Stories that empower or interpretations that diminish and close off
For me a story can expand and teach or send me into judgement resentment and almost become infectious and take me away from reality and into obsession, drama definitely and a made-up world or interpretation of the world - “haves have nots” “they don’t get it, don’t understand,” there is calamity and destruction, “it will never change.” It gets overwhelming and it was just a news article, a sound in the house, the baby crying, the wind, an e-mail I read. Monkey mind thinking. I actually think that those thoughts are caring, intelligent, sound land compassionate and so I’m labeling my thoughts. Breathe let go