because we're always creating the next level

Everything changes once we identify with being

the witness to the story

instead of the actor in it.

Baba Ram Dass

Story-Me is the short form of “make-it-into-a-story.” It means taking an episode from your life, something memorable because of the emotions attached to it, and creating a story around it, a narrative that doesn’t part with the facts of the situation, but one in which you observe as a witness instead of as the main character, or the one being done to.

When you Story-Me, you take your experience to a different level. We are talking about an experience with painful memories, healing them by changing our perception. How different things appear once we change the lens in the viewfinder!

Story-Me uses intuition, psychic abilities, creative abilities. Everything is used; nothing is made up. We use the experiences of our lives to create a new story. Meanwhile, in the process of creating story, we are removed from the center of the action. We are outside, looking in. We begin to see ourselves as a “character” in our own lives.

When you are able to create your life as a story, you are beginning to see your life as an art-form.  Perhaps one of the most important aspects of Story-Me, the way it alters our perception, is the way we are able to change our view of the past. The past is not unalterable, written in stone. The past is a moveable beast, shifting with the currents of our present. The facts may stay the same, but the story is all in the telling.

The more you can story your past experiences, the more you will be able to create the story of your future. It will be a story of the soul, and soul lessons. Something that takes our self-understanding to a whole new level.

As we move into the accelerated evolutionary pathway, the telling of our stories has never been more popular. Take a look at a sampling of recent links:

Marta’s Audition for Oprah.com (Please vote for her too!)

It’s All About Writing
The Blog of Nicole Humphrey Cook
for great articles and info on writing and publishing

How To Use Stories To Change The World
Weaving narratives about our lives is one of the things that makes us human

Writing to Change the World
by Mary Pipher
From Publishers Weekly:
Pipher talks about the importance of point of view in writing, and she has a definite point of view here, tilting to the left: the world is in a bad way, and writers can serve as a “rescue team for our tired, overcrowded planet” by “tell[ing] stories that connect readers to all the people on earth.” Pipher offers some good examples of how to accomplish this, particularly in a thoughtful and clever essay that presents the U.S. as a patient in a therapeutic case study (“Diagnosis: Post-traumatic stress disorder, multiple addictions”). And she offers useful advice in her sections on defining success (measured not in terms of sales but in terms of “giv[ing] our time and talents to help others”) and revising, which she compares to pruning and weeding.

Daniel Pink – watch this slide share on his Chapter 5 of “A Whole New Mind” – The Power of Story

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