When unconscious storytelling becomes out default, we often keep tripping over the same issue, staying down when we fall, and having different versions of the same problem in our relationships--we've got the story on repeat. Burton explains that our brains like predictable storytelling. He writes, "In effect, well-oiled patterns of observation encourage our brains to compose a story that we expect to hear. Anonymous
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The brain is a very interesting and complex organ. When we tell stories to our children, we are training their brains to make sense of the world and understand what is going on around them. When we tell stories to our children, we are giving them a point of reference for what is going on around them. We are telling them that there is a time and place for everything and what they need to know at that time and place.

This can be applied to our own lives as well. If you keep telling the same story over and over again, your brain becomes bored and will continue to spin the same old yarn until something changes.

Source: Rising Strong

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