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Chapter 15: Methods for Gaining Insight into Ourselves

Introduction to Insight

Becoming Open-Minded

Self-Awareness

STEP ONE: What is the focus of your awareness? Becoming more aware of the full range of experiences possible in the here and now.

STEP TWO: Looking for the opposites. Thinking more freely.

STEP THREE: The empty chair technique: a simple means of exploring your feelings.

STEP FOUR: Accept responsibility for the choices you make.

STEP FIVE: Working through unfinished business: Uncovering the repressed feelings that still mess up your life.

Self-Understanding

STEP ONE: Write your autobiography. Decide what psychological mysteries you’d like to solve and what self-improvements you’d like to make.

STEP TWO: Keep a daily diary: Record significant experiences, causes of problems, progress in self-improvement, and what self-help methods work. Use an “intensive journal” to connect with the deepest processes guiding your life.

STEP THREE: Reading psychology books and articles; watching TV talk shows and videos.

STEP FOUR: Use your increased understanding to self-improve immediately.

Recognize Unconscious Forces

STEP ONE: Discover the “inner child” from your past by remembering how your parents treated you.

STEP TWO: Finding your life script.

Your life position

Games we play.

Changing your life script

STEP THREE: Understanding the myths or stories we live by.

Self-help methods for finding your myths

Self-Analysis

Psychological testing: online testing

Projective techniques

Guided fantasies

Feedback from others

Reframing

Let the body talk (Focusing)

Free association and word association test

Catharsis-abreaction

Early memories

Other self-help methods, helping groups, therapy

Dream Analysis

Looking for possible meaning

Using insights from dreams

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