How would this person act?
What would he or she do?
How do I see myself behaving?
How would I speak as this new expression of self?How Do I Want to Feel?
How would this new self be?
What would I feel?
What would my energy be like as this new ideal?When you meditate to create the new you, your job is to reproduce the
same level of mind every day, to think and feel differently than you usually
do. You should be able to repeat that same frame of mind at will and make
it commonplace. Furthermore, you have to allow your body to feel that new
feeling until you actually are that new person. In other words, you cannot
get up as the same person who sat down. Transformation must occur in the
here and now, and your energy should be different from when you started. If
you get up as the same person, feeling just as you did when you started,
nothing has really happened. You are still the same identity.
Therefore, if you say to yourself, “I didn’t feel like it today; I’m too tired;
I have too much to do; I am busy; I have a headache; I’m too much like my
mother; I can’t change; I want to get something to eat; I can start tomorrow;
this doesn’t feel good; I should turn on the TV and watch the news,” and so
on; and if you allow those subvocalizations to take the stage of the frontal
lobe, you will invariably get up as the same personality.
You must use your will, intention, and sincerity to go beyond these urges
of the body. You must recognize this banter and chatter as a fight by the old
self for control. You must allow it to rebel, but then bring it back to the
present moment, relax it, and then start over again. And over time, it will
begin to trust you to be the master again.
Rehearsing: Memorize the New You