LIVINGwell Telling a New Story the art of
Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it. - Marianne Williamson
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magine yourself as an old peasant, walking down the road with a very heavy bag slung over your shoulder. As you go down the dusty road this bag causes you to stoop over as you
perch it on your back. Although this bag is heavy and awkward, you cling to it because it contains all your life stories. The thought of leaving it behind is terrifying. What if you come to a point in the road and you need to make a choice? How would you navigate it without pulling out an old story? What if you are traveling alongside a partner? Could you interact with them without the aid of these heavy memories as your guide?
If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep living the same sad small life. —Jean Houston
Not only can you navigate your life more easily without clinging to this old bag of tales but the only way to go through life with ease is to let it go. However, you need to replace it with something else – nature abhors a vacuum. Therefore, it is time you learn the art of telling new stories.
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the stories you’ve carried for so long as “Truth” are not. They are memories, stories you’ve told yourself and others, and as such, they are altered each time you recall or retell them. This is a natural process that the mind goes through every time we pull things from one time point into another time point. The act of placing it in the present now alters it. As Dr. Nate Kornell explains in Psychology Today: “Police have to be very careful when questioning witnesses.
They basically treat a witness's memory like a crime scene: once you go over it a single time, it's irreversibly disturbed. For ex- ample, asking a biased question, even unintentionally, can make a witness tell their story a little differently. Doing so doesn't just change the story; it changes the witness's memory, permanently and irreversibly. And this isn't just true of witnesses. The more we tell stories, the more our memories change.” Let this thought really marinate with you. What possibilities open up if the very things we look to as life shaping events can be viewed as inaccurate? Well, if they are not empowering, life
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