Burdened by Story

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Creative Commons License photo credit: greg west­fall.

Like snow lying heavy on the backs of the grass in the field, caus­ing it to bow to the ground in seem­ing defeat, our own sto­ries lie heavy upon us.

Just as the sun melts away the snow leav­ing the grass once again stand­ing tall in the light of day, we too are puri­fied, our sto­ries dis­solved by the light of con­scious­ness, leav­ing us to stand upright in heal­ing align­ment with Source.

So be it.

4 Responses to Burdened by Story
  1. Tracy
    February 25, 2010 | 3:33 am

    For me the ques­tion is what is the mean­ing and the pur­pose of my story?What is the pur­pose of the hap­pi­ness the sadness?Why do i strive for this and not that?does it make a dif­fer­ence?
    I find that when i think about it, i really don’t get any answers but just more questions.More inquiry and its frus­trat­ing.
    What i find myself look­ing for is a log­i­cal expla­na­tion to every­thing that is.An Objec­ti­fied answer that i can point out and hold on to as the right and only truth.I guess that is how i have learnt to look at life.
    In a way i still want a story to hold on to the story because then who i be with­out it?

    • Lynne
      February 28, 2010 | 6:38 pm

      Hi Tracy, yes, life is all ‘story’ of one kind or another.

      My own expla­na­tion (from ancient truths) of life is this: There is a Uni­ver­sal Source or Cause that sup­ports the uni­verse and we are filled with, and/or ema­na­tions of that One Source. That One Source inhab­its the eter­nal present moment and It is what gives us life and being. In other words, we are spirit inhab­it­ing phys­i­cal mat­ter (a body) and we come to this phys­i­cal plane of real­ity to flesh out our beliefs.

      The thoughts we adopt and call “my beliefs” become the basis or foun­da­tion of what we man­i­fest, of what we attract to us and what we indi­vid­u­ally see and expe­ri­ence. The world, then, is made up of our thought pro­jec­tions which are mir­rored back to us through our projection-made-reality. In other words, the peo­ple and sit­u­a­tions we meet in life are reflec­tions of some part of our own belief system.

      When we learn to look within to find an answer to the ques­tion “why?,” instead of look­ing to the exter­nal sit­u­a­tion for the rea­son or cause, the world becomes sud­denly more under­stand­able and a much less scary place to be.

      I have found this basic under­stand­ing of why things are the way they are to be the key to free­dom and peace. I hope you find it to be equally heal­ing for you.
      Bless­ings, Lynne

  2. Rahul R
    March 1, 2010 | 10:21 pm

    ** mis­placed com­ment **
    Refer­ring to “In Response To “Feel­ing Our Feel­ings. ” email.

    Dear Lynne
    As a stu­dent, i fully under­stood what you said in the mail.
    As a fel­low trav­eller on a very early stage of the jour­ney, i wish to share my expe­ri­ence.
    Many years ago that i was feel­ing mis­er­able, unhappy and stressed but was not able see it– as it is… pos­si­bly due to com­plete and sus­tained self neglect, i had come to assume that what i was feel­ing was nor­mal thing.… what i mean to say is that i believe that due to immense lack of inner aware­ness, i did not see it as pain.. i was in sub/unconscious denial.
    Feel­ing your feel­ings, if inter­preted as … see­ing pain as pain, hurt as hurt, see­ing rescuer/persecutor as a victim-hood can trig­ger “con­scious accep­tance” and lead one on the road to recov­ery and healing.

  3. Rahul R
    March 1, 2010 | 10:27 pm

    ** mis­placed com­ment **
    Refer­ring to “In Response To “Feel­ing Our Feel­ings. ” email.

    Dear Lynne
    As a stu­dent, i fully under­stood and am thank­ful for what you shared in the email.
    As a fel­low trav­eller on a very early stage of the jour­ney, i wish to share my expe­ri­ence.
    Many years ago, i was feel­ing mis­er­able, unhappy and stressed but was not able see it– as it is… pos­si­bly due to com­plete and sus­tained self neglect, i had come to assume that what i was feel­ing was nor­mal ….
    To para­phrase it, i believe that due to immense lack of inner aware­ness, i did not see it as pain.. i was in sub/unconscious state of denial.
    Feel­ing your feel­ings, if inter­preted as … see­ing pain as pain, hurt as hurt, see­ing rescuer/persecutor posi­tion as victim-hood can trig­ger “con­scious accep­tance” and lead one on the road to recov­ery and healing.

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