Surrender · “Let Go to Receive”
It Is Done!'
To finish any manifestation practice with a felt declaration of completion — ‘It is done’ — that ends the wanting, signals the matter is settled, and hands it over, so the mind stops re-opening and reworking the desire.
‘It is done’ in 5 lines: Do your normal practice — affirmation, visualisation, the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Then seal it: say “It is done,” the way you’d say Amen, and feel the finality and relief. Done means done — stop asking, stop checking, hand it over. Walk away as someone whose request is already granted. Return your attention to ordinary life and real action.
What it is
Richard Dotts teaches a deliberately tiny closing move rather than a stand-alone manifestation method: after you have done whatever inner work you do — an affirmation, a visualisation, a moment of the feeling-tone — you end it with the felt declaration “It is done.” Dotts builds the practice explicitly on the analogy of “Amen” at the close of a prayer: a word that says the asking is finished, the matter is sealed. The point is that most people never actually stop asking — they re-open the desire dozens of times a day, and each re-opening re-affirms that it has not yet arrived.
The “it is done” declaration is a clean full-stop that ends the wanting and hands the desire over, so the mind can let go.
The Method
Faithfully synthesised from Dotts’s It Is Done!:
- Do your usual practice first. Dotts is explicit that this is a final step that layers onto whatever you already do — an affirmation, a Neville-style “feeling of the wish fulfilled,” a visualisation, even EFT or other techniques. You do not have to change your existing method. → it is a closer, not a replacement.
- At the end, declare it complete. When the practice is finished, internally (or quietly aloud) say “It is done” — the way one says Amen to seal a prayer. Dotts frames these as three ordinary English words that, used “in the right fashion,” act as a switch.
- Feel the completion, don’t just recite it. The words carry weight only when paired with the feeling that it is genuinely settled — a small surge of finality, relief, even quiet excitement or thanks, as if the thing has already been granted and there is nothing left to do. Dotts stresses concentrating on how you feel after the practice, not on the mechanics.
- Then stop — fully. “Done” means done. You do not re-open the file. No checking, no re-wanting, no anxious “is it working yet?” The declaration’s whole job is to give you permission to drop it and turn your attention elsewhere.
- Carry the settled tone, not the desire. Walk away in the relaxed posture of someone whose request has already been granted, leaving the “how” and “when” out of your hands. (Sourcing note: “It is done,” the Amen analogy, and “the final step” are Dotts’s framing, attributed. The numbered protocol is a faithful synthesis of his book, not a reproduction of his text.)
Source & Lineage
Richard Dotts is a contemporary, high-volume self-published manifestation author in the Neville Goddard / New Thought line, who pushes consistently toward the effortless, surrendered end of practice.
“It is done” restates an old idea: Neville’s “feeling is the secret” plus the long surrender/allowing stream (the act is finished, now release it). The Amen / “it is finished” framing has deep devotional roots (it echoes the Gospel “It is finished” and the sealing function of Amen), which Dotts secularises into a manifestation closer.
The Traditions' versions
Amen / “So be it” / “And so it is” — the ancient sealing word ending a prayer; Dotts’s direct model. Common in Unity/New Thought affirmative-prayer closings (Emmet Fox, Catherine Ponder).
- Neville’s “it is done” / signing off — assuming the wish fulfilled and then dismissing the subject, confident the impression is made.
- Surrender / letting go — releasing attachment to the outcome after the inner act.,
- “Thank you” as completion — gratitude as the felt sign the thing is already given.
- Prayer of faith (“believe you have received it”) — Mark 11:24; treating the request as already granted.
Common refinements
Saying it but not stopping. The error that defeats the whole thing: declaring “it is done” and then re-opening the desire an hour later. Done must mean done.
- Reciting without feeling. Flat words do little; the felt sense of finality/relief is the operative part.
- Using it to check on results. “It is done… is it working?” reintroduces lack. No surveillance.
- Treating it as a magic spell. It is a closure device, not an incantation that bypasses real action and circumstance.
- Forcing excitement. Quiet, genuine relief beats manufactured hype — strain reintroduces the grasping it is meant to end.