Meditation Techniques: Changing Your Personal Story
We all have a story in our heads, or at least I think we do. This story tells us who we are, how we should behave, what we think of the outside world and how we relate to it. It seems odd, but looking within myself one day I found a story unfolding, a tale of reality yet unconfirmed. But, I was already telling myself how this would happen and what it should be like. This is the story of my personal story, and how I changed it and what it means.
I began with a process of understanding and analyzing the personal story. What was I telling myself, how did it shape who I was, my interactions with the people and the world around me. I then took this story and gave it a solid shape, a form conjured up out of my imagination and a mysterious object, both ugly, and boring unfurled. There was nothing exciting about it, nothing beautiful or magical for that matter, it was mundane as a candy wrapper and more boring and ugly then an abandoned parking lot on a lousy winter day. Yes, this was the image that I received that my imagination called up to associate with the story. And so, sitting cross-legged in the tradition of many eastern mystics and fools, I began to shape my future destiny be unraveling this ugly mess and giving it beauty, design, light and mass. I gave it motion where there was stagnation, light where there was grayness, and laughter where there was despair. I fed it good thoughts, lots of love and many parties. People came and visited my newfound beauty, my crystal future which represented the present outlook as well as the future yet untold. If thought shapes reality, then this will be a great day to remember, if I can keep it up. For you see, I still find myself telling the story, although not in the same way. But the words are habituated and that will take some time as well as watchful awareness to get rid of. In fact, every time I now think these thoughts, it brings to mind the crystal beauty that I have seeded within myself, and it makes me smile. Every time I feel this, I give a great “Thank You” for life being so good to me.
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