I was reading Neville Goddard’s book The Law and the Promise. In chapter 3 entitled Turn The Wheel Backward, he talks about changing the past by revisiting it and by using one’s imagination, rewriting the past. This is done through something Goddard calls revision. “Because imagining creates reality, we can carry revision to the extreme and revise a scene that would be otherwise unforgivable.” The practice is to go into almost a dream state before going to sleep at night and imagine how things would seem and how people would act and how things would look if a situation were different than it was currently. The imagined change goes forward while the old pattern ceases to exist.

For an exercise we can apply this to something in the past. We can rewrite our day and imagine it into something better than it was, before going to bed. We can re-do a relationship with a friend or relative by reconstructing the past with new content. We would do this repetitively every night. We can revise the messages that we get in the mail. We could mentally rewrite it and make it conform to news we wish we had received. Do it over and over until it feels natural. Imagine it better than the best that we can think.

Goddard explains that our confidence in the power of our imagination will grow from our experience working with it and experimenting with it. Only by this process, he says, will we realize the potential power of our awakened creator ability. If we practice seeing the new and improved reality over and over, in a dreamlike state of mind that gives us direct access to the subconscious, until it takes on tones of reality, then man can awaken into a world completely subject to his imaginative power.

Exercise

Imagine a world as a world of peace, love, compassion, joy, health and hope.  Imagine our best days are happening to us.  Imagine us working out our problems together in dynamic new ways.  Imagine all darkness so illuminated that it just turns into benign shades of pale grays.  Imagine your days filled with exciting work that is highly rewarding.  Imagine it over and over until it feels so real.