to his or her guidance until you find the answer you are look-
ing for.
Exercise 2: Listing the Evidence
Make a list of situations in your life when you have
received feedback or discovered the qualities,
capacities, or the potential to develop them that you
listed in Quadrant III of your Self Matrix.
Let’s say, for example, that you admired Edna’s
strength and courage to face and master her
overwhelming challenges in the movie Places of the
Heartand recognized some signs of this quality
inside yourself. Go back as far as you remember and
note the evidence for your own strength and
courage. A long time ago you may have faced
successfully and with much courage a scary bully in
school. Or a younger sibling might have admired
you for not giving up but fighting even harder when
your sports team looked as if it were losing.You may be surprised what you discover as you include
many life experiences in this search for evidence.
Exercise 3: Reviewing and Editing the Evidence
Now look again at the first situation on your list that
you described, imagine it like the scene of a movie,
and follow these steps:
In your mind’s eye step into this scene. If you only
remember it vaguely, you can make up the details.
Notice what you see, hear, sense, and feel as you
are reexperiencing this situation through your
memory. If the colors you see and the sounds,
feelings, and sensations you notice seem weak, you
can edit the “movie” of your experience. As an editor“The knower and the
known are one. God and I,
we are one in knowledge.”
Meister EckhartPowerful Tools for Healing and Growth — The Growth Matrix 173