The Spiritual Self Schema (3-S) Development Program
The Spiritual Self Schema (3-S) Development Program
The Spiritual Self Schema (3-S) Development Program
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as soon as you can identify what triggered the activation of this selfschema.<br />
Next, allow the tape to continue playing until you can also<br />
identify both the cognitive script and the behavioral action sequence<br />
that ensues, seemingly automatically from those internal or external<br />
triggers.<br />
Record. On your Week-End Review, record the self-schema<br />
that was activated during the previous week that was most<br />
incompatible with experiencing and expressing your <strong>Spiritual</strong> nature.<br />
Record the habitual patterns of mind-wandering, cognitive scripts,<br />
emotional response patterns, and behavior action sequences<br />
associated with it, and identify the internal and/or external cues that<br />
triggered it during the week.<br />
Step 7: Strengthening your commitment to your <strong>Spiritual</strong> path<br />
Reflect. Reflect once again on the habitual self-schema that<br />
prevented you from experiencing and expressing your <strong>Spiritual</strong> nature<br />
during the week and consider how much you identify with, and are<br />
attached to, this habitual path. Does this path lead to the experience<br />
and expression of your true nature, or does it take you in another<br />
direction?<br />
Rehearse (visualization). Visualize the actor on the screen once<br />
again enacting the self-schema that was typical of you last week. <strong>The</strong><br />
actor is convincing the audience that this habitual self-schema with its<br />
cognitive scripts and behavioral action sequences is taking the audience<br />
to the real you. <strong>The</strong> actor concludes the performance by saying "I am [....<br />
your name...], and "I am ... this professional identity ... I am ... this role as<br />
parent, spouse, friend, caregiver, or patient ... I am these habitual<br />
thought patterns of victim, aggressor, failure, addict, critic ... and so<br />
forth]. Imagine now that you are using your remote control device<br />
again this time to freeze the action. As you do, you shout to the actor<br />
"STOP! THAT is not me. That is not my TRUE nature." As you observe<br />
the actor frozen on the screen before you, you realize that what the actor<br />
is actually portraying is actually not your "true self" -- it is merely a path<br />
accessed habitually in your daily life, an expedient means of being in<br />
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