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What's Your Story?

by Petr Chadraba

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What is the story you tell about yourself? Take a moment to listen to your life-story and decide how you want to relat to it. Is it true? Do you want to continue telling the same story? This short reflection offers you space to see that you and your story are not the same.

Self NarrativeMindfulnessPresent MomentCognitive RestructuringSelf CompassionReflectionSelf AwarenessTruthChangeIdentitySelf NarrativesMindfulness Of ThoughtsPresent Moment Awareness

Transcript

Hello everyone!

I was thinking to offer you an opportunity to take a short break from the story of your life,

Kind of.

You know,

I slowly started realizing that the story that I'm telling to myself and sharing with others about myself and my life is to a great extent,

Or maybe even the whole of it,

I don't know yet,

A kind of dreamlike narrative.

It's all fabricated.

It might be a grain of truth but most of it is just like fiction,

You know,

As if I'm kind of writing a book about me and my life and some parts of that book.

Maybe like most of the parts of that book are actually quite tragical.

It's like a tragedy with like comical bits every now and then.

And then like from one day I kind of started realizing that maybe I do not need to tell that story.

Maybe I don't need to live in that story.

That I can either create another one or maybe even give up creating stories.

Just,

You know,

Allowing the life to unravel without giving it a story line that I have decided is the right one.

So if you're up for it I was thinking,

You know,

Wherever you are right now you can just take a short break,

Sit down or stand,

Lie down if you like.

You can close your eyes or keep your eyes open and see how you feel in your body.

Are there any sensations right now?

Something ticklish or whatever?

What are your feelings?

How do you feel now?

Are you sad,

Joyful,

Nothing out of that kind of?

And then what's going on in your mind?

Are there any thoughts?

I guess there will be a few containing certain information about what you're doing right now,

How you're doing right now,

How your life is.

So I'd like you if you can to have a look at what is going on in your mind.

All those thoughts about what is going on,

How life is,

How you are.

They are part of your life story,

The story of yourself.

You know,

I was like yesterday I caught myself standing in the shower and thinking like I've always been such a lonely kid and you know it's been with me the whole time and that I was going on to and it will always be like that.

And when I kind of got to that point I don't know where the insight came from but I just thought oh my goodness no I don't have to be like that.

It doesn't have to be like that in the future you know.

The fact that maybe it was like that.

That's something that you know I just can relate to in a way.

That it is like that maybe now.

That is already something I can do something about.

And how I relate to it in the present moment will very much influence how the story will unravel into the future.

So what is the what is the story that you have about yourself in this moment?

Are you the one with the terrible hair?

The one who never had enough friends?

The one who's never met?

The love of their lives?

The fat one?

Whatever.

Just listen to that story that is resonating with you.

Within you.

And you know what?

Just the fact that you're able to listen to the story means that it is a story.

It is not your innate truth or something.

It is a storyline a narrative that you are able to identify to kind of isolate in a way.

And you know it doesn't necessarily need to be true.

And what you can do is you can actually decide how much to what extent you believe the story or not.

I hope you will enjoy your day and listen to that story but try not to trust it too much.

Meet your Teacher

Petr ChadrabaGothenburg, Sweden

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Recent Reviews

Coach

June 4, 2023

Enjoyed this! Some good things to ponder. Thank you! 🙏🏻

Janice

May 22, 2021

Thank you....of late I have been realizing I can change my story and just how powerful it is to do so. I look forward to listening to your other offerings about this.

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