Digging Deeper – a Summary

Digging Deeper is what we’re always trying to do in Introspective Writing. Looking for ways to see past the surface-level noise and get clear about what’s underneath, what’s in the shadowy part of the mind.

This lesson is a summary and collection of prompts you can use to dig deeper. You can use these prompts and similar ones any time when you are working through a challenge or feel stuck in your writing progress.

A starting prompt you can use is: “What is the biggest problem in my life, right now?”

Digging Deeper Questions

• What stories do I tell myself about this?
• What’s behind this?
• Is there more?
• How does this serve me? / What’s great about this?
• What am I avoiding? / What am I afraid of?
• What am I not allowing myself to think, feel, say or do?
• Is this really true?
• What else could be true?
• What would happen if I stopped believing this?

Mirror Prompts

Some questions for finding the quirky ways in which things are reflected back and forth between our internal and external worlds:

• In what way is this a part of me or a reflection of me?
• In what way am I doing this to myself?
• In what way might I be doing this to others?
• In what way might I be inviting the world to do this to me?

Parts Prompts

Some questions you can use to explore from the perspective of parts work:

• What part of me believes this?
• What part of me doesn’t believe this?
• What part of me wants or needs this?
• What part of me doesn’t want to let go?
• Is this my voice or someone else’s voice?
• Who or what does this remind me of?

Finally, remember that all of this is just meant to point towards the Real Thing, which is the Indescribable Internal Motions we touched on in a previous lesson.