Neville Goddard - Parting ways with your problems so you can....

<p>If you’ve spent months visualizing, affirming, and &quot;trying&quot; to manifest with nothing to show for it, you are likely among the majority who are &quot;Mentally Mucking around.&quot; </p><p>Most people fail because they don’t realize they are the operant power. Being the operant power means the buck stops with you; you aren’t waiting for a cosmic green light or divine intervention to change your life.</p><p>The frustration of manifesting stems from a fundamental misunderstanding. </p><p>This is the perspective of Mr. 2020, a specialist based in Melbourne, Australia, who dives into the often-overlooked final revisions of Neville Goddard’s work. </p><p><br></p><p>To get what you want, you have to stop pushing and start returning to the state where your desire already exists.</p><p>&quot;Most people can&#39;t part with what they don&#39;t want long enough to get what they do want.&quot;</p><p>Shelli spent 12 years of her life dating married men. 7 years with one, and 5 with another. She claimed she wanted a committed partner, yet she was deeply committed to her own &quot;truth&quot;: that all men are shallow and only want sex. </p><p>Because she habitually returned to this belief, she continued to attract partners who proved her right.</p><p>She didn&#39;t have to work hard to stay lonely; she just had to stay intimate with her grievances. She was more &quot;married&quot; to her identity as a victim of shallow men than she was to the possibility of a real relationship. </p><p>Many students of Neville Goddard are stuck on his earlier concepts of &quot;persisting&quot; in an assumption. However, Neville’s personal philosophy underwent a massive tactical update toward the end of his life.</p><p><strong>The 1972 Revisions</strong> Before his death in 1972, Neville made handwritten corrections in his personal copy of <em>The Power of Awareness</em>.</p><p>These updates were eventually published by his daughter, Victoria, in 1992. They reveal a shift from the effortful &quot;push&quot; of persistence to the natural ease of &quot;returning.&quot;</p><p>Think of the difference between a man forcing himself to be faithful and a man who can’t wait to get home to his wife.</p><p>The first man is using willpower to resist temptation; the second man is simply returning to where he belongs.</p><p>Manifesting is the same. It isn&#39;t about pushing a philosophy until you&#39;re exhausted; it is about &quot;going home&quot; to the state where your desire is a prese