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How to use the meditations

1. Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed.

2. Read through the whole meditation a few times, then put it down.

3. Sit in a position both comfortable and alert.

4. Allow the meditation 10 minutes or so in your imagination. Do not give up before this time; stay with it.

5. Allow another 10 minutes for recording what happened. Allow events to develop as you record.
  MEDITATION 1
THE ANGRY PUPPET

You enter a room and the familiar puppet greets you.

"Hello!" it says. "Me again!"

"Hello," you say wearily.

"Same as usual?" says the puppet.

"No," you reply, bored of the usual.

"No!?"

"Can I speak to the puppeteer?" you ask.

"I beg your pardon?"

"I don't want to speak to the puppet – I want to speak to the puppeteer."

"I don't know what you mean?!" says the angry puppet.



Imagine

You decide to speak not to your phoney self, but to your true self.

How does it start? What do you say?

Have you ever spoken before?

How do you feel about the meeting?

And how does your real self respond – if at all?


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