The storyteller in the head

We spend our lives in an imaginary self. We hear the stories in our head, the foundation of which was created when we were young. There is a "narrator" in us. He speaks the lovely long day - if we allow him - and we do not know whether the stories are true or invented by the "narrator".

Because the "narrator" wants it that way, we fight with a lot. If a challenge appears in our lives, we try to control them, to remedy them, get rid of them or to judge them because we think it should be different than she is. And there he is again, the "narrator" in our head.

Gradually switching off the “narrator” succeeds gradually

This can happen to us if a challenge is small (the traffic light is too long on red - how annoying) or when it is big (I lose my job, get sick, have to deal with the loss of a loved one).

Our challenges are here to teach us something and not to get rid of them because the "narrator" finds justifications in our head. He alone tells us his experiences he had to have with the events from our past.

An increasing number of people awakened and they manage to recognize and switch this "narrator" in the head. This can bring our everlasting struggle with imaginary aspects healing.

By deciding that exactly what is only right, we free ourselves from the "narrator" in our head. Then we are in every moment. Because we can now accept it as it is.
If we don't want to accept this now, then we believe that something should be different than it is. And then we need the "narrator" in our head again, which finds arguments, why what is simply not the way it is.

Do we not live easier without the "narrator" in the head?

"The inn" by Rumi is a wonderful story on this topic. Rumi says:

The human existence is an inn. A new guest every morning.
Joy, depression and low costumes - a short moment of mindfulness comes as an unexpected visitor.

Glue and entertain them all.
Even if it is a crowd of worries that violates your house of its furniture, even then treat every guest honorably. Maybe he cleans you for new ones.

The dark thoughts, shame, malice - meet them with a smile at the door and invite them to you. Be thankful for everyone who comes, because everyone has been sent to your leadership from another world.

(Maulana Jelaleddin Rumi 1207 - 1273 Persian mystics and one of the most important Persian poets of the Middle Ages)

Rumi tells us that we are not indiscriminate victims for what is happening, but in fact we should be curious about what is shown - on everything.

Since our attention usually stuck in our head in history, we should keep remembering that we are not these stories. We erroneously believe that.

Who we really are and whatever we are - should we allow to live. That is the real difference between: "I'm afraid" and "The fear is here - I recognize it and I acknowledge it - but I don't flee from her".