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Revision: The Technique That Rewrites What Already Happened · Neville Goddard Mindset

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  She was 28 years old, and she had carried the same
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  conversation in her mind for six years.
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  It was a conversation with her father, a conversation that
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  happened at a kitchen table on a Sunday afternoon when she was
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  22. He had looked at her and told
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  her she would never amount to anything, that she was wasting
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  her life, that she did not have what it took.
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  Six years. Every morning she woke up and
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  that conversation was waiting for her.
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  Not as a memory, as a fact, a settled, permanent, immovable
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  fact about who she was and what she deserved.
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  She came to one of my lectures in Lowe's Angels.
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  She did not ask a question during the talk.
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  She waited until the room was nearly empty.
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  And then she approached me and said, Neville, is there anything
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  that can undo what has already happened?
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  I said yes, everything, because what already happened did not
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  happen in the way you think it did.
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  And then I taught her revision. My name is Neville, and revision
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  is perhaps the most misunderstood technique I ever
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  taught, because it asks you to do something that the rational
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  mind says is impossible. It asks you to change the past,
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  not to forget it, not to reframe it, not to find a silver lining
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  or a lesson or a way to make peace with it.
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  To change it. To enter the state akin to sleep
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  and reimagine a past event not as it happened, but as you wish
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  it had happened, and to feel that revised version as real.
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  I tell you from my own experience, this is not
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  delusion. This is the most precise
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  application of the law of assumption I have ever
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  discovered, because if consciousness is the only
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  reality, then the past exists nowhere except in your
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  consciousness of it, and your consciousness of it can be
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  revised. In this teaching, I will show
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  you exactly how revision works, why it works, and how to use it
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  tonight to dissolve any wound, any regret, and any limiting
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  belief that has its roots in something that happened to you.
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  Let me begin with the truth that most people, people have never
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  considered the past does not exist.
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  I do not mean this philosophically.
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  I mean it literally. close your eyes right now and try to find
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  the past. Try to touch it.
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  Try to locate it anywhere in your physical reality.
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  You cannot. The past exists in one place and
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  one place only, your memory. And your memory is not a
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  recording, it is a construction. Neuroscience has shown what I
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  taught decades ago. Every time you recall a memory
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  you reconstructed, you do not playback a tape.
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  You rebuild the experience from pieces, and those pieces are
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  influenced by your current state, your current beliefs, and
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  your current assumptions. This means your memory of the
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  past is not fixed, it is alive. It is being recreated every time
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  you revisit it, and if it is being recreated, it can be
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  recreated differently. Consciousness is the only
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  reality, the past. You carry with you the version
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  of events that shapes yourself, concept, your relationships,
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  your sense of what is possible is a construction of
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  consciousness, and consciousness can be revised.
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  You are imagination, and imagination creates reality.
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  This includes the reality of what you believe happened to
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  you. The state you occupy determines
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  the world you see. And if the state you occupy is 1
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  shaped by a painful past, the world you see will reflect that
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  pain. Not because the world is
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  punishing you, but because your consciousness is still
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  impressing the old assumption upon the subconscious mind.
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  Every time you replay that hurtful conversation, that
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  failure, that rejection, that humiliation, you are performing
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  a sad in reverse. You are entering a feeling state
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  and impressing it upon the subconscious with vivid sensory
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  detail. And the subconscious, faithful
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  and literal, accepts it and continues to build your world
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  from that impression. Revision reverses this process.
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  Instead of replaying what happened, you reimagine what
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  happened. You enter the state akin to
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  sleep and reconstruct the memory not as it was, but as you wish
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  it had been. And when the subconscious
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  receives this new depression, it begins to build from it instead.
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  So we have established that the past exists only in
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  consciousness, that memory is a reconstruction rather than a
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  recording, and that every time you replay a painful memory, you
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  are actively impressing the old assumption upon your
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  subconscious mind. But here is the question that
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  separates the curious from the committed.
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  If you revise a memory, does reality actually change?
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  Or are you simply lying to yourself?
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  What I am about to tell you will answer the that question, and
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  the answer is more radical than you might be prepared for.
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  Reality does change. Not the historical record, not
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  the calendar date on which an event occurred, but the effects
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  of that event, the consequences, the patterns, the beliefs, the
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  behaviors that flowed from it. Those change completely.
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  Let me tell you why. Your subconscious mind does not
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  care about historical accuracy. It cares about feeling.
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  When you carry a painful memory, the subconscious does not file
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  it as a past event, it files it as a present instruction.
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  The feeling of rejection you carry from 10 years ago is not a
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  memory to your subconscious, it is a current blueprint.
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  Build more of this. Create more situations that
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  match this feeling. This is why patterns repeat.
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  This is why people who are hurt in childhood attract similar
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  hurt in adulthood. Not because the world is cruel.
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  Because the subconscious is building from the same blueprint
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  over and over and over. When you revise the memory, when
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  you replace the feeling of rejection with a feeling of
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  acceptance, of being valued, of being loved, the subconscious
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  receives a new blueprint and it begins building from that one
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  Instead. The old pattern dissolves not
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  because you fought it, not because you analysed it in
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  therapy for 15 years, because you gave the architect a new set
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  of plans. I tell you from my own
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  experience, I have seen people revise a single childhood memory
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  and watch decades of self sabotage end within weeks.
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  Not gradually, abruptly, as though a switch had been
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  flipped. Because the subconscious had
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  been building from the old blueprint for years, and the
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  moment it received a new one, it began building something
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  entirely different. There to assume the feeling of
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  the wish fulfilled, including the wish that the past had
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  unfolded differently. Now, the practical method.
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  Step one. Choose the memory you wish to
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  revise. It does not have to be the most
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  traumatic event of your life. Start with something that still
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  carries a a charge, a conversation that hurt you, a
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  moment of failure, a rejection that shaped how you see
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  yourself. Something that, when you think
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  of it, you can still feel in the body.
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  Step 2. Lie down.
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  Enter the state akin to sleep. Let the body relax.
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  Let the drowsiness come. You know this doorway by now,
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  the liminal space between waking and sleeping, where the
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  conscious guard is down and the subconscious is fully receptive.
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  Step three. Recall the memory, but change
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  it. Do not replay what happened.
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  Reimagine it as you wish it had happened.
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  If someone said something cruel to you, hear them saying
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  something kind instead. If you failed at something, see
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  yourself succeeding. If you were rejected, feel
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  yourself being welcomed. The key is this.
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  You must be inside the scene, not watching it from above,
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  inside it, looking through your own eyes, hearing through your
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  own ears, feeling through your own body.
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  Step 4. Feel it as real.
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  This is the only step that matters.
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  The revised scene is merely the vehicle.
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  The feeling is the impression. When you genuinely feel the
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  revised version of events, when your body relaxes into the
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  warmth of it, when the old tension dissolves, the
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  impression has been made. Step 5.
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  Release it and let sleep come. The subconscious has received
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  the new blueprint. Let it do its work.
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  Man's imagination is the only redemptive power in the world,
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  and revision is imagination applied to the one area most
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  people believe is beyond redemption, the past.
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  A few important notes. First, you can revise events
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  from any period of your life. Yesterday, last year, childhood.
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  There is no statute of limitations on revision.
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  Second, you can revise events you do not remember clearly.
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  If you carry a general feeling of unworthiness from childhood
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  but cannot pinpoint a specific event, you can construct A
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  revised childhood scene, a moment of being deeply loved and
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  valued, and impress that upon from the subconscious instead.
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  Third, revision is not a one time act.
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  Some memories carry deep charge. You may need to revise the same
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  event several nights in a row before the feeling fully shifts.
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  This is not failure, this is persistence, and persistence is
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  the only discipline the law requires.
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  Persist in your assumption, and the world must rearrange itself
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  to conform, Even if the assumption is about something
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  that happened 20 years ago. I want to guide you through a
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  revision right now. close your eyes, take a slow breath.
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  Let the body settle. Think of 1 memory that still
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  carries weight, 1 moment that shaped how you see yourself.
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  It may be a conversation, an event, a look on someone's face,
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  whatever comes to mind first. Trusted.
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  Now I want you to replay that moment, but this time change it.
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  If there were harsh words, hear gentle ones instead.
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  If there was rejection, feel welcome.
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  If there was failure, feel the deep satisfaction of having
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  succeeded. See it from inside.
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  Feel the warmth of it. Feel the rightness of it, as
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  though this is what actually happened.
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  As though this is the truth. And the other version was the
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  dream. Isn't it wonderful?
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  Let the revised memory settle into the body, Let it become
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  warm. Let it become real.
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  The subconscious is receiving this impression right now, and
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  it will build from it. You may release the scene.
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  Remember the woman I told you about at the beginning?
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  28 years old, six years carrying a kitchen table conversation
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  with her father every morning, waking to the same words, You
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  will never amount to anything. She revised it.
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  She entered the state akin to sleep and reimagined that Sunday
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  afternoon. Same kitchen, same table, same
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  father, but different words. In her revised scene, her father
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  looked at her and said, I am proud of you.
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  I have always been proud of you. You are going to do remarkable
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  things. She felt it.
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  She let sleep carry it. Within a month, something
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  extraordinary happened. Her father, the real physical
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  man, called her on the phone. He said something he had never
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  said before. He said, I have been thinking
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  about you. I want you to know that I
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  believe in you. She did not ask him to call.
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  She did not tell him about the revision, she did not manipulate
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  or strategize. She changed the memory, and the
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  man in her world, who was always a reflection of her
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  consciousness of him, conformed to the new assumption.
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  The most important conversation you will ever have is the one
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  you hold with yourself, and revision is the art of rewriting
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  the conversations that have been holding you prisoner.
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  What you desire, you already are in eternity, and the past that
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  shaped you into someone who believed otherwise can be be
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  revised tonight. Sleep as though the wish were
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  fulfilled, wake as though it is already so, and carry a revised
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  past into your future, because the future can only be as free
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  as the past that builds it. If you are carrying a memory
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  tonight that has defined you, a wound, a failure, a word spoken
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  by someone who did not know the power of their words, I ask you
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  to revise it before you sleep. Not to forget, not to forgive,
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  to reimagine, to give the subconscious a new blueprint to
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  to walk into tomorrow built from a different foundation.
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  If these teachings speak to something within you, you will
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  find more of them here. Return when you are ready.
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  Each time we meet, we go deeper into the principles that I spent
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  a lifetime proving. The past is not a prison.
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  It is a construction of consciousness, and consciousness
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  can always be revised.