Recipes For Inner Peace, The Lifescale

Our third Recipe for Inner Peace is a unique set of ten questions. The Lifescale will help you to understand the balance you have now in your life between your positive and negative emotional energies – those things that cause satisfaction and frustration. Since I developed and began using the Lifescale in 1984, thousands of people have been able to transform their negative emotions into positive, creative action.

In the book, Jenny goes through the Lifescale questions with her Emotional Fitness Coach, Nicolas. She sees with an almost blinding clarity that her own self-doubts prevented her from being herself. Once she realizes that she has been holding herself back because of past fears and a lack of confidence that she has carried over from her childhood, she begins to find her voice and rediscovers within herself a talent that she has suppressed.

You could be in for some significant discoveries if you talk this through with somebody else. Jenny did, and it helped her to change the way she felt and acted.

One of the beauties of the Lifescale is that you are in total charge of how you interpret the scores, since you are the only one who can know what they mean to you. The only right answers are the ones you give.

RECIPE FOR THE LIFESCALE

Ingredients

Give a score from 0 – 20 for each of the following questions.

Satisfaction questions:

How much PLEASURE do I get from life?
How much PURPOSE do I have in my life?
How much do I feel I’m in the right PLACE?
How much POWER do I feel I have?
How much PEACE of mind do I have?

Frustration questions:

How much PAIN do I feel I have?
How much do PROBLEMS weigh me down?
How much PREJUDICE do I feel against me?
How much POVERTY do I feel I have?
How much PRESSURE do I feel is on me?

Method

1. Write down your score from 0 – 20 for each of the questions in the Lifescale recipe.
2. Ask yourself what your score means to you and write down your answer to each one. You will probably find a theme emerging.
3. Look at the answers you have given for the five satisfaction areas and the ones for frustration and write down a summary of each of those two areas.
4. Finally, consider what your total Lifescale means right now and how you can change something that causes frustration and no longer serves you.

What else does Jenny cook but a great sweet and sour dish to go with the Lifescale?