Coaching practices for Spiritual Attachments Examination
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Spiritual Attachments Examination, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Now that the warm feelings have drained out of my practice, I’m forced to see how much I was in it for that glow
- I’ve started catching a smugness in myself
- I keep starting this nightly prayer practice and then dropping it the second life gets busy, because I’ve made it this long involved thing
- Some parts of my day leave me feeling alive and like myself and others leave me weirdly drained and small, and I usually just push past both
- I can’t bring myself to get rid of a single thing of theirs
Practices that may help
- Working with attachments in the night of the senses
Use the night of the senses to examine what you have been clinging to for identity and security.
The Dark Night of the Soul: John of the Cross - Don’t make gods into demons
Don’t let spiritual practice become a source of pride, judgment, or superiority over others.
Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training - Practice the Examen daily and briefly
Do a short Examen most days rather than a long one occasionally.
The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review - Notice the feelings (consolation and desolation)
Pay attention to where you felt energized and connected versus drained and pulled away.
The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day - Use symbolic objects as tangible continuing bonds
Keep meaningful objects that represent the person and use them consciously, not compulsively.
Continuing Bonds in Grief, Made Practical - Distinguish adaptive from complicated continuing bonds
Notice whether your bond with the person supports life re-engagement or prevents it.
Continuing Bonds in Grief, Made Practical - Investigating the five aggregates
Examine whether any of the five skandhas — form, sensation, perception, formations, consciousness — is the fixed "self" you take yourself to be.
Anatta: The Buddhist Teaching of No-Self in Practice - Review the day following your feelings
Walk back through the day in sequence, tracking the emotional quality of each moment.
The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review - Invite the release — do not force it
Ask the exile if it is ready to release the burden, and trust its pace.
IFS Unburdening, Made Practical - The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
The Examen is a short, structured evening review from the Ignatian tradition: you replay the day with gratitude and honest attention to where you felt drawn toward or away from your values, then carry one resolve into tomorrow. It is a centuries-old contemplative practice; its benefits are best described as mechanistically plausible and widely reported rather than established by controlled trials.
Related concerns
- Ignatian Discernment
The Ignatian Examen is a five-step daily prayer and reflection practice developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola: give thanks, ask for clarity, review the day, face what fell short, and resolve what comes next. As a structured reflection method it is centuries-old and widely practiced; its benefits are supported by the broader research on gratitude, emotional review, and implementation intentions, not by trials of the Examen itself.
- Examen Consolation Desolation
The Examen is a short, structured evening review from the Ignatian tradition: you replay the day with gratitude and honest attention to where you felt drawn toward or away from your values, then carry one resolve into tomorrow. It is a centuries-old contemplative practice; its benefits are best described as mechanistically plausible and widely reported rather than established by controlled trials.
- Ignatian Feelings Review
Walk back through the day in sequence, tracking the emotional quality of each moment.
Review the day following your feelings
- The Ignatian Examen Five Movements Of Daily Review After A Loss
The Ignatian Examen is a five-step daily prayer and reflection practice developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola: give thanks, ask for clarity, review the day, face what fell short, and resolve what comes next. As a structured reflection method it is centuries-old and widely practiced; its benefits are supported by the broader research on gratitude, emotional review, and implementation intentions, not by trials of the Examen itself.
- Consolations And Attachments
Notice whether your bond with the person supports life re-engagement or prevents it.
Distinguish adaptive from complicated continuing bonds
- Five Movements Examen
The Ignatian Examen is a five-step daily prayer and reflection practice developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola: give thanks, ask for clarity, review the day, face what fell short, and resolve what comes next. As a structured reflection method it is centuries-old and widely practiced; its benefits are supported by the broader research on gratitude, emotional review, and implementation intentions, not by trials of the Examen itself.
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