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YOUR SELF ANALYSIS PROCESS

· 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 mo-
ment 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.
Questions to prompt you:

· Where are you at this moment?

· How old are you and what do you look like?
· Who is there with you? Who is supposed to be?

· What is happening that makes this moment so influential?
· What emotions or changes of emotions are you feeling now ? Loneliness? Anger? Fear?
Confusion? Joy? Power? Helplessness?
· How would you change the experience if this were possible?

· What is your mental/physical experience? Clarity/confusion? Happy/sad? Joy/pain?
Weak/strong?

· If you could speak to someone, who? What would you say?
· What are you saying to yourself?

· What do you need right now more than anything else?

Having answered the questions as if you were in the moment for each incident, answer the
following in writing:

· How do you feel now?

· What emotions are you having now?
· What are you telling yourself about these events today?

· What power did you lose to this event? (if negative) What power did you gain or what did
you learn (if positive)