Remembering we can change our reality with thought is all we need to remember. Below is extracts of one of Neville Goddard's lectures on how self talk and imagination can change reality.
The tAke home message is if your want your physical reality to change you have to change your inner conversation.
"The mind always behaves according to the assumption with which it starts. Therefore, to experience success, we must assume that we are successful. We must live wholly on the level of the imagination itself, and it must be consciously and deliberately undertaken. It does not matter if at the present moment external facts deny the truth of your assumption, if you persist in your assumption it will become a fact. Signs follow, they do not precede.
You must define the person you wish to be and then assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled in faith that that assumption will find expression through you.
Through habit man has developed the secret affection for these negative inner conversations. Through them he justifies failure, criticizes his neighbours, gloats over the distress of others, and in general pours out his venom on all.
The transformation of self requires that we meditate on a given phrase, a phrase which implies that our ideal is realized, and inwardly affirm it over and over and over again until we are inwardly affected by its implication, until we are possessed by it. Hold fast to your noble inner convictions or "conversations." Nothing can take them from you but yourself. Nothing can stop them from becoming objective facts. All things are generated out of your imagination by the Word of God, which is your own inner conversation. And every imagination reaps its own words which it has inwardly spoken.
The great secret of success is a controlled inner conversation from premises of fulfilled desire.
Try it and see. You can always tell if you have succeeded in making the future dream a present fact by observing your inner talking. If you are inwardly saying what you would audibly say were you physically present and physically moving about in that place, then you have succeeded. And you could prophesy it from these inner conversations, and from the moods which they awaken within you, what your future will be. "
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