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Sedona Method “goal setting” exercise
Posted by Kit in development, exercises on February 14, 2009
Here’s a cool goal setting exercise from “The Sedona Method”:
[P 202]
Step 1. Write your goal at the top of a blank piece of paper
Step 2. Read the goal silently or aloud and, below the goal, write down the first thought or feeling that comes to mind in relationship to it.
Step 3. Ask yourself which want underlies the thought or feeling, using this question: Does that come from a sense of wanting approval, control, or security? Make a note of which want it is by writing it next to the question.
Step 4. Release any wants that are stirred up in the NOW moment about the feeling or thoughts that you wrote down. Simply ask: Could I let go of wanting the approval, control, or security? As you let go of a given want, cross it out or check it off.
Step 5. Repeat Steps 2 – 4 until you feel courageousness, acceptance or peace about your goal. Once you’re feeling one of those higher emotional states, you can be confident that you’ve taken off a layer of limitation about tha particular goal.
Sedona Method “getting perspective” exercise
Posted by Kit in development, exercises on February 9, 2009
Here’s a cool exercise from “The Sedona Method” to get perspective on a problem:
[P72] Easily allow yourself to become aware of your sensory perceptions, beginning with your sense of hearing. Could you allow yourself just to hear, listen or welcome whatever is being heard in this moment?
Then, while allowing yourself to continue to focus on hearing: Could you allow yourself to welcome the silence that surrounds and interpenetrates whatever is being heard?
For a few moments, switch back and forth between listening to what is being heard and not heard, including your thoughts.
When you feel ready, allow yourself to focus on what is being seen. Could you allow yourself to welcome whatever is being seen best you can?
Then could you allow yourself also to welcome or notice the space, or emptiness that surrounds every picture or object, including the white space between writing on this page?
Again, alternate between the two perceptions for a few moments.
Next, focus on whatever sensations are arising in the moment. Could you allow yourself to welcome whatever sensation is being perceived in this moment?
Then could you allow yourself to welcome the space or absence of sensation that surrounds every sensation?
Then could you allow yourself to focus on a particular problem, and welcome that memory with all the pictures, sounds, sensations, thoughts and feelings that are associated with it?
Could you then allow yourself to notice how most of your experience happens apart from this particular problem?
And could you allow yourself to welcome at least the possibility that this problem is not as all consuming as it has seemed?
Switch back and forth between welcoming the problem and all its associated perceptions and then noticing and welcoming what is actually here now.
As you do the above you’ll find yourself gradually gaining a new sense of clarity about you supposed problems and also noticing the exquisiteness of what is already here now.
Tenth Insight and Life Purpose exercises
Posted by Kit in development, exercises on January 10, 2009
The Experiential Guide to the Tenth Insight (James Redfield) and The Purpose of Your life (Carol Adrienne) have a bunch a cool exercises throughout the book. I really enjoy reading the book and it definitely helps with the exercises, but sometimes I like to just run through them quickly.
Here they are:
Insights
- If you were to tell a five-year-old your life story, what points would you make?
- Who do you know that has been an inspiration to you? Why? How?
- When do you feel powerless? What could you change about that?
- What are you on the threshold of? What door wants to open?
- What has seemed purposeful in your life so far?
- What do you think about reincarnation?
- What would you love to change in your community?
