Jose ATID LEIIA STEVENS 113- Clearing your throat or nose.
- Drinking every night.
- Smoking.
- Going to the same eating places or stores regularly.
- Going out with the same people all the time.
- Reading the paper every day.
- Seeing the world from the same perspective, skeptically,
cynically, idealistically. - Watching television. Watching the same programs.
- Avoiding being alone.
- Avoiding people in general.
- Avoiding old people, children, disabled people.
Exercise #5: The Steps
- Make a list of your habitual actions.
- Watch and notice each time you perform one of
them. - Find the humor rather than judge yourself.
- Examine the pattern in detail.
- Identify alternative actions. Try them out.
Appropriate Destruction: Relationships
Your relationships can be the most difficult aspect of your
life to sort through. Shamanically speaking, they also have
the capacity to deaden you the most because they support
and reinforce old patterns that keep you stuck. Unlike be-
liefs or habits that you can erase or transform, you cannot
necessarily change other people. Socially speaking, what
they think and feel about you matters a great deal. Therefore
the people you surround yourself with are vitally important
for your well-being, growth, and personal satisfaction.
Just like your closet full of old clothes or you bag full of
old beliefs, you can carry a number of relationships around
with you that no longer serve you and perhaps never did.
These are relationships maintained out of habit and in some
cases a false sense of duty.
From the shamanic point of view, your relationships are