Hi everyone it's Agnes and it's been a while since I've done a 'Neville Nugget' for you,
so it's from 'Feeling Is The Secret' today by Neville Goddard. Now he says on page 38..
it's about getting into a passive state okay, so it goes like this: '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, lie flat
if you're on a bed with your head on a level with your body and close the eyes
and imagine that you are very sleepy, feel: I am sleepy, so sleepy, so very, very, sleepy.
In a little while a far away feeling accompanied by a general loss of all desire to move envelops
you, you feel a pleasant and comfortable rest and not inclined to alter your position.
Although under any circumstances you would not at all be comfortable
- (corrects) although under other circumstances I should have said - you would not at all be
comfortable. When this passive state is reached imagine that you have realised your wish,
not how it was realised but simply the wish fulfilled.' I'm going to read that bit again:
'when this passive state is reached' because the passive state is where you've let go,
you're relaxed, the mind has relaxed, the body has relaxed and you've shut off the senses okay.
That would be the passive state okay. '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 realisation of your prayers. All that is necessary is to create a passive state
and feel the wish fulfilled.' So really when you look at it all as to what he's saying here, you've
got to be really in a relaxed and letting go state - that's what I would say in today's 2020 words.
A passive state - it's relaxed, it's letting go, it's surrendering, it's just relaxed and calm
okay. And then feel the wish fulfilled, so you feel that you have your desire whatever it is
that you are trying to manifest whatever it is that you would like to have okay. So when I was
looking to manifest the life I have today I would do imaginal scenes every night and I would
close my eyes, get into that passive state and imagine myself waking up without an alarm clock,
starting whenever I wanted to start work and having just the ability to go make myself a
cup of tea or coffee whenever I wanted. That to me was freedom and being able to have the temperature
that I wanted wherever I was because I often worked in places that were too cold, too hot,
too noisy, too something and I just wanted to be able to have the ability to choose those
types of things, those very simple things that just made me feel more comfortable.
So I would imagine sitting down at my desk in my pyjamas because I you know I always had to get
up and put on uniforms to go to work or you know be have to dress this way, I have to wear these
shoes or how you know there was always some have to. And I found that incredibly restrictive so it
was really wonderful to imagine you know wearing a pair of jeans and a t-shirt or you know wearing
a flowing dress and having bare feet or whatever it was those those little things that that really
signified freedom for me. So that to me was the feeling of the wish fulfilled
to be able to choose those types of things and to be able to work from home, to be able to on
a rainy day you know just say 'hey I'm not going out today for my walk I can stay home, today's a
sunny day I can go for my walk' so to be able to really respond and adapt to the weather and
that to me was freedom as well, so that was part of my wish fulfilled. It was really enjoying
being able to adapt and go with the flow of the cycles of nature, the weather,
the you know whether it got dark at 5:30 or you know sometimes in summer it gets dark
especially here in in London England it gets dark at about 9:30pm in summer, so to be able to enjoy
and have the freedom to enjoy those parts of the day and that I wasn't missing out. Because I had
often felt that I was missing out so imagining all those small things was much easier for me
and when I went into that passive state I would just feel the freedom of all that. I would say to
myself over and over 'I am free, I am free to wake up without an alarm clock, I am free to make a cup
of tea five times a day if that's what I want. I'm free to turn on the heating if I'm cold,
I'm free to turn off the music if I don't want to listen to music.' Because I worked in a lot of
shopping centres and the music you know in retail shops was always pumping and after eight hours of
that I found that quite disturbing. I think I've got a bug in my shirt or an ant (laughs)
anyway so it was living in the wish fulfilled and living in that passive state combining those
two things. 1st the passive state, you reach that passive state laying down or sitting down
and then you go into the imaginal scenes and feeling the joy and the fun and the wonder of
just being in it you see. So I hope that little Neville reading has helped, this is a very
beautiful little book I mean you can see how skinny it is you can read this in about an hour.
And you know I've got lots of little sections highlighted and and then you know you can go back
to them and really enjoy the wisdom of Neville that spoke to you the first time you read it.
So I hope you enjoyed that and I will put down below the playlist for the other 'Neville Nuggets'
and there is also a Neville playlist of lots of wonderful stories that have
really impacted my life in a wonderful way and that have helped me to achieve
the wonderful relationship that I have with my specific person
and also the meaningful work that I do, the freedom that I have and also the travel between
well Sydney Australia, London England and south of France and you know anywhere else I want to go I
can go as well so that freedom is there. So I had to feel the freedom to then experience it on the
outside. So I hope that's helped a little bit and that you can share how you use your passive state
how you get into your wish fulfilled and yeah write it in the comments down below, lots of love.