The saying, "you are not your story," is trying to
say that we are more than what happened to us. While that may be intrinsically
true, any form of bypassing doesn't work and is not healthy. You have to work
this stuff or it never leaves you. People seem to find the kind of religion or spirituality
that will reinforce, rather than heal, their defenses.
I wanted to flee my past, so I conveniently bought into
that.
Beware the transcendence bypasses who deny the significance
of our stories. They are often deeply unwell.
It’s one thing to say that we
should not get trapped inside of our stories, but to suggest that all of our
stories are without value and merit, is to deny our existence. I understand
that they believe there is something greater awaiting us beyond the self but
they are wrong. Whatever greatness awaits us must thread through the heart of
the self, so that our experience of the “beyond,” is rooted in something real:
our precious humanity and that is the only path home.
The story bypassing troupe has forgotten that their
non-story shtick is a story, too. It’s always a story. The question is what we
are going to do with it?
Are we going to dive into the heart of it and expand
in karmic stature through the learning of the lesson, or are we going to drown
in our unresolved, floating numb and detached down in denial?
Do not deny the veracity of our suffering and distract us
from the deeper issue: that which sources our thoughts.
Turn toward our
stories, and find our true-path right at our heart. I agree with the underlying
philosophy, that we are so much more than our thoughts.
This philosophy seeks to find the rest of who we are beyond
the self and seek to find it right at the heart of the self itself.
We human
being with emotionally integrated, richly nuanced, and full-bodied vital and
robust.
Simply choose to live simply and work on being honest about
our experience a little more each day. Just remember the only person you can
truly believe in is yourself.
We all are searching for our true purpose and our
story is part of us if we ditch the story we ditch our very soul.
Our story is
our very being in human and spiritual form.
It’s what we have and have not learned our mistakes, our
loves, our happiness, our joys, our sadness, our fear, our anger, our hatred
and our peace of mind.
It includes the whole spectrum of feelings, deeds, and
emotions.
It’s not about the positive or negative...it’s about the purpose of
the journey itself in its entire entirety in authenticity.
love light and peace
ps/smoh
