Creating change in your life means letting go of what keeps you fixed in one place. This meditation exercise helps you practice new ways of communicating with yourself and getting to your true self, not the masked, separate self you created.

Spend several minutes each day writing down your self-concepts and beliefs. Who do you perceive yourself to be? Who do you want to be? How do you hope people perceive you, and why? Just do a little bit each day.

Then spend some quiet time feeling how these self-concepts may be based out of fear or lack. What does your body say when you contemplate releasing these masks?

Pick a mask that is absolutely against your self-concept, and imagine becoming this person. How would it feel? Each day, pick a different mask, and play with imagining yourself wearing that self-image. Become a homeless person in your mind. Become a king. Become a traitor. Can you learn to find your center, no matter what the outer mask looks like to other people, or even to yourself?

As you play with these masks, you will see that really none is better than another. They are simply masks. When we let go of needing to be a certain way or appear a certain way, we then have the absolute freedom to change our masks, knowing we are the stillness beneath it that is untouched by the only fleeting external appearance.