Writing things down

It is part of many 'solution processes', and is even suggested here on this site: writing things down. Put into words what your personality thinks and believes by putting it on paper. It is so familiar, yet practically you tend to do it only occasionally. Why does your personality hate to do this in the first place?

Presumably since writing down means that you can no longer hide from your awareness what your personality truly thinks. It is possible to have a thought cross your mind hundreds of times each day without getting anywhere, simply because of its brief nature it hardly gets to you.

And you can write it down only once and immediately see more or less clear that it is not the plain truth you thought it was. This is embarrassing, and that is why your personality prefers not to do this. It undermines him, and decreases your belief in him. However, this automatically is the power of the mechanism: you find out what you truly think, and as a result you already no longer believe in it as strongly as before. Now without an alternative, this would leave you quite vulnerable and with a sense of 'wrong' or 'failure'; when you understand that it is by letting go of the energy your personality puts into maintaining his thought system that mental space becomes available for your inner Self, it is easier to see the advantage of it.

On this site this effect is even strengthened by putting it this way: tear the paper into small pieces immediately after you have finished your writing down, since this is not where you are about to find your true solution (what you wrote down are personality points of view, and you were sure already that this was not what would bring you the solution you are looking for). Only now you have gotten rid of these wandering thoughts, you have given them the attention they were looking for, and frankly: that is enough for your personality, the tension these thoughts were able to create has diminished. And your inner Self will fill the mental space you have made available through this.