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The purpose of this section is to
1. Identify what happened, so that we can look at things "scientifically", which requires facts only.
2. To differentiate between "reality" and the stories that we make up and then confuse with reality. When stories are confused with reality, things are muddied and cause and effect is not clearly discernible. , so that we would
See the discussion: What Happened, so that you know the difference, forever, as you will need it in order to live a life of clarity and solved problems.
Section D., The Camera Check, has you take a second look at what you wrote in A., to make sure that it is only containing "objective, observable facts."
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COMMENTS TO HELP FILL IN THE SECTION A FORM:
List what you have perceived to have actually happened:
1. What occurred, as if you were an outside observer.
This means it would only be something observable from the outside, with nothing imputed, assumed, or
added in any way other than what is "seeable".
2. What occurred inside me:
“I thought…”, or "I had the thought that..."
“I felt in my body…”,
“My emotion was…”
Note that you do not report here anything that you are now making up about what actually occurred in fact, in reality. You certainly can't say, as a thought that is occurring now about something that occurred, "I know that is bad of me", but you can say, if it was true, "I thought at the time 'I know that is bad of me."
Those thoughts that occurred at the time could also just be copied into Section B., as they are also occurrences of self-talk.
