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Session 5 - Section C: Your Turn - An Exercise - Active Imagination

Now it is your turn! Finally it is time to have a deep and meaningful conversation with you inner voice, to find out what negative thoughts or limitations are lurking in the depths of your unconscious mind, inhibiting you. Now it is time to free yourself of those limitations by creating a conscious awareness of them. This is the exciting part!

It is important to know, before we start, that:

• If your trusted source gives you instructions and you follow, more will follow
• If they give you instructions and you don’t follow, no more information will be forthcoming
• Your trusted source is concerned about the effect the information will have on you and therefore is selective about what information they will reveal to you. They will never give you anything that you are not ready to handle. It is a process. If they deem you are not ready, they will not reveal the answer
• Your trusted source deals on a ‘need-to-know’ basis. They will first ask themselves ‘Will you knowing this info help you to develop?'
• Answers may come as words, images, memories, thoughts, sounds, feelings, or direct knowing. Assume, for now, that anything that happens immediately after you ask is an answer
• Just observe and record anything you are given

Here are some areas of your life that might currently be not as you wish:

• Finances/money
• Love-life
• Relationships
• Career
• Life purpose
• Home/environment
• Achievements
• Health

In this exercise, you will be conversing with one of your many parts, or selves, to do with the area of your life that you choose to work on improving. Here is a list of examples: (Of course, this is only a very small list, there are many, many different parts to you. Most people have over 200 parts in play!)

• The part of me that wants me to be healthier than I am
• The part of me that wants to rebel against my strict family, custom or religion
• The part of me that wants to be rich and famous
• The part of me that wants to have a purpose-filled life
• The part of me that wants to be lazy
• The part of me that wants to have love and be loved
• The part of me that wants to spend money
• The part of me that worries what others think of me
• The part of me that is disorganised
• The part of me that is shy and scared of speaking up
• The part of me that is impulsive
• The part of me that gets angry when people disrespect me

It may be helpful to remind you here of the common areas of polarisation (primary/disowned selves), to help you choose a part that you want to converse with:

• Cautious/impulsive
• Rational/feeling
• Outgoing/withdrawn
• Responsible/irresponsible
• Pusher/relaxed
• Organised/disorganised
• Assertive/passive
• Able to set boundaries/not able to set boundaries
• Spender/saver
• Rule follower/rebel
• Worrying about what people think/not caring

Remember, when you engage in a dialogue with your trusted source:

• Trust what you are given
• Go with your first thought – don’t filter or judge (thoughts of 'no, that’s silly', 'I can’t say that', or 'it's just my mind making it up' etc).
• Beware that the ego will be trying its damndest to ‘keep you safe’ – by running a commentary of the ‘inner skeptic’. So the more you feel yourself pushing a thought or idea out of head, the more it needs to be validated! Go with it, accept it. It needs to be heard.
• Merely write down the answer you receive. Ask and record, just observe. Don’t get into an argument with your source!
• Allow the space and time for the answer to come. It will come.
• Thank trusted source – even if you think you got nothing, always thank your trusted source for talking with you.

For this exercise you will need a pen and paper or, if you prefer to type, to be sitting in front of your computer. You can, of course, run through the dialogue in your head, but since this exercise is going to have a profound impact on your life, I urge you to write, type, or say out loud and record the resulting conversation so you are able to refer back to it as a reference at a later date (mighty helpful indeed!)

Ok, here goes...

1. Write down some of the areas in your life where there is conflict or things are not as you wish them to be.
2. Choose one area for this exercise. (Of course I encourage you to do this exercise again later, as many times as you need to, with as many parts/selves as you wish!)
3. Now write down the part of you that you wish to converse with
4. Direct your thoughts to your trusted source
5. Ask 'May I ask you questions today?’
6. State: 'I want to have a conversation with the part of me that… (or I want the highest and the best for/about…)'
7. Now work through the following questions, in turn, recording the answer you receive

The Past:

1. Where did you come from?
2. When in my life were you created?
3. What event or events made your creation necessary?
4. Was there an event in particular that made your creation necessary?
5. How did that make me feel?
6. What did I take from that?
7. What function did you perform when you were created?
8. How did you do this?
9. Why did you do this?
10. Why was it necessary?
11. What benefit did it provide?
12. What happened when this happened?
13. What did you want for me most of all?

Thank the part for protecting you. Honour the part it has played in your life from keeping you safe in the past.

The Present:

1. What function do you perform in my life currently?
2. How do you do this?
3. Why do you do it?
4. What do you want for me?
5. If I had that, then what would I have?
6. And if I had that, then what would I have?
7. And if I had that, what would I have then? – keep going until you start ‘looping’ (same answers around and around) or get the ‘aha’ moment
8. Are you being successful at getting that deeper need met?
9. Will continuing to use your current strategy get that deeper need met?
10. Do you still like your job?
11. Would you be willing to explore a job promotion?

The future:

1. What do you really want for me, more than anything?
2. What would be the most suitable use of your talents?
3. Is there a better way for you to achieve your goals and desires for me than the methods you’re currently using?
4. What role could you play in me from now on? If you could do anything in me and in my life, what job would you like?
5. How would you function in this job?
6. Would you like to accept this job?
7. What support do you need from me as you transition into this role?
8. Do there need to be any further modifications?
9. What support do you need from me?
10. When do you want me to check in with you again?

Thank your trusted source for talking with you today.

How did you go? What did your inner voice teach you? How would knowing this have made a difference in your life up to date? How is now knowing this going to make a difference in your life moving forward? What are you going to do differently from now on?

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