You are the cause of all the phenomena of your life. – Neville Goddard

Once you understand this quote from the inside out, you become unstoppable. Yes, indeed, you are the only cause of your life, and because you are, you can change anything that you do not like in your life.

After having read and heard the stories of hundreds of people asking for my help in the manifesting community, the common denominator that I see the most is that people do not truly believe that they are the cause. You hear or read That you are the operant power, but you do not fully internalize it. And as long as you don’t, there will be doubts standing between you and your desires because, in the back of your mind, you will always believe that something or someone can prevent you from having what you want.

If this is where you stand right now, if you still doubt who you truly are and that you can have whatever you desire, then this article is for you.

You Got Here Because You are Ready

Why do you think there are more failures than successes in the law of attraction community? Because in the law of attraction, community teachers and coaches teach people that there is something outside of them that grants them their desires. This alone is enough to make people fail. As long as there is a universe ‘out there’ that may or may not grant you your desire, what are the chances that you’ll be getting it? As long as you believe that you may have some kind of karma to pay, or that you need the help of angels or need to be in the right vibration and alignment with your desires to ‘attract’ them, etc., it’s going to be hard to achieve what you want. This is why Neville Goddard’s teaching manifesting community is seeing a flood of people coming from the law of attraction. Because those people got tired of failing and started to believe there’s got to be something better than this.

So, whatever your reason for landing in the manifesting community, congratulations, you have arrived at the teaching that will change your life forever. The only teaching that shows you that YOU ARE God because that God force is NOT separated from you. It is not separated from you because you are IT. No more need to believe in secondary causes, whatever they may be. YOU and only YOU are the God of your reality and have the power to be and have whatever you want. This said, though, I am fully aware that many of you are not quite there yet. You do not fully believe that you are in full control of your life, and thus, your life is still in control of you. So, if this is you, what can you do to eliminate such limiting beliefs and become a master manifestor?

Know Who You Truly Are

It can’t be another; there is no other. So, if there is only one God and Father of us all who is above all and through all and in all, well then, if he is in all, I know he is in me for I say “I am.” I also know he is in every being in this world. But although he is in every being and there are billions, he is in me and there is only one God, therefore I can’t say that he did it. His name is not “he is” or “she is”; his name forever is I AM. So I can’t pass the buck. No matter what it appears on the outside, I am the cause of the phenomena of life. – Neville Goddard

You are consciousness, and consciousness is the only reality. Anything that is in your consciousness is and has to play out in your life. What is not in your consciousness will be absent from your life. In other words, your life – your 3D world, is made up of what you are conscious of, no matter what it is, because YOU are the only cause. No matter who you are, you are conscious of being because you are I AM. When you say, I AM, you are saying that you are the cause – you are the God of your reality.

Your I AM gives you power, even if you are using it unconsciously and by default. If you want to manifest a life by design, you need to use your power consciously and remove the fears and doubts that will prevent you from doing so.

To manifest your desires rather than the unwanted, you need to remove all your cobwebs of doubts because these are the causes of your current results. You need to agree from within with your desire if you want such desire to be yours. Neville said you are the cause of all the phenomena of your life because we are the cause for it all, the good, the bad, and the ugly. We are the cause for the neutral as well. We are the cause of what we love about our life and the cause of what we hate in our life. We are the cause of it all.

So, at the end of the day, there is a life-changing question that you should ask yourself. Do I want to keep living according to the rules that I have lived my life until now, or do I want to live by my imagination? If you choose the latter, which I hope you do, then you need to start controlling what you are imagining. 

Your Life Springs from Your Imagination

People are totally unaware of this fantastic power of the imagination, but when man begins to discover this power within him, he never plays the part that he formerly played. He doesn’t turn back and become just a reflector of life; from here on in he is the affector of life. – Neville Goddard

One of the most interesting questions we often read in Neville Goddard/manifesting groups is the question that starts like this: how do I imagine…? It seems that as soon as people are told that they can imagine that they have what they want, they can’t imagine anymore all of a sudden. But the funny thing is that they have no problem at all imagining all kinds of unwanted things. So, it can be said that the first resistance that many people have when they learn about the law is that they believe that they don’t know how to imagine and that they have to learn it. But this couldn’t be further from the truth.

You have been imagining your whole life since you were an infant. As a matter of fact, children are amazingly good at imagining because they don’t have the blocks that most adults have acquired. Unfortunately, the limiting thinking society that we live in actually makes us feel guilty or even “unrealistic” if we dare to imagine things that are not according to the “norms.” But thankfully, if you are part of the conscious manifesting community, you know that not only imagining is allowed, but imagining should become your way of life if you want to transform your life because, as Neville has said so many times, God is your wonderful human imagination.

So, start imagining on purpose. Start controlling and eliminating your unwanted thoughts. The best way to do this is to use specific affirmations that will replace such thoughts and help you change your inner chat. Work on your self-concept to elevate your view about yourself and feel your imaginal act from within. When you imagine your wish fulfilled it’s an inner feeling that you need to keep up as much as you can. Once you do, you know that you are in the state of your wish fulfilled, and when that’s done, your desire in the 3D form is upon you. It all comes from you and by you because YOU are the only cause.

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I decided to write this article today, based on a client’s question. She wanted to know HOW to be fully conscious that she is the operant power. It is true that it’s one thing to understand this concept intellectually, but it’s another to actually KNOW from within that we are the operant power, that we are the ONE pulling the strings of our own life. So, if this is you, if you have an intellectual understanding that you are the operant power, but are not fully convinced of that deep down inside, this article is for you.

Use Your Past As Proof that You Are the Operant Power

Don’t just listen to it, but try it. You are the operant power; it doesn’t operate itself. – Neville Goddard

The first thing to understand is that there is no magic pill that we can swallow to aid your spiritual awakening. It’s a process. Most of us, not to say all of us, were born in an environment that taught us that we are limited and that we are a the mercy of life, the element, God’will, etc… so it’s no wonder that it’s not “natural” for us to know that we are controlling our life and everything in it. As a matter of fact, since we have created the assumption of the opposite, we are manifesting “proofs” that our assumption is correct. This is why it’s so difficult for many people, even in the manifesting community, to assume that they are the operant power and to see proof of that.

This said, however, there is a place you can go to and see that you have always manifested your life and the people in it, long before you became aware of conscious manifesting. And this place is your past.

For me, the biggest thing that convinced me that I am the operant power was going back into memory lane. When I learned that everyone was me pushed out, all I had to do is recall the kind of people that I had manifested my whole life, whether they were romantic patterns, friends, bosses, and more. Pretty much all of those people, throughout my whole life, and on two different continents, were pretty much the same.

So, as I analyzed my life, I didn’t need anyone to convince me that “I” was the common denominator for all the people’s versions I encountered. And furthermore, I knew that the version that I manifested of those people was NOT their only version, because I was aware of people who knew a different version of them. So, there had to be more than one version of a person. I, as the operant power of MY reality, manifested the “monster,” “the selfish,” “the abuser,” “the opportunist…” but I actually KNEW for a fact, that other people had manifested a totally different version of the same people.

So, as the operant power of my reality, I manifested those people in a negative version of theirs. However, since I was ignorant of the law of assumption, even though I knew that, it was not registering to my spiritual-asleep-self. It’s when I discovered Neville Goddard’s teaching that it became all so clear and evident to me. I couldn’t deny it. It was all there for me to see, even if it was in my 3D “past.”

The BEST and EASIEST way to understand that YOU ARE the Operant Power and use that power consciously is to do reverse engineering as I did. Go back to your past and analyze your patterns.

So now, one might ask the question, how did I manifest all those bad versions of people over a few decades on two different continents? With my thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and assumptions. I had come to believe that people were there to get me, that I was not lucky in love, that I was never the chosen one, that people always ended up taking advantage of me, abandoning me, and hurting me. All of that came from my thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and assumptions about myself and other people. And Thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and assumptions are related and entwined to one another.

So, how can you change your thoughts, beliefs, and assumption then? Because there lies the whole secret of changing your life.

Affirmations will Anchor Your New Beliefs

I did it, I am doing it, and I will continue to do it until that which I have done is perfectly externalized within my world. – Neville Goddard

As adults, we are literally made up of memories that are not even ours. Between the age of 0 and 7 years old, when our subconscious mind was really the dominant or our two minds (conscious and subconscious) we were like sponges absorbing everything around us as true. As adults, we have beliefs that don’t serve us because they were put there by other people who were ignorant of spiritual law.  So, unless you change those limiting beliefs you are going to manifest according to such beliefs, pretty much on autopilot. That’s what you’ve been doing your whole life.

The best method that we have ever found to change the old programming that doesn’t serve us anymore is the use of specific affirmations. This is the best and quickest way to reprogram YEARS of subconscious beliefs that have been manifesting on autopilot for you. When you become a conscious manifestor, you can reprogram your subconscious mind by reshaping your thinking patterns by telling yourself a new story and drop the old.

For most people, visualization and SATS alone are not enough to create that change, because there is plenty of time in between where the mind will wander and get back to what it’s used to. As a matter of fact, I have recently realized that people who simply keep readjusting their thoughts when they become aware of negative ones, instead of affirming consciously and actively, are making much slower progress if any in some cases.

That’s why you need to affirm and reaffirm what you want to be and have. As you do, you will have images starting to take shape in your minds (even if you don’t realize it). And little by little, with persistence, you will end up convincing your subconscious mind of your new story. You will even start to create new memories for yourself that will playback instead of the old ones.

That’s why affirmations not only work, but they are necessary to reprogram OUR-SELF-CONCEPT. Even people who deny that they have ever used affirmations to transform their self-concept, simply don’t realize that they have done it without being aware of doing it. And the reason why I know this, it’s that we constantly speak to ourselves. So, even if you didn’t do it consciously and out loud as an exercise to change your concept of self, you’ve done it regardless.

You rise to a higher level of consciousness by taking your attention away from your present limitations and placing it upon that which you desire to be. – Neville Goddard

Affirmations will help you to bring awareness to a new story, and the repetition of that new story, over time, will harden into fact. The subconscious mind is always eager to give us proof of our beliefs (good, bad, or indifferent). For example, when it comes to a specific person if you believe that they have free will and that they are using that free will to run away from you…, if you believe that they are this or that…, if you believe that they are above you, somehow (on a pedestal), etc… Your subconscious mind has no choice but to show you that this is true. It has no choice because that’s what the subconscious mind DOES. What is true to you MUST be true.

So, be sure that you fill your subconscious mind with well-chosen and specific affirmations in order to create your new story. Then, your subconscious mind will be eager to show how true this is. This is what being the operant power is all about.

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You must dare to assume you are what you want to be, remain faithful to that assumption and it will come to pass. If you are not faithful, it will not come to pass. You don’t assume it, it will never come to pass, for you are the operant power. – Neville Goddard

I am sure that many of you reading this are familiar with this quote from Neville, but how many of you have fully understood and embodied it’s meaning?

To be honest, I have asked myself that question many times before, and still do, even though I can say that I fully believe that I am the operant power if I were to compare myself to just 3 to 5 years ago. However, that doesn’t mean that I have arrived at my final destination, as it were, because this is a journey and we keep on learning no matter how much we feel that we have progressed. We are all a work in progress.

In this article, I want to help those who are still struggling to believe that they are the operant power with the help of Neville Goddard’s teaching and my own understanding of this.

What Does it Mean to Be the Operant Power?

God is in your wonderful human imagination. – Neville Goddard

What does it mean exactly, to be the operant power? Neville said in his lectures and books time and time again that God is in our wonderful human imagination and that as long as we can imagine something it is ours. He didn’t say that as a metaphor, he meant it to be taken literally. He also said that creation is finished, so no matter what we imagine, it already exists, all we have to do is ask for it and accept it as done.

You will never desire something that is impossible for you to attain or have unless you decide that it is because you are the operant power. Whatever you desire right now you can be and have. All you have to do is to dwell on your desire, not the lack of it.

By awakening your imagination you are awakening the power within. The only thing you have to do is to consciously imagine. I say, consciously imagine, because imagination never stops. We constantly imagine 24/7. When you don’t consciously imagine, you imagine unconsciously and passively, and by doing so you manifest more of the same and more of the unwanted. This is the reason why people who are not aware of this truth manifest more of what they don’t want than what they do want.

If you were to drive a boat but instead of using the rudder to direct the boat where you want to go, you let the rudder loose to its own device, you would end up deep in the ocean waters completely lost and away from your destination. That’s exactly how most people are living their lives. Because they have no clue that God lives in their imagination and that all they have to do is to consciously use their imagination to go exactly where they want to go, they are completely lost in the ocean of life. They are miles away from their desired destination and many have even lost hope to ever find their way.

Once you are awake and aware that you are God, you know that you don’t have to be lost ever again. You’ve got that rudder under control and your boat is going to go to your desired destination. Being the operant power is knowing how to use your imagination.

Your Imagination is the Key to Freedom

Your imagination is YOU yourself, and the world as your imagination sees it is the real world. An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable. – Neville Goddard

Your 3D world depends on your imagination. Whether you’ve known and practiced the law of assumption for a while or are just new at this, look at your life right now, and you will have a pretty good idea of what your imagination is like. Whether your imagination has been conditioned by your culture, your religion, your social status, your parents, and everything else, or you have become a full-blown conscious manifestor knowing who you truly are; your imagination is shaping your life right now. What exists in your 3D world right now existed first in your imagination.

Sometimes, new Neville Goddard’s students tend to believe that their imagination is running only when they go into SATS (state akin to sleep) or when they consciously decide to visualize, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. You imagine all the time. Your imagination is running all the time. You imagine even when you sleep in the form of dreams. That’s why you need to become aware of this and be on top of your imagination, so to speak, at all times.

While doing this, however, you need to remember that whatever you choose to imagine already exists. You do not create it as if you had to build a house that is not built yet. As long as you chose an end result using your imagination, whether it’s wealth, abundance, love, and health, or poverty, lack, hate, and disease, all of it already exists and will be manifesting in your world according to your imagination. Only by choosing, you either transform or destroy, as Neville says.

Learn to Control Your Imagination

Learning to control your imagination is learning to control your life. And your imagination is controlled by your mental diet (what’s going on in your mind). In turn, your mental diet is made of your daily thoughts.

In my Facebook group, I often get the question, how do I stop thinking negative thoughts? There’s only one way to stop the negative thoughts that are running wild in your head, it’s by filling your mind with positive chosen thoughts. By controlling your mental diet. Just like there is only one way to consume a healthy food diet which is by choosing the food that you put in your mouth, the way you control your mental diet is by controlling what you are thinking about. What you think about makes up what you imagine.

If you are in the habit to be dominated by negative thoughts, you need to replace those thoughts with other thoughts. And how do we do this? By using affirmations. Affirm your new thoughts, affirm your new choices, affirm your new states. Even if you don’t believe your new affirmations at first, and most people don’t, constant repetition will take care of that in time. Once you’ve repeated something long enough you are bound to believe it. It’s like brainwashing yourself but in a positive way.

Affirming plus imagining/visualizing equal manifesting. And the more you work on your new chosen affirmations, the easier it will be to imagine and visualize your desires.

Adopting and embodying a new mental diet and using your imagination with a purpose requires practice. But like anything else in life, practice makes perfect. Don’t give up just after a few days or even a few weeks. It took you years, maybe decades, to be where you are now, it’s only natural if it takes a bit of time to change your way of thinking. Give yourself some time but don’t give up. When things may feel that they are going the opposite way, then it’s time to push forward even more.

And since you are the operant power, if you are losing patience, you can intend that you are progressing rapidly. As the God of your reality, your intentions are powerful. I know that I’ve adopted that intention myself and it really works fantastically well for me. Whatever I start learning I intend that I’ll understand what I need to understand fast, and frankly, I can’t even remember when was the last time I couldn’t learn something fast.

You are the operant power. You are God of your reality. God is your wonderful human imagination. You can be, do, and have anything that you want, because as soon as you desire it, it is yours. All you need to do is simply accept this simple truth and it is done. Creation is finished.

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