Exercise 8: Dissolving Images

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In the previous exercise you should have brought to the conscious level one or more images that you hold in your psyche. You should also have realized that such images (immature, childish conclusions) still impair a more satisfying performance in your life. This should give you the strength and motivation to proceed to dissolve such images.

To dissolve the images, the steps that are necessary are:

1- Feel the pain of the situation that we live by their existence in our psyche, in this moment. This means exploring the wounds, revisiting the emotional pain that is recreated here and now (as a repeating pattern).

2- Open up to allow both the emotional release of the avoided pain, and the new perception that this pain is not unbearable and it comes from an erroneous belief of the past.

3- Recognize the connection between the current and the past pain.

4- Recognize the thrust that our wrong belief causes to recreate negative patterns and suffering in our lives. (Taking responsibility for creating our own lives).

5- Take responsibility for our creation and for choosing to re-orient our beliefs.

6- Request help from the Higher Self to re-orient our psychic energy and to the make the new creative imprint more aware.

7- Name the new creative conclusion and observe the effect of this new finding on your conduct.

The following Guided Meditation Exercise will help you to accomplish the steps outlined above:

1- Please note one or more situations that use to bring negative feelings.

2- Identify a negative feeling that you feel nowadays. Pick a feeling that repeats itself along your current life.

3- Do you remember to have had similar feelings in your childhood?

4- What is this feeling tied to? Do you have any scene from your childhood that brings such a feeling to the surface?

5- Use the earlier Meditation of the Three Voices to see if any belief voiced by your lower self appear to be motivating the recurring negative feeling.

6- Let your inner child express the pain and negative beliefs linked to this pain.

7- Do you have any fear (or pleasure) in staying with these negative feeling and idea? (The pleasure might come, for example, from feeling comforted by seeing yourself as a helpless, wronged, guilt free victim of the circumstances).

8- Could there be other ideas and ways of looking at what emerges, which would be less suffering? Let your Higher Self lead …

Were you able to link your currently recurring pattern of feeling to any scene or circumstance of your childhood? What connection did you make between the two?

How could you rephrase your old immature conclusion (your image) into a positive, creative new sentence?

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