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HUMAN ↔ SELF

THE QUESTION

How am I relating to myself?

You are having the experience. You are also capable of observing, interpreting, evaluating, and Questioning your experience. That makes Self an unusual relationship.

A QUESTION TO HOLD

What kind of relationship is possible when both sides of the relationship are you?

BEGIN WHERE SOMETHING GETS YOUR ATTENTION.

You do not have to answer every Question.

Answers can come from anywhere. Questioning remains yours.

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BEGIN HERE

What do I expect from myself?

  • What do I expect myself to know?
  • What do I expect myself to be able to handle?
  • What do I expect myself to have figured out by now?
  • What do I expect myself to feel - or not feel?
  • What do I expect myself to accomplish?
  • What do I expect myself to control?

Where did I learn to expect that?

  • Which expectations did I choose?
  • Which did I inherit?
  • Which did I absorb without noticing?
  • Which have become so familiar that I experience them as facts rather than expectations?

TENSION

What happens when I do not meet my own expectations?

WHAT ARE YOU NOTICING?

Answers can come from anywhere. Questioning remains yours.

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AUTHORITY

What authority do I give myself?

  • What am I willing to decide for myself?
  • What am I unwilling to decide without external confirmation?
  • When do I trust my own interpretation?
  • When do I override it?
  • Whose answer outranks mine?
  • What kind of evidence do I require before I believe myself?

Can I retain authority without having certainty?

IDENTITY / EVIDENCE

What do I use as evidence of who I am?

  • thoughts
  • emotions
  • actions
  • past
  • intentions
  • other Humans
  • Work
  • accomplishments
  • mistakes
  • body
  • relationships
  • beliefs
  • desires
  • contradictions

Why does that count as evidence?

When does something I experienced become something I believe I am?

QUESTION / RESPONSE / WHAT I'M NOTICING

Answers can come from anywhere. Questioning remains yours.

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LET THE QUESTION MOVE

How am I participating in my relationship with myself?

  • How do I talk to myself?
  • How do I interpret myself?
  • What do I repeatedly rehearse about myself?
  • What do I keep proving to myself?
  • What do I refuse to reconsider?
  • What stories about myself do I continue because they are familiar?

At what point does knowing who I am become maintaining who I believe myself to be?

WHERE ELSE IS THIS QUESTION SHOWING UP?

OTHER HUMANS

What do I expect another Human to provide because of how I relate to myself?

PURPOSE

What does my idea of who I am allow me to believe my Purpose can be?

SYSTEMS

What happens when a System defines me?

SOCIETY

What happens when Society reflects back an identity I do not recognize?

BRING THE QUESTION BACK

  • What authority am I giving this?
  • What am I using this to tell me about myself?
  • What other relationship is involved?

What changes when I Question my relationship with myself rather than immediately trying to change myself?

What does this reveal about Being Human?

Answers can come from anywhere. Questioning remains yours.

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