REVISION
Revision
Revision is the practice of mentally replaying a past event or conversation, altering it in imagination to align with a desired outcome, and experiencing the…
Step by step
- Identify an undesirable past event or conversation.
- Mentally replay the event, but change the details to be ideal or desired.
- Engage your feelings and senses, experiencing the revised event with joy, relief, or satisfaction as if it were real.
- Persist in this revised mental state, letting go of the original undesirable memory.
- Identify an 'unlovely' event or conversation.
- Do not accept it as final.
- Instantly revise it in your mind.
- Hear the words that 'ought to have been spoken'.
- Persuade yourself, to the best of your ability, that this revised version is the true reality.
- Identify a past event or memory that is undesirable.
- Enter a relaxed, imaginative state.
- Re-imagine the event as it *ought* to have been, or as you *wish* it had been.
- Persist in this revised scene until it feels real and the original memory is released.
- Feel the breath of relief, knowing it is done.
- Identify a situation or event you wish to change or improve.
- The moment you sense a problem or undesirable outcome, immediately revise it in your imagination.
- Change your thinking and belief about the situation to align with your desired outcome.
- Do not put off revision; act on it 'now' to prevent the problem from becoming more difficult to overcome.
- 1. Identify an undesirable event or outcome, whether past or seemingly predetermined for the future.
- 2. Go within and vividly imagine the event as having happened differently, in a desirable way.
- 3. Persist in this revised imaginal act, feeling its reality, until it feels natural and true.
- In imagination, re-enact the event, changing it to the desired outcome.
- Hear the desired words and feel the thrill or satisfaction of the new outcome.
- Persist in this revised scene until it feels real.
- Identify an undesirable past event or current condition.
- Mentally go back to that event or imagine the condition as healed/desired.
- Re-enact the scene in your imagination, changing the details to reflect the ideal outcome.
- Persist in this revised imaginative act until the physical manifestation occurs.
- Upon waking, observe the thoughts or visions of future events that come to mind.
- If you dislike what you perceive, do not accept it.
- Engage in a 'radical change in thinking' (repentance) about that event.
- Imagine the desired outcome instead, as if it has already happened.
- Persist in this revised mental state to change the future event.
- Identify an undesirable event or outcome.
- Mentally re-enter the scene or situation.
- Imagine the event unfolding as you would have desired it.
- Focus intensely on the feeling of relief or satisfaction that would naturally arise from this desired outcome.
- Drop the imaginal act, trusting it is done.
- Identify a past event that caused a negative experience or pain.
- In your imagination, re-enter that scene.
- Mentally alter the scene to reflect a desired, positive outcome, eliminating the cause of the original negative experience.
- Experience the revised scene as real, feeling the relief or joy of the new outcome.
- Recall the undesirable event.
- Mentally replay the event, but consciously omit or change the negative part.
- Experience the revised scene as if it actually happened that way.
- Repeat until the new version feels real and the old one loses its emotional charge.
- 1. Identify an unlovely past event or condition.
- 2. Imaginatively re-enter that past moment.
- 3. Re-experience the event as it should have been, making it perfect.
- 4. Feel the reality of this revised past, lifting it to a higher level of consciousness.
- Identify an undesirable event, conversation, or statement.
- Mentally 'stop the action' of the unwanted experience.
- Rewrite the script of the event to reflect your desired outcome.
- Imagine hearing or experiencing the revised version as if it actually happened.
- Make the day conform to what you want it to be by revising any unwanted occurrences.
- Identify an unpleasant event or moment from your day.
- Before the day ends (before night descends), mentally revisit that moment.
- In your imagination, revise the scene to make it pleasant or as you wished it had been.
- Feel the reality of this revised scene as if it actually happened.
- This act 'redeems the time' and prevents the unpleasant event from recurring in your future experiences on the wheel of recurrence.
- Identify an undesirable past event or condition.
- In your imagination, re-enact the event, but change the details to what you wish had happened.
- Persist in this revised scene, experiencing it as real.
- Continue the revision daily until the desired change manifests in your physical world.
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All Things Exist
Revision is the practice of mentally replaying a past event or conversation, altering it in imagination to align with a desired outcome, and experiencing the emotional thrill of the revised event as if it truly happened. This act changes the past in one's consciousness, thereby changing its future effects.
Scripture urges us to revise, to forgive, and change our thoughts, thereby changing the conditions of our life. This is how it is done. A friend recently wrote saying: “Three weeks ago a friend called, saying he was afraid he was going to be fired. I instantly revised his call. Hearing his voice bubbling with excitement, he told me how he had been praised for his work and I felt the thrill of rejoicing with him. Today he came to my office and said the very words I heard in my imagination.
This technique is presented as a direct application of scripture's call to 'change our thoughts' and 'forgive,' leading to a transformation of life conditions. It demonstrates the power of imagination to alter perceived reality.
Building Your Temple
Revision is the practice of mentally altering an undesirable past event or conversation. Instead of accepting an 'unlovely' experience, one should immediately re-imagine it as it 'ought to have been', hearing the desired words or seeing the desired outcome, and persuading oneself of its reality.
Now I ask you to continue to test your creative power by practicing revision. If you hear something that is unlovely, don’t accept it, but instantly revise it. Hear the words that ought to have been spoken and persuade yourself, to the best of your ability, that it is so.
Revision is a powerful application of the creative power of imagination. By revising the past, one changes the present and future, demonstrating that reality is malleable and subject to the imaginative act. It's a way to 'test your creative power' and align with the desired reality.
Christ In Man
Revision is the practice of imaginatively altering a past event or memory to conform to a desired outcome. It is equated with repentance and results in the 'repeal' of the original, undesirable event, causing the past to conform to the revised version.
It was so easy for me to create out of nothing, but when I came upon a scene out of the past, that I know to be a fact, I couldn’t change it, for I couldn’t let go of the past. But I persisted and persisted and I was eventually rewarded, as the house was turned into a glorious new hotel and the streetcar into a streamlined bus... I know that since this man heard my message years ago he has been daily practicing revision. Revision is repentance and revision results in repeal. When you revise a memory that is fixed you have repealed it... So I ask everyone to practice revision. Revise the past. I don’t care what it is, revise it and the past will conform to your dream of what it ought to have been and appear before you.
The friend's struggle to change a past scene highlights the difficulty of letting go of fixed memories, but persistence in revision ultimately transforms the past. Revision is a powerful tool to redeem the past and reshape one's reality.
Follow The Pattern
Revision is the act of changing your thinking and belief about a past event or current problem. It involves altering the inner perception of a situation the moment it is sensed, rather than delaying, to create a corresponding change in your outer world.
The Book of Mark begins: “Repent.” That’s revision! That’s changing your thinking, thereby changing your belief, which causes a corresponding change in your world. In this lady’s vision, she reminded herself to revise now and not put it off until a later date. This is so true! Imagining creates reality, for waiting will cause you to find the problem more difficult to overcome, so change it the moment you sense it. Always revise now!
Repentance is not about guilt but about a fundamental change of mind (revision). By revising a past event or current perception, one changes the inner state, which then reshapes the external reality, as imagination creates reality.
He Dreams In Me
The technique of Revision involves consciously modifying or radically changing past events or experiences in one's imagination, effectively altering the dream of life.
Yes, for this is a dream which you can modify or radically change. In fact you are called upon to revise every day of your life and sometimes even to eradicate it.
Since life is a dream, past events are not fixed but can be revised in the imagination. This act of revision changes the impact of the past and can even 'eradicate' its negative effects, influencing the present and future.
Infinite Power
The ability to change a past or predetermined undesirable event by using the power of imagination to mentally revise it to a more desirable outcome.
A girl showed her a chart with the letter "K" marking the day, saying her child was to be kidnapped, as she needed that experience. Becoming angry, this lady told the girl she didn't have to experience these things. That she could revise the day's experience by using the power of her imagination.
Man is not bound by predetermined events or past experiences; he can alter them through the power of his imagination, thereby changing their future impact or preventing their manifestation.
Seeing Christ Through The Eyes Of Paul
After an undesirable event or conversation, mentally re-enact it in imagination, changing the outcome to the desired one. Hear and feel the desired words and emotions as if they actually occurred.
After hanging up the phone I revised this conversation. I heard them tell me they had lots of work for me, and I felt the thrill in their words. One week later they called, asking me to design a 26-page book of institutional advertising, plus four ads for Harper’s Bazaar.
Revision is a powerful technique to alter past events and their future consequences by imaginatively changing the undesirable experience into a desired one. This demonstrates the creative power of imagination over perceived reality.
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That Which Already Has Been
A lady said to me the other night: “Look at my hands! A week ago they were blistered as if with acid; now there is no scar, but it took me five days of revision to bring about what you are seeing.” For unnumbered days prior to this nothing happened, but five days of revision brought this about. She produced in her own body this change.
Revision demonstrates the power of imagination to alter past events and their present consequences, proving that reality is malleable and subject to conscious imaginative acts.
The First Principle
Upon waking, observe the future events that are presenting themselves to your mind (as this world is a 'world of shadows' where events are predetermined). If you dislike what you perceive, immediately engage in the 'act of revision' by radically changing your thinking about it, thereby altering the predetermined outcome.
But we can change the events in this schoolroom through the act of revision. I had no desire to revise that race. I could have, and that which was completely finished, in detail, would have been changed. In scripture the word is "repentance," which means "a radical change in thinking." Tomorrow morning as you come to the surface mind, observe and record what you are seeing, for you are observing that which will take place tomorrow or next week in this world of shadows. And if you don't like what you see, change it. Don't do as you normally do, by jumping out of bed, washing your face, and once again find yourself locked in this world of shadows; take a moment and observe your future.
Revision is the practical application of 'repentance' (a radical change in thinking) to alter future events. By consciously changing one's inner perception of what is to come, one can change the external reality, proving that the world is a reflection of consciousness.
The Identical Harvest
Revision is the practice of mentally re-experiencing an undesirable event or situation as if it had happened ideally, focusing on the feeling of relief that would accompany the desired outcome.
When I left here last year, in the month of July, I checked my two suitcases at the airport. When I arrived in Los Angeles, one was missing. ... That morning about 2:00 o’clock I awoke and said, “Now, look here. I teach this principle, and, so, I have brought about a loss in my own world. I will have none of it! I teach Revision. I heard what the man said over the telephone! ‘The thing is lost. They cannot find it; we have looked high and low.’” Then you read in the papers that hundreds of millions of dollars are stolen every year at our airports, depots, and the wharves across the country, and it’s an inside job, as it were. So, at 2:00 o’clock in the morning I took in my hands my suitcase. I felt the weight of it; I could feel the weight. I could see in my mind’s eye the grey bag with the black leather. I could actually feel it, and I felt it with the sense of relief, for of all the pleasures in the world, relief is the most keenly felt.
Even if one has unwittingly planted an unlovely seed, Revision allows one to change the outcome by imaginatively altering the past event, thereby planting a new, desirable seed.
The Revealer
In imagination, mentally re-enact a past event that caused pain or an undesirable outcome, but revise it to have a positive outcome. By eliminating the cause in imagination, the physical effect is nullified.
Remembering the story of the father who had his seven-year-old son revise the scene where he was hurt, in my imagination I picked up the typewriter without any pain. Having eliminated its cause, I felt no need to request help on the outside and within a few days my back was fine once more.
Revision is a powerful technique based on the understanding that imagination is the true cause of all effects. By changing the past in imagination, one changes its present and future consequences.
The Roll Of The Book
The practice of mentally replaying an undesirable past event, but altering it to remove the negative aspects or introduce a desired outcome, thereby changing its impact and future manifestations.
I taught it to my son when he was five. At the time he had quite a serious accident and was bleeding profusely. As I washed the wound, I told my son to go over the entire event, but to omit the scene where he was hurt. I explained that if he omitted that particular scene he would have nothing to cry about. He did as I asked and immediately stopped crying... Since that day, whenever my son - who is now seven - gets hurt, he revises the scene and omits the part where he gets hurt. “While my wife was playing tennis she received a severe break to her ankle. We both revised the incident, and although she had to stop playing tennis for a while, the ankle healed rapidly with only the aid of an ace bandage, much to the amazement of the doctor.”
Revision is a powerful tool to alter the past's influence on the present and future, demonstrating the creative power of imagination. It can lead to physical healing and emotional well-being.
The Signs Of The End Sf
Revision is a technique to transform undesirable past events or conditions by imaginatively re-experiencing them as they should have been, thereby lifting and perfecting them on a higher level of consciousness.
So when man is lifted up all that is unlovely is lifted up and there is nothing unlovely on that higher level. Raise it up by revision.
By revising the past, one changes the present and future, aligning them with a higher, perfect state of consciousness where "nothing is unlovely."
Walk On The Water
Revision is the practice of mentally re-scripting undesirable past events or current statements to align with a desired outcome. It involves stopping the mental 'action' of the unwanted event and rewriting it in imagination, then experiencing the revised version as real.
Six weeks ago, while driving home from work, I revised her words. I heard her tell me she was dating a marvelous man and sharing the wonderful things they were doing. Recently this lady was so glum, I reminded myself to revise her words again, so I did. When you revise the hearing by stopping the action and rewriting the script you are walking on the water, imagining the reality you desire to hear and appear in your world. No matter what happens in the course of a day, revise it. Make the day conform to what you want it to be, and you are walking on the water.
Revision is a powerful way to 'walk on water' by consciously shaping reality through imagination, ensuring that one's world conforms to their desires rather than to unwanted facts.
Where Are You From
Revision is the practice of imaginatively altering an unpleasant past event or experience. Instead of letting an undesirable moment pass unaddressed, one should 'redeem the time' by mentally replaying the scene as it should have been, making it pleasant. This act of revision, which Neville equates to biblical 'repentance,' changes the pattern of recurrence, preventing the unpleasant event from being relived when the 'wheel of recurrence' turns again.
So I say: if there is one thing I have been brought into this world to tell you, it is the secret of revision: that if something today is unpleasant, you don't like it, don't let it slip by. The Bible speaks of “redeeming the time.” Every moment, if it is unpleasant, it should be redeemed, because you are going to meet it tomorrow as the wheel turns. So don't let the night descend and catch you with the unredeemed day. Take the day and redeem it. You may produce the results now, in the immediate present. But if you don't redeem it, when the wheel turns… because you haven't yet hatched out (or as Blake says, “For hatching ripe he breaks the shell,”) - but if the shell isn't yet broken by the series of events which detaches you from this wheel of recurrence, then revise the day. So that next time when the wheel comes around you aren't going to relive the unpleasant thing of this moment in time.
Revision is the secret to escaping the repetitive cycle of the 'wheel of recurrence' and modifying one's future experiences within God's grand dream. It is a radical change of mental attitude that, when consistently applied, transforms the outer aspects of life and leads to spiritual liberation.
How To Manifest Your Desires
Revision is the act of imaginatively altering a past event or condition to a more desirable one. By persistently revising the past in imagination, the physical effects of that past event can be changed in the present.
A lady said to me the other night: "Look at my hands! A week ago they were blistered as if with acid; now there is no scar, but it took me five days of revision to bring about what you are seeing." For unnumbered days prior to this nothing happened, but five days of revision brought this about. She produced in her own body this change.
This technique demonstrates that the past is not fixed and can be altered through imaginative revision, leading to tangible changes in the present reality, even in the physical body.