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Roles As Masks Replace Self
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Roles As Masks: Differentiate self from roles. When you identify with roles, they become masks. When roles become masks, they replace you.
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” —Socrates
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Roles As Masks: What Is Self?
- Self is the space and place inside that composes you.
- The self is the inner container, host, and vessel.
Self Is Not—
- Self is not the contents of the container.
- Self is not the actions of the container.
- The self does not change when the contents change.
- The changes in the behaviors of the container do not change the container.
Self Cannot Be Changed
- People cannot change themselves.
- Self cannot be changed by changing habits.
- Self no more changes by changing feelings, thoughts, behaviors, or experiences than the body changes by changing clothes.
- Self has not changed, but what has changed are feelings, thoughts, behaviors, habits, and experiences.
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Roles As Masks: What Are Roles?
- A role is a set of behaviors you are supposed to perform and are limited to in specific situations.
- Roles are what you perform.
- Roles are behavior sets that you follow.
- Roles are guidelines for behavior that help us to interact.
- Roles are not people, and people are not roles.
- Roles are true when you follow them and are aware that you are following a role.
Limitations of Roles
- Just as you are limited in the moves you can make when you play a game such as chess or checkers, so are your options limited when you play the role of father, mother, brother, sister, teacher, counselor, doctor, etc.
- No one is a role, but people should perform roles.
- For instance, no one has ever been a doctor or a lawyer.
- But many people have acted like a doctor or a lawyer by learning the role of a doctor or lawyer.
Driver Role
- Please follow your role as a responsible and licensed car driver without wanting to act as a mean or reckless car driver.
- Your driver’s role is to stop at a red light whether or not you feel like it.
- Your driver’s role is to stop for a school bus whether or not you think you need to.
Roles Are Not Masks
- Roles are helpful, and masks are hurtful.
- Roles keep you within the bounds of your duties, whereas masks hide your true intentions.
- Roles are real, and masks are phony.
- Roles are guidelines, and masks are deceptions.
- Roles are functions, and masks are games.
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Roles As Masks: What Are Masks?
- Masks are a perversion of roles.
- A mask is either a role that you hide behind or a role that you fight being.
- When you identify with a mask, you seek to be known as the mask instead of as yourself.
- Masks are phony because you identify with the mask and want others to identify you with the mask when you are not the mask.
- When you resist being a mask, you are fighting a false battle as you think you must fight from being a mask or all masks when you do not.
- No one can be a mask.
- People can only appear as a mask.
People Are Not Masks or Roles
- We often mistake people for their roles, creating the fiction of people being masks.
- But no one has ever been or will be a mask or a role, though they often perform the role.
- Your feelings, thoughts, behaviors, and experiences come and go, but you remain; therefore, you are not them.
- Masks are what you wear to hide behind.
Masks Are Games
- Masks divide self from self.
- Masks are the device of the phony.
- Masks are a pretense.
- Masks are lies.
- Beware those who always smile as they hide their real intentions and will likely stab you in the back when they can.
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Roles As Masks: 5 Strategies that Masks Serve
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Roles As Masks: Split Role-Awareness
- Split role awareness happens when you give your other attention to the appearance of a role you are playing so that you can watch to see if you are successfully performing it.
- You give your self-attention to thoughts of what the role is to become the role better.
- This division is experienced in many ways, including as conflict and as the GAADSAP emotions: guilt, anxiety, attachment, depression, shame, anger, and pride.
- Bad actors in movies and plays make this mistake frequently.
Roles As Masks: Role Confidence
- Self-confidence is absurd as self is not a doing but a host.
- However, role-confidence is natural based on experience.
- When you have performed, practiced, studied, and had experience successfully performing a role, it is natural to have confidence that you can and will perform that role successfully.
Roles As Masks: Role Surrender
- The wise do role surrender once they have learned and practiced a role.
- In role surrender, you turn your performance over to Energy, to Spirit.
- The role is then magnificently performed through you.
- You make no effort to complete the role.
- You do not identify with the role. You are under the performance of the role.
Perform Roles, Don’t Become Roles
- Learn to accept and perform roles.
- Learn to differentiate self from roles.
- When you identify with roles, they then become masks.
- When roles become masks, they replace you.
- Read and discover the best diagrams and maps of how people control and manipulate you.
- Read “Games Ego Plays” to understand roles as masks in games.
Roles As Masks: Related Pages
- More on the 5TP: Pages by Topic: 5 Thinking Positions
- Discovery Demands 5TP: The Evolution of Perspective
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- Read and master the life skill of acceptance using the best combination of CBT, REBT, & Stoicism.
Roles As Masks: 6 Groups of Topics Menu
- 1. Pages by Topic
- 2. Fast-Facts by Topic
- 3. Quotations by Topic
- 4. Poems by Topic
- 5. Scripture by Topic
- 6. Websites by Topic
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Roles As Masks: 9 Skills & Topics Menu
- 1. Anger Skills & Topics
- 2. Blame Skills & Topics
- 3. Communication Skills & Topics
- 4. Coping Skills & Topics
- 5. Counseling Skills & Topics
- 6. Praying Skills & Topics
- 7. Recovery Skills & Topics
- 8. Responsibility Skills & Topics
- 9. Thinking Skills & Topics
- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for your feelings and stress.
- Read and discover the best diagrams and maps of how people control and manipulate you.
- Read “Games Ego Plays” to understand roles as masks in games.