August 2010

PET SLOGANS
     This exercise is to write at the top of paper “My Pet Slogans.” Then under that write what you hear yourself saying all day long. You might be absolutely amazed to see you've said the same sentence ten times in ten different circumstances as well as repeating it in your mind. When you say, “That’s okay, it doesn’t matter” and similar phrases, are you trying to make the other person think that you're at ease?

DON’T MAKE THE TELEPHONE CALL
      You have been given lots of exercises, things to do to shock you awake. Here’s one. Let’s say you have a problem and are nervous over it. So to relieve the pain you want to telephone someone, but if you do that your suffering will return. Your exercise is to put yourself through a new kind of dark tunnel by not making the telephone call. Your suffering, your nervousness, must have nothing to turn to. Make a list of them.