XXXVII (37) Better

Mindset is Magical. On a podcast I was listening to today, Impact Theory, the guest, Benjamin Hardy shared a quote by the author Peter Levine from his book “Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma.” The quote from the book is, “trauma isn’t what happens to you, it’s what you hold inside in the absence of a sympathetic witness.” I take that to mean, and Benjamin Hardy went on to say, it isn’t the event itself, the thing that caused the trauma that harms us psychologically, it’s our inability to move past it. A lot of time these destructive events and the trauma they cause us, hurt our possibility to elevate in the future, because we buy into some idea that what happened before has to happen again. If we can’t let go, they can limit our ability to believe in new possibilities for the future.

The good news is, that we have it within us to change the narrative. We can’t change the past, but we can reframe the story that we tell ourselves about the past. By changing the stories we tell ourselves, over time we can see brighter visions for the future. I’m very happy to say that the dreams I have today about the future are brighter than they were a year ago. Sometimes we don’t even realize that we are thinking too small. So, let us start telling new stories, asking ourselves what we really want, and by asking and sharing, visions will come, and they will become more clear. I decided that I want to become The Great Storyteller this year, and by saying that, I’m seeing opportunities to tell stories everywhere. What will you discover?