“Real change is possible, but only through a new story.”
_Charles Eisenstein
Could you ever change your story?
Do you have the courage to ever change your story?
Stories are what we tell ourselves to maintain our identity. Some are obvious and other subtle. It’s taken a lifetime to create these stories – bit by bit we add into our memory bank everything that we have experienced but also more importantly the beliefs we have adopted based on those experiences. To unravel and understand the story would most probably take just as long!
We expend a lot of psychic energy maintaining our stories to the point where defending our point of view of the world and ourselves can create barriers to new and wonderful experiences – should these not fit in.
A powerful escape from the story is to create a radical new environment around you. One of the ways to do this is to suspend life as you know it momentarily. Its that feeling we have on holiday when we lie on the beach and suddenly life seems to come into focus. The change of environment facilitates new perspectives. Failing the luxury of traveling to the beach at the drop of a hat – we have our alternative. Yes! You guessed it. DANCE!
Dance creates new environments instantaneously. We shift into altered states through the dance, sometimes light and fun and sometimes quite deep. This shift from arises when we leave our ordinary life at the door and allow the dance to envelop us in non-ordinary states where our habitual patterns and stories are suspended as we give ourselves over to the music, the movement and the experience.
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