How to Use the SATS Technique

A very popular technique, and the most effective according to Neville Goddard, is 
SATS. This stands for State Akin to Sleep, which is essentially the drowsy state shortly 
before falling asleep, or right when you are waking up. During this state, you are almost 
in a hypnotic state, where you have a much more direct path to your subconscious. This 
is when it is easiest to reprogram your mind with the affirmations and visualizations you 
want to use for manifesting with the law of assumption. 

Here are some things to know about SATS and how to use it to manifest your desires 
into your current reality.


When Does the State Akin to Sleep Occur?

To take advantage of SATS, you want to be ready with your visualizations or 
affirmations about 15 minutes before you fall asleep. This is around the time when you 
can feel yourself almost dozing off, where you are getting drowsy and know sleep is just 
a few minutes away.

Your subconscious is most accessible and easiest to imprint when you are in SATS, as 
your conscious doesn’t get in the way and try to cloud your mind with a million other 
thoughts. Your conscious mind has a way of removing thoughts you have that it doesn’t 
easily believe or understand, which is why you need a time where you are completely 
relaxed, preferably in this dream-like state. 

You should be conscious enough to where you are able to pull up your visualization and 
loop it in your mind, or be able to repeat your affirmations in your mind as you drift off to 
sleep.


What to Do During the State Akin to Sleep

The best way to use SATS, and what Neville Goddard himself recommended, is to have 
a short scene that you loop over and over again as you are falling asleep. The reason 
you want to keep looping it, is because the longer you are able to focus on the 
visualization and keep your attention on that feeling of it, the easier it will be to imprint 
on your subconscious. 

Treat your visualization as if you are either watching a movie play out, or you are living 
in the wish fulfilled, with just one short scene in your life from first person. With 
visualization, either method works great, but if you can feel it much better in first person 
as if it is actually happening to you, then that’s the method you should choose. 

Another option for SATS if you aren’t good at visualizing or have trouble focusing on just 
one scene, is to use affirmations. You can choose a few affirmations that you keep 
looping in your mind as you are following asleep or any other time you feel drowsy and 
relaxed. Choose no more than 2-3 affirmations so that they are easy to remember and 
get right. 

Add some emotion to your affirmations whenever you can, whether you rewrite them 
into your own words, or add some feeling behind them. Don’t say them flatly in your 
mind. Say them with vigor and excitement. There is a big difference between “I am so 
wealthy” and “I am literally so rich I can buy anything I want”. The second might feel 
more like you than the first just because it adds a few extra words filled with emotion. 


Creating the Right Scene for Looping

While you can imagine anything you want for SATS, there are a few things that can 
make this visualization even more powerful for the law of assumption. 

Make sure it feels natural and realistic. This doesn’t mean it has to be realistic in the 
sense that it could actually happen. You can manifest anything you want, there are no 
limits here. By realistic, we mean that it should be a way of responding or reacting or 
feeling that feels real to you. 

If you are not someone who likes talking on the phone, maybe you text in your scene as 
you tell your mom your exciting news, instead of calling her on the phone. It should feel 
natural and like a normal way you would respond to this manifestation coming true.

Choose a scene short enough to loop over and over again. A common mistake 
people make with their visualizations is making them much too long and complex. If 
your scene takes place over 10-15 minutes, you won’t be able to loop it and it will 
probably be different every single time. Choose a very short scene that is around 30 
seconds or so. This is long enough to imprint it into your subconscious, but short 
enough where you can keep looping it.

Feel it real. A good scene to loop for the law of assumption is one that eventually feels 
real. If you try a scene and loop it for several nights in a row, but you never connect to it, 
then it might not be the one for you. It should make you feel so good that it puts a smile 
on your face every time you go through it. You can actually feel those emotions of 
happiness, joy, excitement, peace. 


Don’t Forget About Naps and Meditation

People often refer to actually going to sleep at night when doing SATS, but don’t forget 
about other times of the day when you feel drowsy or extremely restful. The point is to 
do this during a time when you are completely relaxed, are not stressed about anything, 
and when you feel like your conscious mind is not going to take over and interrupt your 
visualizations. 


Is SATS Required for Manifesting?

Absolutely not! Not everyone is able to fully visualize, and that’s okay. You don’t need to 
use this time of day at all just to affirm your assumptions. It is simply one of many 
techniques available to you. 



