Now the first iteration of the Introspection Toolkit is complete, it is time for some final reflections.
Category: 03) – Tools – Introspection
Finding Your Cape – Digging Deeper
This post is a deep dive in to my reflections when writing the Finding Your Cape tool – Do you agree? Do you disagree? Have you considered this stuff before?
Finding Your Cape – Purpose and Reflections
In this final post in the core of the Finding Your Cape series we will explore your purpose and authentic self.
Who are you?
Finding Your Cape – Superpowers
This post is the core of the Finding Your Cape tool. Discovering your superpower… let’s take flight together!
Finding Your Cape – Values
In the finding your cape series, it is now time for us to establish our values. This is what really drives our behaviour and emotions.
Are you ready?
Finding Your Cape – Meditations
In order to be alive, we must embrace death. The meditations shared in this post are designed to help you do just that.
Finding Your Cape – Principles
In this second post in the Finding Your Cape Series, we will explore how our principles underpin who we are.
Lets uncover your foundations.
Finding Your Cape – Introduction
This is the first post in the finding your cape series.
Are you ready to discover your super power?
A Window to the Higher Self
A diagrammatic introspection toolkit to the Oneself.
Reaching for the Stars – Benefits and Practical Applications
In this concluding post of the Reaching for the Stars Series, I will share the profound impact these insights have had on my own life.
Reaching for the Stars – Monitoring this Skill
This is the penultimate post in the reaching for the stars series where will will look at what changes you may experience in your life through the application of this tool.
Reaching for the Stars – Accommodating this Skill
Accommodation is the act of integrating something in to your schemata for understanding the world.
Time to accommodate the Oneself…
Reaching for the Stars – Maintaining this Skill
Cultivation and maintenance go hand in hand. Use these practices to deepen your connection with the Oneself on your journey of introspection in to the universe.
Reaching for the Stars – How Does it work?
Now we start to get on to reaching for the stars in action. How to cultivate this skill. Are you ready to begin your practice?
Reaching for the Stars – My Experience of the Oneself
Sharing my rational perspective and personal experience of the Oneself.
Reaching for the Stars – Going Back to Move Forwards
A short post to help reenforce the solid foundation needed to reach for the stars.
Reaching for the Stars
Once your forest has grown to the highest heights, the only way left is out in to the stars… our higher self.
The Introspection Toolkit – Revisited
In this post we revisit the tools of the introspection toolkit I have released so far, and re-examine the foundation for the final two tools which will be released this year.
Learning While Flowing
Guilt and response can be our greatest teachers or our greatest torturers.
What are they to you?
Sometimes I forget who I am
Knowing who we are is the key to authentic living… It is often easy to forget though. Such is the nature of being human.
Rejecting Fear by Choosing to Play the Game you Want
Fear is only natural, it is how we deal with it that makes all the difference in life.
Pliable Perception – Benefits and Practical Applications
This is the final and concluding post in the pliable perception series…
choices, responsibility, awareness, acceptance, perception, and action…
what do these mean to you?
Pliable Perception – Overcoming Challenges Part 3
This is the final instalment of insights which will enable you to user the power of your perception to overcome challenges.
Pliable Perception – Overcoming Challenges Part 2
Now we will look at how some of the other tool in the introspection toolkit have helped lay the foundations for you to master your perception…
Pliable Perception – Overcoming Challenges Part 1
Mastering our perception will give us the power to overcome any challenge in life. Here is the first set of insights on how to do just that.
Pliable Perception – Making Effective Decisions Part 2
Here is part 2 of the tactical tools you can use to help you shift perception in the moment and take decisive action.
Pliable Perception – Making Effective Decisions Part 1
While completing the real work of restructuring your belief system, these tools will come in handy to help you shift and expand your perception in the moment.
This is just the start and there will be more to come.
Pliable Perception – Uprooting Limiting Beliefs
This insight offers the key to creating a pliable perception, all that will follow are tactics to keep you moving in the right direction while you complete the real work shared here.
Pliable Perception
Now is the time for you to take ownership on the way you view the world… to become the master of your own perception so that you can create the life you truly deserve.
Time Check
This insight offers and essential little tool that you can use to recentre yourself and focus.
Focus on what is, in the moment you have right now.
Congruence – Benefits and Practical Applications
Once you are able to create congruence within yourself, you are able to set yourself free to become the most authentic version of you.
Congruence – Integrating your Shadow
It is only if we can accept both the yin and yang in us that we can become whole. Are you aware of your shadow?
Creating Congruence – Accepting Perfection
What would you do if you were already perfect?
Creating Congruence – The Balancing Game
Powerful tools need to be used wisely. This insight is about using what you know to achieve real growth, not delusional stagnation.
Creating Congruence – Redefining Perfection
Your definition of the perfect human is comprised of your goals and ambitions. It serves as the rules to your game of life.
Have you set yourself up to win?
Creating Congruence – Should I Say Should?
This is a simple yet powerful choice about the language we choose to use.
Taking responsibility for this particular choice is one the most powerful things you could ever do.
Creating Congruence
The is the first post in the Creating Congruence series.
This tool is all about creating harmony in your inner world to unlock a life of contentment.
Breaking the Triangle – Benefits and Practical Applications
In the concluding post of the Drama Triangle series, we step back and look at how this tool forms an integral part of the introspection toolkit.
How to Break the Triangle
Once you are aware of the triangle, you unlock the power of choice to break it… freedom is here.
Breaking the Triangle – Examples in Action
Worked examples are often the best way to learn more… Can you spot the triangles you are part of?
Breaking the Triangle – The Main Actors
Adopt a new perspective…
Understanding more about the roles in the drama triangle will help you learn more about your own behavioural patterns.
Breaking the Triangle
This tool is all about developing awareness of our interaction patterns with other humans. Once we are aware of the games that we play, we can make a conscious choice about playing them.
Emotional Checkpoint – Benefits and Practical Applications
This is the final post in the emotional checkpoint series.
Have you unlocked your own limitless fuel supply?
A Game of Make your own Belief
There is always a choice – you just need to find it.
Using Our Emotions to Our Advantage – Anger
Taming your anger is like learning to ride the fastest wild horse you can find.
Free energy for life anyone??? Well, you already have it!
Using Our Emotions to Our Advantage – Fear
Mastering our emotions is to humans like magnetisation is to steel. Lets explore how we can use fear to our advantage.
An Emotional Checkpoint – Challenging Beliefs
The beliefs we hold about our emotions are the source of the fear attached to our emotions. Fix the belief and you are free to embrace your emotions…
An Emotional Checkpoint
Emotions are the fuel that drive all human interactions… but who is driving your emotions?
Rewriting the Script – Benefits and Practical Applications
Your scripts sit at the centre of your habits, behaviours and personality. Learning about them and taking ownership of them is the key to embodying the authentic version of you.
Rewriting the Script – Breaking the Script (Part 2)
This is my story of how I broke the most self limiting script in my life.
If I can do it, you can too.
Shaping Perception: Dualism
You must have your cake and it eat!
The cake of life contains a slice of every flavour imaginable. Accepting the whole lets you appreciate a slice for what it is… or is not.
Rewriting the Script – Breaking the Script (Part 1)
Our scripts are our emotional habits and patterns. Only when they are consciously written by our own hand can we live and an authentic version of ourselves.
Rewriting the Script – Understanding the Script
It is time to learn more about our scripted behaviour patterns.
We need to first become aware before we can accept and take action to change…
How to Create Long Lasting Change
When things are changing, it is a good time to change. Keeping things changing is an art form and as artists, we all need to brush up on our skills from time to time…
Rewriting the Script
We all experience repeating behaviour patterns. Some of these patterns constrain us and hold us back.
Are you ready to remove the shackles that are constraining you?
I and Me – Benefits and Practical Applications
This is the concluding post in the I and Me series.
Do honestly know who you really are?
I and Me – The Lead Actor
We all love a good movie… well you are the writer, creative director and lead actor of the one you call your life!
Or so you think you are…
I and Me – Understanding your Ego
Have you ever stopped to consider the different collections of information (energy) that enable you to construct your perception of the world?
Well, it is time to take a look…
I and Me – Agents at Play
To lay the foundation for a new perspective on consciousness, we are delving deeper into the different facets of the human psyche – the agents at play.
I Think Therefore I Am; Not
It is important to live skilfully, and skill requires some thought. Living is done through action though, not just by thinking about it!
I and Me
If you are I, then who is me?
This is the first article covering a collection of five tools which will help develop awareness of our internal worlds.
Momentary Time
Time… the past, the present, the future…
Is it all real or did I just imagine it?
Your OWL – Benefits and Practical Applications
Learning how to learn and learning how to live. Why bother?
Find out in this post!
Your OWL – Optimum Way of Living
Understanding our personality and behaviour enables us to track the effect of the changes we make in our lives.
Think of it like capturing before and after photos.
Without knowing who you are, how could you ever be able to work out what changes are having the right positive effect that you are looking for?
Life: Bricks or Pressed Concrete?
The way we choose to perceive the world influences the way that we interact with the world. The way we interact with the world is a reflection of how we interact with ourselves.
Your OWL – Optimum Way of Learning
Learning how we each individually learn is the precursor to learning how to live our own authentic lives.
Awareness vs Consciousness
Knowing the difference between these two processes will enable you to better understand and observe your inner world.
The Introspection Toolkit
This is the introduction to the introspection toolkit:
An internal inspection of your mental and emotional processes.
Laying the foundations for what is to come…
The Meaning of Meaning
Once you realise this is a choice, your life will never be the same again… that is, if you choose for it not to be!
The Blue Sky Behind the Clouds
Time is the great healer. Why?
Natural processes can unfold and when we choose to look back, from far away we can see the broader context.
What we thought was a constant, turned out to just be a process…
Compassion – Challenges Leading to Growth
Developing a compassionate mindset is not easy, but it is that challenges that we will face that make the journey worthwhile.
Life is Like a Game of…
The more we want something, the harder is can be to achieve. It depends how much we choose to try…
Should I Say Should?
This is a simple yet powerful choice about the language we choose to use.
Taking responsibility for this particular choice is one the most powerful things you could ever do.
Purposefully Shaping Perception
Learning how to shape and manage our own perception, is one of the most powerful tools we can use to make our way up the mountain path.