1-416-561-5780Consider the recurring patterns of behavior identified in your Daily Review. Investigate your innermost motivations to behave the way you did (and still do) in such circumstances. Listen to the inner voices of your Lower Self; Higher Self and the Mask, as you try to identify your true motives. Which of these voices have you been more often and/or more closely following?
How do your inner motives to behave the way you do relate to your personality traits and those of your parents?
Select a guilt that you feel and discover the Image (rooted belief) that lies behind it. Guilt is a way to defend ourselves, to reject what we feel.
Select a decision that you were (or are) doubtful about and meditate on it using the approach of the Meditation for Three Voices: Visualize your Higher Self, your Lower Self (in the form of your inner rebellious child) and your Mask (your Idealized Self image). Visualize also your Positive Ego, who listens to the voices of your inner selves and notices how each one has been trying to influence the behavior and feelings of the overall personality, making a critical analysis of the conclusions. Observe how each of those three characters (your inner selves) reasons and tries to direct your attitude and behavior.
Whenever the circumstances and your corresponding responses to them caused you discomfort and dissatisfaction, the motives behind your attitude derived from wrong, immature conclusions stemming from painful situations that most likely occurred in your childhood. Try to identify these conclusions and put them in words, concisely. Write them down, so they won’t be forgotten. Then you can start meditating on how these wrong conclusions originated and how they have been influencing your life.