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Three things that I most like about myself (make a mark on the scale where you feel you stand) 1 But social media can trick us into thinking that 2 Private Open Placid Headstrong their multitude of connections are more valuable 3 Considered Spontaneous Trusting Jealous than the small number of bonds that we hold with Three things that I would like to change about myself 1 Who looks outside, Curious Cautious Passive Active those that really matter in our life. 2 Organised Disorganised Patient Impatient You dreams; Se 3 quel We lose out on the feeling of really bonding with Nervous Confident Practical Impractical to th Three things that make me happy e Who’s here with me? those close to us, really missing them, missing who looks inside, Conventional Original Proud Humble 1 b their physical presence and the things that make 2 awakes Contented Discontented Bold Fearful estse 3 llin them who they are and what they mean to us. Ambitious Unambitious Compassionate Indi(erent g Carl Jung book Three things that give me purpose Careless Careful Decisive Procrastinator That feeling of longing that used to make us write 1 2 Conforming Independent Dependable Inconsistent B letters to each other on paper is lost. 3 U Punctual Relaxed Thrifty Extravagant RN A Three things that I’d like to change in my life F Loner Joiner Tolerant Judgemental TE 1 R 2 WRI 3 TING ~ 26 ~ ~ 62 ~ ~ 63 ~ Me, Myself, I Everything I know I learned from... Word association Autonomy and the search for self Match a thought (or a person) to the feeling Friends/family/lovers/haters/makers/doers/teachers The first word that comes to mind [autos] self This Is What My Soul and others. The people who have made me who I am today. when I think of the following... [nomos] law I feel aection for . makes me laugh Love As individuals we strive for autonomy, our own awareness, I’m attracted by/to . stresses me out spontaneity and the capacity for intimacy. Making new I’m compassionate towards . Desire decisions and empowering ourselves to take control of our . makes me feel alive lives. I desire . Optimism Looks Like . makes me feel wanted Taibi Kahler, a psychologist, identified five common drivers Hope I feel sympathy for . that motivate us as part of our personal ‘script’. brings me joy I’m passionate about . Dismay Determining which of these drivers we exhibit helps us to . makes me cry become more aware and understand how each one I love . Confusion . makes me happy influences our lives. A Journal of Self Reflection I care for . Fear These drivers result in the behaviour that we exhibit in the . makes me feel useful I nurture . Rejection wider world. We can each exhibit characteristics from each . makes me despair driver but are there any that speak loudly to you? Sharon Jones I pity . Strength Can you see yourself in any of them? . gives me hope I’m infatuated by . Guilt BE PERFECT . makes me optimistic I’m nostalgic for . Exhaustion HURRY UP . gives me a sense of belonging I’m protective of . Envy PLEASE PEOPLE I’m indulgent with . disappoints me Indi(erence BE STRONG I’m ecstatic about . makes me miserable Hurt TRY HARD I have a zest for . broke my heart Turn over the page to see some of their characteristics. ~ 102 ~ ~ 103 ~ ~ 38 ~ ~ 39 ~ Think of this book as Self Therapy £9.95 USA$14.95 CAN$17.95 Treasures expressed Take command of your own personal growth. Recognize This is how I feel about... The 10 closest people in my life ISBN acceptable wrong described in one word your biases, feelings and motivations. Fundamentally Birth Control . 978-1-908211-89-7 Divorce . Name Described increase your self-awareness. Understand your values, Gambling . Embryonic Stem Cell Research . beliefs and principles. Gain an insight into how those Dimensions my morality Recreational Drugs . meter The Death Penalty . What is a friend? closest to you influence your life. Animal Fur Clothing . 127x198mm versus Doctor Assisted Suicide . Medical Testing on Animals . A single soul dwelling in my ethical Abortion . Enhance your emotional intelligence and gain a unique Pagination dilemmas Pornography . two bodies Animal Cloning . Aristotle Genetically Modified Food . insight into just who you are and what makes you tick. 144pp Hey, who doesn't live by their own moral code? Polygamy . Suicide . This is What My Soul Looks Like not only prompts you to Censorship . Format The Death Penalty . contemplate who you really are but also challenges to While morals are based upon communal views of consider those who share your life and how they shape Flexibound what is right and wrong, your ethics are your own view of what is right or wrong. your world. Who are you really? Now you have the tools to ~ 130 ~ ~ 131 ~ ~ 97 ~ find out! www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk 2 NEW TITLE Think of all the people involved in the phenomenal task of taking a human infant and making it into an independent actor on the stage of adult life. It's bloody hard work. And we feel that 1.7: Best Friends Forever 1.8: A Journey that Changed My Life chapter 1 debt. We want to be useful, that's natural, that's Here I sketch out some fragments of my own stories of my best friends, Stories are about movement and stories are about change. Here is a story The Little Prince reminds us: being a pack animal, which we are. The Lost World the sweet and the bitter, the boredom and the hysteria... from my childhood, a trip to somewhere new or a repeated journey with a “All grown-ups were once children... twist, that led to a moment that changed me... MY QUEST but only few of them remember it.” So there is the Soul Quest, the thing that we are here to do even though we often can't put it into words, Childhood is the Lost World. Childhood is Eden. The gates we leave through are guarded. We can never go back, At some point in our early lives and we feel doubts, such doubts. except in dreams, and of course stories. But anyway, telling stories about ourselves is The doorway to Narnia is just about big enough we realise it. for grown ups to pass through. ancient, it is as old as language, and it has the power Small wonder then that the most important stories of all time, And the first story of any life, is a love story. to make meaning. Meaning can be a type of healing. a enormous world sweeping success stories like Harry Potter, The two people who came together, however briefly, te We have a purpose. rea are golden tickets to a holiday in a land called innocence. to make you. And the second story is a violent conflict. The story is a psychic technology. C That is to say, a birth story. And that’s a story We need to fulfil a promise that we made, f you’ve very probably heard many times. it o Perhaps we should be grateful, we’ll never feel fear in the perhaps to our parents, maybe to ourselves It is the toolkit we use to make the meaning e b And the third story is ‘The Four Hundred Blows’, ttl same way a child does. We’ll never know again what it feels like li a childhood story. Usually involving a home, saturated universe we choose to live in. You just for an afternoon to last a hundred years, or to be totally at the or even to the world that created us.