Monday, July 28, 2014

The Fridge Exercise

The Fridge Exercise

One exercise of imagination, which will help you to come to an awareness of your higher self, is the metaphor of the fridge:
-“So I would like you to imagine that you’re a fridge! The first thing that happens is that somebody comes along and puts some butter in you... what do you do?”
-Most people at this point say “Keep it cold.”
-“And somebody else puts some milk in you, what do you do?”
-“Keep it cold.”
-“And somebody else puts a dirty old boot in you, what do you do?” Here there is usually some hesitation, but, sometimes prompted by “You’re a fridge”, people more or less reluctantly say,
-“Keep it cold”.
-“Right! And why is there no point in you, as a fridge, getting upset about the presence of the old boot (although it’s entirely understandable that you may not like it!)?” People usually see that it’s because, as the fridge, they are not in control of what comes into or goes out of them. “And do you think you are the butter, the milk or the old boot?”

-“No, I’m the fridge.”


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