ESSENCE of REALITY: Stepping Out of Our Story

From: Linda

From: Intuition

Stepping out of your story

Stepping Out of Your Story
by Neale Donald Walsch

Our "story" can literally run our lives. Indeed, for most
people it is the only thing that does. We come from our
story when we face incoming data, and we go to our
story when we send outgoing data.

Take our "story" away and we all but disappear.

Here is a typical example of a "story": Marilyn was
eight years old when she was molested by her
stepfather the first time.

It happened again, until she turned 14, when it finally
stopped, for reasons about which she was never clear.

She kept her stepfather's behavior a secret from her
entire family, and especially her mother, until she was 16.

Then, she quietly and tearfully took her
mother aside and told her everything.

Her mother didn't believe her.

Her mother called Marilyn a liar and a dirty little tramp
who was just so angry at her stepfather for the rules
he was laying down around the house that she was
willing to stop at nothing, at no allegation or exaggeration,
to hurt him, to get him out of the house and out of her life.

Marilyn has been "coming from" this "story" ever since.

How this shows up in her life is a deep disregard and
distrust of all males, and also as a continual wariness
about confiding in or trusting anybody.

She looks to all people who are close to her (that is,
if she can even allow herself to get close to people)
to betray her sooner or later, and this mars and terribly
complicates her relationships with everyone.

She also feels and relives the damage from the original
offense, and soothes the unhealed places in herself
with various kinds of "acting out", including drug and
alcohol abuse and, ironically, a kind of sexual addiction
that has her enter into all sorts of liaisons with men,
allowing them to fall in love with her, only then to drop
them like hot potatoes, leaving them reeling with hurt
and anger -- all as a "pay back" for their being "male".

This is just an example.

Everyone has a story they are coming
from as they encounter the world.

Some stories are more serious in their ramifications
than others, but all stories play their effect on
the day-to-day living of individual lives...
until they don't anymore.

The time comes when people simply decide that they
no longer wish to identity themselves with their "story",
but now wish to "come from" a new set of data
when they engage life itself.

This process of "dropping their story" is
not an easy one, but it can be done.

It is a matter of stepping aside from the story
and realizing that "that was then, and this is now".

It is a matter of actively choosing to never
again mortgage a future moment to a past one.

The trick to stepping outside of your story is to
drop the need for any story altogether.

This could only occur if you were
completely clear about Who You Are....

You would have to understand that you are,
indeed, a local manifestation of Divinity.

You would have to understand that there is
no disconnection between you and God.

You would have to be aware that you are a
Soul traveling through life with your body,
but that you are not the body itself.

Once you identify yourself in this fashion you will
easily see that there is nothing you need to be
perfectly happy, completely at peace, and embracing
always the joy and the wonder of your True Self.

Then you will have no need to continue living inside
of your story, because you will see clearly that it is
bringing you emotional rewards and psychological
content that you no longer need or require.

This will create a huge shift in your ground of
being and will alter your experience of life forever.

Home with God in a Life That Never Ends, the final book
in the Conversations with God cosmology, says that
death is a process of re-identification. It also says that
one does not have to wait until death for this process to begin.
You may undertake the process whenever you wish during
your lifetime. The process starts with the dropping of your
personal story. One reason that some people have
great trouble in letting go of their past data is that they
have created an entire persona around that data. Everyone
thinks and assumes that this is "who they really are", when,
in truth, it has nothing to do with their True Identity at all.

Here is a little exercise that you might enjoy: start off
tomorrow morning by entering your day as if you had
no prior data about any aspect of your life whatsoever.

Pretend that you know nothing about your past --
especially any aspect of your past that you once
perceived to have caused you injury or damage.

Move through the day as if nothing that is happening Right
Now has anything to do with anything that happened Before.

Even if something that is occurring right in front of your face
reminds you greatly of a previous encounter with life,
ignore the Old Data and move forward through the
present moment without judgment or any reaction
to the prior experience.

See if this is possible for you to do.

If it is, you have learned Detachment, and
that is a very good skill to acquire.

Every sunrise, indeed, every new moment of every day is
truly a New Beginning in which you may, just as the book
says, re-create yourself anew in the next grandest version
of the greatest vision ever you held about who you are.

You may begin life over again Right Now, and nothing
is stopping you from doing that except yourself.

The process is actually easier done than said!

~NDW

Love and Gratitude for sharing

gentlesoul4peace

*Karen~Karma*

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