We Can Rewrite Our Stories
by Here’s the wonderful thing about our life stories. We can write new ones.
We all have our stories. Our past manifests itself in the stories we live and tell. They are woven from a combination of values, beliefs, and survival techniques we learn from our families, our friends, our life experiences and our culture. Many of us have good stories. We live and tell them with great enthusiasm, proud of the experiences and people who shaped our lives and helped to create our stories.
On the scale of life though, bad stories balance and sometimes outweigh the good ones. Bad stories, sad stories abound and they can be limiting in their scope – keeping us stuck. The world is replete with people who live from day to day with that old cliché, “…a chip on their shoulder.” However hard they try, they can’t seem to shake off their backs the proverbial dreaded monkeys of despair, dependency, failure, fear, low self-esteem, lack of confidence and a host of other self-depleting negativity.
Sometimes we’re not even aware of the stories we’ve adopted as our own. We grew up hearing about who we are, what we’re like, what abilities we have or don’t have and we overlay those stories onto our lives as our own. As we grow older, we discover that we are holding onto stories that restrict our personal, professional, emotional and spiritual growth and development. But here’s the wonderful thing about stories. We can write new ones.
If you live and tell a story that leaves you standing on the sidewalk watching life parade by, there is hope. Though rooted in your past, you can re-write your story – a good story.
A Good Story
- Nurtures a right image of yourself and an appreciation for your place and purpose in the world
- Frees you from the victim mentality and builds confidence to seek out opportunities to grow and achieve
- Inspires creativity and a passion for life.
- Helps you to face obstacles, deal with them and move forward
- Encourages you to maintain a positive attitude and a grateful heart in the face of difficulties
Examining our Stories
Remember we began creating our stories when we were very young and did not have the knowledge, skills, mental capacities or resources to make sense of the world in any other way. Over the years our stories become very integrated into who we are. They keep us in a comfortable place. Through the unconscious filtering of reality, we keep ourselves stuck in the limitations of our story. We perceive the world through the lens of our stories and those perceptions could be positive or negative.
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