REVISION
Falsifying the Record (Revision)
This technique involves consciously revising one's memory or perception of an undesirable event or conversation, particularly concerning others. Instead of…
Step by step
- Identify an undesirable event, conversation, or state concerning oneself or another.
- Recognize that this event is a 'record' in one's memory.
- Consciously choose to 'falsify' or revise this record.
- Imagine the event or conversation as it ideally should have been, or imagine the person in their desired state.
- Persist in this revised mental image, changing one's memory of the past event.
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The Cup Of Experience
This technique involves consciously revising one's memory or perception of an undesirable event or conversation, particularly concerning others. Instead of accepting the negative 'record' of what happened, one 'falsifies' it by imagining a more desirable outcome or a different version of the event.
Now, you cannot conceive of anyone commending a dishonest employee, so what is the parable telling you? That there is a record being kept in you! Who is keeping it? Your memory! You know what you saw today, what you heard, what the mail brought, and how you felt because of the recording being in you. Perhaps someone called to tell you they were having marital problems. Now, you are called upon to falsify the record. Having heard their message of distress must you live with it? No, not if you are an unjust steward! Called upon to give an accounting of your day at its end, have you falsified the records? Or are you going to let the curtain fall upon this day without changing the record regarding the person in distress? Told to sit down quickly and modify the conversation - if not 100%, then 50%, then 20% - but change your memory of the conversation, for although we are detached, we are one in the human imagination!
The parable of the unjust steward teaches that one's memory keeps a 'record' of daily events. As the 'steward' of one's consciousness, one has the power and responsibility to 'falsify' this record by revising it, thereby changing the cause of future events, as all things exist within the human imagination.