Feeling Twisty

Dive into what Nathan's doing here: the We Are Already Free Podcast and We Are Already Free

Hear how Mr. Twenty Twenty transformed his life after his Christmas Day Epiphany. And then our conversation flows in so many wonderful directions. We talk about manifesting, things spiritual and not obviously spiritual. We had fun!

This was so much fun! Check out my conversation with my dear friend, Alessandra Filippi, soprano. She's sharing her talents with students of all ages so they too can find their voice.  

I felt helpless and hopeless when the woman I just knew was the one for me told me to get lost. I found love, the woman of my dreams, only after I gave up fighting myself, thinking that another person could make me happy. Once I stopped fighting and really enjoyed learning to love myself, she came into my life...

When it comes to manifesting, Jerry Emeka says the simplest advice is 'let it be true.' I am so thrilled to have my friend as a guest on today's episode. 

When it comes to manifesting, it isn't that you're doing a technique wrong. It's our dogged insistence that we are not already who we want to be. 

Hey there! Go easy on yourself, you beautiful, eternal being, you! 

Mike shares a couple of stories on this episode. One from a friend who was certain he would be fired and a story from a woman who dreamed of the perfect home and now lives in it!  

I'm happy to share my conversation with my friend and special guest, Tony Doyle!

I was so thrilled when Grant Monk and Alessandra Filippi agreed to share a little bit about their love story. I'm sure we can all agree that love with a loving partner is a popular topic in manifesting circles. Grant and Alessandra show how simple it can be. I look forward to having them on again soon to share more of their story. I want to hear your story too. Send it to mystory@feelingtwisty.com

This is a new thing I'm doing. I have been wanting to bring guests on and this is the first of what will likely become a new, separate podcast.  My first guest is a name that anyone diving into manifesting over the last couple of decades will recognize,  Mr. Twenty Twenty. 

You're immense, eternal, a limitless being imagining limited stories. That's not just a cute little manifesting saying. It's truth!  You're the dreamer, dreaming your story. That's not metaphor. This is a dream. An imaginal universe. Malleable. Nothing is fixed unless you want it to be. 

What I do know is this: It takes no effort. You decide what effort is.  You have the final say. The only say.  You only need to decide/ assume / imagine a thing and carry on from there.  This day, right here and now, fulfillment is already being established. It can't not be. You're always experiencing fulfillment. But we get so caught up in insisting it isn't.

You are so big and beautiful. Every possible story to experience is already within you. Stop insisting you don't have what you do already have.

I have found the hit and miss nature of manifesting has nothing to do with a technique or a particular teaching. It comes down to my own indecisiveness. 

Decide a thing and it will be established for you. Look around you. Look at yourself in the mirror. See how powerful  you are? You did all of this with no effort.  You are infinitely greater than any problem and every success story you can imagine. 

"Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know." Jeremiah 33:3 Incomprehensible from a certain point of view, but so clear, so breathtaking and obvious from another. Turn to yourself. You're not calling on a power outside of yourself. One of the most difficult things for me was truly letting go of secondary causes. I said there was no other power but my own imagination, but I held a little idea deep down that the thing I call my imagination was still some other power, something ever so slightly separate from me. Let go of a little you and a big you. It's you, momentarily captivated with the notion of being little and big. You're so much more. Turn to yourself. As you do, more and more layers will peel back. You'll see so clearly how everything is responding to you.

Isn't it funny how we trust the word of a teacher we've never met and likely never will more than we trust the only one that matters. Ourselves! 

One night I something dawned on me. I have no problem keeping my promises to my friends and family. I imagine them just as they want to be and I refuse to let doubt creep in. The question I asked myself in that moment was, "Then why the hell do I continue to cave and settle, breaking my promises to myself?" My string of broken promises ended that night.

What I really want to impress on you today is that you are beautiful. You are holy. You're perfect. Your awareness of being is God. You are the operant power. The filter you're using to view yourself and your world is the only thing making you think you're less than.  What we see through the filter or our state of consciousness is so convincing we believe what we see and experience in the physical world is the only reality. And as we remain convinced, it feels nearly impossible to detach from it and trust the reality called imagination or awareness.  I can never make you believe you're a limitless being experiencing yourself as a limited person. No amount of programs or books or podcasts can make you see just how wonderful you are. It is a first person present tense, singular experience. Everything really is already first person present tense, singular but it seems that there are powers and influences outside of your control. Because you believe them to be outside of you. 

You are so much more than you've let yourself believe.

"I didn't need to find an empty room to get into the silence. The stillness is always with me. It is me. The immovable rock of my salvation. My I Amness. The I Am never changes. My states do. But as long as I continued to believe I am the state I am presently entertaining, I could get lost in it.  Just breathe. Loosen my focus for a moment..."

I received so many wonderful topic suggestions last week. Thank you for all the great ideas!   This episode is the first of my responses.  "I must not wait for facts to believe that I am the man that I want to be. I produce the facts if I know who I am." Neville 

My state was the cause and a new state is the solution.  "Consciousness is the one and only reality. There is no one to whom we can turn after we discover that our own awareness is God. For God is the cause of all and there is nothing but God." Neville Goddard

“Desiring is thinking of; living it is thinking from. Don't desire it, live it! I go to bed tonight desiring? No, go to bed living it. Sleep as though you were now the man that you formerly desired to be, just as though it were true.” Neville Goddard

Drop every reasonable explanation of why you can't be the person you want to be. Not by fighting it or avoiding it, but by embracing the new state. Fasten yourself to it in Imagination.

"Take this tonight and if you multiply what you paid when you came in by any figure in the world, it couldn't pay for it…if you believe it. If you accept it and decide to live by it, you have bought yourself freedom, real freedom. And so what is the price of freedom? You tell me what it is worth. If you can stop short of the ultimate, well then, you don't really want freedom. So you can't put any price on freedom. What have you this night that you would not give in its entirety if you were enslaved, and by the giving of it you would be set free." Neville Goddard

When we realize our true nature we know that there is no secondary cause. When the storms of life strike, I know I am the cause. The wonderful news is that I am also the cause of the calm.  Here are the sites I mentioned: Twenty Twenty's Coffee Game  Koti Tea's Masterclasses Dr. Anila Reddy's Unwind  

Who am I feeding? Am I feeding the state of lack or am I resting in the experience of my awareness as God and CHOOSING to nourish something different? Here's the link to Anila's program. Unwind

My friend, Frank, has discovered his true nature. He finally let me share a little bit about his life. 

I get to share Ryan's story about he found what he wanted through what Neville Goddard calls The First Principle. 

A friend recently asked me what I do when the storms rage. My answer is Neville Goddard's First Principle, or as those of us who grew up in church, Psalm 46:10. 'Be still and know that I am God.'

What do you want your new year to feel like knowing that God is your imagination and that what you imagine God imagines?

I died today. I died yesterday too. And I will die tomorrow. I want to die. I look forward to it.  I'm talking about death in the mystical sense. Dying to my old self - my former states. I don't want to ever stop dying to the limits I've previously set for myself while discovering new limits to move beyond. 

I love getting and sharing your stories with others. Here are a few fun ones. 

Choose this day what you love to feel. Choose every day what to imagine. It really is up to you. 

Someone recently asked me, "What's the point of turning within if you don't get the desired results?" This episode is my answer.

Here are a few stories from two women who refused to accept what the facts were telling them and trusted their inner self.   

Know it. Become one with the new state. Fall so madly in love with this new you that you look forward to spending time in the state. I don't mean repeating the same imaginal scene over and over. If you spend a few moments and really step into the new state in your imagination and feel the reality of it, the desire to redo the scene is no longer there. I'm talking about accepting that it's done and enjoying living, moving, and breathing in this new state. Here is Dr. Reddy's email: hello@anilareddy.com  And here is my friend Ricky's YouTube channel: Pay It Forward

“Now, in order to play the game of life, you must know what you want to replace what you have. When you know what it is, you must assume the feeling that you have it.” Neville Goddard Here's the link to Anila Reddy's 'Unwind.' https://anilareddy.com/unwind/

“What would you like to be in this world? Begin to imagine as if it were true. Know what you want, then cease wanting it and appropriate it. Begin, now, to imagine it is true. That is subjectively appropriating the objective hope.”

Hear how Jerry shed 60 pounds in under eight weeks. This, after spending the last 25 years trying all sorts of ways to lose and keep off the unwanted weight.  He got the idea to use his imagination to lose weight after going through David Breslow's 'Wired to Win' program. Here's a link to David's site. http://davebreslow.com/ 

I have a fun story from someone who got their boss a promotion (and themselves peace of mind) through use of their imagination. 

"Scripture tells us to love God because he first loved us, and that we should imitate him as a dear child. How is this done? By falling in love! Whether your desire be for wealth, fame, health, or marriage, you must fall in love with the state." Neville Goddard

You know how when you're with the one you love and you just want to devour them?  Nothing else outside of them exists in that moment.   Fall in love with the new state - the feeling of actually being or having what you truly want. Not what you think you should want. Not what anyone else says you should want.  Become one with it. No separation in time and space. You are it now. 

"When you have a desire, the deeper you, who men call God, is speaking. He urges you, through the language of desire, to accept that which is not that which is to be! Desire is simply his communion with you, telling you that your desire is yours, now! Your acceptance of this fact is proved by your complete adjustment to it as though it were true." Neville Goddard

“Listen within yourself and observe your internal mental conversations, for the state is singing its own song and it reveals itself in man's inner speech.” 

You ever have those times when you've imagined your wish fulfilled, then some time passes and nothing seems to have changed? 

I am always experiencing the reflection of my state. I am always producing from the state. My state has its own desires, beliefs, and reactions. It's my identity. It's the mask God wears.

"Tonight, as you put your head on that pillow, snuggle into the mood of the wish fulfilled in absolute confidence, and trust that God has ways and means your surface mind knows not of." Neville Goddard

This is one of my favorites of Neville Goddard's lectures.  "Want to awaken? Do this..." - Neville