Inner Objects in our daily lives...

One example of how we use Inner Objects in our daily lives is whenever we are recounting a story to someone, we will mentally contact the inner objects to assist us in telling the story.

Rarely do we train our eyes on someone to tell them a story without breaking eye contact to do this. Try it. Tell a friend a story of something that happened to you in the not-too-distant past with your eyes LOCKED on their eyes. You will find it VERY difficult to tell your story to your listener. We naturally avert our eyes (up or to the sides) in order to reconstruct the story we're telling. We do this because we are connecting with our Inner Objects.

Here is an example.

(The Inner Objects in this story are in BOLD):

Yesterday, my friend came over and we made dinner. We had pasta and garlic bread after we got back from a concert at the YMCA Theater. After the concert we went down the subway station and got on right as the train was coming into the station. We transferred to a the 73 bus. The bus was filled with passengers, and I checked my pockets for the change to make sure that I had enough for the fare. Once we got dropped off at the T Stop, we crossed the street and got into the house. Then we made dinner, had a wonderful glass of wine (or two) and enjoyed a television program.

Each of the above objects will be contacted in your mind's eye as you tell the story. Additionally, as the listener hears this story, they will create their OWN Inner Objects. They will visualize the dinner, the train station, the theater, and they will imagine what these places look like in their mind's eye. As the listener hears your story, they will become actively involved through their visualizations of your story.

This is one perfect example of using Inner Objects.