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Have these past problem-events changed you in some important way? Because, if you have changed, then understanding such a change could tell you much about your present condition as well as indicate your future development.

Let us consider this in some detail: First, reflect on the past problem and note carefully the different states of mind that you experienced in each scene as well as the way you were functioning.

a) As you reflect on these past problem scenes would you agree that you were lead to certain conclusions, or views, about your reality and yourself? What would you say they were? How do you imagine those views shaped your vision of the world? Of men? Of women? And of relationships?

b) Then, before that past problem-event you didn't have those views and to that degree you were different, were you not? Compare the views you had before and after. What do you see?

c) Again, is it possible that the past problem-event would not have entered its first scene were it not that you were revealing a positive state of mind? Where you not actually in a good state of mind? Is it possible that you were revealing a positive state of mind just before the problem was acted out? Consider and try to describe the state of mind that you were in before the problem "came down" upon you.

d) Why did the drama of the problem and its lesson come down so heavily when you were in that state of mind?

e) After the problem-event played itself out, what happened to that state of mind that you were in prior to the drama that took place?

f) Have you ever been able to be as you were then, initially, and to manifest that positive state of mind again?

g) Did the unfolding drama of that problem end the appearance of that state of mind? Did it stop you from revealing that state of mind?

h) If you were in a better state of mind before the problem acted itself out, then what is the meaning of that loss? By the way, had you forgotten until now that you were in a better state of mind before that event?

i) Through that problem-event did you learn something that kept you from showing that state of mind again? Please explain.

j) Was this scene the origin of your identifying with another state of mind-one that was not and is not your own?

k) Is this when you picked up your problem and learned to act like someone else?

l) How do you understand this curious transformation?

m) Do you see that by identifying with another you became less than you were, and therefore, not fully yourself?

n) If so, must you not reclaim your past to become fully yourself, and must you not leave behind your identification with another's role, or game, to proceed with your development?

o) Even today, would you not like to return to that state of mind and be as you were prior to that problem-event? If so, then your future development depends on going back and recovering what you left behind, doesn't it?

 

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