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Auditory Perspective Exercise Outline

(pairs, 15 minutes total)

1. Think of a troubling voice, and notice your response. Notice the location of the voice, and whether it's your own voice or someone else's. Then set that voice aside.
2. Find four resource voices, one by one, and listen to each one, both the tonality and the words. (If the problem voice is another person's the resource voices should also be someone else's, and if the problem voice is your voice, the resource voices should also be yours.)
3. Arrange these voices around your head so that you can hear all four talking at once. It will be harder to hear the details when they are all talking.
4. Bring the troubling voice in, and listen to all five talking at once. Notice how your response changes in both intensity and quality.