?? BUILDING A TRUE MYTH ??

Hello, my friends!

Did you know that the most powerful thing you possess, in the human realms, is your story?

The story of your life, complete with its setbacks and triumphs, pains and lessons.

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We often use our story unconsciously, and against our best interests.

Misaligned with our values and needs.

We might tell ourselves a story that we don’t have a choice, or that this is the only way to do it.

We might frame our lives with stories about fear, and hardship, and struggle.

And when we do, this is how we prime ourselves to perceive and respond to the world.

These stories come out in our words, choices, and the way we navigate the changing circumstances of life.

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Our stories are only as true as we make them.

But we can make them very true indeed, living them to the hilt.

And, since we write many of our stories unconsciously, we may not even realize that we’re doing it.

We might look around and come to the conclusion that this is just how things are, that what we can expect from life is the same thing we have received from it so many times already.

And this can be true, but it doesn’t have to be.

We can notice these recurring patterns in our life experience, and look inward for the stories and feelings that draw us into these cycles.

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We can become more conscious of our story, and, when we do, we see more of how we came to be right here and right now.

And we can often see a bit more how we might try something different moving forward.

Might learn to see and engage with the world in a new (and hopefully more effective) way.

And, as we do, we step into a new level of freedom.

A new depth of authentic choice, rather than conditioned reflex.

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Many of our stories, our conceptual models of the world and our relation to it, were written long ago when we saw a much smaller world than we now see.

Written by hurting children, trying to spare themselves more pain moving forward.

Eventually, they become unconscious and reflexive, and we can no longer see them or the impact that they have on our lives.

So to unpack them requires a bit of work.

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Holistic integration. Shadow work.

Bringing the unconscious parts of ourselves to light, reclaiming them and allowing them to be transformed by the light of our awareness.

Listening within. Processing it all in the body.

Becoming a bit more whole with each consciously-navigated trigger and each emotional core brought to light and begun to process.

And using the world as a mirror to see aspects of ourselves that are hiding beneath the threshold of conscious awareness.

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After we learn to unbelieve many of the things that no longer serve us, we have a new form of choice.

In seeking out and engaging consciously with our stories, releasing old and outlived ways of perceiving and relating to the world, we can now begin to write a new story.

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To be completely clear, there is no need to change the outer events of the story of your life or your recent experience.

The key that we are working with is meaning.

A consciously crafted story is one in which we relate personally and consciously with the meaning within it, learning lessons that serve us instead of limiting us.

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So, as we look back over the stories of our lives, we can first process the old pain there, and next begin to review the situation from many different angles, many different perspectives.

Getting unstuck from our conditioned perspective.

We can seek out the lessons which help us to grow and navigate future situations.

And we can look for the silver linings in the challenges, the blessings hidden in the cracks, the piece of gold hiding beneath the trial.

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We can learn our story, as if for the first time.

In a way that strengthens us, clarifies our values, and allows our words to ring true in the hearts and minds of those who hear them.

When we learn our own true story, in empowering, liberating terms, we begin to build our true myth.

The story of our lives, in a frame that inspires, motivates, clarifies, deepens, expands, and opens.

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Each of us is living our own personal hero’s journey.

An awakening and expansion through the medium of our lives.

The journey of the soul, as expressed in this body, this circumstance, this context.

Coming to realize our true nature, through the matrix of our own unique experiences.

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And each one of us is absolutely incredible!

We are agents of change in the world, elements of conscious will.

And that in itself is beyond belief.

But from there, we are masters at crafting and inhabiting worlds of words and meaning!

We do it every day!

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As soon as we begin to learn our own story, it’s like we’ve stepped up the game.

We begin to see ourselves more clearly. See our creative energy and where it’s been going.

We can see what has been blocking us from within, and where we might begin to address this obstacle and bring balance.

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We begin to see, in clear and powerful terms, WHY we do what we do.

Our values come into focus a bit more each day.

And soon, the strength of our story and the depth of our embodiment create a nucleus of attraction.

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Hold your vibrations long enough, clearly enough, and in sufficient balance with the world, and you gather around you those people and situations of like vibration.

Like attracts like, energetically.

With a clear, well-explored personal myth, we learn how to position ourselves at the intersection of power, freedom, and purpose, contributing to the world in a way that we alone are suited to do.

So, I encourage you to notice all you can. Of the world, your view of the world, and the story upon which that view rests.

And then remember that you are the artist, not the character.

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