Inner Release From The Stroke

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the psalmist speaks of a stroke and a hand; in Neville’s psychology these are inner states, not external events. The 'hand' is the activity of your own consciousness—the thoughts, fears, and judgments you entertain about yourself. When you say 'Remove thy stroke away from me,' you are really asking to rewrite the script of your mind. There is no God out there punishing you; there is only your I AM, the ever-present awareness that can reform any scene by accepting a different possibility. To 'remove' the stroke is to dissolve the image of punishment by assuming a state of relief, gratitude, and healing. If you persist in the belief that you are weighed down by the hand of God, you feed that state; if you shift into the awareness that you are the I AM, and thus the cause and the cure, the stroke dissolves. Practicing this, you imagine the pain as a passing visual image and declare: I AM free; the stroke is removed; my life flows in harmony with divine love.