The Pruning Shears of Revision (Daily Practice)

Step by step

1. At the end of the day, review the entire day's episodes, events, conversations, and meetings without judgment.
2. As you see it clearly in your mind's eye, rewrite or revise any undesirable scenes to conform to the ideal day you wish you had experienced.
3. In your imagination, relive the revised day over and over until it takes on the tones of reality and feels as if you actually experienced it.

Related Bible passages

• Ephesians 4:26

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The Pruning Shears Of Revision

At the end of each day, review all events, conversations, and meetings. Without judgment, rewrite or revise any undesirable scenes in your mind's eye to conform to your ideal experience. Then, in imagination, relive this revised day repeatedly until it feels real. This practice changes future experiences and awakens the spirit of forgiveness.

Now this is how we do it. At the end of my day, I review the day; I don't judge it, I simply review it. I look over the entire day, all the episodes, all the events, all the conversations, all the meetings, and then as I see it clearly in my mind's eye, I rewrite it. I rewrite it and make it conform to the ideal day I wish I had experienced. I take scene after scene and rewrite it, revise it, and having revised my day, then in my imagination I relive that day, the revised day, and I do it over and over in my imagination until this seeming imagined state begins to take on to me the tones of reality. It seems that it's real, that I actually did experience it and I have found from experience that these revised days, if really lived, will change my tomorrows.

This technique is the practical application of tending the "garden of God" (the mind). By revising the past, one changes the future, as the past is not gone but advances to confront you. It also cultivates the spirit of forgiveness by transforming negative perceptions.

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