How We Experience The World Is Important (Revisited)

How we see the world impacts how we feel, think, perceive things, and even our relationships. Many of our worldviews were shaped over the years by our life experiences. These experiences can span over time. For example, from our first days of kindergarten to our first high school crushes. It is collected moments over many years that influence views of people and feelings from those relationships. 

I believe it to be essential for people to uncover deep meanings to their experiences in the world. These experiences create opportunities for healing and for hope as old self stories are rewritten and new ones are imagined. My experiences as the oldest of four girls shaped my parenting of my two sons. I tend to correct my children's behavior using examples with metaphorical language and many narratives to explain how they can improve their behaviors. I do this because of my experiences from mothering my siblings. My brain autopilots to what happened in the past and projects to the current situations. Understanding how our past influences our present is extremely important. Our particular narrative is storytelling that gives shape to our experiences.

To embrace living happier, we must understand how our past experiences brought us to our current selves. Pulling back the layers of our lives to be authentic is a necessary step to moving forward in this new way of living. Moreover, the ability to reconstruct memories over time allows for meanings to change, evolve, and have relevance throughout (Kotre 1996).

Dr. Stredic, EdD

Author of Metamorphosis Through Life: Quotes and Affirmations (barnesandnoble.com)

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References

Kotre J. (1996) White Gloves: How We Create Ourselves Through Memory. W.W. Norton, NY, USA