Storytellers and story (by Mastin Kipp)

I love how The Uni-verse operates. Just as I was sitting down and wondering what to write for today, TDL Reader Lisa e-mailed me about a very relevent topic.

That is the topic of personal attacks. We experience them in real life, we watch them on the ever increasing reality TV show's and they flood throughout all the major media and political circles. Personal attacks create drama, drama creates conflict and conflict attracts our attention.

This is a Uni-versal rule in storytelling. All of us are affected by storytelling every day. From the stories we tell ourselves about who we believe we are and what events in our lives mean, to stories we tell others about the events of our lives, to stories we hear about on the news, watch in the movies or read in books.

Human beings are natural storytellers and story absorbers. The main part of any story is plot, and plot equals conflict. No conflict, no story.

This is a profound realization if we examine it further. You can stop a story if you remove the conflict. If Darth Vader wasn't so dead set on getting the Death Star plans from Luke and the Empire just decided they made one big mistake, there would be no conflict and the story resolves and it ends.

Your life is a story. Everything about it is about sharing, telling & listening. When someone "attacks" you with words, they are simply expressing what they perceive to be true in their world and using their story rules. The story you choose to tell greatly determines the outcome of an "attack".

Since you are a Soul in a Human body, the words of others have no true effect on you. Only the things that you choose to believe as real become true for you. If someone is "attacking" you, how do you interpret that? Do you want drama in your life or peace of mind & abundance. Everything we let ourselves believe becomes true in our story. It is impossible for you to become less through someone else's words. You only become less when you buy into their story and make yourself less.

If you want less conflict & drama in your life, give the events of your life a new meaning. See with the eyes of compassion. Anyone who lashes out at you is doing so because they are in pain; it's all on them - but you're reaction or response is on you. See through taking it personally, see their pain and send love in response to hate.

Imagine the kind of person you would have to become to hold this space of love. Do you have what it takes?

TODAY's AFFIRMATIONS:

I do not judge others, but send love instead.

Nothing others do is because of me. I send them love & go about my day.

I tell an empowering story about my life!