March 4-11: Stories

Life is not a series of good and bad, right or wrong.  Life is a messy, non-linear, dynamic body of water that flows through many currents.  Today, you might be feeling like you screwed something up, that there’s no coming back from it and that your acceptance hinges upon the authority of others.  Remember this: no one has authority over you. Your mind is a powerhouse of perception, as the saying goes.  Perception is not the same as objective truth and objective truth is not the same as the only truth.  Let your mind play out the same old story, but do not attach to it.  Watch it like you would a movie you’ve seen a thousand times.  Let it lose its interest to you and watch how you stop taking it in as the default.  Say to yourself, “I know this story.  I’ve seen it play out in my mind so often I forget to see how it plays out in reality.  That’s the story I haven’t seen yet.”