Story telling , Jodhpur (Travelling Rajasthan 2019)

Story telling plays a noble and historic role in our lives and society. Stories can give us a narrative to guide and instruct us. They are crucial to knowing who we are.

Some stories however, become limitations to create anything new. We need to distinguish between thestories that give meaning to our lives and help us find our voice,and those that limit our possibility. The stories that are fulfilling are the ones that are metaphors, signposts, parables inspirations for a fuller expression.

Theatre, movies, song, literature and art are story telling of an higher order. These are mediums for building an individual sense of what it means to be human.

There are other kind of stories that in their telling become a limitation. They are stories about the conclusions we drew from events that happen to us. Other limiting stories are those that are rehearsed or make a point that the future will be a slightly modified continuation of the past out if which the story arose. Stories of this nature place us as victims of events or even fate.

Limiting stories are the ones that present themselves as if they were true. Facts. Telling those stories again and again as if they were defining truths creates a limitation against an alternative future.

Therapy and healing, is really re-remembering the past in a more forgiving way, with possibility, generosity, accountability.

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Peter Black
9th october 2019