It seems we all have our stories that replay themselves over and over in our lives. Sometimes they are old stories from our past that have gotten stuck in our psyche, sometimes they are present scenarios repeating in our heads and begging for our attention.
This full moon in scorpio has been asking us to take a deeper look at ourselves. When I find myself being chased by a story, I know there are lessons to be learned. I know it’s time to sit quietly with intention and give it permission to speak in a clear voice. I try and ask myself questions to break the cycle and get into the heart of it:
- What is it I am trying to work out here?
- What is the true/original source of this anxiety or conflict?
- Is there something I’m afraid of?
- What’s the best and worst that can happen if I change the story?
- How might I feel I if choose not to change the story?
Live/Love the questions…
These stories show up on repeat for a reason. They present an opportunity to make a change, to do something differently. You may not find all the answers in the moment but it can assist in breaking the repetitive pattern and take you on a deeper journey of self inquiry.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke