• We react unconsciously to everything.
• Our mind constantly creates situations full of anxiety or worry.
• We think, interpret, and analyze (inwardly or outwardly).
• We deny what we feel (“Everything is all right,” “There’s no problem,”etc.).
• We suppress our emotions (with rigidity, contractions, tensions, and illnesses).
• We tend to engage in dramatic situations and with dramatic persons.
• We permanently speak about what “should” and “shouldn’t” be done.
• We complain about ourselves and others.
• We inwardly or outwardly judge, criticize, accuse, and blame anyone.
• We repeat past situations again and again in our mind.
• We find it very diffi cult to forgive, and keep very old resentments.
• We want to take revenge and “collect debts.
• We resort to our painful past when having to act or make decisionsin the present.
• We are afraid of the future and of what it may have in store for us.
• We rehearse again and again what we shall do or say.
• We aren’t aware of the present and ignore it completely.

For each trait that is true for you, do the following:

• Acknowledging what I feel: “I’m scared, angry, sad, excited, enthused,attracted by …”
• Localizing the feelings: realizing in what exact part of the body the sensation is localized.
• Permitting the feelings: moving oneself, shaking oneself, stretching,emitting sounds, etc.
• Intensifying the feelings: amplifying to the greatest possible degreewhat one feels.
• Breathing into the feelings.

I take responsibility for my life.

“Be oriented to your true self, not your self-image.” – Deepak Chopra