Your past funnels in and shapes you. Your self is the waist it all passes through. Your future funnels out toward the person you're becoming.
Tap the past, the future, or any ring of the self to open what's inside it.
In-funnel · your past
Everything that happened, the good and the hard, funnels in and shapes the self. You can't change it, but you can understand it and make peace with it.
The waist · your self
The narrow point it all passes through: a big, ever-present Outer World, a Inner World you can change with effort, and a stable Core, the real you.
Out-funnel · your future
The self projects forward toward two people: your best self (up) or your worst self (down). The work is aiming the funnel up, in line with your core.
The same model, opened up. Each part holds what's inside it and how you work with it. Change is the way through: you work with your past to understand today, then intervene layer by layer to grow toward your best self.
What's in it
Positive · lifted you up
Wins & achievementsSecure love & supportMentors & role modelsPeak, joyful momentsInherited strengthsLessons learned
It takes intention to shift, but with effort it genuinely changes. Awareness and emotional regulation are capacities you build here through the work, not fixed traits. Hope moved to the Future, where it belongs.
How you work with it
Goal setting turn the vision into the next concrete move
Manifestation & affirmations rehearse the identity until it feels true
Reframing test and rewrite the beliefs that limit you
Parts work meet the protective and wounded parts inside
Narrative rewrite become the author of your story, not its victim
What's in it
PersonalityCore valuesCharacter traits (good & bad)Innate passions, what lights you up
The things that don't change, the essence of who you are. Temperament is the seed of personality, folded in here. Your best self is this core, fully expressed.
How you work with it
Values & strengths work name what's truly you, then steer by it
Awareness & mindfulness the gate: you can't change what you can't see
Regulation build the steady floor everything else stands on
FearsLosses you dreadDriftWho you become by default
How you steer toward your best self
Vision & visualization make the future self vivid enough to pull you
Goals & if-then plans build the bridge from here to there
Manifestation & affirmations hold the identity steadily in view
Hope-building grow your agency and map many routes forward
Alter ego & identity step into who you're becoming now
Alignment check is this future actually mine, true to my core?
Change is the way.
You work with your past, the good and the bad, to understand why you act the way you do today. Then you change your environment, shift your inner world, and strengthen your core, until your life lines up with your true self and grows toward your best self.
The Self Model · built by a 6-expert panel + integrator · full write-up in 06-Program/The-Self-Model.md · structure spec in 06-Program/_panel2/architecture-spec.md