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Interviewing a Physical Symptom
What are three fundamental life issues that you are dealing with now in your life?
A) Health, making time for what I need to do, advertising my business
Choose any physical symptom. How does it make you feel?
A) Cancer on chin, frustrated
If that feeling had a color, what color would it be?
A) Pink
Imagine that color filling the space in front of you so that it has depth, height, width, and aliveness.
Now watch that color swirl, congeal, and condense into a shape. Don’t make it take a shape, just watch it and say the first thing that you see or that comes to your mind: An animal? Object? Plant? What?
A) Jelly bean
Now remember how as a child you liked to pretend you were a teacher or a doctor? It’s easy and fun for you to imagine that you are the _____ and answer some questions I ask, saying the first thing that comes to your mind. If you wait too long to answer, that’s not the character answering - that’s YOU trying to figure out the right thing to say!
Would you please tell me what you look like and what you are doing?
A) I’m a pink jelly bean, I’m small and just hanging out
What do you like most about yourself in this experience? What are your strengths?
A) That I’m small, that I’m always around
What do you dislike most about yourself? Do you have weaknesses? What are they?
A) That I cause harm, that I don’t go away easily
(Character), you are in this person’s dream or life experience, correct? They created you, right?
A) Yes, yes
(Character), what aspect of this person do you represent or most closely personify?
A) Her grief
(Character,) if you could be anywhere you wanted to be and take any form you desired, would you change? If so, how?
A) Yes, I would become a white dove
(Character), how would you score yourself 0-10, in
Confidence, A) 8, sometimes I can’t fly in the wind
Compassion, A) 7, sometimes I care more about myself than others
Wisdom, A) 3, I am still young, I’ve learned a lot and haven’t had the experiences in life to make them my own
Acceptance, A) 7, I don’t always accept my short comings or that of the others (what do you mean by others?) people and illnesses
Peace of mind, A) 3, I think too much about what is going on around me
And witnessing? (And why?)A) 4, I get caught up in what is going on around me
(Character,) if you scored tens in all six of these qualities, would you be different? If so, how?
A) Yes, I would be able to fly away and take any illness with me, I wouldn’t hurt anyone anymore
How would this person’s life be different if he/she naturally scored high in all six of these qualities all the time?
A) She wouldn’t worry about anything, she wouldn’t have any serious illnesses, she would be happier, and she would do all that she truly wanted to do
If you could live this person’s waking life for him/her, how would you live it differently?
A) I would live without fear
If you could live this person’s waking life for him/her today, would you handle his/her three life issues differently? If so, how?
A)yes, these life issues aren’t the ones she needs to think about, she will get what she needs including time to do what she wants to do
What three life issues would you focus on if you were in charge of his/her life?
A) letting her fears fly free, and letting them go where they will because they won’t return
In what life situations would it be most beneficial for this person to imagine that they are you and act as you would?
A) Whenever she feels tied down with worry
Why do you think that you are in this person’s life experience (or dream)?
A) Because she is worrying that her cancer isn’t healing even though she is doing what will heal the cancer sore
How is this person most likely to ignore what you are saying to them?
A) By forgetting that she has wings
(What can she do to remember to be like you?) To hang a bird in her room, carry a feather around with her
(Dreamer,) what have you heard yourself say?
A) That I need to stop worrying about healing, that I’m doing the right things to get better
(Dreamer,) if this experience were a wake-up call from your soul, what do you think it would be saying to you?
A) To keep doing what I’ve been doing
