I have said this soooooo many times before and written numerous blog posts about it.
The power of a story to inform our choices
The impact of a story to inspire and motivate us
The possibilities for re-writing stories to create change
The way a story can transport us to another place and time
Stories are THE BEST thing ever!!!!!
Whether it’s a good book, a film, a box-set on netflixx (other streaming apps are available!), a soap opera on TV, or just catching up with the gossip of your social group… we all love a story in some way shape or form.
In terms of the work we do, we talk a lot about the story that your body represents and how the story of your life is embedded in your physical body.
The art of interpreting a story and applying it to oneself is something that we as humans do without even realising it.
Parables, moral tales and even fairy tales were used for this purpose throughout time. To give a message that people could take on board and apply to their life.
The impact of the message a story holds depends on the listener’s / reader’s ability to suspend belief and allow their imagination to run with it.
Stories have the potential to create space and time for the brain to whizz along paths untraveled and discover connections and possibilities not yet known.
If we just allow them to.
I like to think of stories as movement for my mind.
Whenever someone tells me that they feel stuck or that they are having an issue with their body - One of the first go to’s I recommend is movement.
To move the body can release and free up stuck energy in all its forms.
However a close second to the power of movement is the magic of a story to free up the mind and create movement in the imagination that opens up possibilities as yet unseen.
If you are struggling with: -
finding a solution to a problem
getting yourself out of a repeating pattern
figuring out how to deal with a difficult person
creating an idea, product or service for your work
Here are three story solutions to help you.
1. Pick up your favourite book or a story book and read it with the intention of seeing, hearing or discovering the solution to your issue within the message of the story.
This is quite a leap of faith if you are not well practiced at trusting your intuition but at the very least it will lighten you mood and allow a respite from the stuck-ness you may be feeling.
2. Find a story of someone else who has experienced something similar and hear him or her out. Or read their story, dig into what their experience is or was.
3. Tell your story to someone who is a great story-teller / story interpreter and let them re-tell your story to you. Adding in characters, sub-plots, themes and adventures you couldn’t perceive were there all the time.
Oh hang on that’s called coaching
Well in my world that is coaching and that is how I coach people.
Rather than telling them what to do, how to plan it out and execute it, I tell them their story from a different perspective and allow them to see, feel, hear and interpret that back into their own reality.
That way the story feels more like an exciting experience to be had rather than a chore to be accomplished and the main character of the story gets to feel what its like to become the hero.
Have you got a story you want re-told, explored, edited or re-created?
Then pick one of the steps from 1-3 and give it a go!
If you are wanting to explore step 3 then GO HERE and get in touch