How many stories did you
tell yourself in the last 5 minutes?
by Alison Bonds Shapiro, M.B.A. in Healing Into Possibility
Originally published online by Psychology Today
Originally published online by Psychology Today
How many stories did you tell
yourself in the last 5 minutes? Hear the inner chatter? There is an internal
dialogue going on every minute. I just told myself a story about how I would
pick up my laptop computer and begin to write. Then came the stories about what
tea I would drink and where I would sit and when I would take a shower. One
story after another cascaded through my mind. We all do this. Stories shape our
lives.
I tell
myself stories all the time. There are big ones like where I will live someday
and little ones like how much toothpaste I will put on my toothbrush. I'm a
running narrative, one internal story after another, but I didn't notice the
stories so much until I lost them. That's when I began to realize how important
stories are.
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