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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:53:46 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have on several occasions had students who suffered from depression. The involvement in storytelling did give them some way of determining between their inner resources of basic health and relief and the overwhelming feeling of depression. What did it I think is not as much the involvement in a story itself, but the work on discovering how to be a storyteller who is not the main or favorite character but the voice that is at least attempting to be inclusive and allow the entire journey of the story to unfold for listeners. This distinction supplied a ground for distinguishing between their own story of failure and despair, and the capacity to experience some ground of freshness even while in a difficult state of mind. It is in a way similar to the work of meditation... not meditation on something, but the exercise of investigating the nature of one's mind by giving as much credence to the space around thoughts as thoughts themselves. laura ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||