INTEGRAL LIFE A practice of inquiry

PRACTICE WORKBOOK

Turn understanding into an experiment.

Use these prompts on paper or print this page. Choose one practice, try it in a real occasion, and review what happens.

Read the linked method before using a worksheet. Keep your notes private in your own notebook; this page does not collect responses.

01

Get a feel for Integral awareness

Read the complete chapter 3 method.

  1. The occasion and what observably happened
  2. My feeling, thought, and wish
  3. The other person’s account—or what I need to ask
  4. The arrangement or condition shaping the event
  5. One missing inquiry and the next response
02

Meet the shadow without losing discernment

Read the complete chapter 4 method.

  1. The mild current event and its emotional charge
  2. 3: the representation I am describing
  3. 2: my question and an explicitly imagined reply
  4. 1: a tentative wish or quality I can recognise
  5. What remains uncertain; a proportionate action or boundary
03

Think with a map you can question

Read the complete chapter 5 method.

  1. A precise proposition
  2. The strongest alternative view
  3. Evidence, assumptions, and the inference between them
  4. A counterexample or observation that would change my mind
  5. A decision or further question
04

Let embodiment deepen the practice

Read the complete chapter 6 method.

  1. My chosen comfortable movement or existing activity
  2. What I observe physically
  3. What I notice in lived sensation
  4. How I relate to thoughts and feelings during the action
  5. What I notice afterwards and how to adjust
05

Practise the three faces of Spirit

Read the complete chapter 7 method.

  1. The sitting method I chose and why
  2. My posture, anchor, and way of returning
  3. One experience described without an attainment label
  4. My interpretation and an alternative interpretation
  5. How I closed; one fitting action afterwards
06

Let insight become ethical action

Read the complete chapter 8 method.

  1. The decision or act, stated specifically
  2. The affected people and missing accounts
  3. Relevant facts, values, duties, and alternatives
  4. My decision or repair, with reasons
  5. How consequences and feedback can change the response
07

Let ordinary life become the practice

Read the complete chapter 9 method.

  1. The domain and recurring occasion
  2. The capacity I am actually practising
  3. What others want or what I need to ask
  4. One observable action in the actual conditions
  5. What feedback I will seek and when
08

Build a practice you can live

Read the complete chapter 10 method.

  1. My present direction and existing practices
  2. One meaningful gap
  3. An ordinary form, a brief form, and an occasion
  4. Limits, competing commitments, and needed support
  5. Review: what to keep, reduce, change, or stop