Many years ago, I attended a Power of Awareness workshop with Jack Kornfield, the Buddhist meditation teacher. On the second day, he talked about “the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves,” the stories that no longer serve us….
Maybe you had a music teacher tell you to “mouth the words” because he said you were tone-deaf. And that took care of your joy of singing. Maybe your artist aunt told you that you had no sense of color because at the ripe old age of six, you used only black and brown. And that ended any artistic aspirations you might have entertained. Check the stories you’re telling yourself!
Prompt: What story do you tell yourself that no longer serves?
— Nancy Slonim Aronie in Memoir as Medicine