The Art of Revising Your Inner Storytelling

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The Art of Revising Your Inner Storytelling

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The Art of Revising Your Inner Storytelling

Stories are the colorful pieces of fabric woven from our interpretations of reality. Yet, there is tendency to get stuck in only one or a few ways of telling a story. What can be done to change a negative narrative into a positive one? In her book, 'How to Stay Sane', author Philippa Perry urges keeping an open mind and taking a bird's eye view of our own thinking. "We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves and at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck." { read more }

Be The Change

Is there a repetitive story that you have been hearing in the media, from others, or in your thoughts? Take a big step back and watch it from an outsider's perspective, and try to gain a fresh take on it.


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