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es. It seems reliable, although the interpretations are slightly different for each person.</p><p id="4ddd"><b>Spiritual practice is about becoming the <i>audience to your story</i>. </b>The story continues. You continue to be the central player in your story. Likes and dislikes and ups and downs continue to arise and acted upon in the story. But when you are <i>also </i>the audience, you can put the story into a more proper perspective.</p><p id="3275">That is the <i>Both/And</i> perspective that is a growing emphasis in spirituality these days.</p><figure id="7e70"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*XL_3-fp8BkqyT6fbP08vEg.jpeg"><figcaption><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/isfullofcrap/49919164411/">by I am R.</a> (Flicker.com, cc-by)</figcaption></figure><h1 id="f1be">Related Resources</h1><ul><li>I partially channeled the insights above from my Energy Group/Higher Self. The article below (⬇) is a fully channeled message on creating our life story…</li></ul><div id="4a7a" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/how-to-create-the-best-story-of-your-life-903243176efa"> <div> <div> <h2>How to Create the Best Story of Your Life</h2> <div><h3>Simplify beyond words. Use as few words as possible in your story.</h3></div> <div><p>by Alan Lew — medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*4aQCI9exlYpoLWqXSo9Odg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><ul><li>For more on our raw, pre-judgmental, sensory experience, see…</li></ul><div id="cd6f" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/raw-experience-is-the-fastest-way-to-nondual-self-realization-1d499bbdbf99"> <div> <div> <h2>Raw Experience is the Fastest Way to Nondual Self-Realization</h2> <div><h3>We know nothing beyond our direct sensory perception, everything else is faith and fantasy.</h3></div> <div><p>by Alan Lew — medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*ps2j5377Bbz4wLARR4WMcw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><ul><li>For more on the <i>Both/And</i> perspective, see…</li></ul><div id="3f7e" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-spiritual-paradox-perspective-of-truth-in-opposites-de5bb17b230e"> <div> <div> <h2>The Spiritual Paradox Challenge: Can You Be “Both/And”?</h2> <div><h3>Global ascension & awakening require a paradoxical shift from “either/or” to “both/and” thinking.</h3></div> <div><p>by Alan Lew — medium.com</p></div>

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Awakening to Your Story

Who Is the Audience of Your Life Story?

Stories (movies, novels, and more) attract us because we know our life is a story. But every story needs an audience to exist.

by Gideon Wright (Flicker.com, cc-by)

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We Love Our Stories

We love novels, movies, and television dramas. Even nonfiction stories can easily grab our attention, including history, documentaries, and the nightly news. And we are drawn to the real-life stories of people we know and don’t know — no matter if the stories are fact, fiction, or both.

And sometimes we hate our stories. But that is just another form of love. We have them because we love them so much and want them to be better.

Stories attract us because they offer alternative ways of understanding our existence. They begin — although beginnings can be arbitrary at times. They change, develop, and evolve—which is the core of the story. And they end — although endings are often a new beginning.

Beginning — Evolving — Ending. That is how we see our life.

Deep within, we know our life is a story. And that is why we are so curious about other stories.

Every Story has an Audience

We are the audience for the fiction and nonfiction stories we consume. We were there before the story started. And we are still there after the story ends. We anticipated the story, watched it, and remembered it afterwards.

Who is the audience for your story? Who is watching it now, at this very moment?

Perhaps the one who is watching it now, in this moment, is also the one that was there before your story started, and will be there after your story ends? Perhaps it is the one that anticipated your story and will remember it after it ends.

Would your story exist if its audience were not there?

Returning to the movie, TV show, and novel analogies. Without you as an audience, the movie would simply be photons of light bouncing off a blank screen. The TV show would only be electrons flashing across a monitor. The novel would be patterns of black spread over white pages.

Those stories would not exist without you. You are essential for those stories to exist because your mind uses those raw sensory inputs to interpret and create images and stories. It seems reliable, although the interpretations are slightly different for each person.

Spiritual practice is about becoming the audience to your story. The story continues. You continue to be the central player in your story. Likes and dislikes and ups and downs continue to arise and acted upon in the story. But when you are also the audience, you can put the story into a more proper perspective.

That is the Both/And perspective that is a growing emphasis in spirituality these days.

by I am R. (Flicker.com, cc-by)

Related Resources

  • I partially channeled the insights above from my Energy Group/Higher Self. The article below (⬇) is a fully channeled message on creating our life story…
  • For more on our raw, pre-judgmental, sensory experience, see…
  • For more on the Both/And perspective, see…

For more on Spiritual Awakenings, see this collection of articles. Note that the articles in this collection (⬇) are behind the Medium paywall. For paywall-free access to my articles go to www.AlanLew.com, linked below.

Contact

  • I appreciate comments, questions, and typo corrections. - See the About link in my Medium profile for contact information and related articles.
  • Written in collaboration with my Energy Group/Higher Self. This is our perspective of the truth and not the whole truth of reality.

My Medium writings are available “paywall free” at www.AlanLew.com:

Visit and Follow New Earth Consciousness (NEC) for More Articles like this.

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