Revision

Revision is Neville Goddard’s technique for mentally rewriting the events of the day before sleep, replaying them as you wish they had gone rather than as they actually occurred. If a conversation went badly, revision means imagining it again with the outcome you wanted, in as much sensory detail as you can manage, rather than simply reflecting on what actually happened.

Goddard’s claim for this practice was unusually strong even by his own standards: that revising an event doesn’t just change how you remember it, it changes its ongoing effect on what follows. Some of his lectures went further still, suggesting revision could alter the past’s influence on the future, one of the more explicitly metaphysical claims in his body of work.

Put less metaphysically, revision is a nightly habit of ending the day on a mentally rehearsed version of events that matches what you wanted, rather than one that reinforces frustration or regret. Whatever you make of the stronger claim, not falling asleep replaying your worst moment of the day is a fairly defensible practice on its own.

Revision is closely tied to SATS, since both use the same relaxed, pre-sleep state. For the full practice and Goddard’s own examples, see Neville Goddard’s Revision Technique.