The greatest empowerment comes through self-responsibility
Sitting in on a writer’s webinar yesterday morning, the focus was about creating suspense and tension in our work. I couldn’t help but think how crafted strategies that keep readers turning pages are exactly like living a soul-directed life … without awareness of our invisible guidance ‘from above.’
Writer’s are encouraged to keep readers hooked with a curiosity to learn what happens next – how will characters respond to the presenting problem to arrive at their desired resolution? In other words, writers make good use of the human need to know, their dislike of uncertainty, and their innate resistance to change. Tension in a story is generated by everything that happens to create uncertainty and, let’s face it, everyone loves a cliff hanger . .. except in real life!
What we love to read about from the comfort of an armchair, on a train or under a sun umbrella is not what desire in our lives – yet we constantly create drama. Remember the wise old bard who said ‘life is but a stage and we are the players’?
There is a very good reason for creating drama; it is the instrument of change.
Tension is what pulls us through life just as it pulls a reader through a story. Coming in many forms, it may be internal or external, overt or subtle, direct or indirect. The degree of our discomfort depends on our response to what we want and what is needed to achieve our desire; opposing forces that create anxiety and frustration for us. By recognising our own part as stage manager in our drama we quickly move through to the next scene but, if we cast blame outside of us, our dialogue fills with friction, resistance and the obstacles that keep us stuck. We must go over our lines again and again, like ‘Ground Hog Day.’
Looking back over my own awakening process as a conscious soul (meaning, to be come aware of the higher source directing my life), I readily acknowledge my years as a prima donna who attributed her woes to those standing closest. It was the least empowered part of my life because in denying self-responsibility, I also deprived myself of self-resolution. I’d signed a soul contract to take the role of Grief but, failed to read the small print demanding every acquired false belief also come under the spotlight. All my erroneous ideas center stage.
At times I wanted to hide in the wings, even close the curtains. But my faithful off-stage soul director gave endless prompts and cues preventing a fall into the orchestra pit. Although, at times I did teeter very close to the edge.
As a writer, I only create organic material that I have lived. In doing so, I often discover that the truth is indeed stranger than fiction and more exciting! Why settle for the virtual and live viscerally through others when we are the greatest story of our lives? In doing so, we have freedom to choose our settings, our fellow actors and change the script as befits.
Looking for a transformational book of awakening through grief?
Want to know how we use the dramas in our lives to effect wonderful change?
Please check out 'Flying in the Face of Grief', to be released January 2015.
You can read excerpts here https://www.annwynvibe.com/
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