The Spiritual Self Schema (3-S) Development Program

time engaged in one of the automated behavioral action sequences
that was triggered in the past week by one of your frequently used
cognitive scripts or emotional response patterns. By observing the
performance as it unfolds on the screen, you are able to see the
potential and actual effects of this behavior -- both on you (as
portrayed by the actor) and on others involved in the scene. What do
you see? Does suffering arise, or have the potential to arise? In you?
In others?
Record: Return to your Habitual Self-Schema Worksheet, and
indicate by checking the appropriate box whether there were any
potential harms, to yourself or others, in taking this habitual path
last week, and in maintaining its associated daydreams, cognitive
scripts, emotional response patterns, and behavioral action
sequences.
Step 4: Increasing awareness of the (in)compatibility of your
habitual self-schema with the experience and expression of your
Spirituality
Reflect. Does my habitual path lead to the experience and
expression of my spiritual nature, or does it create a barrier to its
expression?
Rehearse (visualization). Visualize the TV screen once again.
Now a second actor is also visible playing the role of YOU as you are, or
have the potential to be, when experiencing and expressing your
Spiritual nature. What do you see? Imagine you are viewing a split
screen so that the actor taking your Spiritual path and the actor
taking your habitual path can be observed, side by side. Don't worry if
you cannot get a clear image of your Spiritual path right now; you will
be able to work on filling in the details of this image in Phase 2 of the 3-
S program. At this point, simply allow any similarities and differences
to emerge between the characteristics being enacted by the two actors.
Do both actors appear to be playing the same or different roles? Are the
paths the same or different? Are the paths accessed the same way? Are
the paths' destinations the same or different? By observing the
differences and similarities between the roles being played by the two
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