In this third audio segment of the "Feeling Is The Secret" series, narrator Big Abundant interprets Neville Goddard’s chapters 3 (Prayer) and 4 (Spirit Feeling). He explains that prayer functions like sleep: an entrance into the subconscious that requires a relaxed, passive state akin to the moments before falling asleep. Success in prayer depends not on the words asked but on assuming the feeling that the wish is already fulfilled, thereby allowing the subconscious to manifest the desire. The speaker stresses shutting out the senses, avoiding effort, and entering a reverie where the wish is visualized and felt as present. Faith is described as feeling, with numerous biblical citations supporting the idea that belief shapes reality. Finally, he urges repeated listening to embed these principles until they become automatic, likening the process to memorizing the alphabet. The overall message is that internalizing the feeling of the desired state, without effort, is the key to manifesting wishes.
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Yo, it's your boy Big Abundant, and this is part 3 of Feeling Gives the Secret by Neville Goddard. Now, if you haven't listened to parts 1 and 2, I suggest you go ahead and do that. I imagine they're around here somewhere. You can find those, click on those, or go to the playlist. But let's get right into it with chapter 3, Prayer. Prayer, like sleep, is also an entrance into the subconscious. When you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret, and your Father which is in secret shall reward you openly. Prayer is an illusion of sleep, which diminishes the impression of the outer world and renders the mind more receptive to suggestion from within. The mind in prayer is in a state of relaxation and receptivity, akin to the feeling obtained just before dropping off to sleep. Prayer is not so much what you ask for as how you prepare for its reception. Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall have them. Mark 11:24. The only condition required is that you believe that your prayers are already realized. Your prayer must be answered if you assume the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of your objective. The moment you accept the wish as an accomplished fact, the subconscious finds means for its realization. To pray successfully, then, you must yield to the wish, that is, feel the wish fulfilled. The perfectly disciplined man is always in tune with the wish as an accomplished fact. He knows that consciousness is the one and only reality, that ideas and feelings are facts of consciousness and are as real as objects in space. Therefore, he never entertains a feeling which does not contribute to his happiness, for feelings are the causes of the actions and circumstances of his life. On the other hand, the undisciplined man finds it difficult to believe that which is denied by the senses and usually accepts or rejects solely on appearances of the senses. Because of this tendency to rely on the evidence of the senses, it is necessary to shut them out before starting to pray. before attempting to feel that which they deny. Whenever you are in the state of mind, I should like to, but I cannot, the harder you try, the less you are able to yield to the wish. You never attract that which you want, but always attract that which you are conscious of being. Prayer is the art of assuming the feeling of being and having that which you want. When the senses confirm the absence of your wish, all conscious effort to counteract this suggestion is futile and tends to intensify the suggestion. Prayer is the art of yielding to the wish, and not the forcing of the wish. Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor. The dominant feeling invariably expresses itself. Prayer must be without effort. In attempting to fix an attitude of mind which is denied by the senses, effort is fatal. To yield successfully to the wish, as an accomplished fact, you must create a passive state, a kind of reverie, or meditative reflection similar to the feeling which precedes sleep. In such a relaxed state, the mind is turned from the objective world and easily senses the reality of a subjective state. It is a state in which you are conscious and quite able to move or open your eyes, but you have no desire to do so. An easy way to create this passive state is to relax in a comfortable chair or on a bed. If on a bed, lie flat on your back with your head on a level with your body. Close the eyes and imagine. Feel, I am sleepy, so sleepy, so very sleepy. In a little while, a faraway feeling accompanied by a general lassitude and loss of all desire to move envelops you. You feel a pleasant, comfortable rest and are not inclined to alter your position, although under other circumstances you would not be at all comfortable. When this passive state is reached, imagine you have realized your wish, not how it was realized, but simply the wish fulfilled. Imagine in picture form what you desire to achieve in life, then feel yourself as having already achieved it. Thoughts produce tiny little speech movements which may be heard in the passive state of prayer as pronouncements from without. However, this degree of passivity is not essential to the realization of your prayers. All that is necessary is to create a passive state and feel the wish fulfilled. All you can possibly need or desire is already yours. You need no helper to give it to you. It is yours now. Call your desire into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled. As the end is accepted, you become totally indifferent as to possible failure, for acceptance of the end wills the means to that end. When you emerge from the moment of prayer, it is as though you were shown the happy and successful end of a play, although you were not shown how the end was achieved. However, having witnessed the end, regardless of any anticlimactic sequence, you remain calm and secure in the knowledge that the end has been perfectly defined. Chapter 4: Spirit Feeling. Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Zechariah 4:6. Get into the spirit of the state desired by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you want to be. As you capture the feeling of the state sought, You are relieved of all effort to make it so, for it is already so. There is a definite feeling associated with every idea in the mind of man. Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire, and your wish will objectify itself. Faith is feeling. According to your faith, be it unto you. Matthew 9:29. You never attract that which you want, but always that which you are. As a man is, so does he see. To him that hath it shall be given, and to him that hath not it shall be taken away. Matthew 13:12 and 25:29, as well as Mark 4:25, Luke 8:18, and 19:26. That which you feel yourself to be, you you are, and you are given that which you are. So assume the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of your wish, and your wish must be realized. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him. Genesis 1:27. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal Philippians 2:5-6. You are that which you believe yourself to be. Instead of believing in God or in Jesus, believe you are God or you are Jesus. He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also. John 14:12 should be, he that believes as I believe, the works that I do shall he do also. Jesus found it not strange to do the works of God because he believed himself to be God. I and my Father are one. John 10:30. It is natural to do the works of the one you believe yourself to be, so live in the feeling of being the one you want to be, and that you shall be. When a man believes in the value of the advice given him and applies it, he establishes within himself the reality of success. Yo, you made it to the end. Now do yourself a favor, go back to part 1 and listen over. And over and over and over again. You want to get this until it's locked in your mind like the alphabet song, until it's locked in your mind like your own name. You want to be able to just live this to a point where you don't even have to think about it. You want to get to the point where you live out these principles on accident. So the way that you do that is by the law of repetition. You do that by listening to it over and over and over and over and over again and get these things locked in. I'll see y'all next time.
