Neville Goddard said that manifesting any desire is pretty simple:
First, you decide on what you want to manifest.
Then you create a small mental scene (a visualization) that implies that your desire is already yours.
Then you relax your body and you mentally play the scene you created over and over and over until it feels real to you.

So far so good. Most people have no issue practicing these steps because they are pretty clear-cut.

The issue comes with the last step. Living from the end.

Living from the end is mentally and emotionally approaching everything as if your desire is already yours.

As if the new car is already yours.

As if you are already happily married.
As if you are already out of debt.

As if you already have your dream job.

You get the point.

But we don’t spend the whole day obsessing over one specific desire. So how can we tell if we have “planted the seed of our desire” -as Neville calls it- in our subconscious mind or not?

It’s definitely a point that confuses a lot of people who are new to Neville Goddard and the law of assumption. Which is why I decided to write this post, to help you figure it out!

NOTE: If the concept of living from the end to manifest is completely new to you and you feel kinda lost, I have a created a whole playlist of videos on Youtube explaining exactly what living from the end of your desires is and giving you many different ways to easily put it into practice. You can watch my living from the end playlist here (or save it for later).

HOW TO TELL IF YOU ARE LIVING FROM THE END OR IF YOU NEED TO KEEP VISUALIZING

This is how to decide for yourself if you are truly living from the end, or if you need to keep visualizing to manifest your desire.

WAY NO. 1 TO TELL IF YOU'RE LIVING FROM THE END

First of all, if you have to ask me or any other manifestation coach the question “but wouldn’t just doing this once be enough?” then it’s not. 

If it was enough for you and for this particular desire then you wouldn’t need to ask, because it would either have happened already, or you would be too immersed in living from the end to even feel the need to ask this question. 

Theoretically yes, it can be enough.

But theoretically is not the point.

Getting your desires in the physical world is the point, right? 

If your question about whether just imagining once is enough comes from a place of wanting to more fully understand how manifestation works instead of it coming from a place of just wanting something really badly and being impatient, then that’s totally fine and in that case I suggest that you make a big list of desires you have and start testing different methods, testing imagining something just once versus imagining something several times etc, and see what works best for you and how.

For example pick 30 desires and imagine each of them just once, and then pick other desires and imagine each one for a week.

See which of the two lists manifests after all, if the items on one list manifested faster than the other, if for things you view as big and difficult it looks like it’s more effective for you to use one method versus another etc. 

But if the question “wouldn’t it theoretically be enough to just imagine this once?” is coming from a place of wanting something to happen already, then chances are once isn’t going to cut for you when it comes to this particular desire, so keep imagining for now. 

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WAY NO. 2 TO TELL IF YOU'RE LIVING FROM THE END

The other way to tell if you need to keep imagining is this: 

If after your imagining session you are the same person you were before that imagining session, if a few minutes or a few hours later you notice that you have started thinking the same old thoughts and feeling the same old feelings again that correspond to how you don’t have your desire, then you haven’t managed to convince your whole system yet to live from the end and you should probably keep doing your imagining sessions. 

Neville Goddard said that when you plant the seed correctly, then you become a different person.

In other words, you imagine that you are the person who has that thing, and then in the physical world, you start noticing that you are thinking and feeling and being from that person, instead of thinking and feeling and being from that old version of yourself.

So if it’s, let’s say, a raise you desire to manifest, and if you have planted the seed correctly and are living from the end now, you won’t be the person who goes to the grocery store and look at all the things you want to purchase and think you can’t afford them anymore.

Even though the physical manifestation of the raise hasn’t happened yet, you’ll find yourself looking at these things and thinking how now with that raise you can afford them.

That doesn’t mean you’ll act as if in the physical world and buy them even if you don’t have the money to pay for them yet.

 But if you knew you were getting a raise for sure in two months, wouldn’t your attitude towards what you can and cannot afford change?

You don’t physically have the extra money yet but you know you will very soon, so you start thinking like that new person who has the raise, and look at stuff you want at the grocery store for example and think about how awesome it is that you don’t have to buy the cheapest brand instead of the brand you actually want anymore for example, because from now on you’ll have that extra money.

That’s an inner transformation.

It’s a transformation of who you are.

Your boss said you are getting a raise, effective in two months from now, and you’re already living in the end because you know that raise is guaranteed. 

That’s the kind of inner transformation your imagining sessions or changing your limiting beliefs and replacing them with positive ones, or scripting or any other manifestation method you use is supposed to create.

So if it hasn’t, and if you still find it hard to consciously switch your thoughts from the old version of you that doesn’t have that thing you desire to the new version of you that has it, then you need to keep doing it.

For how long?

You will know, based on who you are being and how easy it is to live in the end.

Maybe it’s one more day until it really clicks and tomorrow you will behave and think and feel like that new version of you. Or maybe it’ll take a week. 

WAY NO.3 TO TELL IF YOU'RE LIVING FROM THE END

And the third way to know is this:

If you are feeling anxious, if you are actually obsessing over how much longer you need to do this for your desire to manifest, then you’re definitely not living in the end.

Because when you are living in the end, you don’t feel a strong desire for that thing anymore, because you have created such a vivid imagine of you having it that you are actually feeling the joy of having it before it even manifests in your physical reality. 

So if you struggle to feel the joy of having, especially if you don’t feel joy during your imagining sessions, if they feel blunt or boring instead of enjoyable, then you aren’t living from the end yet and you may need to make tweaks to the imaginal scene you are using in order to make it actually feel good to you.

In order to make it enjoyable and vivid and realistic, so that you don’t get the urge to complain about how much longer you need to be doing this, but you actually get excited about doing your imagining sessions because they are so enjoyable you can’t get enough of them! 

So these are the ways to tell if you need to keep imagining or if you have planted the seed correctly and are already living from the end. 

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