Games and Guardians 147Is it in colour or black and white?
How big is the picture?
How far away is it?
Whereabouts in your visual field is it placed – to the
right, left, up or down or straight ahead?
What sounds are associated with the person?
Does their voice have a particular quality?
Now do the same for a person you do not trust.
What kind of picture, sounds and feelings do you have
when you think of this person?
How do these pictures and sounds differ from the
picture and sounds of someone you do trust?
Imagine putting the two pictures side by side next to
each other. If someone who did not know either
person were to look at the pictures and listen to the
sounds, how would they know which person was the
one you trusted?
Now imagine looking at yourself.
What qualities does your picture have?
Do you trust that person (the ‘you’ out there)?
Make the qualities of the picture the same as for the
picture of the person you trust. You can also have your
model there to support you and you can give yourself
the symbol of trust that you have chosen.
Now, what qualities do you need to develop for that
picture to be convincing?
Step into the picture and become yourself – trustworthy.
What does that feel like?
Does it feel different?
What do you have to do to make this self a reality?