Thought as the source of all manifestation
In my last post, I talked about how our thoughts are the youngest force within us, and how older, ancient instincts and emotions kick in much faster than thoughts.
Now, you might wonder: why do New Thought authors, like Atkinson, keep saying that thought is the source of all manifestation?
Indeed, thought is the source of all manifestation, and everything must be subjected to it. It’s the source of all our intentions. Thanks to thought, we can establish different intentions.
For example: a lion can’t suddenly decide to become a vegetarian. Yet, we can decide to eat (or not eat) whatever we want.
This is definitely due to our thought and rational ability, allowing us to have a will and intention.
So why do we focus so much on energy, emotions, and feelings? Shouldn’t all this be channeled to working with thought alone like the New Thought authors mention?
Well… it’s important to understand that when you read any New Thought author writing about thought, you need to consider that it’s related to it being 100% aligned with your feelings and energy.
Neville Goddard wrote it very well and explicitly when he said: “Feeling is the secret”… because in fact, it is.
For you to use your thought this way, it needs to be aligned with feeling and energy. Only when everything is aligned can you have a great source of power in your hands.
That’s what we work on in all our courses. Not just in “thinking” your way to magnetism, but in “aligning” your way to magnetism – integrating thought, emotions, and feelings through energy.
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Thought is our youngest force
Thought is our youngest force.
Feelings, emotions, pain, and pleasure operate much more swiftly within us than thought and intellect. The intellect takes its time to grasp things compared to our emotions. The initial response is always to feel something; only then do thoughts, considerations, and rationalizations follow.
This is evident, especially in attraction. Initially, you feel drawn to someone, and only afterward do you start to rationalize the attraction. The reasons surface only after your body has already given its approval. Without this initial emotional response, any subsequent rationalization may backfire.
Even the structure of the brain reflects this hierarchy.
The brainstem, responsible for instincts, sits at the core, followed by the limbic system, which governs emotions, and finally, the neocortex, responsible for rational thought.
We perceive intellect and thought as evolutionary developments that came later, superseding instincts and emotions.
This is undoubtedly a good thing; our capacity for thought and rationalization is indispensable. Don’t ever be under the impression that I’m despising thought and the rational mind. That’s not at all the purpose of this text.
It’s not about despising our rational mind.
The issue lies in our current tendency to prioritize thoughts and rationality while disregarding everything else we feel inside.
The emphasis should be on integrating thought with these much older internal forces—instincts, emotions, and feelings—all of which reside within the domain of the unconscious mind.
Since energy is how those forces speak to us, we use energy to “speak” that language. Through this, we understand these ancient, primal forces that significantly influence our behavior, decisions, and even our sense of purpose in life.
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Assume a higher concept of yourself
Here’s an interesting quote from Neville Goddard:
“The changes which take place in your life as a result of your changed concept of yourself always appear to the unenlightened to be the result, not of a change of your consciousness, but of chance, outer cause, or coincidence.
However, the only fate governing your life is the fate determined by your own concepts, your own assumptions; for an assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact. The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you are already that ideal.
There is no escape for you except by a radical psychological transformation of yourself,
except by your assumption of the feeling of your wish fulfilled. Therefore, make results or accomplishments the crucial test of your ability to use your imagination.
Everything depends on your attitude towards yourself. That which you will not affirm as true of yourself can never be realized by you , for that attitude alone is the necessary condition by which you realize your goal.
All transformation is based upon suggestion, and this can work only where you lay yourself completely open to an influence. You must abandon yourself to your ideal as a woman abandons herself to love, for complete abandonment of self to it is the way to union with your ideal. You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality.
You must imagine that you are already experiencing what you desire. That is, you must assume the feeling of the fulfillment of your desire until you are possessed by it and this feeling crowds all other ideas out of your consciousness.
The man who is not prepared for the conscious plunge into the assumption of the wish fulfilled in the faith that it is the only way to the realization of his dream is not yet ready to live consciously by the law of assumption, although there is no doubt that he does live by the law of assumption unconsciously.
But for you who accept this principle and are ready to live by consciously assuming that your wish is already fulfilled , the adventure of life begins.
To reach a higher level of being, you must assume a higher concept of yourself.
If you will not imagine yourself as other than what you are, then you remain as you are,
If you do not believe that you are He (the person you want to be), then you remain as you are. Through the faithful systematic cultivation of the feeling of the wish fulfilled, desire becomes the promise of its own fulfillment. The assumption of the feeling of the wish fulfilled makes the future dream a present fact.”
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