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Exercise: Conscience
Find out what it's all about! What does your inner voice say?
Conscience, the voice of your heart, has two sides in which it shows itself. On the one hand, it looks back and appears as shame for past actions that emerge from memory and that you feel are wrong.
But conscience can also look ahead to future decisions. In this way, it helps you to sense how an action affects your environment. Then you can honestly decide with inner certainty.
In this exercise, we are primarily concerned with this second aspect of conscience:
Explore your inner voice
Try to observe everyday decisions to see if you can discover the voice of your heart. Do you notice moments of your inner voice speaking when you make a decision? How do you experience such moments?
- Ask yourself if that inner voice followed conventions, fears, or speculative motives. Or do you have moments when you experience it differently, more deeply, more personally? How is that then?
- Are there moments when you feel inside that: ”Maybe I shouldn't say that now, or say that right now?” Then did you follow that voice? And if yes or no, how do you judge it in retrospect?
- During a break, on the train, ask yourself: Where have I unconsciously followed my inner voice in the last three or four hours?
Have such moments of reflection several times a day and look back on them a second time in the evening.
Discover conscience in the decisions and actions of others
In conversations with others, try to observe what the motives are when someone says something.
- For example, watch children. What leads them in their actions and decisions? Do you notice moments when they act regardfully?
- How does your inner feeling react when you observe conscience in others? Once right in the situation, and then a few hours later when you look back on it.
In the evening, look back on these experiences in peace.
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