When I align with my higher self-image, I experience reality in a more harmonious way. I have more joyous, collaborative relationships with other people, environments, and circumstances. I bring forth my vision, create my dream
Neville Goddard
The whole vast world is myself pushed out. All that I behold though appears without, it is within, in my own wonderful human imagination of which this world of mortality is but a shadow
As I’m told, “unless I am born again I cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven” even though the kingdom of Heaven is within me
The kingdom of God is within me and God is in his kingdom
Although he is in his kingdom and that kingdom is in me, I cannot enter it
Unless, I turn from this world of materiality believing it is the cause, believing it is the reality to live in my own wonderful human imagination
When I do I will find myself on the very verge of being reborn
So I warned, do not ask me when. I will tell you, not even the son knows. Only the Father
But I’ll give you the symptoms of it, when I can trust my own wonderful human imagination, that will be the symptom
That I could turn myself from this world of seeing reality on the outside to a world of imagination. So I actually live in my own wonderful human imagination
If I do and I’m really put into a being who believes in the reality of his own imaginal acts, I am then on the verge of rebirth
I can tell from the uprising of moods within me that I’m going to meet certain people and I do
The mood, I can suppress the mood. As Churchill said, “the moods determined the fortunes of people rather than the fortune’s determine the mood”
Don’t ignore that great man. He said that the mood actually determines the fortunes. So I catch a mood or then catch the mood of my wish fulfilled
What would the feeling be like if it were true? Imagine the wish fulfilled. What would it be like? How would I feel if it were true?
In spite of all things round about to deny it. I walk as though it were true and in a way that I do not
So everyone in my world is myself pushed out
Blame no one. Don’t even blame myself. Just change my diet
They only reflect what I have been doing and maybe still doing
When I see it I change my diet. And the diet is simply words, all within me
So I assume that I am now the man or woman that I want to be. Walk in that assumption as though it were true. Living it just as though it is true
There is only one creative power in the world. The one who kills is the one who makes alive. The one who wounds is the one who heals and there is no other power than this one power and that one power is my own wonderful human imagination. That is God. There is no other God. He is buried in me and the day will come when he will awaken within me
Maxwell Maltz
Conduct an accurate inventory and analysis of the contents of my self-image
I act, and feel, not according to what things are really like, but according to the image my mind holds of what they are like. I have certain mental images of myself, my world, and the people around me, and I behave as though these images were the truth, the reality, rather than the things they represent
The aim of self-image psychology is not to create a fictitious self which is all-powerful, arrogant, egoistic, all-important. Such an image is as inappropriate and unrealistic as the inferior image of self. My aim is to find the “real self,” and to bring my mental images of myself more in line with “the objects they represent.”
Exercise
Set aside a period of 30 minutes each day where I can be alone and undisturbed. Relax and make myself as comfortable as possible. Now, close my eyes and exercise my imagination
See myself acting and reacting appropriately, successfully, ideally. It doesn’t matter how I acted yesterday. I do not need to try to have faith I will act in the ideal way tomorrow. My nervous system will take care of that in time, if I continue to practice
Make these pictures as vivid and as detailed as possible
The way to do this is pay attention to small details, sights, sounds, objects, in my imagined environment
This exercise builds new “memories” or stored data into my mid-brain and central nervous system. It builds a new image of self. After practicing it for a time, I will be surprised to find myself “acting differently,” more or less automatically and spontaneously without trying
David Hawkins
Difference between Power vs Force
Power appeals to what uplifts, dignifies, and enables. Force must always be justified, whereas power requires no justification. Force is associated with the partial, power with the whole
Force always moves against something, whereas power doesn’t move against anything at all
Force is incomplete and therefore has to be fed energy constantly. Power is total and complete in itself and requires nothing form outside. It makes no demands; it has no needs
Because force has an insatiable appetite, it constantly consumes. Power, in contrast, energizes, gives forth, supplies, and supports
I notice that power is associated with compassion and makes me feel positively about myself. Force is associated with judgement and makes me feel poorly about myself
Force always creates counterforce; its effect is to polarize
Key Realizations
As I believe, so it shall be done unto you
Reaction to the outer world reveals identity
Self-image can be evolved physically, emotionally, and mentally
The spiritual self-image transcends physical, emotional, and mental identity
I Am is the understanding of beyond self-image and what I identify with
Self-image is evolved through evolving beliefs
True self-image is revealed through the journey and hints of spirit of harmony and service