Schema Scripts

     The idea we wish to pass on at this time is what we will call the Schema Belief or Schema Script. You have been extensively exposed to the subject of analyzing your belief systems to uncover hidden blockages. This concept is understood in theory by many of you but still so many are struggling to unravel the energy systems associated with their deeply ingrained beliefs. By presenting this subject through a slightly different lens, we hope to give you a new source of leverage to help you move forward. A schema is an expectation for how common, reoccurring events and scenarios play out. When you walk into a grocery store, you have general guidelines and parameters for what you expect to transpire. You do not expect to walk into the store and find it filled with a herd of baby elephants, yet you still allow for a certain of range of unexpected things to happen, such as bumping into an old acquaintance. Think of a schema as a loosely defined script that common reoccurring events/scenarios must follow as they play out. We call this a Schema Script. As you go through your day you encounter a variety of “scenes”, each with its own beginning, middle, and end. In response to these scenes, you have an array of ready made scripts, or a log of learned responses which are ready to be deployed. The other half of this is that you also have an array of common scenarios you expect to encounter. At work you expect to talk to your coworker and you expect it to go a certain way, or you expect interactions with customers or strangers to go a certain way, usually the way it has gone in the past. You may find that these the Schema Scripts are highly developed, not to mention they can often be profoundly negative in nature. Yet often you are not consciously aware that you are following these scripts. You just go through your day and that’s that.

       So when we ask you to uncover your beliefs, we also want you to give special attention to uncovering your Schema Scripts. Approach this by getting clear on what kind of events you want to experience. If there is any kind of specific event or scenario you wish to experience make a note of it. Write it down, but don’t make it too specific. Don’t include specific people or places, make the description loose enough that you can easily see the specific people and places where that scenario could play out, but it could also occur under different circumstances, with different people and in different contexts. However, it is good to start this process with a very specific event schema in mind of something you would like to happen. Then look at it and try to distill it down into more basic parameters, allowing for a greater variety of contexts, and that is what you will put down. This is like throwing a wider net or opening an iris wider to let more light in.

      Accumulate a list of these schemas. What you will end up doing is distilling a short list of the most potent schema scripts that you can benefit the most from and that you want to pour your energy of imagination and expectation into. Let’s say you come up with a short list of about 12 schema scripts, aka “general ideas for good things that could actually happen”; a list that is short enough for you to give adequate attention to. On a piece of paper draw a circle for each Schema Script, big enough for you to write short memos to mark each time something happened that fit the parameters of this or that schema. Each of these circles will be called a Schema Garden.

For aesthetic purposes, the Schema Gardens should be arranged in a circle on the paper.  As you proceed through your day, try to make things happen that fit the ideal schema descriptions.  Throughout the day, or at the end of the day, put a note or symbol inside the schema garden marking the event that fit the schema. Also indicating a rating 1-5 of how satisfactory the experience was. 

Inside the circle of Schema Gardens is a triangle. Each of the three sides of the triangle represent a part of yourself that you are trying to shift or change; the three most potent focus points for personal development that you have identified. Distill your intentions for personal change down to three most important, and write them along the edges of the triangle.  Within the triangle, make a note of the beautiful things you encountered, the things that struck you as good and that you have appreciation for, but don’t fall into the category of your Schema Scripts. Put any additional random good things in the triangle. In the center of the triangle draw a wavy line that bends 5 times, and in each bend of the line is a dot (see image). This glyph will help you anchor the energy you are trying to bring to bear. You can make a digital work up of this diagram that can be printed out. You can also use this diagram mentally as visual memory tool, to remember each of your schema gardens, and organize your intentions.

     Make this a daily ritual for a period of time. Do this as a group, with other members of your household or friends. At the end of the day look at your gardens. Remember all that transpired and mark the good schemas that were fulfilled. Sit with the other people you are doing this with and review the day together. 

(rough sketch of the schema gardens diagram.)