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A Work in Progress

You are a work in progress and will be until the day you die. That is the journey of life: Mining your Mind until the end. To work on yourself, you must be in constant communication with your mind

Through self-exploration, you will find the joy and excitement of constantly working on yourself to attain enlightenment.

You will need finer tools and instruments to reach this state of being. You will need a different approach.

Albert Einstein said, “Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.”

You need to start your approach by asking yourself questions. Questions are the lifeblood of self-exploration. Real questions arise from a deep need and inner search.

These questions should be practical so they can lead to useful answers and realizations toward your inner growth. Be naive with your questions.

Ask yourself questions with attainable answers that can result from a little inner searching. Instead of “Why am I here?” ask “What steps am I taking right now that will move me toward my goals?”

Start with smaller, practical questions that have easily recognizable answers, and put them into practice now. The answers to your questions are the solutions to your problems.

By now, you realize that you are in question. You must work on yourself daily in order to answer the questions that will lead to the discovery of your real, enlightened self. By observing your self,Your Body Language, you will soon discover that you are living in a mechanical state.

How do you turn off the autopilot? By making a conscious decision to take action! Start questioning EVERYTHING and draw your OWN conclusions based on your observations. Start staring at life. Tune in to what’s happening around you!

Next, stop criticizing and blaming yourself and others, regardless of what undesired characteristics or motivations you discover. And there will be some. But you need to proceed with your search.

When you become aware that you have done the best you can with the tools you have to work with, regardless of your outcomes or feedback.

you can discover how and why you act and react as you do. Only then can you make meaningful progress in expanding your answers to the questions.

The third part of self-exploration is to maintain that active awareness of yourself and your surroundings. When you observe how incomplete you are, how you drift from one direction to the other, you will realize that you must work on yourself constantly.

Self-exploration requires awareness, honesty, and a constant state of excitement

Process of Self-Exploration

When working with actors on creating a role, I encourage them to use the following process of exploration to create a full-dimensional character.

With self-exploration, we can see ourselves as others see us. The following exercise is a tool to gain an awareness of yourself. Use it as a guide to get glimpses of who you are.

Observe, question, and think about each of the following areas of self-exploration. Then draw your own conclusions based on your observations.

Explore the following: 5 steps:

1. Your Thoughts and Mental Pictures:

An actor places himself in the shoes of his character, exploring the character’s thoughts and mental pictures in order to reveal them truthfully through Body Language. As an actor for real, you must ask yourself the same questions about the character you are portraying.

What are the belief systems behind your thoughts and mental pictures? What triggers your thoughts and emotions, and what outcomes are they leading you to?

A thought and a mental picture precede each of your actions. Once you become aware of the thoughts, emotions, and pictures that drive your actions, you will be in greater control of your outcomes.

2. Your Dialogue:

Every word of an actor’s dialogue has a specific and dramatic meaning. Everything you say is significant, probably much more than you realize. Be observant of what you say. Ask yourself – Why did I say that? Was it to request or share information? Was it to express or elicit an emotion?

Was it to feed my inner critic or be critical of others? In other words, what is the need behind everything you say?

Examine everything you say honestly and carefully, without judgment. Stay neutral.

3. Your Needs, Motivations, and Objectives:

When acting in a scene, an actor asks himself, “What does my character need? What’s my motivation? What’s my objective?”

In the same way, your needs, motivations, and objectives, can tell you more about yourself than any other area of self-discovery. Are they achievable? Are they biased? Are they constructive or destructive?

4. Your awareness:

When habitual behavior is driven by a destructive need, it is called an addiction. All compulsive actions are based upon a habitual cycle of behavior that can be broken by awareness and self-observation.

Ask yourself – what am I compulsive about, and why? Is it a Need or a Want? If you want something, you are on autopilot, unaware of your addiction. Need is a survival emotion but Want is a habit, a superficial whim, A gasp of air. Haa I want that!

If you need to do something you will do it. Need is driven by the strongest emotion in your belief system – the one that motivates you to survive.

What specific emotion is responsible for your compulsive action (for example, depression leading to overeating)? Ask yourself, what need am I fulfilling, and what is a more constructive way of filling that need?

5. Your Wishes:

The great philosopher Gurdjieff said, “If you wish you can. Without wishing you never can”.

Wish is the most powerful thing in the world. With conscious wish, everything comes.”

Explore your wishes by asking yourself:

What are the needs behind my wishes? What actions have I taken toward making my wishes a reality?

What actions will I take today? Make a 30-day plan.

Remember – Positive outcomes are wishes brought to fruition through The Law of Attraction and The Law ACTION!

Be Bop!