SATS
Neville Goddard's term for State Akin to Sleep, a drowsy, relaxed state used to imagine a scene that implies a goal has already happened.
SATS, short for State Akin to Sleep, is Neville Goddard’s term for the relaxed, drowsy state right at the edge of sleep, and the technique built around reaching it deliberately. Goddard taught that the ordinary, analytical mind is quieter in this in-between state, making it easier to genuinely feel a scene as real instead of just thinking about it in the abstract.
The practice itself is simple to describe: get physically still, let your thoughts slow the way they naturally do before sleep, then imagine one short, specific scene that would only make sense if your goal had already happened. Not the whole outcome, one small moment implying it.
SATS is the practical delivery mechanism for Goddard’s broader Law of Assumption teaching and for what he called living in the end. The state itself is simply the condition he identified for doing that assuming with real conviction rather than as an intellectual exercise.
For the full step-by-step process and common mistakes, see SATS Explained, and for the teacher behind it, Neville Goddard.
Related Terms
Law of Assumption
Neville Goddard's teaching that persistently assuming a state as already true, felt with real conviction, reshapes outward circumstance.
Living in the End
Mentally and emotionally occupying a wish already fulfilled, instead of rehearsing the wanting of it or waiting for it to arrive.
Manifestation
The idea that your beliefs, expectations and focus shape what you notice, pursue and eventually experience in daily life.
Revision
Neville Goddard's nightly practice of mentally replaying the day's events as you wish they had gone, rather than as they actually happened.