Resting in Inner Safety

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the line spoken by your own I AM. The psalmist lays down in peace not from fear but from the certainty that the Lord within keeps him safe. In Neville's psychology, places are inner dispositions and events are inner movements; the safety of sleep is a state you can inhabit now. When you say, I will lay me down in peace, you are not hoping for safety—you are banking on it as already true in your consciousness. The LORD is not a distant deity but the inner presence that guards you, the I AM that never leaves you. Dwell in that awareness and fear dissolves, for you are no longer at the mercy of outer circumstances. Sleep becomes a natural fruit of a mind that has accepted its protective condition. Practice is simple: assume the state of being kept safe by the inner presence; feel the pillow, the quiet, and the certainty that you are always dwelling in safety. With that revision, the external world relaxes, and peace becomes your automatic condition.