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Daily Question, January 18

What old stories can I release?

  • reality

    Haven’t kept any 🙂

  • Present Moment

    That I must have an opinion on everything I experience. That I have any control over life outside of my perceptions. Most things are none of my business and finding cause or blame is playing god.

  • Skeeter

    Let go in 20 is my motto. That this past relationship of 7 years was suppose to be. That I am not good at relationships. The victim of my past. Let go of anger. I want to say yes to life this year, where ever it takes me. The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance… Lfe gratefully each day.

  • Kevin

    It seems that the process of becoming an older man brings with it many stories to tell! But for me, it’s not about releasing stories it’s about choosing which stories to share and at what time.

  • Malag

    That I must be measured. That in every situation I must be compared with someone else and that that comparison can be favourable or unfavourable: someone must win out in the comparison. Either way that is not useful thinking.

    • Palm

      So true for me too… It is not useful thinking because it reinforces the idea of separatedeness and competition, as opposed to the idea that we all belong and have our own beautiful way of participating in the word, helping and being helped in the way… thank you

  • Imani M

    Take people and things for as they are. Get over it, nobody owes me anything as long as I stay loyal and dedicated to myself…that it is all that matters. No more doubt, no more wishing this friendship and that relationship would of lasted because those people are not in my life anymore for a reason!

  • All of ’em for as this song goes “the past is an illusion there is only now!”

  • Cailinrua
    Releasing old stories and accepting new ones is fairly hard for me right now, although I have heard explanations of the neuroscience behind it: thoughts and emotions can be changed and I can begin to fire and rewire new neurons and connections which will serve me better. I am working each day on changing 4 thoughts throughout the day--it's a practice suggested by a current writer (Joe Dispenza) who is essentially re-packaging Buddhist meditation with neuroscience and I think it is helping. H...

    Releasing old stories and accepting new ones is fairly hard for me right now, although I have heard explanations of the neuroscience behind it: thoughts and emotions can be changed and I can begin to fire and rewire new neurons and connections which will serve me better. I am working each day on changing 4 thoughts throughout the day–it’s a practice suggested by a current writer (Joe Dispenza) who is essentially re-packaging Buddhist meditation with neuroscience and I think it is helping. He also encourages living in a state of gratitude. That, for him, is the vital bedrock. But, boy, is it strange and hard to do after years and years of living my thoughts and emotions!

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    • Present Moment

      Unfortunately, most of us suffer from an addiction to emotional, dramatic reactions to life, instead of measured conscious response.

    • Wonderful!

      I have heard of Joe before. Seems awesome enough!

  • Karmit

    A couple of old stories that I can release today – that I am not enough and that I can find lasting happiness from the things of the world.

    • So lasting happiness is not to be found in the things of this temporal realm Karmit?

      I like it.

      I mean it is isn’t a light truth to process entirely but with a grateful heart one might be able to investigate and penetrate it.

      Transitoriness.

      Even when happiness comes it must fade away one day?

      Still working on seeing the truth of it myself and only in infancy in terms of being grateful.

  • GCharlotte

    A band of godless people took belief that my art was slave work! Ha!

  • Debra

    If they no longer serve me, deflect them from my deepest divine self, and ‘let them go’ taking whatever teachings they had for me to learn.

  • Michele

    I think old stories can be released but not just once – so as to not forget. Stories of President Kennedy being assassinated, 911, all the damn school/mass shootings. Those are the negative ones, but old stories have positive ones too of course. I believe the key is to remember and not forget and for the bad ones to move on with lessons learned.

  • Antoinette

    I can let go of all the stories no longer serving me. Especially the ones that make me feel disconnected.

  • Ann

    After reading Sage Cohen’s essay “On Choosing Gratitude”, I realize more fully that the old unpleasant “stories” I can release are the ones in which I am able to find something related to them that I can appreciate.

  • Rebekah H.

    Why did my heart begin to weep and leap when I read this question? “Old” seems to signify useless, tired, worn out. These stories have served their purpose and I am grateful. Now it’s time to gently but deliberately release them like colorful balloons into the endless sky. Sadly but proudly, we say Goodbye. And skip away to collect some more balloons.

  • Mark Piper

    This is a good question, an unexpected one. This is a question for which I do not have an immediate response and thus don’t wish to quickly peruse my old stories without adequate rumination and examination.

    Thank you for the question, hopefully I can answer this, for myself, after I take the day to reflect upon it.

  • Trish

    Old stories where the running theme is zeroed in on my inadequacies are of no use to me or the world. When the main character challenges herself to grow and leap hurdles and then sets the world aglow with her light: that’s a far more fulfilling fable.

    • Katrina

      I know that old story all too well. I’m afraid many of us do. It haunts me almost daily. in some form or fashion.

  • sunnypatti

    Feelings of unworthiness and not being good enough. I have learned that I *am* worthy – of happiness, of love, of living a good life. But sometimes that old ego voice tries to creep in and tell me otherwise.

    • Ed Schulte
      They posted a HAFIZ poem of wisdom here on 'word of the day' not long ago 'I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being!' What an amazing emanation this is! Hafiz wasn't just speaking from a point of view out of his individual present - day personality, he was speaking out of the Noetical (5th dimensional) Universal Self, to that present-day presonality of his and ALL other individual personalities in the universe at the same time...

      They posted a HAFIZ poem of wisdom here on ‘word of the day’ not long ago

      ‘I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being!’

      What an amazing emanation this is! Hafiz wasn’t just speaking from a point of view out of his individual present – day personality, he was speaking out of the Noetical (5th dimensional) Universal Self, to that present-day presonality of his and ALL other individual personalities in the universe at the same time.

      I find it to be the perfect Blessing to emanate outwards ( relatively speaking ) when I see / hear / troubles arising anywhere.

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  • Ed Schulte

    Saw this line in a poem by Jess Foster posted on the Eckhart Tolle site by the member name Echo.

    “and joy is not given but found
    in the deepest recesses of your being”

    It is a perfect counter to the constant gravitational pull of exterior forces such as “materialism” and “political-ism” and “religion-isms” and all other “story-isms” which I have to carefully navigate through, observe and “release”, as I pass by on the way to deeper being.

  • devy
    Blaming my father for his lack of attention, his emotional and physical abuse and condescending remarks, his lack of patience and not being around for us while my family mother suffered from alcoholism. Looking back at his own personal life before getting married, the way how he was raised, the obvious PTSD he suffered when he went to Korea. What a heck of a life he suffered. I’m not forgetting what he did to our family, but with his death and having told him how I felt before his death, I’v...

    Blaming my father for his lack of attention, his emotional and physical abuse and condescending remarks, his lack of patience and not being around for us while my family mother suffered from alcoholism. Looking back at his own personal life before getting married, the way how he was raised, the obvious PTSD he suffered when he went to Korea. What a heck of a life he suffered. I’m not forgetting what he did to our family, but with his death and having told him how I felt before his death, I’ve reached the point of forgiveness and moving on. His actions were a life lesson and there’s no more need to dwell on it, accept and be grateful for the person that I’ve become through my experiences.

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    • Ed Schulte

      quoting deny here,

      “accept and be grateful for the person that I’ve become through my experiences.”

      these words encapsulate the greatest realization possible within this journey called “The Human Experience” .

      Be Well Be Present
      EdS

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