We’ve become quite good at complaining about what we do not like about our life and our world, but how much effort have we put into using our creative imagination and really considering what kind of world we want. Well, it is 11:11 and the perfect day to put our thinking and feeling caps on and imagine a world we would feel safe enough to love one another and raise our families in peace and joy.

I was going through my Neville Goddard Complete Reader, a collection of his short books of teachings about manifestation. He describes our conscious awareness as conscious and subconscious, and when we are sleeping, unconscious. He explains that we manifest reality through thoughts and emotions of the conscious that then enter and create in the subconscious. It could be a wish about our life or for change in the world. All creation occurs in the domain of the subconscious. The subconscious, therefore, could be considered the womb of creation.

The Law of Consciousness, as he describes it, goes like this, first conceiving of an idea and then impressing the idea onto the subconscious. The subconscious accepts what the conscious mind gives it as true and in a way known only to itself, brings it into reality, expressing it outward. This is why we are making it so clear to watch the way we speak, think and feel. To discipline ourselves to imagine and entertain only such feeling as contributes to our happiness. Control of our feeling is all important to a full and happy life. He tells us to never entertain an undesirable feeling nor think imperfection of ourselves or others. It impresses limitations on our subconscious. He also suggests making statements as strong affirmations as if they were happening in the present moment. I AM healthy is a stronger statement than I will be healthy.

The Golden Rule is another important aspect to manifestation, according to Goddard. What we do not want done unto us, we should not feel that it is done to us or another. This is the whole law of a full and happy life. We’re going to need to stop perpetuating the blame game. We’ve learned some bad habits in these challenging times, now we’re going to have to unlearn them and pick up our game.

Feeling is another very important part of the creative process. What we feel makes a subconscious impression and unless it is detracted by a more powerful opposite feeling, it must be expressed out into the world. The dominant of the two is the one that wins and must be expressed. The thing you are creating can be considered a wish. When you think about your wish, think feelingly about it. Bring in all the emotion you can muster. Our feelings create the patterns from which our world is fashioned.

Another important technique is to imagine that you are the person you wish to become before you go to sleep. Sleep is the time when the conscious part of us, the part that is driving our vehicle 2/3 of our day, plugs in to our subconscious while our body rests in sleep, or the state of unconsciousness. Goddard stresses the importance of dropping off to sleep in a feeling that our wish has been fulfilled. That would be the feeling we would have when we ask ourselves, “how would I feel were my wish realized?” Then hold that feeling as we drift off to dreamland. We must be in consciousness of being or having that which we want, and hold the knowing that we are successful at it.

Whatever the mind of man can imagine, man can realize. The creative process consists of first imagining, and then believing. Always imagine and expect the best. Realization of our wish is attained by assuming the feeling of our wish fulfilled. Feeling a state produces that state. The acceptance of the end automatically wills into being the means of its realization. Sleep is a doorway into heaven, so sleep in the feeling as our wish has been fulfilled, “as in consciousness, so on Earth” or as we say, “as above, so below.”