<Accessing the Storeroom >           In order to clean the basement storeroom of your inherited house, you have to get into it through its door or other entryway. Similarly, even though it has no real door, we also need an entrance to our subconscious internal storeroom if we want to clean it. For that purpose the Innerself development process uses a tool called a Sokaimyo (ancestral plaque). It is inscribed with symbolic characters representing our maternal and paternal ancestry. Since most of the things contained in our internal storeroom came from all our ancestors, their representation in the form of the ancestral plaque directs our attention toward recognition of their legacy which is within us. It thereby serves as a channel through which our thoughts can access our sub-conscious level of mind.