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Perception Cycle Exercise
Influential Events
It is important to think right back to the moment of your birth and work your way forward in age groups to the present moment. From the moment you were
born, forces were at work that would determine the outcomes of your life. From all that you know from what you were told by your parents, siblings and others,
form a mental picture of what life must have been like in your family at the time of your arrival.
Were you born into an under privileged, poor, dysfunctional or battle-weary family, or was life more comfortable and enriched for you? Were there negative
influencing factors such as alcohol, violence, disharmony, abuse or financial pressure or were your early years filled with healthy solid, happy foundations?
Either way, was the correct quality and quantity of unconditional love present in those early years? These may be difficult issues for to even consider let alone
confront, but the process is worthwhile to get to the crux of what started the chain of events and experiences that helped form your present self.
Take up your private notepad and allocate a separate page for the age groups given. Consider the critical moments in your life for each group. This will require
all of your powers of recall to arrive at your true analysis of self.
• Stage 1: 0 to 6 Up to early Childhood
• Stage 2: 6 to 12 Up to Junior School Years
• Stage 3: 12 to 18 Adolescence
• Stage 4: 19 to 40 Young Adulthood
• Stage 5: 40 -65 Middle Adulthood
• Stage 6: 65 Onward - Late Adulthood
For each stage of your life, up to the age you have reached now, we will consider the key factors affecting your development.
Referring back to the Erikson table, remind yourself of the influential events that occurred in each phase of your life.
For each critical moment you identify, ask yourself questions to place yourself in the real moment of time that is relevant.
The answers you truthfully arrive at will form a sound basis from which to move forward to that life of authenticity and happiness you are seeking.
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