”One day without really thinking about it, I put myself in the story for the first time..”
In Chapter four of David Almond’s graphic novel, The Savage, the young narrator Blue, expresses the seemingly incidental event of his own inclusion in his ‘Savage’ story. I love the emphasis on the ‘without really thinking’ for it is as if some unconscious impulse creates a version of himself within his fictional narrative and I wonder how far it is this unconscious aspect of his own characterisation which allows his own form of resurrection through writing and painting. It is as if he has left or let his unconscious self to deal with something his conscious self has strugggled with.
In certain NLP processes subjects can simply ‘let’ parts of the self metaphorically shift and renegotiate the very terms of any conflict or difficulty. There need be no ‘conscious’ intervention or discussion. It is like a trust game with our unconscious creativity and our training to control our knowledge and source of knowledge.
And putting ourselves in our own story seems very necessary if not essential for a confident life.
Yet how many times do we feel LOST in the stories of others?
Banished from ourselves and others?
- How many times do we feel the loss of our own story as we feel responsible for the needs and expectations of families, collegues and friends?
- AND how do we feel when our stories are LOST or never TOLD or SPOKEN?
- Confidence gives you the tools to claim and conserve your own story.
- Confidence allows you to embrace changes in your story.
- Confidence allows you to hear and speak your own story and to feel the JOY of such expression!