The daily review from the Spiritual Exercises: give thanks, ask for light, go through the day, ask pardon, resolve. Five taps, morning and evening. The warning at the top is not decoration; the method was built by a man in a scrupulosity crisis and can feed one.
Read this every time, not once. Daily structured moral self-examination is a known aggravator of scrupulosity and obsessive checking. Ignatius built this partly out of a crisis of that kind that nearly killed him. If the review turns into a search for what you did wrong, or you find yourself doing it more than twice a day, or you cannot stop, that is the signal to stop, and the tradition's answer was a director in the room, not more review. This page has no director.
The review
1Give thanks for one thing from the day
2Ask for light to see the day clearly
3Go through the day, hour by hour, without judging yet
4Face what went wrong, once, and ask pardon
5Resolve one thing for what comes next
Whom you thank and ask is yours. The tradition says God, and says that without that address the discriminator between a good movement and a bad one is gone. That objection stands; this page keeps the five steps and the date.
Reviews
The honest limit, stated first. Ignatius composed the Exercises at Manresa in 1522 and 1523 and the Church approved them in 1548. They are a supervised process: the director's job, by the sixth annotation, is to intervene, and the criterion for whether a consolation is real is theological. Strip the theology and consolation and desolation lose the thing that told them apart. Jung lectured on the Exercises at the ETH in 1939 and 1940 as directed imagination, which is documented and is a different reading, not a rescue. What is left for a person alone is the best-engineered daily review in the Western record, five movements that take four minutes, and the contraindication above, which the tradition learned from its founder's own near-death and which belongs on the screen rather than in a footnote.