Old Stories

Your Old Story's primary purpose is focused on holding the organization of meaning, based on experiences in your life.

Trauma and life events build your “Old Story” over time. This is largely done unconsciously, as we are not aware of these outdated templates/stories that have been imprinted in our unconscious awareness.

These Old Stories in your unconscious, create the foundation that directs your behavior and choices and also impacts your emotions.

At each decision point, the Old Story of “you” changes shape and molds into the development of your EGO (how you see yourself in relation to the world).

This growing ego story fast becomes a defining belief, attitude, or concept and you begin to apply it in your life with choices and actions.

These Old Stories are like outdated programs in the computer of your mind—old psychological patterns that shape who you think “you” are; and form your personality, and how you respond to the world around you.

One easy way to begin exploring what some of your most common “old stories” are, is to notice what situations trigger you the most in life. What brings up deep painful emotions, that you may not even logically understand?

This is because our “old stories” don’t make logical sense—they don’t have to. This is where the head and the heart become at war, until these old stories are updated, at an embodied and experiential level.

Example: You keep attracting unavailable partners, but consciously do not understand why. A possible old story you may hold (under the surface of your awareness) is “I am not worthy of commitment.”

What are some old stories you hold about yourself, based on triggers in your life?