Resentments

Do not be restricted by this list. It is just to help you get started.

PEOPLE: Father,Mother, Girl Friends/Lovers, Brothers, Sisters, Sponsors, Employers, Friends, Acquaintances, Aunts, Childhood Friends, Clergy, Co-workers Cousins, Creditors, Doctors, Employees, spouses, In-Laws,Judges, Lawyers, Parole Officers, Police, Probation Officers,Teachers, Uncles.

INSTITUTIONS: Authority, Bible, Child Protection, Church, Correctional System, Education System, Government, Law, Marriage, Health/Mental Health System, Nationality Philosophy, Races, Religion, Society.

PRINCIPLES: Adultery ,Death, God-Deity, Golden Rule, Heaven, Hell, Homophobia, Life After Death, Original Sin, Retribution, Satan, Seven Deadly Sins, Ten Commandments.

Complete each column top to bottom before proceeding to the next column. Thus, for instance, fill in all the names of those you are resentful at before filling in the column for the cause of each resentment.

Column 1 In dealing with resentments we set them on paper. We listed people, institutions or principles with whom we were angry.

Column 2 We asked ourselves why we were angry.

Column 3 We asses our injuries. Was it our self-esteem, our security, our ambitions, our personal relations, or sex relations which had been interfered with?

Column 4 This Column is optional. List specific defects to show your participation in the resentments.

Column 5 Referring to our list again. Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened? If the Cause of our Resentment was due to abuse of some kind we leave this column blank.

Reading from left to right we now see the resentment (Column 1), the cause (Column 2), the part of self that had been affected (Column 3), and the exact nature of the defect within us that allowed the resentment to surface and block us off from being content and moving forward with life in a healthier manner.(Columns 4 and 5).