TRUTH
Increasing my ability to know my truth and my freedom to know it.
Paying attention to feedback without being controlled by others
ENVIRONMENT
Choosing and helping to create a safe and healthy place in which
to live and work
RELATIONSHIPS
Creating friendly and loving relationships with family and friends
CONTRIBUTION
Doing or being in such a way that I believe that I contribute to
the well-being for my part of the universe
RESPONSIBILITY
Finding that I can be responsible for the quality of my life and
for the ways I respond to outside stimuli
SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
Suggestions:
- use "I" form in speaking
- change from "can't to won't
- change from questions to statements
- notice and trust body language
- accept and express all feelings
- pay attention to breath
Thoughts:
- a thing is what it is - name it
- things get worse before they get better
- life is not about avoiding life
- life inevitably brings movement and change
- the universe is friendly to life.
Source: John Soper in an Esalen workshop in 1996
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