Assuming the Feeling: Neville Goddard’s Technique
What This Technique Is
Assuming the Feeling is immerse in the feeling of the wish fulfilled. This guide consolidates 14 independently extracted appearances across Neville Goddard’s lectures and books into one authoritative practice page. Repeated variations remain attached to their original sources instead of becoming hundreds of competing pages.
Key Concepts
- Goal setting
- Assumption
- Feeling of the wish fulfilled
- Sleep
- Persistence
- Manifestation
- I AM
- assumption
- wealth
- desire fulfillment
Neville’s Source-Grounded Explanation
Choose a significant goal, then mentally inhabit the feeling of having already achieved it. Sustain this feeling, especially as you fall asleep, and persist in it until it manifests.
— A Parabolic Revelation
To manifest wealth, one must consciously assume the feeling and declaration of being wealthy, using the divine name 'I AM' by stating 'I am wealthy,' and persisting in this assumption despite external evidence to the contrary.
— A State Called Moses
To fulfill any desire, one must consciously assume the feeling of already having it. This involves beholding oneself in the desired state (e.g., secure, healthy) with persistent belief, mirroring the Christ-child's unwavering focus on becoming the Father's image.
— All That Is Divine
To manifest a desired reality, one must literally believe in the possibility of all things, assume the feeling and conviction of already being what they want to be, and persist in that assumption until it solidifies into physical fact. This involves consciously choosing what to be conscious of.
— All Things Are Possible 1
To manifest a desire, one must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, subjectively appropriating it as if it were already true, even if reason and senses deny it. This act of assumption, believed to be real, constitutes faith.
— All Things Are Possible 2
This technique involves clearly defining a desired objective (what you want or want to be) and then internally (subjectively) experiencing and claiming that desire as already fulfilled. It's about assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled without seeking external help or fallback plans.
— All Things Exist
Neville’s Words
I urge you to set your goal high. Assume the feeling it has been reached and sleep in that feeling. Persist and I promise you that not one thing in this world can rob you of that which you have assumed.
— A Parabolic Revelation
Now that you know it, ask for wealth in the name of God by saying: "I am wealthy." You cannot point outside of self and call upon God's name. If I am in an impoverished state and desire the state of wealth, I must dare to assume I am wealthy... As you walk in the assumption that your desire is fulfilled, you are calling upon the name of God and conjuring that which you are assuming. You must dare to assume wealth, if that is your objective.
— A State Called Moses
Knowing what you want, you must assume that you have it in the same sense that the Christ child is assuming he is what he is beholding. You must behold yourself as secure if that is your desire. You must behold yourself as healthy if that is what you want. You must feel yourself into the state desired with the same persistence as Christ in you is feeling himself into the image of the Father, for he never deviates from that wish.
— All That Is Divine
Believe every precept literally, for it will be fulfilled literally. Believe that all things are possible to you and that you are what you want to be. Persist in that assumption and it will harden into fact. Having assumed the life you now live, no one can take it from you but yourself! You have the power to lay it down by no longer being conscious of it, and the power to pick it up again through consciousness.
— All Things Are Possible 1
Assume your wish through the sense of feeling. That assumption, subjectively appropriated and believed to be true, is faith. Can you believe in its reality? Knowing all things are possible to him who believes, can you persuade yourself that, although your reason and senses deny it, your assumption will make it so?
— All Things Are Possible 2
Biblical Foundations
Common Misunderstandings
This is not a collection of unrelated “hacks.” The extracted variations describe applications of the same underlying discipline: a change of consciousness precedes a change in experience. The source links preserve the context in which Neville taught each variation.
How to Practice
- Set a high, ambitious goal.
- Assume the feeling of having already achieved this goal.
- Go to sleep while immersed in this feeling.
- Persist in this assumption and feeling daily.
- Identify the desired state (e.g., wealth).
- Dare to assume you are already in that state.
- Declare it using 'I am' (e.g., 'I am wealthy').
- Walk in the assumption that your desire is fulfilled, ignoring sensory evidence to the contrary.
- Clearly define your desire.
- Assume the feeling of already having that desire fulfilled.
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