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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they can provide use important feedback as to your progress and any<br />
adjustments you need to make in the construction of your Path.<br />
b) Continue your practice of daily meditation on the in- and outgoing<br />
breath, increasing the amount of time as appropriate to your skill level.<br />
You may wish to take a meditation course, (e.g., to learn vipassana or<br />
metta meditation).<br />
c) Formulate a 3-S Daily Construction Plan detailing how your 3-S<br />
Blueprint will be used during the course of your daily activities<br />
today. Begin by entering the quality or "perfection" that you<br />
selected to work on today, and determine how and when you will<br />
enact it -- what cognitive scripts and behavioral action sequences<br />
will be required for the enactment of such a quality; what available<br />
support systems might be useful? <strong>The</strong>n throughout the day, while<br />
engaged in your usual daily activities, use your Plan and begin to<br />
act 'as if' you are someone with the quality you selected. Become an<br />
actor who is taking on the role of someone walking your <strong>Spiritual</strong><br />
path enacting this quality -- experiencing and expressing its this<br />
moment-by-moment destinations. It is recommended that you<br />
begin your rehearsal in the context of people, places, situations,<br />
and activities that you know are compatible with you experiencing<br />
and expressing the quality that you selected to enact today. In<br />
Phase 3 you will have the opportunity to rehearse in more difficult<br />
contexts that you typically find incompatible with your <strong>Spiritual</strong><br />
path.<br />
Repeat this cycle until all of the qualities and characteristics that you<br />
identified on your <strong>Spiritual</strong> <strong>Self</strong>-<strong>Schema</strong> Blue-Print as moment-bymoment<br />
destinations of your <strong>Spiritual</strong> path have been incorporated<br />
into your daily activities.<br />
In your 3-S Journal:<br />
Print and file your <strong>Spiritual</strong> <strong>Self</strong>-<strong>Schema</strong> Blueprint, Daily Construction<br />
Plan, and <strong>Self</strong>-<strong>Schema</strong> Check-In Logs. Also file copies of all written<br />
materials identified on your Blueprint. In this regard, you may wish to<br />
include a printed copy of the 3-S affirmation and 3-S stretch, both of<br />
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