Innerwork Tip 0: Don't Throw Out Your Problem... Yet!
A man who tried to get rid of a mouse, threw it in a little fire outside the house. The mouse caught on fire, but ran back into the house and burned it down.
The moral of the story (for us) is; find out what bugs you. But don’t throw it out! Use its nature in some useful way for yourself and others.
Innerwork Tip 1: Who Else Can Play Your Dream Figure?
If you don't immediately understand a dream figure, ask yourself, who
do you know who could play that figure. This other person will help you
know what you associate to the figure. If you can't find someone who
could play that figure, ask who or what you would like to be there in
that dream instead of that dreamfigure, in order to find out what the
dreamfigure may imply.
Ask yourself, what you are doing, when you are not aware of what you
are doing.
Innerwork Tip 2: Love and InnerWork
To explore your present process, consider the following experiences
:
1. Ask yourself, what are you noticing just now. Then, after noting
that, ask yourself a second question.
2. Namely, what do you notice now, that you did not notice before?
Is there something surprising or new in this second experience? How
would your life
change in the moment, if you were to appreciate this second experience?
We suspect that self -love might mean embracing both the first and
second experience.
Innerwork Tip 3: Masks and DreamWork
When you awaken with a dream, try the following; To interpret the dream
place your hand in front of your face. Now pretend your hand is a mask.
Then ask yourself who or what is behind that mask. The answer to this question
may reveal new aspects of that dream and give you unexpected insights.
Innerwork Tip 4: Use Directions to Interpret Dreams
Before you work on a dream, ask yourself the following question. "Where am
I headed in my life?" After getting an approximate sense of
where you are heading in life, look at your dream as different
aspects of your present life's direction. Your overall direction
may be helpful to your dreamwork.
Innerwork Tip 6: Look in the Mirror Before You Go To Sleep
Get to know yourself! Every time you look in the mirror, just look at yourself. :-) But not as you usually do. Look at your facial and postural signals, not just with a happy or critical view, but instead, with awareness. Notice signals that seem confusing or strange. Then increase or amplify these facial and postural signals, and explore what you experience as you “get into” these signals and their processes. Use an open mind to explore what these experiences are trying to express. Get to know yourself!
We recommend doing this, ESPECIALLY before you go to bed; you can save yourself some dreamtime this way. :-)
Innerwork Tip 7: Spin Like a Chipmunk To Know The Universe
One day, Amy needed to find her deepest self. At that moment she looked down at her feet. To her surprise, she saw a chipmunk spinning like nothing she had ever heard of or seen before. That is why Amy videoed and put the spinning chipmunk up on the web for everyone to see. (click here http://youtube.com/watch?v=w6OSMroCm20 ) That’s Arny trying to give the chipmunk some water.
The moral her story is this. When you don’t know what to do, look at the ground. Then spin until you almost get dizzy. Stop. Notice and follow your experiences. Perhaps like Amy, you will sense the “universe” or the “earth” moving you about.
(She said she felt enlightened, at least for an hour!)
Innerwork Tip 8: The Body and the World
A meditation that may be helpful with body and world problems is:
The world is not me.
And then, ah yes, the world is me!
Whatever I notice in the world is my body, and I'll work with it accordingly. :-)
Innerwork Tip 9: Kermit the Frog Teaches Role Switching and Worldwork
Kermit the Green Frog shows in this 2 minute and 14 second video, how role switching happens automatically. First deny you are the other, then become the other etc. If Kermit and Elmo had a bit more awareness, world process might be easier. Click the screen to watch.
Innerwork Tip 10: Kermit teaches the ABC's of Dreaming While Awake...
that means HOW TO CATCH FLIRTS
Kermit seems to have had some education in process oriented therapy. He assists the creative song writer, Mr. Don Music while composing a song. He helps Mr Music learn to pick up flirts when the conscious mind can go no further with creativity. Kermit’s secret method seems to be:
A. Work: use your everyday mind as much as possible
B. Get Upset: get furious, depressed and collapse at the edge:
C. Notice: and watch what the “dreaming brings”. Then pick it up to finish your project.
a dream figure, ask yourself, who
do you know who could play that figure. This other person will help you
know what you associate to the figure. If you can't find someone who
could play that figure, ask who or what you would like to be there in
that dream instead of that dreamfigure, in order to find out what the
dreamfigure may imply. 
