IF I WANT SOMETHING EITHER FOR MYSELF OR
ANOTHER, I IMMOBILIZE THE PHYSICAL BODY, PRODUCE THE STATE AKIN TO
SLEEP AND JUST FEEL HAPPY AND THANKFUL
If I want something either for myself or another,
I immobilize the physical body, produce the state akin to sleep
and just feel happy and thankful
I have another way of praying. In this case I sit in a comfortable arm
chair, or lie flat on my back and completely relax. Knowing what I
want, I begin my prayer by constructing an event which would imply
that my desire has been realized. I always allow my mind to touch on
many things that would follow my answered prayer. Then I single out
one thought that seems right to me. It may be a simple act such as
shaking hands, embracing a person, opening a letter or writing a check.
After I have decided on the action I will use, I close my eyes and
begin to feel drowsy. To me it is the feeling of gathered
togetherness, wherein I can move if I want to, but I do not. I can
open my eyes if I want to, but I do not. When I get that feeling, I
know I am in the perfect state to pray successfully. In this feeling
it is easy to touch anything, so I enter into the action as though I
were an actor in a part. I never sit back and visualize myself doing
it, I do it!
With the body immobilized, feel the greater you come out of your
physical body and perform the proposed motion. If you are going to
walk, do not see yourself do it, but feel you are walking. If you are
going to climb stairs, feel yourself climbing.
Do not see yourself in action, but feel yourself doing it. If you are
going to shake a man's hand, imagine he is standing before you and
shake his hand, not with your physical hand, but with your greater
imaginary one.
What you are doing may seem to be a controlled day dream, but it is an
actual act in the greater dimension of your being. You are
encountering an event, fourth-dimensionally, before you encounter it
here in three-dimensional space and, because of that, you do not have
to raise a finger to bring the event to pass.
My third way of praying is simply to feel thankful. If I want
something either for myself or another, I immobilize the physical
body, produce the state akin to sleep and just feel happy and thankful.
Having assumed the feeling of the wish fulfilled, with my mind
dominated by this single sensation, I go to sleep. I need do nothing
to make it so, because I know it already is so. My feeling of
fulfillment implies it.
All of these techniques can be changed to fit your temperament. But I
must emphasize the necessity of inducing the drowsy state where you
can become attentive without effort. A single sensation must dominate
the mind if you want to pray successfully.
MIRACLE OF IMAGINATION
Neville
Edited by Margaret Ruth Broome
www.nevillelecturehall.com
