this. This is first. Your imagination is first. You know, you change when you can't hear anything that you would want to correct anymore. When someone else says all men are, you're now saying, you're now thinking loving, caring, nurturing. So it doesn't matter what you say or not say, especially if you're in among a certain crowd where you're like, I'm not even going to throw my pearls of wisdom. But before swine, right now, they can have this one. I'm going to revise over here where I own this. I own what comes in, so I can revise right now. That's a whole different approach. You know you've changed because you're even revising that kind of crap that's around you. That noise that might be in your environment temporarily because it is temporary. Once you change, once you make the change, all men are loving, caring, nurturing. Even the people that supported the negatives, even they will fade. The support for that whole system will fade away. The support for loving, caring, nurturing will start showing up. There's going to be different, more bold assertions in your environment because you've changed here. Once you change to all men are loving, caring, nurturing, because that's what it takes to be in a marriage. That kind of support structure within yourself is what's necessary to bring to the party support. Now, then the support around that also changes. Some people will change in their own right. Your family, they're gonna have to change. Some are gonna support, some are not gonna support. Whatever, doesn't matter. Everything is. You pushed out. What a wonderful lecture. Oh, my gosh, man. I can only imagine hearing that on the album. I don't have the album. I don't know if it's on audio. It should be, obviously. I mean, I've seen pictures of the album, so I'm sure it's on audio somewhere. Either way, I hope you enjoyed it. We're going to see you in the next one.