When we upgrade, we are trading . . . Story for Story.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re not trying to convince ourselves we can change the truth about ourselves by reciting endless affirmations.\u00c2\u00a0 That hardly respects our intelligence and, furthermore, it doesn’t work.\u00c2\u00a0 As long as we hold that something is the truth, it is unchangeable.\u00c2\u00a0 As soon as we recognize it for what it is, however, a story, the story buffer line is open and we can help ourselves to a better one.<\/p>\n
Regarding our Stories, the question is never “Is it true?” because it can’t be true; it’s just a Story.\u00c2\u00a0 The question also isn’t “Is it the right Story?”\u00c2\u00a0because that implies there’s only one correct choice.\u00c2\u00a0 The most helpful question is “Is this Story useful?”\u00c2\u00a0 Given what I care about, what I want to contribute, and what matters to me, is the story I’m telling myself a useful one?\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>Most of us constantly replay hundreds of inherited default Stories that trample our life energy and steal our peace of mind.<\/p>\n — Victoria Castle, The Trance of Scarcity:\u00c2\u00a0 Stop Holding Your Breath and Start Living Your Life, <\/em>p. 35-36<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When we upgrade, we are trading . . . Story for Story.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re not trying to convince ourselves we can change the truth about ourselves by reciting endless affirmations.\u00c2\u00a0 That hardly respects our intelligence and, furthermore, it doesn’t work.\u00c2\u00a0 As long as we hold that something is the truth, it is unchangeable.\u00c2\u00a0 As soon as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9,34,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-life","category-story","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}