Healing Stories

The master storyteller is the mind. It has stories about everything that happens to us, everyone we meet, and even ourselves. It takes the tiniest little thing and creates a story that links to the stories it has been telling since we were children. Even when there is no fact at all, such as when we hear something wrong or don’t see something correctly, it can spin the most engaging yarn!

Stories can be emotionally neutral, but most often they create either positive or negative emotions, since our emotions respond to the mind’s stories much the same as they would to watching a movie, reading a book, or listening to someone else tell a story. Emotionally negative stories are wounding stories while emotionally positive ones are healing. Our lives and the lives of those around us are greatly affected by the stories that our minds tell.

Wounding stories always create a wound for ourselves – or at least keep open a wound that was created by our childhood stories. For example, we may have told the story as a child that our parents did not love us because they did not act loving (story #1). That is a story, not a fact, because we have no way of knowing what our parents felt regardless of what they did. How does that story make us feel? Probably we would feel sad, abandoned, angry, hurt, or not good enough (because if we were good enough they would have treated us differently – story #2). So now in adult life we keep meeting people who abandon or hurt us (variation of story #1) or we feel not good enough (variation of story #2). When we meet someone and they seem to reject us, these are the stories that are told. We might also feel angry that people don’t treat us better (variation of story #1). That keeps the wound open and in addition directs negative energy toward that unknowing person who has no idea what our mind’s stories are.

Healing stories happen when we redirect the mind to stories that are either emotionally neutral or make us feel good. We can do this with old stories from our childhood as well as current stories. For example, we could tell the story that our parents did not know how to show us their love in ways that we could receive it and that allowed us to learn more about loving ourselves; OR – we chose our parents to play the bad guys in our play so we would learn how to help other children in similar situations; OR – we came to heal the family line that had been unable to love for so long and it is a miracle that we are loving adults. If you feel these stories you will see that there is a shift in feeling with the new story and that is healing.

Each day our minds are busy creating stories. Be aware of the stories that are playing and shift the ones that wound to healing stories. If we could all heal our stories, there would be a spontaneous shift into a new world. Shall we bring this new world into being, one story at a time?