THE IMPORTANCE OF TELLING OUR STORY

Our story is our life. Our perception of our life is maybe the most important part of our life because, as Maharishi says, "the world is as we are." How we see things IS our world.

Writing down what we see, is like drawing a picture of something so we get it outside ourselves. Then we hang the drawing on the wall and look at it. It makes it visible to our eyes when otherwise it remains inside, hidden from view.

I believe it is the most helpful thing we can do—to make our insides visible—to be able to consider our lives. Then we are able to track our path. We can see where we have gone wrong and are then able to adjust our course.

It’s like plotting a course on a boat. Based on where we have been, we see where the wind and the tides have moved us and we are able to adjust our heading.

Somebody said, "a life not considered is a life not worth living." By writing, we have a view of things—not only the choices we have made on our own, but we are able to see where the currents have thrown us off course. It is very helpful to think of our self as a navigator. We are the pilots, the captains at the wheel, steering both through good times and difficult times but we need to constantly check the compass to make sure we are on track. It is so easy to be fooled.