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Recieved: 1999/05/02 01:15
Subject: [K-list] Intro I - living narratives
From: Satu Sihvo
On 1999/05/02 01:15, Satu Sihvo posted thus to the K-list:
Hi all!
I have been lurking for some weeks and I think it is about time to step in.
I live in a 48 year old female body. About 20 years ago I got to hear a
talk about yoga (by accident - I had went to hear about hypnosis). I got
interested in the claim that relaxation is a dynamic state... and within
some weeks I was doing practices to find out if there really was some other
reality than the one we hear and see. Yes, some weeks later I had the most
beautiful experience, heard the words about kingdom of heaven within us -
and my life changed. I meditated/ prayed/ worshipped /relaxed /got
refreshed in different frameworks for the following 15 years. There were
many nice (sometimes strange) experiences but not like the first one. My
last framework dissolved from within about five years ago and I felt I had
got enough of them.
Then I got interested in solution focused therapy, studied more hypnosis,
became NLP master practitioner. Many of the NLP techniques worked well with
me and used them to clear my "knots". It might be that my "awakening" has
been relatively nice because of that. And perhaps because of living
narratives? With a living narrative I mean a certain technique I happened to
found during my NLP experiments. I have tested it a lot with myself and
with everyone who has been willing to try. And it is now used at least by
some NLP trainers in Finland. It is simply about having a goal (like a new,
ecological viewpoint to a problem), getting a starting picture from one's
creative spirit/God/... then stepping into the picture and having an
adventure. It produces a state that resembles a lucid dream. Or a trance
adventure. Usually full of paradoxes and humor - and deep insights later
on. It can be used in many ways. Even for health issues. Perhaps someone
with kundalini symptoms could find some relief?
What is new under the sun? I have been told that the living narrative is
very much like Silva method. I do not know Silva, so I cannot tell. But
when I told about some of my adventures to a shaman friend, he said that I
am making shamanic trips. So I bought a book about shamanism... and to my
mind shamanism was nothing but NLP in different words (or NLP is very much
like a modern version of shamanism). Yeah, there are basic things that work
and that have worked for ages and people keep finding them again and again
and again. (And start giving new names and fighting for copyrights...)
Strange energy things started to take place in my life about a year ago. (I
put them into a different mail. This one is about narratives.) About a
year ago I also asked for a story about the purpose of my life. And I got a
bird flying with its belly towards the sky. I became that bird and felt the
air at my back. Did divings like Jonathan Seagull. It felt great! Wanted
to see how far up I could go. And ended up somewhere in space and felt my
body going into small particles - and each one of them had the sense of "I
am". I was shocked and wanted to get back together and down to the earth -
and quickly. On the way back I heard the words: "Teach reorganization of
energy".
I have not used narratives a lot after that. But every now and then I get
one during my meditation. During the latter ones I have got some power
animals and I was quite amazed to find out that in fact they were like
symbols of some very deep wishes in my life. Some deep desires linked with
a lot of energy. And there were adventures with these helpful animals and I
was faced with fears and frustrations... Some stories have got the next
chapter months later. And now I have got some narratives while doing daily
things (outside meditation). It is like if a bunch of thoughts with enough
energy would become "seen". I "saw" my "version" of a dear friend sitting
next to me, smiling nicely and saying: "You know, creators are not supposed
to worship their creatures". To my mind I did not worship him - but this
episode certainly led to a series of insights... At the moment I am
wondering what all I have created or absorbed around me during this life.
How many lies there are hanging around and tying my energy? It is funny
this around. And that it might be felt within the body as a blockage? Does
this "seeing thoughts" make sense to you?
Joy,
Satu
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