Monthly Lessons Archive 2000

January 2000
THE PROBLEM THE SOLUTION
It will help us get our minds in order to write down the problems and solutions to them on
paper. Draw a line down the center of the paper; head one column The Problem and the
other The !olution. !ome e"amples are as follows#
THE PROBLEM
$. I misunderstand the world.
2. I am my own enemy.
%. I fear the loss of someone.
&. I fear there is no answer.
THE SOLUTION
$. 'a(e sense to myself.
2. Drop associati)e thin(ing.
%. *efuse usual responses.
&. !tudy while being afraid.
INTIMIDATION
The state of feeling intimidated bloc(s your awareness of what is going on+ so it is
necessary to obser)e this.
!omeone you are afraid of ma(es a minor contemptuous remar( and you don,t e)en notice
it. -ou grin wea(ly. .ill you stop that defensi)e wea( smile when people ma(e cutting
remar(s to you. EEP THAT !A"E O! #OURS STRAI$HT. /oo( them right in the eye
and send them a message li(e 0noc( it off.
Did you (now that if you were being intimidated by the si" billion people on earth and
were free there would be no reaction. This can be yours.
THREE %OR ASSI$NMENTS
%HO SAID THAT& -ou can begin to catch your false beha)ior by as(ing the 1uestion
.ho said that2 and you will catch false personality being pleasant+ sarcastic+ and so on. 3s
often as you can+ you will interrupt yourself and say .ho said that2 and if it is negati)e in
any way at all+ that is the in)ented self spea(ing in your name.
!A"IAL E'PRESSIONS( .atch how influenced you are by facial e"pressions. 4atch as
many as you can as often as you can e)ery day. !ay to yourself That se)ere loo( has bluffed
me for the last time.
HO% TO BUILD STREN$TH( The ne"t time you find yourself in a strange embarrassing
situation+ caught out of a role+ and you catch yourself saying .hat if people should find me
out+ why don,t you find yourself out