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March 14, 2024
Personal Belief Systems
Personal Belief Systems
In the image you’ll see this under church or relegion mountain - but they’re different.
(I was going to group them together, but they should be seperate because relegion is a group belief, and while its personal to you - like everything we’re going to be talking about in this series - relegion comes from a value system outside yourself.)
So…
What is a personal belief system?
These are the stories we tell ourselves. We are in charge of these stories… everything from, “That’s scary,” to “I’m empowered!”
These are the stories that live in our brains and bodies. That’s right - our bodies tell stories. Its called body language. Some people would also include scars, tattoos and old injuries. The way we walk and move leaves imprints on our bones too. Plus our emotions live in the body, along with how our cultures taught us to interact.
I took a course on posture and how the people of the modern Western world move is completely different than societies that don’t have modern conveniences. Through this class I learned about movement, relaxation and how trauma is stored in the body preventing us from moving like our bodies were designed to. Its called primal posture, and its mostly taught by Esther Gokhale (pronounced Go-klay). Here’s a link - Gokhale Method®. Sometimes they offer free courses.
We are in charge of the stories that live in our brains and bodies. Other people may have started them in our early childhood, or ongoing life experiences, but ultimately we can decide if we want to keep these stories in our brains and bodies.
Getting them out through healing is challenging, but worth it if these stories are teaching you the wrong things, or impacting how you feel in a manner that isn’t good for you.
For instance, no one in Western culture wants to be told they’re fat - that’s a negative feeling. There are many cultures where fat is considered unhealthy. And there are many cultures where being fat is considered a status symbol and is respected, because it means you have more than enough to eat.
But hearing, “You’re fat,” is just a story. It may be true - or you just might have ready for this??? You may have…. human anatomy and internal organs.
I recently learned that the female model quality flat bellies are not healthy or normal, because most biological women have an internal organ called a uterus, and it creates a pillow of fat around it. And that’s totally healthy if you’re a biological female. Its not fat - its normal human anatomy. The models are the ones who are abnormal and many of them suffer from eating disorders, body image issues, and hormone disorders, because they’re still hearing a negative story around the word ‘fat.’
Stress is also a hormone called cortisol - and because fat was an ancient method of survival - when we’re stressed - we all pack on the pounds regardless of gender and anatomy. This is because human biology is ancient and all stress resembles being chased by a saber tooth tiger or starving to death if we don’t turn around and spear dinner.
Short version: Your stress is either an ancient mechanism of ‘I’m going to be eaten!’ - or ‘I’m going to eat the thing that wants to have me for dinner!’ Which is an awesome lesson in confronting our fear.
We’ll talk about how build our personal belief systems into better beliefs next week.
Again the four questions to ask are:
What stories are you listening to?
Who is in charge of those stories?
What do these stories teach you?
How do these stories make you feel?
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March 7, 2024
Putting it all Together
There are seven mountains of stories that command society.
(Actually eight - because I thought through this and I’m really bad at math.)
They are…
Personal Belief Systems - This is not exactly a mountain on the official list, but we’re going to start here, because personal beliefs are our anchors in the belay process and we need to make certain we can trust our belay anchor.
Going through personal beliefs also lets me show you how those beliefs can change from hurtful to helpful and eventually heroic. Its an important process and its not often discussed.
The lack of discussion on how change of beliefs happens often leaves people feeling confused or frightened to make the changes they need for a better future. Since I’m a writer - you’ll be seeing that from a character perspective.
However, fictional characters do mirror real life and since we often aren’t used to looking at our lives as a heroic story, it can be difficult to pinpoint the place where we picked up that belief and then later how we knew we had to throw it out. In a fictional story, those points are often much clearer.
The other official seven mountains are:
Religious - The stories we tell ourselves and the mountains that make heroes or villians (moral code outside of us, in a smaller less than leading society culture. Anthropologists call it a ‘sub-culture’.1)
Family - the stories that make us or break us (moral code and family dynamics of value)
Education - the stories we learn that repeated and forced onto students often ignoring their individual talents, interests and imaginative promise
Arts/Entertainment/Media - The stories we tell mountain, also the stories our culture tells to us and the worldview they want us to accept
Business - business is the story of following the money to reveal priorities.
Science and Medicine - “Diagnosies reflect a society’s values, concerns and hopes.” - from the book Aspberger’s Children (Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna)
Law and Government - the narrative worldview of enforcing dominant culture aka what is valued by the ruling party.
We’ll go into more detail as we move forward with each mountain.
Again the four questions to ask are:
What stories are you listening to?
Who is in charge of those stories?
What do these stories teach you?
How do these stories make you feel?
Perpetual Disclaimer for this series:
I am not a counselor or a mental health professional. I am going to attempt to avoid things which will cause alarm or harm, but I can't know what will trigger each individual. If you need to speak to a mental health professional please know that there are resources available.
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1Footnote: Subculture in anthropology doesn’t mean its controversial or subservise or morally questionable. Its just a culture not followed by enough people who have enough influence to make it a dominant culture. For instance, the dominant culture in the Soviet Union was Communism because it was a communist government system, but there were covert religious groups throughout the Soviet Union. Most of these were Christian, Buddhist or indigenous beliefs in Siberia. I’ve never found any research on covert practice of Islam or Judaism - but I’m certain the beliefs continued because as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed, those beliefs immediatly came back into influence in Central Asia.
February 29, 2024
Hero-Glyph-Fixes
Last week I shared a short story from my Emily and Indiana Jones fan fiction, ‘The Seven Swords of Diya.’
Here’s last week's story link if you’d like a re-read.
I left you with the promise of answering the four questions which are vital for our series this year:
What stories are you listening to?
Who’s in charge of those stories?
What do these stories teach you?
How do these stories make you feel?
I should have said last week that there are no right or wrong answers to this. We all pick up different things based on what we’ve learned from past experience. But it’s important to ask the above four questions when we’re sorting through beliefs, whether they’re our personal beliefs, beliefs we completely disagree with, or when we’re encountering a story for the first time.
I also want to note that I’m detailing these questions from the characters’ standpoint, because it’s an important lesson for us to learn.
What stories are you listening to?
Indy is listening to the story of his skills are going to protect his daughter. He has that confidence in his skills. This is a good thing. As we learn new skills we should be building confidence - especially as we pass these skills onto our kids.
Emily is listening to her father. She’s building off his confidence and learning how to do new things. He taught her belay, and reminded her of the process. He encouraged her when she messed up on a word. He gave her a little safe adventure. She wanted more - but was happy with what she recieved. She felt safe - even though the situation is probably not one that any normal parent would put their kid into. All these moments are teaching her confidence and security.
Who is in charge of those stories?
Since I’m answering this from a character perspective - the person in charge of the stories would be the characters. But here’s the thing - because Emily is four years old, she’s still learning. She’s very much in a learn about the world, explore, investigate and figure out things mode. So she’s not exactly in charge of what she learns. Nor does she know what she’s doing. She has to learn by watching and interacting with people.
Her dad is in charge. Her dad is in charge of what he’s teaching her. And if you noticed it… he’s open to letting her have the adventure. He’s encouraging her. He’s excited for her - and he’s making certain that things are as safe as possible for her.
Many of us didn’t have parents who had that attitude. Instead what we got was accidental fear mongering or worse, when we were trying to learn new skills. That’s the value of going through our personal beleifs and writing in the format of having a protector as I mentioned in the Storytelling Through Trauma blog post series. That protector can re-teach us, giving us the skills we need to move forward, climb higher and prepare ourselves for bigger adventures… like Emily has an adult. (So far her adventures on Wattpad have been The Sidenstrasse Tapestry and The Seven Swords of Diya, but there will be more.)
What do these stories teach you?
By walking through these stories and seeing how the characters respond to each other… (Indy is encouraging adventure and fearlessness vs shutting down his daughter and increasing her fear), we can witness a template on how to greet ourselves when we meet challenges.
I want to add, when Em asks about “playing big rock chase” - the big rock moment was terrifying for Indy.1 So, somehow, Indy has managed to turn this from something terrifying - into a game for his kids (and later grandkids). Its a survival game - its mentally imprinting on them to take action and survive, so they’re not paralyzed with fear. (If you want the aftermath of big rock chase with Em, here’s the next chapter.)
How do these stories make you feel?
For the characters involved - this is a learning ground. Parenting is always new, scary and it comes with challenges, but somehow Indy has managed to embrace it and view it as an adventure. (If you want to see that character development read The Seven Swords of Diya).
For Emily, this could have been extremely terrifying. Her dad could have gotten mad at her. He could have said all the things that rattle around in our brains to shame us. But he didn’t.
For us - it gives us a look into what should have happened when those shaming things come up. And we can look back and choose to act differently toward ourselves - playing the parent willing to adventure, instead of the person caving to fear.
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1(Its now classic, watch it here: INDIANA JONES RUNS FROM GIANT BALL RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK REMASTERED HD HARRISON FORD)
February 22, 2024
Hero-Glyph-Fixes
Last week I introduced you to the word belay and how a person can serve as an anchor while rock climbing, or being lowered down from rock climbing.
This is important because we don’t create our personal beliefs in a vacuum. We learn from those around us and greater society. And the learning of beliefs doesn’t even have to come from a source that is ‘real’. Fiction (not real) or non-fiction (actually happened) - it doesn’t matter. Storytelling is a highly effective way of imprinting beliefs, which is why telling your story is vital.
I also wanted to give you an example of how to work through the questions I mentioned earlier.
What stories are you listening to?
Who is in charge of those stories?
What do these stories teach you?
How do these stories make you feel?
For a review, these questions are important because they help us sort our beliefs.
You can put together the answers after reading this fiction piece and I’ll answer the questions from the character (and author) viewpoint next week.
For more info on why I do what I do… you can read my post here.
You can also read the full stories of my father daughter archaeologist duo on Wattpad.
This is when daughter of Indiana Jones, Emily Jones is four years old, and before they were making official climbing gear like you saw in the video.
Hero-Glyph-Fixes
Egypt, 1947
(Excerpt from The Seven Swords of Diya)
Inside the ancient tunnel, Indiana Jones coiled four year old Emily’s rope and wrapped it around her, caving to his Littlest Artifact’s request to be an adventurer like her daddy. They were standing at the edge of a deep vertical shaft in the floor, leading deeper into the unexplored ruin. “Adjust that so it’s about where you’d sit on a swing.” Then he made a second coil. “Put that at your waist.”
She obeyed. Indy checked the rope’s tightness and satisfied, he tied a knot on both coils. “Hold on to that knot, no matter what, ok?”
“Ok. But then I can’t brush off the Egyptian writing… hero-glyph-fixes.”
“Hieroglyphics, Em.”
She looked sad for a moment.
Indy tipped her hat up, and held her chin… “You almost got it, hon. It’s a big word. Be proud of yourself for trying. You’ve got plenty of years to get it right.”
He stood looping the rope around his waist and tying the knot, giving plenty of loose coil. “Ok, I’m going to lower you down into the shaft…. just a little. Let me know if you get scared or want me to stop.” Indy paused. “Remember the mountain climbing word?”
“Belay?”
“Right, Em. Remember what they taught you?”
“I stand at the edge and when I’m ready to jump off I say ‘belay’ and you say, ‘belay on’?”
“That’s it,” Indy smiled.
“Belay.”
“Belay on,” Indy finished as Emily dropped into the shaft inch by inch.
“Daddy, more rope… this isn’t exciting enough!”
Indy grinned in paternal adoration. “You should be at the hieroglyphics, Em. What do they say?”
“Dunno. Can’t read. It’s dark.”
Indy almost fell over in laughter at her response. “Em? Ready for me to pull you back up?”
“Kays. Uh… on belay.”
“Belay on,” Indy pulled her out of the shaft. He knelt. “How was that?”
“Woulda been better if there was a snake, or some bats or sumpthin.’” She struggled with the knot. “How do I get this off?”
“Let me.” Indy untied the ropes and coiled them beside his whip. He paused not wanting to stand up as Emily hugged his neck.
“Can we play big rock chase?” She asked.
A grin slowly spread across Indy’s face. “Yes.” He swept her up in a sudden movement, and bolted from the tomb as Emily screamed in laughter.
Like always when I do a piece of fiction - I’m going to break it down through a series of lessons. We’ll do those next week.
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February 15, 2024
Belay and Beliefs
Next week is the fiction story, but I have to teach you a mountain climbing word first.
The human brain works better through physical action, so when we learn something new, it sticks in our brain better if we have a physical action to go with it.
Our new word is ‘belay’ - (Buh-lay)
Its a word mountain climbers use like we use the word ‘ready’.
Here’s a video:
Basically… the person doing the belaying serves as the anchor, as the other person climbs. They work together, sort of like a pully system.
Here’s another image:
You want your beliefs to anchor you, but not so much that they keep you from climbing onward to better things.
Notice the climber gives commands and the belay/anchor person on the bottom echoes and supports those commands. That’s teamwork. That’s how your beliefs are supposed to work. Your beliefs support you, as you climb higher and accomplish the goals you want for your life.
So, come up with a motion that will move you forward when you say belay, to remind you that as you move forward - you have an anchor.
Looking at personal beliefs that we picked up from society doesn’t mean that we have to change them. What it means is that we are aware of them and are no longer afriad or threatened by them. However, if we find these beliefs unhelpful or outright toxic - we do need to overcome and climb over them, adjusting our grip on the rope as we go along.
Next week we’ll do this with one of my short fiction pieces.
This week: My Valentines Day romantic comedy, Love and Shotguns, is available for free on Amazon. (February 13-17, 2023)
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February 8, 2024
Terrain
Terrain
Our first encounter with mountain climbing is to start small.
Mountains are massive. They have rock slides. Things fall off them. You can sort of see it in the gray soil in the photo above. All that rocks, soil, and mud probably fell off the mountain.
You have to climb these things before you get to the mountains.
Your personal beliefs are probably mostly things that fell off the seven mountains of society that we talked about earlier. Here’s the image as a review.
For the past several years I’ve started grouping my thoughts about worldview into the simple questions of:
What stories are you listening to?
Who is in charge of those stories?
What do these stories teach you?
How do these stories make you feel?
This isn’t just name your favorite author, state your sources and figure out the messages or themes in them and how those messages and themes impact you. You can do that if you like, its a good exercise and we’ll probably come back to it. But what I wanted to dig out of this is that our lives are based on stories.
Sometimes those stories are true - sometimes those stories are made up. Sometimes they’re from life experience, sometimes they’re cultural and borrowed from fiction.
Soon I’m going to share a story with you and show you how the questions from a fictional story teach us how to act and interact in the real world.
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February 1, 2024
Mountain Climbing
Mountain Climbing
Last week I gave you some history about the term sphere of influence. I said it was from a spy and mapping cold war between Britian and Russia during the 1880s, called The Great Game. The Great Game was also called a Tornament of Shadows.
How does this relate to you?
Mountains are like beliefs - they dominate the place where we live. Their shadows tower over the landscape, they appear really powerful, and they’re often challenging to climb. This is especially true when the belief mountains don’t match our personal beliefs.
But the thing about shadows is that a shadow doesn’t give an accurate portrayal of how large the object is. That’s because a shadow’s length is based on where the sun is.
I’ll say it again: A shadow’s length is based on where the light is.
Its… perspective. Point of view.
So don’t be intimidated… just check the position of the light to see if what you’re witnessing is the truth, or if the light is just momentarily blocked and your challenge only appears massive.
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January 25, 2024
Mountain Climbing
Mountain Climbing
Last week I introduced the Seven Mountains of Society’s Stories… and they were big topics, I wanted to give you a photo illustration.
This is the Nubra Valley on the border of India and Central Asia. These are some of the highest mountains in the world. The ancient people’s called them ‘The Roof of the World.’
And people could be really frightened of them. Their shadows and forms dominate the landscape…
But you know what?
People have been crossing these mountains since ancient times. They’re part of the ancient spice routes that made up the Silk Road. (Or Sidenstrasse - yes, that Sidenstrasse if you’ve been introduced and reading my blog long enough. If you haven’t… here it is: The Sidenstrasse Tapestry: An Indiana Jones Fan-Fiction)
So before people had the technology to fly over these mountains… (That didn’t happen until World War II… and even then, it was incredibly dangerous, and called ‘The Hump’. If you want the World War II history look up the China Burma India Theater.) ….Before all that… people were crossing them on foot in trade caravans.
Legend has it that ice cream was invented in these mountains, because cream froze on the trek.
They were mapped in the 1880s (which is like American Civil War, Old West Era) and….
Since I’m a history nerd and I wanted to empower you… here’s a little history.
Our world is divided into systems… each of these systems runs a segement of society. The term is sphere of influence.
The term “sphere of influence” came from the the spy game between Britian and Russian during the 1800s. Central Asia was unexplored and both countries wanted that land and its resources. This struggle was called ‘The Great Game’.
It was about control and all manner and methods were used to hang onto that control… from war, lies and double dealings to some truly great exploration. (For those of you who know your classic literature, the Sherlock Holmes’ character John Watson, fought in Afghanistan during the original Great Game.)
The Great Game was the first cold war, like the 1950s conflict between the US and Russia.
During the Great Game everyone was afriad of what it would mean if Russia took over Central Asia. For the British it meant that the Russians would have the ability to threaten major resources in British owned India.
In order to keep control, people tell stories. They tell stories about why its more legitimate for them to have control vs the other person. They use research and propaganda to make themselves look good… or at least upstanding enough to be the better controller. The people who work under their control know the truth. And they are often forced to remain silent when the power over them is corrupt.
Bringing this down to our level as modern day individuals - do we dare to believe that we have influence? And what does that influence look like? Are we attempting to control others by the narrative we tell ourselves? Or do we need to write/tell our own story in order to break free from control?
More on that next week!
And!!! Exciting update! My Amazon short story giveaway for January (2024) The Outlaws of Sawdust was shared by Book Basset. It’s a daily blog and newsletter that is all free books. I had 328 people partake in The Outlaws of Sawdust. Thanks to Book Basset this is the biggest giveaway I’ve ever had.
February’s giveaway is a cute cop romance called, "‘Love and Shotguns.” One of the reviews calls it, “the cutest meet cute in the history of meet cutes.”
Giveaways are every second Tuesday of the month! Just in time for Valentines Day!
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I am not a counselor or a mental health professional. I am going to attempt to avoid things which will cause alarm or harm, but I can't know what will trigger each individual. If you need to speak to a mental health professional please know that there are resources available.
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January 18, 2024
Meet the Mountains
Meet the Mountains
I’ve tried to list these in the order that I hope to cover them, and also in the order that they are closest to you… meaning that you have the most influence over them. They are under your control or ‘sphere of influence’.
Relegious/Personal Belief Systems - The stories we tell ourselves and the mountain that make heroes
Nechema Tec’s research is vital in this. (I’ve gone over it before because I love her work.) Character Traits of A Hero
Family - The stories that make us or break us.
Also, Brene Brown, “Your ideas about your value, your lovability and your beliefs dictate what messages came out of your creativity.”
Education - The stories we learn that are repeated and forced onto students often ignoring their individual talents, interests and imaginative promises. The result is that it forces kids and adults into a status quo system of compliance not intelligence.
I touched on this with my last series talking about a different way to write stories: Storytelling Through Trauma
Arts/Entertainment/Media - the stories we tell mountain.
“Literature is the crucibal for worldview.” - Michael T. Jahosky, author of The Good News of the Return of the King
Business - the story of following the money to reveal priorities
Science and Medicine - “Diagnosis reflect a society’s values concerns, and hopes.” - from Aspberger’s Children by Edith Sheffer
Law and Government - The narrative world of the enforcing dominant culture. What is valued by the ruling party.
We’ll probably spend about a month on each mountain. I’ll make it interesting, I promise.
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January 11, 2024
The Stories of Society
I swear to you… I’m not planning this.
In the time that I’ve had this blog running I’ve taken you through The Hero’s Journey (The Hero's Journey from Trauma to Healing | Chronic Writer by VintageInkSlinger | Substack) to help you heal from trauma. Then I took the end of 2023 and taught you how to write your own story. The Stories of Society, is a series on how stories shape our world, and our worldviews.
As you worked through the Hero’s Journey you may have discovered ideas that were placed into your mindset as a child, young adult, or while in process of learning something new. These memories and mindsets can be helpful or unhelpful… but they ultimately take the form of a story.
For instance…
If you say you can’t do something - then you can’t - because you beleive that you don’t have that talent.
Talents are a skill. Skills can be taught. I’m training myself how to draw. I can train that talent because at some point I’m going to have to illustrate a novel… and some part of me desperately wants a comic book series.
(Some people want more children - authors amass more, and more and more books and knowledge, and writer projects - its a perpetural ongoing hazard. Sometimes we collect cats too. Can you tell I’m a spinster?)
I trained all of you in storytelling through trauma. That was the point of the last blog series I did, “Writing Through Trauma.”
I kept it basic because I wanted to you see the steps and tell yourself the story of, “I can do this.”
“I can do this,” is a story.
I
can do
this
And that simple sentence matters so much because it is vital to our adventure next week.
We’re going mountain climbing.
This week Tuesday through Saturday (January 9-13, 2023) I have my short story The Outlaws of Sawdust available on my Amazon page.
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