"Wonderment" by Tessa Clarkson There is Power in the Story You Tell Yourself
The creative life force flows through you and manifests itself continuously. Your body is recreating itself from the patterns in your DNA, from the thoughts and beliefs you hold, and the images and emotions that stream through your heart. These are the elements of your story. Your story is vast. It is the story of your ancestor’s experiences and beliefs about life. It is the story of how they survived, their relationship to the land and the people they loved and those they had conflict with. It is the story of their pain and triumphs. It is the story of their culture, the language, songs, dress, customs and mores, religions, social organization, governance and the ways in which they formed community. Your story emerges from theirs but at the same time it is your own. In every moment you are born anew from the story you tell yourself about who you are...
The creative life force flows through you and manifests itself continuously. Your body is recreating itself from the patterns in your DNA, from the thoughts and beliefs you hold, and the images and emotions that stream through your heart. These are the elements of your story. Your story is vast. It is the story of your ancestor’s experiences and beliefs about life. It is the story of how they survived, their relationship to the land and the people they loved and those they had conflict with. It is the story of their pain and triumphs. It is the story of their culture, the language, songs, dress, customs and mores, religions, social organization, governance and the ways in which they formed community. Your story emerges from theirs but at the same time it is your own. In every moment you are born anew from the story you tell yourself about who you are...
Humans are storytellers. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly telling yourself a story. It is the powerful and unique way in which we create. Before writing, the ancients shared story through drawings, cave paintings, song, dance, myth, and through the oral tradition of passing on knowledge. Story coalesces images with emotion and belief. It formulates a pattern, which remains as memory, and activates an electro-magnetic field that responds, duplicates and enacts the story as reality.
Self-talk is the daily chattering in our head that reinforces our story of life, how the world operates, and the image we hold of ourselves. It tells us how to interact with others, what is safe and what is not safe. It is filled with judgments, assumptions, limitations, rules, protocols, and all manner of beliefs about navigating this reality. This “Inner Talk” is mind-blowingly powerful! We are so used to its drone that we do not even realize the significance of its effect on our experience of life.
Self-talk is the daily chattering in our head that reinforces our story of life, how the world operates, and the image we hold of ourselves. It tells us how to interact with others, what is safe and what is not safe. It is filled with judgments, assumptions, limitations, rules, protocols, and all manner of beliefs about navigating this reality. This “Inner Talk” is mind-blowingly powerful! We are so used to its drone that we do not even realize the significance of its effect on our experience of life.
Thoughts are the Building Blocks of What You Experience ~ Bartholomew
The "Inner Talk" is a story made of thoughts. Have you really considered what thoughts are? Do you think they are real or true? Thoughts are a form of consciousness that emanates from the collective mind and flows through your mind. They are not solid like your body; they are ephemeral. They are temporary and pass through you unless you attach to thoughts and keep them active. The foundation of your experiences are built from the thoughts you activate by thinking and keeping them in the forefront of your consciousness.
“The circumstances and conditions of life are Outpictured Inner Talking, Solidified Sound. Inner speech calls Events into Existence. In every event is the Creative Sound that is its Life and Being. All that a man Consents to as True reveals itself in his Inner speech.” ~ Neville
Who is doing this "Inner Talking" and who are you listening to? There are many voices speaking through you. You have your Inner Guidance, your Inner Critic, the voice of your experiences, the voices of your family and friends. Do you question the validity of the voices? When Neville says that your inner speech reveals what you have consented to be true, he is speaking of how you have attached to a thought and accepted it to be true. These thoughts do become the building blocks for what manifests in your life.
The Story that Damages Your Self Esteem
Some people have very loud obnoxious Inner Critics that condemn and demean them. Others have a softer more modulated Inner Critic that warns them or keeps them limited to what is believed to be safe. Whether loud or soft the Inner Critic is giving you messages that keep you in line with the values and beliefs that you have accepted. This acceptance becomes your reality and shows up as an experience mirroring your beliefs. “As you sow, so shall you reap.” The seeds of your inner talk beget the Story that germinates into future action.
Your self-talk can also freeze you into inaction and contraction when it demoralizes you. Condemning words of self-hate, self-loathing, believing you are no good, or that something is terribly wrong with you destroy your sense of self-worth. When your self-worth is disparaged, your vital life force is diminished. You can feel it in your body when your inner critic attacks you. It feels as though you’ve been hit with a heavy blow knocking you out. You may experience confusion, disorientation, and emotions of sadness, depression or shame. Physically, it can feel as though a compressing wave is shrinking you. This contraction is real. The cells of your body respond to the story whether your words are silent or spoken out loud. Essentially, you are enacting a powerful intention with the story you believe. When this story deflates your sense of self, your Self and your body lose their power to BE. Low self-esteem is an action reducing the Self. You are actually causing your physical self to lose its vitality and ability to live when you consistently criticize and belittle yourself.
Your self-talk can also freeze you into inaction and contraction when it demoralizes you. Condemning words of self-hate, self-loathing, believing you are no good, or that something is terribly wrong with you destroy your sense of self-worth. When your self-worth is disparaged, your vital life force is diminished. You can feel it in your body when your inner critic attacks you. It feels as though you’ve been hit with a heavy blow knocking you out. You may experience confusion, disorientation, and emotions of sadness, depression or shame. Physically, it can feel as though a compressing wave is shrinking you. This contraction is real. The cells of your body respond to the story whether your words are silent or spoken out loud. Essentially, you are enacting a powerful intention with the story you believe. When this story deflates your sense of self, your Self and your body lose their power to BE. Low self-esteem is an action reducing the Self. You are actually causing your physical self to lose its vitality and ability to live when you consistently criticize and belittle yourself.
When Depressed, it is often Difficult to Stop the Voice of the Inner Critic
The voice and the story have become second nature; the voice is a constant companion. You are used to hearing it and you accept it as the truth. You have built up experiences that validate the story you tell yourself. With a mountain of evidence of abandonment, neglect and rejection, you determine that you are unlovable or not worthy. You may have protected yourself with an armor of bitterness, anger or withdrawal so as to not get hurt anymore. This reaction of defense is an unconscious story, which only serves to diminish you and cause more hatred toward yourself, “see what a terrible despicable person I am?” You may protect yourself from pain by turning into a people pleaser, acting sweet and going along with others demands or requests while internally abandoning your truth and essence. Your self esteem plummets. The story you are living is not your own and it manifests in a sad life.
Listening to Your Truth
Bringing the unconscious stories into your awareness is key to breaking out of the old pattern and perceiving the reality of the power your story has on your experience of life. What is it that you believe and how do those beliefs create the story you tell? Follow the story to its conclusion. Will this story create the outcome I desire? When you truly see that the images you hold of yourself and life engage your emotions and thoughts into a story, you can begin to tell a story that enriches your life.
The stories of the experiences of the past only have power when you hold onto them and invite them into the present. Did you know that every time you recall something, your brain changes the memory ever so slightly and thus the story of the past? Memories are not absolute. Our stories are embellished and altered every time we remember. In each and every moment, you have the power to choose a different story.
Even small changes to the story you tell about yourself will have an effect. You can begin by not accepting the voice of the inner critic as the truth. Every time the voice of diminishment and contraction speaks, what can I tell myself instead? What uplifting story am I able to imagine and tell? What story empowers me into my highest good? Use the power of your imagination and conscious choice to create a new story. Remember, You are writing and telling the story of your life. What do you desire it to Be?
The stories of the experiences of the past only have power when you hold onto them and invite them into the present. Did you know that every time you recall something, your brain changes the memory ever so slightly and thus the story of the past? Memories are not absolute. Our stories are embellished and altered every time we remember. In each and every moment, you have the power to choose a different story.
Even small changes to the story you tell about yourself will have an effect. You can begin by not accepting the voice of the inner critic as the truth. Every time the voice of diminishment and contraction speaks, what can I tell myself instead? What uplifting story am I able to imagine and tell? What story empowers me into my highest good? Use the power of your imagination and conscious choice to create a new story. Remember, You are writing and telling the story of your life. What do you desire it to Be?
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