“Every morning after breakfast…”
“Every Morning after breakfast he would sit down in what we call the Berbice chair, and put his feet up on the arms of the chair. It’s a chair made in the West Indies. And then he would simply with his eyes partly shut, he would see the day as he wanted it to be.”
“He would carry on mental conversations with men he had to meet that day, from his premises and brought to his conclusion, and that’s how he worked.” – Neville Goddard – Strong Imagination
Conscious Imagination to Maximize Your Morning Potential
Mornings and routines can be very difficult for a lot of people. It is the most successful people who are able to master a rigid regime and really know how to manage their time efficiently. But the one thing so many people who live successfully can agree on is how important a good morning routine is.
Morning Routines Are Important.
People who succeed are more prone to making healthy choices, not just for their bodies but for their minds as well. They get enough sleep, they wake up at roughly the same time every day, and they have a set list of things to do that help them to maintain their focus. So it should be for the aspiring mystic. You see, it’s the development of new habits that can be really transformative as you begin to consciously imagine.
Through habit, an action becomes easier, and so in a course of time, gives rise to a facility or faculty, which then can be put to higher uses.
Neville Goddard Power Of Awareness
One of the things that could help you include in a morning routine is a method of visualization. When we wake up, it can be very easy for us to slip into discouragement or negative feelings that are more prone to haunt us when we are tired or still attempting to process the world and our lives.
What’s The First Thing You Do In The Morning?
A very helpful way to combat that is to wake up and immediately set aside the time to get into the State of the wish fulfilled or to consciously imagine your day.
So before you turn on that smartphone and scroll through the latest email, tweet, or text, how about investing 10 minutes of your time in a short meditation or visualization? This can be Nevillising that scene of your wish fulfilled, or just a short gratitude meditation incorporating. gratitude for your manifestation. Giving thanks in advance of its appearance in the 3D world is a wonderful way to get in the state of the wish fulfilled.
Why A Morning Routine Is Important.
When we do this, we set ourselves up for success in our manifestation journey. What we do in the morning can influence the rest of our day. If we wake up feeling grumpy and make no effort to shift that energy, every small negative event will seem worse and continue to build until we end up feeling completely miserable.
None of us needs that kind of day. It’s important to make the effort to focus on our goals and do everything in our power to remain in the state of the wish fulfilled morning, noon, and night. When we view the world from our ideal state, we stay open to every opportunity that comes our way.
However, if we allow ourselves to remain in a negative mindset, it becomes easy to overlook opportunities or fail to recognize potential when it appears. When we feel discouraged or overwhelmed, we are directing our energy toward those negative emotions. This magnifies our problems and prevents us from practicing the most important principle: persistence in the assumption of the wish fulfilled.
Instead of remaining trapped in this cycle, use your imagination to create a positive and productive day. Visualize yourself having a fulfilling and successful day filled with possibilities. You can even start your morning by imagining the end of your day. That’s right, picture yourself in the evening sharing with someone how wonderful and productive your day has been.
Personally, during my morning sessions, I often imagine telling my wife later that evening how enjoyable and productive my day was. And you know what? When I practiced this consistently, my days unfolded just as I had imagined, almost like magic.
You can try the same by repeating a simple affirmation or by closing your eyes and confidently telling yourself that your day is going to go well and be a great success.
To learn more about Neville Goddard’s life and complete body of work, read our definitive guide: Neville Goddard — The Complete Guide.
What to Actually Do in Your Morning Practice
Neville described his own morning practice with disarming simplicity. Before the day began, he would see it as he wanted it to be. Not worry over it. Not plan it. See it — from the end, already done, already good. This is the essential move: occupying the feeling of the wish fulfilled before the outer world has a chance to hand you a different assumption to sit in.
There are a few ways to do this in practice. You can use the first few minutes after waking — when the mind is still soft and impressionable — to run a short mental scene. Pick one that implies your desire is fulfilled. Make it specific, sensory, and brief. You are not trying to force an emotion. You are trying to feel what it would naturally feel like if this were already true.
Alternatively, use those morning minutes for a short SATS session. The hypnagogic state — that threshold between sleep and waking — is one of the most receptive states your consciousness enters. An assumption planted here goes deep. Even five minutes of a looped imaginal scene in this state is worth more than an hour of anxious visualisation mid-afternoon.
What Gets in the Way
The most common morning mistake is checking the phone first. The moment you open your inbox, your social feed, or the news, you have handed your fresh, impressionable morning mind to whatever the world wants to put in it. That is not neutral. Every headline, every notification, every piece of evidence that things are as they are — all of it is planting assumptions before you have had a chance to plant your own.
Protect the morning. Even twenty minutes of conscious inner work before external input is a discipline that compounds over weeks and months. This is not about being rigid or precious. It is about understanding that your first mental act of the day sets the tone for every assumption that follows. The outer world is extraordinarily good at handing you its version of reality. The morning practice is how you hand yourself yours instead.
The people who see the most consistent results with this work are not those who had the most dramatic experiences or the biggest realisations. They are the ones who showed up quietly, every morning, and did the inner work before the day had a chance to do it for them.
The Morning Practice Is Only the Beginning
Neville never promised instant results. He promised that assumption, consistently held, hardens into fact. The word consistently is doing all the work in that sentence. This is a discipline — and the morning is where that discipline is built. Not as a ritual for its own sake, but as a daily act of choosing the inner world over the outer one, before the day has had a chance to pull your attention away.
Stop waiting for circumstances to change first. They respond to you — not the other way around. The universe has no power over a consciousness that knows what it is. You are the operant power. That means you go first. Assume the best. Hold it. Watch what follows. Fear not.
Michael Sutherland is the founder of Truecosmic, a global platform dedicated to Neville Goddard’s teachings and the Law of Assumption. Passionate about empowering individuals through conscious creation, Michael blends esoteric wisdom with practical insight to help people transform their lives from within.
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