Chapter 4 of Prayer The Art of Believing – Neville Goddard
Everyone is amenable to the same psychological laws which govern the ordinary hypnotic subject. He is amenable to control by suggestion.
In hypnosis, the objective senses are partly or totally suspended. However, no matter how profoundly the objective senses are locked in hypnosis, the subjective faculties are alert, and the subject recognizes everything that goes on around him. The activity and power of the subjective mind are proportionate to the sleep of the objective mind. Suggestions which appear powerless when presented directly to the objective consciousness are highly efficacious when the subject is in a hypnotic state.
The hypnotic state is simply being unaware, objectively. In hypnotism, the conscious mind is put to sleep and the subconscious powers are exposed as to be directly reached by suggestion.
It is easy to see from this, providing you accept the truth of mental suggestions, that anyone not objectively aware of you, is in a profound hypnotic state relative to you.
Therefore,
“Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in the bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter”
What you sincerely believe as true of another you will awaken within him.
No one need be entranced, in the ordinary manner, to be helped. If the subject is consciously unaware of the suggestion, and if the suggestion is given with conviction and confidently accepted by the operator as true, then you have the ideal setting for a successful prayer. Represent the subject to yourself mentally as though he had already done that which you desire him to do. Mentally speak to him and congratulate him on having done what you want him to do. Mentally see him in the state you want him to obtain.
Within the circle of its action, every word subjectively spoken awakens objectively, what it affirms. Incredulity on the part of the subject is no hindrance, when you are in control of your reverie.
Bold assertion by you, while you are in a partly subjective state, awakens what you affirm. Self-confidence on your part and the thorough belief in the truth of your mental assertion, are all that is needed to produce results.
Visualize the subject and imagine that you hear his voice.
This establishes contact with his subjective mind. Then imagine that he is telling you what you want to hear. If you want to send him words of health and wealth, then imagine that he is telling you
“I have never felt better and I have never had more,” and mentally tell him of your joy in witnessing his good fortune.
Imagine that you see and hear his joy.
A mental conversation with the subjective image of another must be in a manner which does not express the slightest doubt as to the truth of what you hear and say.
If you have the least idea that you do not believe what you have imagined you have heard and seen, the subject will not comply, for your subjective mind will transmit only your fixed ideas. Only fixed ideas can awaken their vibratory correlates in those toward whom they are directed.
In the controlled reverie, ideas must be suggested with the utmost care. If you do not control your imagination in the reverie, your imagination will control you. Whatever you suggest with confidence, is law to the subjective mind; it is under obligation to objectify that which you mentally affirm.
Not only does the subject execute the state affirmed but he does it as though the decision had come of itself, or the idea or the idea had originated by him.
Control of the subconscious is dominion over all.
Each state obeys one mind’s control.
Control of the subconscious is accomplished through control of your beliefs, which in turn is the all-potent factor in the visible states.
Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation.