Exercises for Chapter 2

Genie Lesson # 8  

Meet Your Own Genie Meditation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go to this link for the auditory version of this meditation-

https://selfhealdistributing.com/genie-meditations/

Journal Exercises Chapter 2

Write up your experience with Your Genie.

What is Genie’s name?

How do you call Genie back?

What has your Genie told you about its life and any answers it might have given you about yours?

Remember, you can go back and visit Genie again and again.

Keep the relationship respectful and realize the enormous power you are dealing with.

Draw a picture of Genie or find one to colour. Or create whatever type of art, music, poetry or pottery you would like to honour your relationship.

How high are you on the Genie Scale?

What were some of the constraints that you have faced since birth, (gender, race, family attitudes, etc.)?

How have those constraints shaped you?

Have you ever been sidetracked by someone else’s needs or captured by a genie hunter? (A sociopath, narcissist, addict, or just someone who purposefully bent your will to meet their needs)?

How did you get trapped in the lantern?

Did you escape?

Can you now recognize the type of person who was your captor, better?

How so?

How do you protect your freedom now?

Do you seek other’s approval?

Whose approval do you most seek?

Do you change or distort yourself or opinions while seeking approval?

How so?

How is it you might try breaking this approval seeking tendency?

Write down 1 or 2 lessons from this chapter you would like to put into action.