Neville Goddard's Pruning Shears of Revision: It Is Not Tomorrow That We Fix, But Today's Past

(See my 11-17-16 post: http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/11/ooooohhhhh-way-to-pray-is-to-represent.html)

If you have a different present, you must have had a different past.

The present is not what we want, but it is what the past has produced. In revision, we heal the past. We review the day, and where it is wrong, we make it right by imagining what we wish had happened as though it did. The objective is not a different tomorrow, but a different today. We imagine the past as having produced what we want, and we experience that desired now as though it had already been produced by our past.

Tomorrow it will be, but do not experience it as "tomorrow," else tomorrow will never come. Experience it as having been produced already in your past, that it is an already accomplished fact you have now, today. Then tomorrow will be the fruit of our revised today.


See http://realneville.com/pdf/the_pruning_shears_of_revision.pdf
The text below is from http://realneville.com/txt/the_pruning_shears_of_revision.htm :

I’ve applied a simplified version–express shears. I wanted to get up earlier each day and feel refreshed and eager to get up and start the day. So, I started with the pruning shears. Each night, I saw that I had gotten up later than I’d like and felt tired and worn out. That was the review part of the exercise. Then, I replayed the morning in my mind–“re-visioned”–it. I saw that I had gotten up that past morning before 6:30am and felt refreshed and eager to get up and get moving with the day. So, I imagined that this past morning was as I wished it had been, instead of how it actually was. I kept playing and seeing the desired morning over and over again. That’s it! That’s all I did. To even my own amazement, it took only about 4-5 days of “re-visioning” before I was waking up before 6:30am (sometimes even as early as 5 am). The best part of all is that I was feeling refreshed and energized. I’d been waking up at those same times, anyway, before. What was entirely different was how great I felt–yes, even at 5am! Well, this has made me a believer!

I call my version the express version, because I only focused on one new thing each evening. Quite frankly, it was only one thing, because it was all I could do before I’d fall asleep.

So, because I’d been visioning the new morning experience, I was actually creating it as a new possibility for the morning. I literally created a new neural pathway in my brain that makes it both easy and possible to wake up early AND refreshed!

I say, it’s working, so keep going! I’ve even added a new thing to my nightly “re-visoning”.

Coach’s Challenge

Think about one thing you’d like to do differently and start “re-visioning” it before you go to sleep at night. Just one thing. Keep it simple! Let us know how it goes.

Suggested Resource

Check out my recent article.
- See more at: http://yourawesomelife.com/pruning-shears-revision/#sthash.HMzskKoJ.dpuf

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.
– Neville Goddard - See more at: http://yourawesomelife.com/pruning-shears-revision/#sthash.HMzskKoJ.dpuf

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.
– Neville Goddard - See more at: http://yourawesomelife.com/pruning-shears-revision/#sthash.HMzskKoJ.dpuf

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.
– Neville Goddard - See more at: http://yourawesomelife.com/pruning-shears-revision/#sthash.HMzskKoJ.dpuf

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.
– Neville Goddard - See more at: http://yourawesomelife.com/pruning-shears-revision/#sthash.HMzskKoJ.dpuf

"Now every man in the world is rooted in you who look out and see that world. Every man is rooted in me; he ends in me as I am rooted in and end in God. Because he is rooted in me he cannot bear other than the nature the root allows. So he is in me and any changes desired in the outer world can be brought about only if I change the source of the thing I see growing in my world.

"You see yonder fields?
Don't be surprised when you see sesamum:
The sesamum was sesamum,
The corn was corn,
The silence and the darkness knew
So is a man's fate born"

"So don't judge it, because you are the source of the thing that you are beholding. Now turn within and prune it by using these pruning shears of revision.

"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. When I meet people tomorrow that today disappointed me, they will not tomorrow, for in me I have changed the very nature of that being, and having changed him, he bears witness tomorrow of the change that took place within me. It is my duty to take this garden and really make it a garden by daily using the pruning shears of revision.

"I know from experience it will not only bring about these objectives, and bring about these changes, but the glorious thing is, it awakens in you, who use it, the spirit of Jesus, and you find yourself then not justifying but forgiving, and you will realize that freedom and forgiveness are indissolubly linked. You cannot be free and not forgive, for the one that you would bind and judge and condemn anchors you by your own judgment of him--for he is in you. And so by identifying him with the ideal you want to really realize you free yourself.

"You are told "Forgive and you shall be forgiven. Forgive not and then you shall not be forgiven". It's automatic; it can't be otherwise for the whole springs from you who behold it. And as you begin to practice it the very spirit arouses itself within you and you know that you are he that others spoke about and thought lived 2000 years ago.

"So, when you realize it, you realize it through actual knowledge, you know it; no argument, you don't tell others, you know that you are he. And then you will read the words in the ninth of Hebrews, "He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself". And you will know you are the one that put away sin by the sacrifice of self and by the sacrifice of self it's not being a brave one who throws himself in the line of fire to protect a brother, it doesn't mean one who gives his body to be burned, one who is nailed on a cross, but the self of man is the sum total of all that that man believes and consents to as true. So that's the self that is sacrificed."

I’ve applied a simplified version–express shears. I wanted to get up earlier each day and feel refreshed and eager to get up and start the day. So, I started with the pruning shears. Each night, I saw that I had gotten up later than I’d like and felt tired and worn out. That was the review part of the exercise. Then, I replayed the morning in my mind–“re-visioned”–it. I saw that I had gotten up that past morning before 6:30am and felt refreshed and eager to get up and get moving with the day. So, I imagined that this past morning was as I wished it had been, instead of how it actually was. I kept playing and seeing the desired morning over and over again. That’s it! That’s all I did. To even my own amazement, it took only about 4-5 days of “re-visioning” before I was waking up before 6:30am (sometimes even as early as 5 am). The best part of all is that I was feeling refreshed and energized. I’d been waking up at those same times, anyway, before. What was entirely different was how great I felt–yes, even at 5am! Well, this has made me a believer!

I call my version the express version, because I only focused on one new thing each evening. Quite frankly, it was only one thing, because it was all I could do before I’d fall asleep.

So, because I’d been visioning the new morning experience, I was actually creating it as a new possibility for the morning. I literally created a new neural pathway in my brain that makes it both easy and possible to wake up early AND refreshed!

I say, it’s working, so keep going! I’ve even added a new thing to my nightly “re-visoning”.

Coach’s Challenge

Think about one thing you’d like to do differently and start “re-visioning” it before you go to sleep at night. Just one thing. Keep it simple! Let us know how it goes.

Suggested Resource

Check out my recent article.
- See more at: http://yourawesomelife.com/pruning-shears-revision/#sthash.HMzskKoJ.dpuf