"Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change."
-Neville Goddard
There is this teaching I've come across from at least two sources now. Basically that we can manifest our desires by holding them in feeling until they become reality. So if you want to be healthy, you feel that you are healthy already, if you want to be rich, you have the attitude and feeling that you already are, if you want a new car, you feel like you already have the car.
This seems like a fanciful load of shit, but that's because we consider linear time to be the way things progress. Research in quantum shows that there may possibly be an infinite number of similar parallel universes, where each variable decision changes the setting of our life. The concept is, if there is infinite possibility, we can move into one of these parallel universes based on our own personal consciousness.
For example, if we are conscious of being healthy, the world will shape around us a healthy body, pulling the necessary external reality towards us as if we were attracting it. This can be done immediately, our consciousness can begin to change the world immediately, but in my experience this is very difficult to do because of the attachment to history.
History
Most of us reference history in our consciousness, which limits our possibilities. If we are constantly thinking "I'm out of shape, I've always been out of shape, I eat food that is unhealthy and have done so for years, it will take me years to get healthy, it's hard to find healthy food, exercise is work," then we have set the world against our goal of getting healthy.
Our agreement with history, that we are out of shape, solidifies the belief into reality. If the way that life works is by aligning to consciousness, then there is no reason things and appearances should not be able to shift immediately. Quantum particles have the possibility of being two places at once, what shows up is what we choose in our consciousness.
Affirmation and Visualization
Not referencing history in our consciousness can be quite challenging. We all have been operating in the belief that time is linear and our actions are what shape our world and cause the effects they bring with them. This type of thinking, that our current consciousness creates our reality, is counter to what we've been taught and conditioned to believe. There are a few techniques some authors have written about to help in this endeavor:
Affirmation - Affirmation should be felt, first and foremost. Saying to ourselves "I am healthy" is one thing, feeling it is much more powerful in impacting things. Done before bed, these affirmations can keep working for us while we sleep. They should also be done in the present tense ("I am healthy" vs "I will be healthy") and with no emotional attachment. Emotional attachment would imply striving and hoping for the potential rather than knowing it as one possibility among an infinite number.
Visualization - Visualizing the change using imagination can be helpful in convincing ourselves that it is possible. To do this we basically visualize how we would act and feel if what we desired was already true. So using my example of health, you might imagine yourself springing out of bed in the morning, ebing up a few hours early so you can start the day with a workout. Anything in imagination can become reality, I've seen videos of movie stars and athletes talking about visualizing their success.
Stay Present
One of the challenges is in being this new consciousness. The world around us could be showing exactly the opposite of what we are attempting to feel or be, so faith in spite of appearances is required. That's why doing the affirmations and visualizations before bed is recommended in a few different books.
Nothing is changing in the past or the future, because all there is is the eternal now. The only place and only thing we change is our current consciousness, then the world takes care of the rest. This mysterious element of the subconscious can cause us to give up on this idea. We aren't actually getting to control or choose the how of the change, we are just deciding on what we want.
When we don't see results and don't think it's working, we revert to our belief that something like this is impossible, which then makes it impossible to us. Holding the desired consciousness despite what the world is showing us is the key to results. We can't place a demand on the world or ourselves by thinking we know how the changes should happen, we have to release our control and simply choose our conscious state.
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