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Exercise: Thinking backwards
Feel what ideas really have to do with you, enthuse yourself for them and stay true to them!
The next three exercises for thinking in reversed order have the following aim: to support your wonderful wealth of ideas so that they find there direction so that your goals become realistic and that you can achieve them. If possible, always choose the same place and time for practicing.
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Thinking texts backwards
Find a longer poem, saying, or meditation text that you like and that means something. Read the first sentence or part of it aloud, then say it backwards, word for word, without looking at the text. Do this repeatedly until you succeed in this part. Then take the next section. Maybe you will get to the end of the text, otherwise stop after 10 minutes. The next day you do the same thing again, but maybe you dare to do it with longer sections.
The effectiveness of the exercises does not come from memorising, but from thinking in the opposite direction and from the fact that speaking is accompanied by inner participation. Over time, you can increase the length of the sections. If at some point you know the whole text, do not switch to another, but stick with it and try to get more and more calm and intimate with speaking backwards. This forms the organs in you that bring calm, intimacy and overview into your activities in everyday life.
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Imagine everyday situations backwards
It is also good to visualise everyday situations, that you feel addressed and affected by, backwards, without delving into them emotionally. You will notice that this releases tensions and that intensifies experiences. For example, during your lunch break or on the train, take five minutes to think an event backwards:
- a conversation with a friend. What arguments were made for a subject and how did they succeed one another? But in reverse order!
- a meeting at the company. In which order did who say what?
The more you choose topics that are emotionally close to you, the more you can achieve by thinking them backwards. This forms an inner order that allows you a natural presence and gives you security and effectiveness in your actions.
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Look back on an event
At the end of the week, look back on different experiences and encounters. Choose one of them and try to bring it to your mind again. What did you experience there? Is there anything that still concerns you today? Who played an important role for you and why? What were positive and strengthening experiences? What was perhaps difficult, what did you stand up for, or would you like to have done so? With this exercise you can gradually recognise what you are standing up for in the world.
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