composure throughout the camera interview, but alterations in eye movement were indicative of an exaggeration of her disdain regarding her camers/clients. She sat provocatively with her legs crossed, using sex as a tool. Always impeccably dressed, her appearance and sexual appeal are components in her evaluation of self-worth.
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CENTRE OF LIGHTNESS
20 Steps to Self-enlightenment Programme
Player: Lisa Redmond – Evaluation 7 continued
As with earlier interviews, Lisa was forthcoming with information about her life. In part, this is because she spends a large proportion of her time lying to massage the ego of her camers/clients.
Step 7 has resulted in the realisation that she doesn’t need money to give value to her life, and that, as a person, she is better than the money she possesses.
She enjoys these confessional-type conversations. She also enjoys the repetition of her name. It brings a form of intimacy with a
lock-in
effect, making her think she is special, that she is talking to someone close to her, someone who cares about her health and well-being.
Progression:
Step 8 – Continuous Self-motivation
Desired Outcome – Transfer to group location
Action required Apply continued pressure to the evaluation of self, emphasising a necessity to be away from the familiar, constituting a change of environment.
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Sarah
SARAH SINCLAIR STARED AT HER REFLECTION IN THE bathroom mirror, waiting for her husband, John, to close the front door behind him. Her long black hair was a tangled mess, with unruly strands covering her face, almost as if she’d put on a wig the wrong way around. Forty wasn’t old, she told herself, but she felt every bit of it.
Lately she’d made a point of getting out of bed only after John had left for work, but today, standing with bare feet in her powder-pink nightdress and dressing gown, she felt excited about the day’s possibilities. Everything, she thought, was so much easier when she was alone, especially when she needed to read or listen to her material from Saka and the Centre of Lightness. Pulling the tangled strands off her face, she thought of what Saka had told her about the importance of being
selfish
. Contrary to the term’s negative connotations, being selfish was a good thing: it was part of our human survival mechanism.
She had been apprehensive about it at first, indoctrinated by Catholicism as a child, and although she was no longer a believer, a part of her still felt bitter about the restrictions within her early beliefs. Self-sacrifice had been rated too highly, putting others before yourself. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. Good girls do as they’re told. Never question, keep the faith.
Saka had explained that being influenced by things we no longer believe in was an element of our mind’s reluctance to take on new ideas. Sarah could see that now, and the words
selfish
and
survival
finally made sense. Furiously brushing her teeth, she remembered a time when she hadn’t wanted to survive, and the thought of that still scared her. With the help of the Centre of Lightness, over time, she had come to realise that those thoughts were temporary. Decisions,or entrenched points of view, were of the moment, and not worth risking a whole lifetime for.
She had never met anyone who could explain things the way Saka could. He allowed her to find her own answers, and it was to him, not John, that she finally admitted her suicidal thoughts. He didn’t judge her, he listened. She didn’t even mind when the camera was on, or that sometimes Saka’s assistant, Jessica, took his place. In some ways the camera helped. It was as if she was talking to herself, clearing the negative thoughts from her mind. Unlike John, Saka wasn’t quick to criticise. He didn’t look at her as if she was a fool, or as if she had somehow disappointed or annoyed him. John got so angry when she ignored him, but the more she tried to