Revising More Stories

Over the past several years I've done important work around becoming more aware of the stories I use to define myself -- define myself too myself as well as to others. These are the mantras which surface when presented with new opportunities, new possibilities, stress, discomfort. They explain and justify the choices I make, usually choices to remain stuck in the status quo.

I'm sitting in the lunch room at work, and have just had two very old and deeply entrenched stories assert themselves -- and I realized that I didn't want to be defined by them any more. They don't serve me. In fact, although they have been unquestionably true, I doubt they have ever truly served me.

More later, when I'm not typing on a three inch keyboard.

"Kissing the Limitless"

I just finished reading T. Thorn Coyle's Kissing the Limitless, and I'm giving it my strongest possible recommendation.

Thorn's style is both serious and joyful, and she is a very smart, very experienced woman. These insights and techniques are all road-tested, and it shows.

Her style is conversational but she still does justice to a lot of advanced topics. I'm not sure exactly what it is about her approach, but the way she discussed foundational practices of centering, meditation and purification took me to an entirely new level in my personal practice. One of the breakthroughs I mentioned earlier today around stories I no longer want to tell is a direct result of reading I had just completed.


Now that I've read the book through once, it's time to go back and work through it slowly. It's going to be a challenge; these exercises are serious business. But I'm looking forward to it.