Deliverance Through Imagination

Neville's Inner Vision

That phrase, 'the troubles of my heart are enlarged,' points to a habit of the mind that enlarges separation from the I AM. In Neville's view, distress is a state of consciousness, not a fixed fate. The psalmist stands at the door of inner awareness, crying to be shown the truth of freedom. You are not summoned from outside; you are invited to reoccupy your true center by assuming you are already delivered. Say to yourself, I AM the deliverer; I AM out of distress now. As you entertain that assumption, the swollen sense of trouble collapses into quiet, because the outer scene bends to the inner conviction. Feel the relief of release, even if the body still feels strained; the feeling is the cue that you have shifted into the state of being where distress cannot abide. Practice this revision regularly: behold the imagined result as real, dwell in it, and let your outward life reflect the inward certainty. Imagination creates reality when used with steadfast conviction.