Feeling is the Secret

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Therefore it is crucial to let go of feelings that do not contribute to our happiness as emotions are the cause of our life circumstances.

However, as a witness to this end — no matter how unspectacular the sequence of events is — you remain calm and secure in the knowledge that the end has been perfectly defined. Chapter 4 — Faith means feeling Your conception of yourself as you fall asleep is the seed you drop into the ground of the subconscious. Dropping off to sleep feeling satisfied and happy compels conditions and events to appear in your world which confirm these attitudes of mind.

No idea can be impressed on the subconscious until it is felt, but once felt — be it good, bad or indifferent — it must be expressed. Although the subconscious faithfully serves man, it must not be inferred that the relation is that of a servant to a master as was anciently conceived. The ancient prophets called it the slave and servant of man. St. Paul personified it as a "woman" and said, "The woman should be subject to man in everything" [Ephesians 5:24; also, 1Corinthians 14:34, Ephesians 5:22, Colossians 3:18, 1Peter 3:1]. The subconscious does serve man and faithfully gives form to his feelings. However, the subconscious has a distinct distaste for compulsion and responds to persuasion rather than to command; consequently, it resembles the beloved wife more than the servant. Therefore, through his power to imagine and feel and his freedom to choose the idea he will entertain, man has control over creation. Control of the subconscious is accomplished through control of your ideas and feelings. 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.

Your desires are not subconsciously accepted until you assume the feeling of their reality, for only through feeling is an idea subconsciously accepted and only through this subconscious acceptance is it ever expressed. The conscious (objective) or male aspect truly is the head and dominates the subconscious (subjective) or female aspect. So why waste energy on force when there is a more subtle way of getting what you need – like a lover? According to Goddard, you impress your feelings on your subconscious mind to make it attain what you are feeling (happiness of already achieving that which you want). But if you're going to realise your objective, you must make yourself receptive to receiving that which you yearn for, and only when you get yourself into that state, your subconscious mind can bring the inner impression into the outer expression.As abo ve, so below; as below, so above; as within, so without; as without, so within.”- "Correspondence", the second of The Seven Principles of Hermes Trismegistus] Even though the book is a small one, it is full of nuances. It is, therefore, advisable to have read this book several times, which shouldn’t be a problem with a reading time of less than an hour.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumbering upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction", Job 33. Y Jesús fue con ellos. Pero cuando ya no estaban lejos de la casa, el centurión envió a él unos amigos, diciéndole: Señor, no te molestes, pues no soy digno de que entres bajo mi techo; Think feelingly only of the state you desire to realize. Feeling the reality of the state sought and living and acting on that conviction is the way of all seeming miracles.” 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 desires 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 that 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. Your dreams take form as you assume the feeling of their reality. Do not limit yourself to the past. Knowing that nothing is impossible to consciousness, begin to imagine states beyond the experiences of the past. Whatever the mind of man can imagine, man can realize.”When the senses confirm the absence of your wish, all conscious effort to counteract this suggestion is futile and tends to intensify the suggestion. 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.”

It is astonishing to me how well this book summarizes knowledge that science today is slowly beginning to understand. So it is clear today that our subconscious can best be influenced when we adopt a relaxed state of mind. In science, they are called alpha and theta state, specific frequency ranges of brain activity. 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” [Matthew 6:6]. Chapter 4: Feeling The conditions and events of your life are your children formed from the molds of your subconscious impressions in sleep. They are made in the image and likeness of your innermost feeling that they may reveal you to yourself.

Feeling Is The Secret – Sleep

Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee" [Song of Solomon 4:7] is the attitude of mind to adopt before dropping off to sleep. 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 be realized, then, the wish must be resolved into the feeling of being or having or witnessing the state sought. This is accomplished by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled. The feeling which comes in response to the question "How would I feel were my wish realized?" is the feeling which should monopolize and immobilize your attention as you relax into sleep. You must be in the consciousness of being or having that which you want to be or to have before you drop off to sleep. You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it.