Why is your dream board not working?

If I go to Amazon books and search the term ‘Thoughts become things’ I get 4000 search results. Now, I don’t know the exact content of those books, but what if one crucial element was missing? What if all those dream boards we’ve been making are not going to manifest the life we want? It would be kind of a big deal, right? For sure it’s fun to spend an afternoon dreaming and doing an art project, but at the end of the day we’d like those cut outs to become a reality.

Through a trail of breadcrumbs (metaphorically of course) I came across a book by Neville Goddard called Feeling is the Secret. Originally published in 1944 in it he explains the beautiful relationship between our conscious and subconscious mind. 

Consciousness is the least understood part of human experience. There are four main schools of thought on this subject if you want to read more about it: materialism, duality, panpsychism, and idealism.

For now, let’s go back to the Feeling is the Secret. In it Goddard asks us to imagine consciousness as a river, with two streams flowing into it - conscious and subconscious. 
The conscious is personal and selective.

The subconscious is impersonal and non selective. 

The conscious is the domain of effect.

The subconscious is the domain of cause.

The conscious is male.

The subconscious is female. 

The conscious generates ideas and impresses those ideas onto subconscious. 

The subconscious receives ideas and gives form and expression to them. 

Subconscious expresses ideas that the conscious feels to be true.

Therefore through our power to imagine and feel, and our freedom to choose the idea, we have control over what we create in our reality.

The mechanism of creation is hidden in the very depth of the subconscious, the female aspect or womb of creation. The subconscious transcends reasons, it contemplates a feeling as a fact and on this assumption proceeds to give expression to it. The creative process begins with an idea, the cycle runs its course as a feeling and ends in a power to act. 

No idea can be impressed upon the subconscious until it’s felt. But once it’s felt (good, bad or indifferent) it must be expressed. 

Feeling is the bridge between conscious and subconscious. It doesn’t mean we should suppress negative feelings, on the contrary! As we become aware of our feelings we choose to process them, release the charge of the negative emotions and invite the positive ones.

The dominant feeling will be the one expressed. I am loved is a stronger feeling than I will be loved when…insert the condition we’ve imposed on ourselves. To feel ‘I will be’ is to admit ‘I am not’. And ‘I am’ is stronger than ‘I am not’. 

Whatever our mind can conceive and feel as true, the subconscious can and must objectify. As soon as it receives this truth it starts to work out the details of how to make it real. 

If we want a positive outcome, feel how we would feel if this was already true. 

Sounds easy, but it’s not. Most of us don’t even have a handle on the thoughts, let alone emotions! Why? 

• Lack of awareness. We were not taught to pay attention to our emotions or talk about them. 

• Our society glorifies intellect, so we focus a lot of our attention on our mind.

• Trauma. We learn to numb ourselves because feeling equals unprocessed pain.

Mastery of self is our highest achievement. 

Until we can master self in every moment of our waking life we can use sleep and meditation as shortcuts to access the subconscious. 

Sleep and meditation are the natural door to the subconscious. In the state of meditation and just before we fall asleep our brain produces theta brain waves. That is when we are most receptive to the suggestions.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction.

Before you drop off to sleep feel your wish fulfilled. Not what you want but what you already are. Ask yourself ‘How would I feel if my wish was realised?’ as you relax into sleep. 

Knowing that nothing is impossible, imagine states beyond the experiences of the past. 

During the day, spend time to sit in a relaxation, feel what it would feel to have the desired outcome. Don’t try to work out the details of it, only the end state. It should be a passive state not an active wilful state. No effort or trying.

We don’t attract what we want, we attract what we are. 

As I was lying in bed last night I tried to imagine this feeling. I realised that I don’t really know what I want. I started getting frustrated with myself for not knowing (I’m a grown woman for f@£$%^ sake I should know). Then I remembered that I’m doing the opposite of what this book had been telling me to do. So I let go and felt love and gratitude for all there is and what’s to come. 

Until I figure out how I want to feel I’ll feel that.

Try it! If it doesn’t work and you can’t manifest your feelings into reality, at least you will fall asleep feeling positive.

And if you don’t like it? Well, there is always the old way of being.