Feeling Is the Secret: Why Most People Get It Wrong and How to Do It Right

A Modern, Practical Guide to Neville Goddard’s Teaching for Real Results

De: Derick Yohan

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

So we’ve been talking about how to achieve your goals by changing reality. We said that the reality we observe is the surface level—the outer world perceived by the five senses. There is a deeper layer of reality, which is consciousness. Consciousness takes on a condition, and whatever condition it takes is what gets expressed outwardly. So if we want to change what we see externally, we need to change the inner condition that is being expressed.

What exists inwardly are ideas. These ideas, we said, are “born” in the sense that the male and female divisions of consciousness come together to produce them. The conscious, or masculine aspect, selects the idea, while the subconscious, or feminine aspect, receives and impresses it. The subconscious then expresses whatever has been impressed upon it. And based on this process, what we experience as reality is formed.

Now I want to focus more closely on the ideas themselves, and there is really nothing complicated happening here. Everything begins with a thought. A thought, in its initial form, is neutral. It is neither active nor inactive; it simply exists as a possibility. It carries the potential to be expressed in reality, but by itself it has no power to do anything.
This is why most of the thoughts we think every day never amount to anything. They arise, pass through the mind, and disappear. We think thousands of thoughts, but very few of them ever shape our lives. Not because they are weak or meaningless, but because they are never taken beyond the level of mere thinking.

So the real question becomes: what distinguishes the thought that fades away from the thought that becomes reality?
The answer is this: we develop a feeling for it.
If you think a thought and leave it at that—if it remains something abstract, distant, or unaccepted—then nothing happens. The thought remains a mental event and goes no further. But when you accept the thought, when you allow it rather than resist it, something begins to change. You let it sit within you. You give it attention. You emotionally register it. And through that process, the thought begins to take on weight and substance.

As the thought is allowed to remain, it slowly shifts from being something you merely think about into something you feel. It moves from the surface level of the mind into a deeper level of consciousness. At this point, it is no longer just an idea floating around; it becomes a felt state, something that feels real to you internally.

When a thought reaches this stage—when it becomes a feeling—it is impressed upon the subconscious. And the subconscious does not deal in abstract thoughts; it deals in states, conditions, and feelings. Whatever is impressed upon it is automatically expressed.

Once expressed, this inner state begins to show itself outwardly. It appears in your behavior, in the decisions you make, in the actions you take, and even in the kinds of thoughts you find yourself thinking. This is important, because we do not think randomly—we think from our ideas. Our thinking itself is shaped by the states we occupy.