Recognizing Subpersonalities
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
(Excerpt from http://www.meaningoflife.i12.com/subpersonalities.htm)
1. Consider one of your prominent traits, attitudes, or motives.
2. With your eyes closed, become aware of this part of you. Then let
an image emerge representing it. It may be a woman, a man, an animal,
an elf, an object, you in disguise, a symbol, or anything else in the
universe. Do not consciously try to find an image (but always accept
the first image that appears). Let the image or impression emerge spontaneously,
as if you were watching a screen, not knowing what will shortly appear
on it.
3. As soon as the image has appeared, give it the chance to reveal itself
to you without any interference or judging on your part. Let it change
if it tends to do so spontaneously, and let it show you some of its
other aspects if it wants to. Get in touch with the general feeling
that emanates from it.
4. Now let this image talk and express itself. Give it space, so to
speak, for doing so; in particular, find out about its needs. Talk with
it (even if your image is an object, it can talk back to you)
5. Now open your eyes and record in your notebook everything that happened
so far. Then give this sub-personality a name—any name that fits
and will help you to identify it in the future. For example: "the
Complainer," "the Artist," "the Bitch," "Santa
Claus," "Jaws," "the Clown," "the Judge,"
"the I Told You So" and so on. Finally write about its traits,
habits and peculiarities.
6. After you have identified and exhaustively described one sub-personality
you can go on to the others. But take your time and work on each one
alone until you feel finished. The process requires merely picking a
few more of your prominent traits, attitudes, or motives and going through
steps 1 to 5 for each one. (Take one sub-personality per week and observe
the unfolding of its energy very carefully in an impersonal and impartial
way).