This Is What Happens When You Mix Mindfulness with Storytelling
People always tell stories. These stories can be either of their personal experiences gained through life or stories that they are recounting of someone else’s experience. Stories can be of historical events, they can be fictitious, or they can be a depiction of how the storyteller perceives the meaning of the experience they are recounting.
Storytelling cannot be limited to a handful of labels as the variations are plentiful. Undoubtedly, even if someone tells the same story as another person, it will still be unique simply because the storyteller is unique.
We Tell Ourselves Stories
Indeed, we hear diverse ranges of stories, and we tell a lot of stories ourselves. In fact, we are expert storytellers naturally. But have you ever noticed that while we are telling stories to others, we are also telling ourselves stories too?
They are made up of fragments of events that we catalogue in our minds, arranged in an order that is the direct result of our perspective.
We are not only telling those stories to the world, but we are simultaneously telling them to ourselves.
“We are always telling a story, wherever we are. Even with ourselves. What we share is…
