Healing from the Inside Out by Nauman Naeem

Author:Nauman Naeem
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company

CHAPTER 13

NARRATION PART 2 – SEEING THROUGH AND DECODING YOUR LIFE STORY

At any given point in our lives we all have a life story. This story evolves over time as we accumulate more experiences. People create many archetypal stories based on their life circumstances.

There is the victim story, in which you feel that you are the victim of your parents’ upbringing, your childhood experiences, the financial climate in which you were raised, and your lack of opportunities growing up. You feel like everyone is out to get you somehow and you cannot trust anyone.

There is the not deserving story, in which you feel that you do not deserve to be happy, healthy, and living an abundant life, based on guilt or shame over things you may have done in the past.

There is the competition and lack story, in which you feel that you are in competition with everyone else around you for limited resources including consumer goods, financial wealth, love, relationships, and almost anything else you can think of.

There is the power and domination story, in which you feel that you must be in complete control of everyone and everything around you for your life to run smoothly and to take you where you wish to go. If even one thing does not go as expected, you become hopelessly frustrated and feel that all is lost.

These archetypal stories are all rooted in our upbringing and early childhood experiences, as we have already discussed in relation to subconscious blocks and limiting beliefs. Life stories also often revolve around the roles we play in our lives, such as spouse, partner, parent, child, sibling, friend, acquaintance, enemy, employee, manager, or co-worker.

There is nothing wrong with having a story, and we all have them; in fact, nobody can be born into the physical realm without accumulating experiences that culminate in a life story. The problem arises when you start to identify with your life story. Your life story is the accumulation of experiences you have had in the physical realm, but it is not who you are in your essence.

Who you are is far greater than you can ever imagine, and I will try to touch on this in the following chapters. For now, we can say that who you are is pure consciousness, awareness, presence, being, energy, spirit, or a host of other words that we often use to try to unsuccessfully describe the indescribable. The important point is that you are not your life story but the Higher Self that experiences your life story. In essence, you are the observer of the events of your life situation as they unfold over time.

This is a crucial point in the healing journey, because once you have this realization, then you do not have to be defined by your life story and circumstances. Yes, they influence your lower aspects, such as your ego, your mind, and your physical body, but they are not who you truly are. This realization allows you to unleash resources and

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