STEP 10: We continue to trust our reality and daily affirm that we see what we see, we know what we know, and we feel what we feel.
This is a very action oriented step, in that it asks us to dialogue with ourselves and consciously, and daily, affirm our reality. On the call, I encourage using Clarifying and Perception Checking questions in your communication with others as a tool to help you affirm your experience.
If we haven’t trusted ourselves, perception checking with others is a great way to affirm our own realities and experiences. This Step also implicitly recognizes that there are others who have genuinely given you information that has you doubt your reality.
The general term for this is Gaslighting, and the term originates from a 1944 movie called Gaslight.
Your homework was already built into the step by encouraging daily affirmations that our realities are indeed our realities, and that we really are seeing what we’re seeing, know what we know, and are feeling what we feel.
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