This exercise is from workshops where their intended purpose was to create discussions in specific areas and to help the attendees to focus their attention and awareness in a given direction in a given way. Much of what was exactly done with this exercise is unique to the attendees and the information they provided through the exercises. A key part of the exercise was in the attendees sharing their results. As such, using the exercise by oneself or even with another will lose some of the power of the exercise. However, as a starting point to being an inquiry in the topic which this exercise addresses, many insights can still be obtained.

As an exercise given in a workshop, each step was provided only after the previous step was completed. It is recommended you do the exercise and complete each step as you read the step the very first time. Reading the entire exercise and then coming back to do each step will change the results you get. To help divert your attention from reading ahead, a space is provided between each step. Additionally, a thought, relevant or irrelevant, is inserted between steps to divert your focus from reading the next step. Try not to read ahead.

This exercise is best done where you can share your results with another. Either another individual doing the exercises with you or a trusted individual who is supporting your efforts at exploring what you believe.

Identify the deepest, broadest or most encompassing belief you have about life

Explain how you live your life and/or make decisions in your life according to this belief.

Explain how and where you do not live your life and/or make decisions in your life according to this belief.

Share your results

If you cannot say that you fully live and express the deepest belief identified here one hundred percent of the time ask yourself, "Is there a deeper more encompassing belief about life that is true that I can follow more closely in everything I do?" Or, alternative asked, "Is there something true about life that I am not facing that is causing me to be unable to live what I believe one hundred percent of the time?"

In doing this exercise look see how our belief structure is more than the belief we hold. Look to see how the belief in question integrates with all our other beliefs and how they go together to make up what we think. Give an example of how you see the belief of this discussion integrating and/or interconnected with other beliefs you hold such that if you changed this one belief a chain of connections would being to reveal themselves. You may wish to go to your creative imagination  and experiment to look at what would change if you choose to change this belief. Note your results.

Why these beliefs as opposed to any other.

Look to see if you can figure out their origin. That is, look to see if they are: your beliefs because you internally know it is true; your beliefs as a result of what you have personally experienced in life; or those of another that you have adopted for one reason or another.

set the intention to explore the truth of what we believe about each of the belief in question

Ask the universe to provide us the opportunity to see what we really believe about each..

Watch and observer our life for the opportunity which comes along.

Note the results we find.

Compare the results to what we said about what we believe and see how the two do or do not correspond.