Author: Anna

One of the biggest hurdles to putting the Law of Assumption into practice is belief.

Many people who use the Law do not have faith in it, and so they are constantly doubting and looking to the outside world for confirmation that it works. This can keep you in a loop of never creating what you desire. 

Here’s how a lack of belief can sometimes keep you stuck:

In order to create what you desire, you have to “turn your back on the world of the senses” and ignore the 3D. Your current 3D world is but a time lapse shadow that is cast by your consciousness and state of being — your assumptions, words, actions, beliefs and the thoughts and feelings that you were identifying with, usually over the past several weeks.

You are the authority over your 3D world and you can create anything you want in the 3D by giving it to yourself in your 4D world (aka your imagination) first. But you have to embody the state of being of the person who already has what you want, and you have to persist in this embodiment over a period of days, weeks or months, until what you are imagining has “hardened into fact”, as Neville Goddard put it.

But people who lack belief in the Law of Assumption often cannot persist in this exercise, because they’re constantly looking to the 3D world for confirmation that the Law of Assumption techniques they are practising are having a result, and they sometimes want fast results. This focus on the 3D world can cause people to doubt, creating a state of lack.

So, not having sufficient belief in the Law of Assumption can sometimes keep you stuck in your present 3D circumstances, even if you desperately want change.

Here’s how to fix this.

Test the Law of Assumption out with something small

Instead of jumping in at the deep end and working on manifesting your wildest dreams, start small to build your faith in the Law.

Neville Goddard (the New Thought author and lecturer who popularised the Law of Assumption teachings) recommended that his students start with the Ladder Exercise.

Here it is:

1. Get into a meditative state by breathing deeply for a minute or so.

2. Then say to yourself inside your mind: “I will not climb a ladder”.

See a ladder in front of you. Decide whether your ladder is indoors or outdoors. Decide on whether it is going to be made of wood or metal. Decide on how tall the ladder is. (Note that you may not manifest these details, and the details really do not matter – this is just for you to make your vision as vivid as possible.)

Next, see yourself climbing the first rung, then the second rung, then the third, and so on, until you reach the top.

Once you reach the top, again say to yourself “I will not climb a ladder”.

Do this once a day at least. Neville Goddard recommended doing it when you’re totally relaxed and just before sleep for best results (and this is an ideal time to do it) but you can also do it during the day, as long as you take a few minutes to meditate and enter a relaxed state beforehand.

On top of that exercise, I also recommend affirming “I will not climb a ladder” regularly. You should be affirming for a set number of minutes per day, saying over and over inside your mind (or out loud) “I will not climb a ladder”.

I recommend doing this when you are doing some mindless task such as driving, washing dishes or showering, for 10-20 minutes per day. 

The more you affirm, the quicker your subconscious mind will be impressed with this idea of climbing the ladder, and the quicker it will manifest in the 3D. 

If you can’t easily visualise, you can just affirm instead but make sure you do it for a good period of time everyday — at least 10 minutes daily. 

For this to manifest, you must persist in this experiment and keep doing it everyday until what you are seeing in your mind materialises in physical reality.

If you give up before it materialises, you failed the experiment because you did not persist.

An Alternative to “I will not climb a ladder”

If you’d like a different scenario to play around with, you could choose the following:

“I really wish people would stop giving me sunflowers.”

Use the instructions above but instead of climbing a ladder, visualise someone handing you a bunch of sunflowers (or any other flower you like.) See the yellow petals of the flowers and the dark centre at the heart of the flower. Feel the thick, fibrous, hairy stalks in your hand.

People keep giving you flowers and it’s getting overwhelming. “I really wish people would stop giving me sunflowers.” You could even see sunflowers falling from the sky.

You should choose the scenario that makes sense to you. It should be something surprising that doesn’t regularly occur in your everyday life – ideally something that hasn’t occurred in years. If people often gift you flowers, go with the ladder exercise instead. Or if you have to climb ladders regularly (e.g. for your job) go with the flower exercise. 

You can also choose another scenario altogether. Just a note however that I’ve seen people test out the law with things that are more commonplace, such as seeing a golden retriever or an apple. These items are too ubiquitous to be meaningful proof of manifestation. Instead, when you test out the law, it needs to be an action you’re not doing regularly in your everyday life, or something that simply hardly ever happens to you (if at all), like receiving sunflowers or climbing a ladder.

As with any manifestation, certain rules apply:

1. Don’t make this experiment super important in your mind. Treat it like a game and let go of any resistance. Say this prayer if you are doubting or feeling impatient/frustrated “I cast my doubt/impatience/frustration onto the Christ within, and I go free now”

2. Don’t check the 3D, asking yourself “is the ladder here yet?” and wondering where it is – this is not ‘living in the end.” Imagination is reality and the world behind your eyes is more real than anything you see in the 3D, because the world behind your eyes is the movie projector that creates your 3D reality. Your 3D reality is just a shadow and a projection of what you were focusing on, usually several weeks or days ago. This guided meditation can help with this concept of turning your back on the 3D reality. If you use this meditation, see yourself climbing a ladder in it.

Don’t let doubt stop you

Note that belief is not necessary to manifest a desired outcome in the 3D and you don’t have to believe in the Law of Assumption or the Law of Attraction for this ladder exercise to work. The Law of Assumption is working for you all of the time (even if you don’t believe in it). The Law of Assumption works in the same way gravity works, in that even if you didn’t believe in gravity, you would still fall to the ground if you jumped off a cliff!

I offer a free online resource for manifesting your desired reality using the Law of Assumption — it’s a collection of online articles which are presented in the right order so that you can use them as a ‘how to’ guide. It’s quite a comprehensive resource and can help take you from A to B with almost any intention. You can find that here.

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In this article I want to answer a common question about manifesting, which is:

Is it OK to have a deadline on your manifestation?

Examples of this would be having a financial goal with a deadline, such as earning an extra $1000 before the end of the month, or in another example, manifesting a romantic relationship before the end of the year.

Obviously externally imposed deadlines (i.e. circumstances forcing your hand) are something you have to work with no matter what. But I don’t recommend internally imposed deadlines.

Here’s why:

When you are manifesting a new 3D reality, it isn’t about changing the 3D or getting a result in the 3D (even if that is why you are doing it). Instead, effective manifesting involves changing the 4D – the world behind your eyes. When manifesting, you have to embody and become the person who already has the result in your consciousness and your mind (nothing materialises in the 3D without this process.) 

So, if you already had your result, such as a new partner before the end of the year, who would you “be being”?

You’d be someone who felt secure and relaxed in your new relationship and also in the knowledge that you are the creator of your life. You wouldn’t be worrying about having it, because you know you already have it. 

These energies of security and feeling chilled about it are not in alignment with a self-imposed deadline. A self-imposed deadline is usually saying:

“I really don’t have it yet in material reality, and I need to control when it appears because I’m feeling the lack of it.”

So self-imposed deadlines are often rooted in lack, and this only creates more of the ‘not having it’ in your reality.

The other problem with imposing deadlines is that it sometimes constitutes micromanaging the manifesting process. 

When we set an intention to experience something in the 3D, we are setting in motion a Bridge of Incidents (BOI), which is a path to our goal in the 3D. We don’t know what the BOI is going to involve and usually it’s a ‘cosmic surprise’ — a series of events that we could never have predicted that takes us towards our desire. Some Bridge of Incidents are long and others are short.

Sometimes we can be really far away from our goal or desire, energetically. For example, you wish to meet a partner by the end of the year but you’re not ready for a relationship for some reason. Maybe you have been in a long-term relationship that ended recently, and you haven’t moved on from it.

To manifest a good relationship, you need to become someone who embodies being in that good relationship now. If you are not remotely that person yet, your Bridge of Incidents may be extensive and maybe you won’t be ready for a relationship by the end of the year, even if you want one.

So, putting a deadline on your desire in some cases may be about trying to micromanage the Bridge of Incidents. And when it doesn’t happen by your deadline, you may become discouraged and give up on using the Law of Assumption to consciously create. In my opinion, that would be a great shame because you can use the Law to manifest a whole variety of desired intentions.

So, that is the other reason I don’t recommend imposing deadlines on your manifestation.

The only time I recommend setting intentions with a deadline

There is one exception to all of this: if you know that you don’t care about your desire that much and you can manifest it with the energy of fun, a deadline can be OK.

For example, let’s say that you are financially comfortable and make a good income, but you’d like to manifest an extra $1000 before the end of this month. If you can approach manifestation like a fun game, you don’t need the money and you don’t mind if you don’t get it, go ahead and set a deadline.

But in my opinion, it isn’t ideal to set a deadline to make more money if you need the money. In that situation, there will be importance attached to it. Instead I recommend choosing a financial goal and manifesting that, but with no deadline attached.

If you’re unsure of whether you’re ready to set an intention with a deadline, ask yourself how you would feel if your desire never arrived. If you feel something negative in response to this question, don’t set a deadline, because it will add pressure and importance, which creates resistance, and resistance can delay your manifestation. On the other hand, if you don’t mind that much if your desire never materialises, it’s fine to set a deadline. 

I offer a free online resource for manifesting your desired reality using the Law of Assumption — it’s a collection of online articles which are presented in the right order so that you can use them as a ‘how to’ guide. It’s quite a comprehensive resource and can help take you from A to B with almost any intention. You can find that here.

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In this article, I have an interesting manifestation story to tell from my own life…

A few months ago, it became clear to me that I needed to move house.

I had been living in a rental property for around 3 years, with a landlady who I always had to walk on eggshells around. The landlady often used angry outbursts and manipulation in an attempt to wriggle out of her responsibilities to maintain the place. 

This was a property that I moved into when I first arrived in New Zealand after moving from the UK during the pandemic, and I never intended to stay very long. 

However, after I moved in I became ill and was unable to move for around 18 months. 

Once my health improved earlier this year, and the landlady’s bad behaviour had escalated I knew it was time to move, but I had a lot of resistance to the idea.

The main reason I was resistant to moving was that I believed I wasn’t going to find a home that was as peaceful as where I was living.

I was living in a location in Wellington, NZ that was very handy to the city centre but also set in a peaceful bush environment. It was like a little oasis close to the city — set far away from the road, surrounded by greenery and with really quiet neighbours. My cat loved it, too. 

It became clear to me that finding such a peaceful place close to the city was rare. In fact, looking at the listings over a period of about one month I could see that the place I was renting was quite unique and I probably wasn’t going to find something similar any time soon. My 3D reality was showing me that. I also knew that according to the Law of Assumption, my 3D reality was simply reflecting my beliefs back to me, and I needed to change them. 

So what I did next was, I had a think about the kind of street or location I wanted to live in. I decided I wanted to live in a quiet place close to a nature reserve or park, in a peaceful bush setting. I then went on Google Maps and found plenty of streets in the Wellington region that matched this description, even though I wasn’t seeing them coming up in the rental listings (after all, Wellington city is bordered by multiple regional parks made up of native bush, wetlands and forests.)

Next, I chose one of the streets at random, and looked at it in Google Street View. It was an ideal location for me. I chose a house on that street and started visualising myself living there. 

Note that this was not a strategy to try to manifest that house. It just naturally happened that I started visualising living there (the visualisation just came to me without me trying.) I didn’t expect to manifest this house – for a start the house had 5 bedrooms which is too big for my needs – instead I was just visualising it to give myself the idea that it was possible to find a location that was as ideal as my current home. I needed to let go of my limiting belief that what I wanted was not possible because it did not exist. 

After I visualised it for a few days, I let it go and stopped thinking about it. 

I kept looking at the rental listings in the mean time. Nothing suitable came up for 3 weeks or so. Then a lovely, well-kept house 2 doors away from the one I visualised on that quiet street in the ideal location came up in the listings for rent. And the size of it was much more suitable for me. 

When I saw it in the listings, I just knew it was my house. I went to view it (in a viewing that was packed with people who were expressing enthusiasm about living there to the property manager.)

My situation was less than ideal: I had no reference since the deteriorating relationship with my landlady meant she had refused to give me one, and I have a pet, but my application was still accepted out of all the applicants. I am now living in that house. 

What are the chances that a house would come up for rent 2 doors away from the one I visualised, and that I would be chosen to rent it with a pet in tow and no former landlord reference? In Wellington City there are almost 77,000 dwellings, and only several of them became available per day among the rental listings that allowed cats, so this was not a high likelihood that I would be able to manifest living in that street. 

This was the Law of Assumption at work! (In fact, the Law of Assumption is at work all the time, but in this case it was used consciously in my favour.) 

I’m very happy in my new home. I love the location. The neighbours are quiet. The property managers do not try to wriggle out of their responsibilities like my last landlady did. It’s sunny, reasonably priced, spacious, private and I have a vegetable garden, which I’ve wanted for a long time. 

If you are looking to manifest a new home using the Law of Assumption, below I’m going to give some instructions.

And if you are interested in using the Law of Assumption to manifest your desires but it is not a new home you are seeking, instead I recommend reading this article: How to Manifest Anything Using the Law of Assumption.

Now let’s look at what you can do to manifest a new home, if you are in that situation.

First of all, I recommend not doing what I did and only manifesting a new place once your current place becomes unbearable to live in. It’s best to manifest from a relaxed space, with minimal importance attached to it. 

1. Write a list of what you are looking for in a new home. 

Don’t limit yourself by what you think you can get for your budget. 

In Neville Goddard’s book ‘The Law and the Promise’ he tells the story of a woman who wants to manifest a new home for her family. This woman and her husband decided they wanted to move in with her aunt and mother and a whole menagerie of animals. They had a ridiculously long list of requirements, including the location, a wonderful view, complete privacy and other requirements such as a large fireplace and wood panelling all through the house. It also had to be a very large house that would give each member of the family privacy. When they told the real estate agents how much they were willing to pay for the house, they were laughed at and told they would need to pay 5 times more than they had to spend. 

Long story short, they got their house at the price they were willing to pay. Circumstances do not matter. 

(You can read more about this story here in The Law and the Promise.)

If I had to manifest my house again, I would have had a longer list of requirements, but I was so hung up on my limiting belief about the location that I didn’t think to do this. 

Don’t restrict yourself by what the market appears to be like or what current house prices or rental prices are. If you want to find a property that doesn’t cost much to live in or that you live in for free you can also achieve this. There are many stories online of people creating situations like these.

2. Set an intention

Next, set a clear intention as to what you want to create. 

3. Create a Visualisation

Once you have got your list of what you’re looking for in a home, create a visualisation that implies you have what you want. See yourself living in this home and visualise it often, at least once a day until you feel like you don’t need to visualise anymore. 

Your visualisation could be a friend or family member getting a house tour and congratulating you on your beautiful new home.

It could be you and a pet or your kids enjoying your outdoor space in the summer. 

When you have your scene, replay it from the first person perspective, feeling everything about it — touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing. In the beginning, write out your scene or describe it out loud so you can connect with all the details.

You might want to think about: what is the energy that the scene evokes in you?

In my scene, I felt a sense of safety (away from problematic landlords!) I gave that energy of safety and security a colour (red) and I gave it a colour and had it come into all my cells through the crown chakra. I said to myself, safety is now entering my head, my face, my shoulders, my chest etc., until my whole being was filled with safety. I breathed in safety and rejoiced in it for a few moments.

You can do this with any energy your scene evokes in you e.g. freedom, expansion, happiness.

4. Use Affirmations

You could also use an affirmation throughout the day such as:

I’m so lucky to be living in my dream home.

or:

I’m so happy that I live in such a lovely place. 

Replace the word ‘lovely’ with anything you like, such as ‘sunny’, ‘beautiful’, ‘spacious’, ‘secluded’, ‘private’, ‘luxurious’ or ‘quiet’ and begin your statements with:

I love that…

I am so lucky that…

I am so happy that…

When you say these affirmations, say them like you’re celebrating the fact that you already live in this place. You can have anything you want in the 3D, as long as you give it to yourself in your mind first!

5. Act ‘as if’

Something else I did was I acted ‘as if’ — I started preparing for my move before I even found a new place. I decluttered and packed. I wrote out the email giving my landlady notice that I was leaving (obviously I didn’t send it until I was ready though.)

So ask yourself, what would you be doing if you already had what you wanted? Do that now, as much as possible.

6. Ignore the 3D and let go of the ‘how’

As I mentioned, after I had decided what I wanted in a new home, I looked at the listings for 3 weeks and nothing suitable came up. I did not take this as evidence that it was impossible to have what I want. I ignored what the listings were telling me. I knew I would eventually find my house. 

I recommend that once you have decided on what you want, you ignore what the 3D world is showing you and keep going within to your dream. Focus on that.

Also, don’t strategise on how you are going to find this new home. Instead, visualise and affirm, and if you need to take some action, you will be clearly called into action.  

7. Check your self-concept

When manifesting something favourable for yourself (such as a beautiful new home) you need to feel that you deserve it. 

It’s harder to manifest something favourable and keep it if you have a low opinion of yourself. 

I recommend saying affirmations like:

I deserve to live in a beautiful place

I deserve to receive so much from this life

I deserve to live in a comfortable home

I deserve the absolute best life has to offer

I shift realities easily and effortlessly

I am the place new opportunities come from

I offer a free online resource for manifesting your desired reality using the Law of Assumption — it’s a collection of online articles which are presented in the right order so that you can use them as a ‘how to’ guide. It’s quite a comprehensive resource and can help take you from A to B with almost any intention. You can find that here.

One of the questions I have had since writing about the Law of Assumption is:

Is it possible (or advisable) to manifest a romantic relationship with a Specific Person? (This is often abbreviated to SP in the Law of Assumption community.)

If you’d like to read the short version of this article, here are the main points:

• Yes, you can manifest a specific person – Neville Goddard himself did it
• In my experience, it’s not always a good use of your creative energy to manifest an SP you hardly know. In most cases, I only recommend manifesting an SP you already love and have a high level of compatibility with
• A desire for an SP is often your soul wanting to take you on a journey of repairing and improving your self-concept
• Many people who go through this process of manifesting an SP end up not wanting the SP once their self-concept has improved
• Even if you end up no longer wanting your SP by the time you have manifested them, I still think it’s a worthwhile process because in the end it results in an improved self-concept, which can only improve your future love life, and life overall
• And if you do still want your SP by the time they show up, you end up with not only your SP, but also a much improved self-concept and first-hand knowledge of your own power as a creator.
• Finally, just a disclaimer that I believe not all SPs are going to be manifested by everyone. Anyone who tells you that anyone can manifest any SP they like is misguided. Many of the prominent SP manifesting teachers (I won’t name names) are teaching this, yet they are still without their SP after years of manifesting, or they manifested their SP to some degree, but it didn’t work out.

If you’d like to read the long-winded version of the article, here it is:

Can you manifest a relationship with a specific person, and is it even a good idea?

If you’ve been reading my series of articles on the Law of Assumption, you will know that I believe we live in a multiverse, and that you can manifest for other people in general.

(If you haven’t already, please go and read this article: EIYPO: Can We Manifest for Other People?

…before continuing with this one.) 

So, if it’s theoretically possible to manifest for other people, is it a good idea?

Neville Goddard in one of his lectures tells the story of manifesting marriage with his second wife after he met her. So he actually manifested a specific person (more on that at the end of this article) and it is theoretically possible.

Whether or not it is a good idea depends on your individual situation.

One thing I personally don’t feel is a good idea is manifesting a relationship with someone you hardly know.

Here’s the main reason why I say this:

There are billions of people in the world. If you are single and open to a relationship, there’s a lot of people who could potentially be right for you. The problem is that from your limited human way of seeing things, you have absolutely no idea if that specific person you barely know who you’re now manifesting a relationship with, is the best match for you.

There could be dozens, hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of people out there who are way better matches for you romantically.

You don’t know. But your higher self knows, and has a bigger perspective on this. 

Therefore, you may be manifesting a relationship with a specific person and it turns out that this person is not someone you would ever want to be in a relationship with.

I have had this experience myself. Rather than take Neville’s word (or anyone else’s word for it) I like to experiment with the Law of Assumption concepts I learn. 

As an experiment, I once tried to manifest a date with someone specific that I liked, but only knew superficially. He asked me out and we went on a date (as I had wanted) but it was not a good experience. In fact, my interactions with this person when we were dating briefly caused a lot of stress. He was quite aggressive and insistent that we should be together, while I was finding some of his behaviour off-putting. I had done such a good job of manifesting him that it was hard to get rid of him even after I’d concluded we weren’t a match. In this case, I had manifested from my ego, not from my higher self, and this does sometimes happen with “specific person” manifestations, especially when we don’t know the person we’re manifesting very well. 

Even if we’re manifesting someone we do know well and know we want to be with, an intense desire for a specific person (to the point that we’re willing to put in work to bring that person into our life) often results from a low self-concept or attachment wounds (I’ll talk more about that later in this article…)

Why some people end up not wanting the specific person they manifested…

Indeed many people who put significant effort into manifesting a relationship with a specific person, end up not wanting the relationship by the time it shows up in their world, or abandon the project before it shows up. 

There is a very specific reason for this, and it’s to do with self-concept. 

I wrote about self-concept in this article and defined it as: “the thoughts you habitually have about yourself, and how you feel about yourself. Your self-concept also includes what you think the people around you think of you.”

How is self-concept relevant? 

Well, the relationship that seems desirable to you is a reflection of your current self-concept. 

So, for example, if your self-esteem is not good, you may be drawn to people who treat you poorly or people who are unavailable and cannot give you what you need. 

Everyone is you pushed out, and must reflect how you feel about yourself deep down in your subconscious mind.

The main way that you work on manifesting a specific person into your life is by becoming someone who is highly desirable to this person, by modifying your self-concept in a positive sense. To manifest an SP, you have to see yourself as desirable (especially to this person) and put yourself on a pedestal in your own mind.

People who teach manifesting a specific person advise ignoring the 3D reality if this person has rejected you, and using affirmations and doing SATS that suggest the relationship you desire has come to pass. 

(There’s actually a whole subreddit on Reddit dedicated solely to manifesting an SP the Neville Goddard way, and people do succeed, even in the most unlikely of situations.)

But anyway, back to our hypothetical scenario.

Let’s say that you put significant effort into improving your self-concept and manifesting this person. 

Here is the process you go through, when you do this:

When you begin manifesting this person through changing your self-concept, you usually start off with something of a lack mentality. (If you didn’t, you probably wouldn’t be putting effort into manifesting your specific person.)

As you work on improving your self-concept, and seeing yourself as a wonderful person and desirable partner, you can sometimes lose the enthusiasm for manifesting your specific person. 

You feel worthy of something wonderful in love, your attachment wounds have faded, and by this point you may start to wonder: why this person? What if there’s someone better suited out there for me?

In my experience, 7 times out of 10, when a person improves their self-concept and is manifesting an SP, this is what happens. They are starting out from a place of low self-concept and attachment wounds, and through their manifesting efforts, they start to feel they deserve better.

So, in some cases through your manifestation efforts, the specific person will actually show up, wanting to begin a relationship, but you’ve lost your enthusiasm for your original desire (note that this sometimes happens, but doesn’t apply in every case.)

Successful SP manifestations

Some people are successful at manifesting a specific person and end up having long-lasting, successful relationships.

Here’s what I’ve noticed about those cases: they tended to be people who had already been in a loving relationship of some sort with their specific person. Compatibility had already been established, the connection between the two people was already amazing, and no conscious manifesting was required to achieve this. Their SP was a psychologically healthy person who did not have significant life problems, was not personality disordered or an abuser. And they were not trauma bonded. But there was some circumstance that meant they could not be together (usually a low self-concept). Manifesting removed that circumstance and allowed the relationship to go ahead. 

Personally I would only work on manifesting an SP if the relationship had already been amazing and there was a lot of compatibility, and the SP didn’t have significant issues.

But this is just my personal opinion, which is based on my experiences and the experiences of people I’ve observed who have been through this process. You do you. 

Neville’s experience manifesting a specific person

When Neville Goddard met his second wife, Catherine Willa Van Schumus, he just knew he wanted to be married to her. Of this, he said in one of his lectures:

“The very first time I met her, I knew she was going to be my wife. She didn’t know it, but I knew it. I said to myself, “She doesn’t know it, but she is going to be my wife.” 

So he put the Law of Assumption to work, and said the following about his efforts to manifest her as his wife:

“I went to bed and slept as though I was happily married to the girl who now bears my name. I did not have any physical emotion with her: just that she was sleeping there, and I am here, and it’s blissful. I did that for one solid week.”

Long story short, Neville later married this woman he imagined being his wife and they remained married until his death.

But on the other hand, he also says this about people trying to manifest an SP:

“Always go to the end. Dwell in the end, and you will hurt no one. But if you try to devise the means, you are, well, messing the whole thing up. I have had people say to me, “You know, I want that man, and no other man.”

I said, “No, you don’t; you want to be happily married. You don’t want that man or no man.” 

“Oh, yes, that man or no man.”

Then, of course, this always shocks them.

I say, “If he dropped dead right now, would you want to be married?”

“Well, he isn’t going to drop…”

“I didn’t ask you that. If he dropped dead right now, or if he is right this very moment accused of being the world’s greatest thief or murderer, do you still want him”

“Well, now, why ask those questions, Neville? I want that man.”

But, you see, it isn’t that man. They want to be happily married. I have gone to so many weddings where it was either that man or none, and it wasn’t “that man”! And they are embarrassed when they see me standing in the aisle, because it had to be “that man or no man,” and here it isn’t that man at all. And they walk down [the aisle] – they are happy with their new mate, but a little sheepish as they pass by because they know I know he was not the man.”

(As an aside, some SP manifestors claim that Neville changed his stance on this later. He didn’t. Towards the end of his life, he still said that it’s best to go general in some cases.)

So, Neville had students who wanted a particular man, but ended up marrying someone else.

This does sometimes happen in my experience talking to people who have tried to manifest an SP. 

When people desire strongly to manifest an SP, what their soul wants most of all is to take them on a journey of coming home to themselves — improving their self-concept, loving themselves, valuing themselves and breaking down any barriers within themselves that are blocking them off from love. (The SP will then show up as a side effect of that work.)

Of love, Neville says:

“Love is our birthright. Love is the fundamental necessity of our life. Do not go seeking for that which you are. Those who go seeking for love only make manifest their own lovelessness and the loveless never find love. Only the loving find love and they never have to seek for it.”

By manifesting an SP, you will go on a journey of becoming loved, loving and loveable in your imagination, simply because you must become those things in order to manifest an SP.

As the Sufi mystic and poet Rumi says:

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” 

You are love. Neville Goddard and many other mystical teachers believe that we are microcosms of the larger whole; of the Universe. We are all of it, including all the love in the Universe. We can tap into that love at any time – we are loved, we are loveable and we are loving.

Manifesting an SP will take you on this journey of breaking down these barriers to the love that is available to you and always has been available to you (because it IS you).

And if you feel called to manifest an SP, it can be a positive step and a wonderful thing to do, precisely for this reason. I would never dissuade anyone from going down that path if they feel it is right for them, and you can definitely succeed at manifesting that specific person. But don’t be surprised if you end up losing your enthusiasm for a relationship with your SP by the time you’re done with this process, because you no longer need the love that comes from this one person that you made so important.

Not everyone loses their enthusiasm for their SP, but many do.

If you get your SP back and you still want them, great. But even if you end up no longer wanting your SP, the journey still will have been worth it, because by the end of it you’ll come out with a much better self-concept, which improves your life (and love life) in myriad ways.

I offer a free online resource for manifesting your desired reality using the Law of Assumption — it’s a collection of online articles which are presented in the right order so that you can use them as a ‘how to’ guide. It’s quite a comprehensive resource and can help take you from A to B with almost any intention. You can find that here.