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Storytelling
Fingers pitter pattering on keyboard. This is the beginning. This is the end. This is the liminal space in between. This is a promise fulfilled.
As humans we are innate storytellers. It is almost encoded in our ancestral dna. We came here many moons ago and began sitting around the fire, sharing and collecting wisdom in community.
What a blessing. What a curse. The stories we tell.
Do they empower? Do they set us free? Or do they shackle us and keep us stuck? Do they lie to us? Or do they tell us the truth?
I once read a book called how to think like a buddhist. The core concepts were to filter your thoughts through the questions of: Is it kind? Is it true? Is it helpful?
At the end of my yoga classes I state the mantra “may all beings be happy, peaceful, and free and may our thoughts words and actions contribute to this peacefulness happiness and freedom of suffering.”
The four agreements state “Be impeccable with your word. Always do your best. Don’t take anything personally. Don’t make assumptions.”
I recently read a book called the Shamans Path to Freedom. What comes to mind in this moment is the teaching that we are all living our own dream, constructed by our own stories that we choose to focus on and creating our own reality.
Therefore, we are incredibly powerful. Our thoughts are incredibly powerful. The narratives we weave in spoken and written word via the thoughts in our head have the ability to destroy or construct.
We are what we repeatedly do. We are what we repeatedly choose. What we are not changing we are choosing. We are as blind as we want to be.
Passivity is action and the choice to neglect and not focus on what may or may not need to be changed. Non reactivity while a blessing and a necessity in some scenarios, an enabling detriment in others.
From a trauma informed perspective I once heard the founding father of all things trauma Bessel Van Der Kolk say himself “stop retelling your trauma story; it takes you right back there to that moment in time at that age.”
Yet so many of us are addicted to our own suffering. Stuck in a loop trying to resolve problems and issues that are things of the past…
