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Robert Elias Najemy - 127 - Remove Pain – Physical and Emotional Chapter Twenty-six EFT FOR INNER CONFLICTS Techniques for Reconciling Personas or “Sub-Personalities” We occasionally experience internally conflicting needs, desires or beliefs. With such inner conflicts, when our sub-personalities or personas have conflicting needs, we are not sure what to do or which decision to make. Some examples of those conflicts are listed below. As you read through them, consider whether or not you have any similar conflicts. Some Sample Conflicts Let us look at some examples of the inner conflicts that may disturb our peace.

1. One part of ourselves may feel we need to spend more time on our professional life while

another part may believe we should spend more time with our family.

2. A part of ourselves may want to open up to a conscious love relationship, while another part

f e a r s being abandoned, hurt, suppressed, manipulated, or being unable to be ourselves in that relationship.

3. One part of ourselves may want to give those around us children, spouses, friends total

freedom to pursue their happiness in their own ways, while another part fears losing control.

4. The part of ourselves that wants to please others may come into direct conflict with our

desire to satisfy our own needs.

5. Part of ourselves may want others to support us, while the other feels restricted by their

support or advice.

6. One part of ourselves may want spiritual growth, while another may feel the need for

material security. 7. One part of ourselves may want to help loved ones and friends, but the other may feel that perhaps we are doing them harm by continuously bailing them out and not letting them solve their own problems.

8. One part of ourselves may feel a need to protect the planet by living a simple life with

very little consumption of energy and products, while another part may want to enjoy all the comforts of an energy consuming, pollution producing lifestyle.

9. One part of ourselves may want to take a new job or leave a job that we have, while another part

wants the opposite for different reasons. 1 0 . One part of ourselves may believe in cooperating with others, while another finds that difficult.

11. One part of ourselves may have a desire for various objects or situations as a source of

pleasure, while another part may feel, this is a sin, or that we are not spiritual if we partake of such pleasures. It may feel this type of pleasure seeking is a waste of time and e n e r g y considering our spiritual goals.

12. One part of ourselves may feel the need to have an exclusive relationship in which our

happiness and security depend upon another person usually a mate. Another part may find this an obstacle toward its need for independence, self-sufficiency, and freedom.

13. Our need for personal love may conflict with our need to develop universal love.

14. Our need to forgive may conflict with our need to hold on to negative feelings toward