Stories: The Bricks That Build the World We See
Our day-to-day life is shaped by a series of narratives that reach us. Some of these narratives only touch the surface and their impact is rather anecdotal. Others, however, really penetrate our being. This permeation process can occur in two ways: because we really resonate with the story that has reached us, or by a process of constant repetition of the same story from the same point of view, what we could call a colonization of our thoughts and feelings.
Realizing this, which is ultimately the basis of consciousness, enables us to be sovereign also in our thinking and in the construction of our intention in life. It is up to me alone to decide which stories I am going to spread, which ones I am going to be a speaker for, and which ones I am not going to allow to enter me, nor am I going to enter into their wheel of dissemination. Do I resonate with that story completely? If not, do I feel I have enough agency to introduce into it the nuances or changes that I think are appropriate?
We must be aware that these stories are also an immaterial but very powerful element of consumption. Just as we choose what book to read, what movie to watch, or what to eat and drink, we must also be aware of what stories we consume, where they come from and what we do in that space receiving those stories.
My world is built with stories and, just as in the construction of a building we do not allow materials in disrepair, we must ensure that the stories we produce and/or consume contain the love necessary to allow us to build on them the world we want, the one we want to live in.
It is amazing to see how stories are, in reality, sets of elements that already existed, that were there in one way or another and to which we attribute a series of relationships. Relationships that may or may not exist. The scale of these elements and relationships is that which the personal relationship between our inner Self and the environment in which we “are” manifests. From the close, familiar and local to the global and cosmic, that which reveals the global intersection from a look always of love and compassion.
We are nothing more than antennas that, vibrating on a wave similar to the one on which the stories exist, pick them up and translate them into an understandable code, susceptible of being transmitted and amplified. Stories already are.
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Stories that, in most cases, need a composting process that raises their temperature and kills all the pathogens and unwanted seeds present in them, transforming everything considered disposable into new nutrients that feed other stories, rich in love and connection with life.
And so, I could go on and on about how I look at stories, about storytelling and the transformative power they have. If you spend some time reflecting on stories, you will realize many aspects that the rest of us have not yet seen. You are the antenna of that story and you are responsible for bringing it in.
This, the narrative, is one of the social arts that will be present at the Latam Social Arts Festival, which begins on August 1. I invite you to get information and register through the links I share with you below:
We invite you to the first session of our Latam Social Arts Festival, starting with a Scribing session on August 1st (August 8th Social Presence Theater, August 15th Poetry and August 22nd Narratives),
We make the transformation together in practice.You can register here: Registration
We suggest a donation of US $20.00 per session. You will receive the link to the session when you do so.We invite those who are able and motivated to contribute more than the minimum to facilitate the participation of another person.
If you wish, make your donation hereIf you need financial assistance to be able to attend please send an email to gaiaenespanol@gmail.com
*Original in spanish . Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
