The Art of Revision

We can change the events in this schoolroom through the act of revision.

The first action or correction or cure is always to revise.

He revises his day and he repeals his day 
and projects a more beautiful picture onto the screen of space.

Rewrite yesterday's events and make them conform to the ideal 

you wish you had experienced.

I call it the art of revision.
I take my day and review it in my mind's eye.
I start with the first incident in the morning
and go through the day.
When I come to any scene that displeases me,
I stop right there and revise it.
I rewrite it.
After I have rewritten it
so that it conforms to my ideal,
I experience it in my imagination
as though I had experienced it in the flesh.
I do it over and over
until it takes on the tone of reality.

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 the day, the revised day.
I do it over and over in my imagination
until this seeming imagined state 
begins to take unto me the tones of reality.
It seems that it's real,
that I actually did experience it.
I have found from experience 
that these revised days, if really lived,
will change my tomorrows.

So we don't discard because the thing is unpleasant, we revise it; 

revising it, we repeal it,

and as we repeal it it projects itself on the screen of space

bearing witness to the power within us, 

which is our wonderful human imagination.

Do not let one day come to its end
without revising and changing the imaginal acts of the day
and make it conform to your dreams, to your ideal.