me is emerging.”
Choose affirmations according to your need. As you
excavate your buried dreams, you need the assurance that
such explorations are permissible: “I recover and enjoy my
identity.”
BURIED DREAMS, AN EXERCISE
As recovering creatives, we often have to excavate our own
pasts for the shards of buried dreams and delights. Do a little
digging, please. Be fast and frivolous. This is an exercise in
spontaneity, so be sure to write your answers out quickly.
Speed kills the Censor.
- List five hobbies that sound fun.
- List five classes that sound fun.
- List five things you personally would never do that
sound fun. - List five skills that would be fun to have.
- List five things you used to enjoy doing.
- List five silly things you would like to try once.
As you may have gathered by this point in your work, we
will approach certain problems from many different angles,
all of them aimed at eliciting more information from your
unconscious about what you might consciously enjoy. The
exercise that follows will teach you enormous amounts
about yourself—as well as giving you some free time in