Through our thoughts we tell a story to ourselves, about ourselves, that we use to define the way we relate to the world around us. We tell the world a story about ourselves, in how we speak and how we act, and we use this in an attempt to control how the world relates to us. We even collectively agree on stories to define a collective shared reality that regulates how we collectively relate to one another. We call this His-story.
They are all just stories. History is written by the victors, but “Your-story” is most likely written by your traumas, fears and limiting beliefs, unless you have journeyed into your own darkness to face them. This is the mythological journey where the protagonist travels to a foreign land, slays the dragon (fears and limiting beliefs) and finds the treasure (creative potential to write a new story).
The dragon always guards a treasure, and you are both the dragon and the treasure in this tale.
The story we carry can be littered with chapters of unhealed pain, distorted subjective perspectives, trauma from the collective consciousness, or our culture and limited thinking. The story can also be a narrative of healing, divinity and Wholeness. We can carry that story into many different situations, projecting it onto future encounters and ultimately, we try to make that story fit how we view ourselves and how we “ask” the world to see us.
We choose the story. Is it written by the victor? Is it the crucifixion or the resurrection? The circumstances don’t matter, it is only how you relate to them that does. This is the central message of every spiritual system. Choose wisely.
I am mindful about creating my own story within our society because I know it is biased by my own limited thinking, so I am going to simply raise it as a question? Does our society currently glorify being the victim? Because I would caution you in choosing the “victim” as Your story.
Although being the victim may provide the short-term sugar rush of being the centre of attention and drawing in the knight in shining armor along with other rescuers, the long term outcome of staying with the victim character is that you will remain a victim long after the main story moves on. The whole world will ultimately become your persecutor, and your life will be a never-ending vain attempt to draw in more rescuers who will ultimately become your prosecutors too. It is a posture of powerlessness and helplessness that extinguishes our human creative potential. It is like choosing the cross forever when all the beauty in life is found in the resurrection.
“When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, ‘Do you want to be made well?“’ John 5:6
Meeting the mentor and hearing the call.
I beg of you to reflect on the stories you tell yourself and the world at large. See where you are playing the victim or identifying villains and embark on the journey of transformation and reclaim your power – your creative potential.
I choose to be the Creator and not the victim in my story and I choose you to write the rest of the story with me.
The Way
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