This exercise offered by Elias requires some attention and time to do it, because it is sometimes difficult to find out what one is really feeling. It is a very helpful exercise for self-reflection...

The exercise is to list all of the actions that you genuinely enjoy, regardless of what they are. They may be playing a game or they may be an action of holding or petting a creature or it may be incorporating a cup of tea or nurturing a plant or it may be generating mathematical figures. It matters not what the action is but genuinely allowing yourself to list all that you can identify of actions that you, in some capacity enjoy doing.

Now, alongside of that list, I have expressed to generate another list that correlates with the first list. Alongside of each action that you have listed that you enjoy, list what feeling that action generates. This requires more concentration for the automatic response to that is that most of the actions incorporate the same feeling. No, they actually do not. They may incorporate what you term to be good feelings, but they are not all the same, they are different. And acknowledging that some feelings that are enjoyable, you may automatically dismiss for they are attached to certain words that you think may not necessarily be good such as winning or competition. There are actions that you as human individuals engage such as a game or even a debate in which you may actually enjoy engaging the action and enjoy winning and enjoy the competition. And each of those actions produces a different feeling which are not bad.

Once you have created the correlating list of the feelings that accompany the action list, I have expressed to generate a third list. This list is to incorporate each action and feeling that accompanies the action and to imagine what other actions could generate that same feeling. What could you imagine that would generate that same feeling. Or what combination, which is the fourth list, of actions that you have listed could you imaginatively place together to create an entirely new action that could generate a new exploration.

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