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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:47:55 EST
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What a fascinating discusion! I agree with Kimberly and others that these questions are open-ended ones, and cannot be answered definitively. But everyone's response here is circling the mystery, and firing off many new insights. And I am especially enjoying hearing about particular contexts in which everyone is working, how the ideas relate to specific, real life settings. I was also thinking if there might be a book that begins to address some of these issues and the one that came to mind was Daniel Taylor's The Healing Power of stories: Creating Yourself Through the Stories of Your Life (originally published as Tell Me A Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories ) The chapter on "Healing Broken Stories" is especially apt. But finally I look to the poets for succinct "answers" to questions like these. Here's one from Rumi that has been posted before on this list... "Story Water" A story is like water that you heat for your bath. It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet, and it cleans you! Very few can sit down in the middle of the fire itself like a salamander or Abraham. We need intermediaries. A feeling of fullness comes, but usually it takes some bread to bring it. Beauty surrounds us but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. Cristy Cristy West Washington, DC In a message dated 1/13/04 2:45:38 PM, david@VSWEBS.COM writes: << My inquiry isn't about when or where to tell personal stories of woe. It's not about finding a trusting group or so. It's about WHY a story resonates in an individual in a positive or negative way. What is happening in the physiology of a human being when a story is running around inside them? Doesn't matter where they do or don't unload it. Why do people keep stories inside? What happens in there. What is this "healing" that everyone is talking about. Is it a physical change? >> ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||