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.
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.
Your stories are amazing!
Chronic Writer
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