To Develop Perspective

In exercises 15-18, I help you form a developmental perspective on the stages you go through learning to decode your messages by making systematic analogies with the stages of normal child development. These analogies will help you see where you are in the process of learning to decode messages and what milestone you need to master. They will help you will form reasonable expectations of the kind of help and feedback that you get when you engage the spiritual dimension so that you can enjoy the rewards specific to your own stage. The better your understanding of the kind of feedback you are likely to receive, the better your ability to decode it. And as you have already heard several times before, the value of any idea that you form about your messages needs to be tested by applying your understanding and seeing the feedback you get—are they the benefits you predict. With your current ability to decode messages in everyday life in a better perspective, you will be better focused on the lessons that you need to learn, less troubled by the ups and downs of life and generally more optimistic about your future—happy to be engaged in this process that you now understand.