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Why is it true that no one is ever too old for bedtime stories?
Well, it is because…
- • Stories are a basic part of our genetic memory.
• Stories are probably why we developed language.
Stories are the way we understand events and actions that make up our lives.
Stories take us back to childhood – a time of learning, acceptance, and forming of beliefs.
No one healthy ever entirely stops being a child at heart.
Stories speak the language of the subconscious, which automatically takes the information
personally, asking “how does that apply to me?”
Stories create a special kind of magic in our minds.
Something warm and wonderful happens when you imagine a story telling session, doesn’t it?
Story-telling consistently conjures up emotions of pleasure and expectation. The process provides as much
gratification as the content. Kids of every age are powerfully receptive to stories.
There seems to be a factor in our genes that predisposes us to make stories. We arbitrarily assign a
beginning, middle, and end to all sorts of events and use those designated chunks as a memory device.
We use stories to make meaning of things and to unravel meaning of behavior. And, once we have
interpreted the meaning, our stories often change the way we perceive our environment.
Stories are the most powerful way to change beliefs.
If someone…anyone…no matter how powerful or influential… challenges your belief (all black dogs are
mean), insisting it is wrong, stupid, and totally off-base, you will stubbornly plant your feet.
You react instantly… (What an idiot! Any one with half a brain...) in knee-jerk self-defense. The more
insistent the assault, the more defiant your resistance becomes. That’s the way humans are built.
That’s why we call them “beliefs”.
However, if you are told a story about another person who once was so convinced that all black dogs are
mean that she jumped into a river to escape a black dog even though she couldn’t swim a stroke….and while
she was flailing and screaming, that same black dog jumped in, risking it’s own life, and dragged her to the
bank…you can consider her mistaken belief without being personally threatened. You are able to
disassociate yourself emotionally, so your defenses are not triggered.
It’s always a lot easier to believe someone else can be mistaken. It’s her mistake, not yours, right? And she
obviously was wrong about THAT dog (which just happened to be black).
Something interesting happens in your mind when you open your subconscious to a story about someone
else who held a belief like yours and discovered it was not true. Your subconscious, keeper of your
memories and your beliefs, demands consistency. It works very hard at keeping your beliefs and behavior
organized and congruent. When it accepts a story, it starts evaluating how that story fits with what it
already has on file. Something is either true, or it’s not. If there isn’t a match, it either totally rejects the
story, or, more often, it modifies your beliefs without your awareness.
Once you accept the idea that maybe what you thought was always true is sometimes not true, you start
noticing how many exceptions there really are. Then, the next time you see a black dog, you just might
discover that you are paying close attention to whether its tail is wagging instead of running away
screaming.
Bed time in the perfect time to access the subconscious mind:
There are several reasons why the period just before sleeping is the best time to implant ideas in the
memory and the subconscious. There is a state between waking and sleeping when the mind is very
susceptible to suggestion. In addition, when the conscious mind is tired or overloaded, it drifts off, allowing
information to seep into the subconscious without critical analysis. And, studies have shown that memory
and learning are greatly enhanced when a period of sleep follows the "lesson".
Some stories speak to the souls of all humans. We call them myths, legends, and, sometimes, religion.
They teach us about the mysterious and unexplainable, like birth, death, natural catastrophes, miraculous
recoveries, and life, itself. They also explain the common and ordinary, like seasons, stars, earth, emotions,
bonds, and the behavior of other life forms.
Every culture has stories about beings, entities, or a power much greater than the individual and the
society.
Every culture has stories about death and resurrection, good and evil, strength and weakness.
Many of these stories are remarkably similar, appearing in Ancient China, Chile, Mexico, India, Egypt, and
the thousands of miles and many centuries separating them seem to be irrelevant. Humans appear to have
invented them spontaneously because they filled a spiritual need. They provide comfort. They speak to the
heart and the soul.
The Phoenix Story is one of the most powerful and pervasive. Click here to learn more about the
power and life changing effects of THE PHOENIX STORY
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