What Is Your Storyteller Doing?

 As to there being nothing inside of me to be ashamed of, my thoughts are that everything in me is me, and all that is in me is very much like all that is in everyone else, and we are all capable of loving and murder, kindness and violence,  intimacy and rape, generosity and theft.  We don't have to act out all that we are, but it's all there, it's all me, it's all us.  I grow healthy by being aware of all of me, including my shadow side, and taming it like taming a wild stallion, and working with it.  By disowning or denying some of me, it is more likely to emerge in a dark way.  Through experiences -- no specific one comes to mind -- I came to believe that the 'storyteller' comes from that shadow side of me and encourages the shadow side of me.  Many times in my life my 'storyteller' has won out and I've been mean one way or another -- those actions I am ashamed of.  Learning about me, inching along the road of increased awareness and  integration, helps me not act out my 'storyteller.'  It's a long road.

 Hello David,
You write well about all of you. The shadow side which we don't want to treat as us is us only! Your comment that "Learning about me, inching along the road of increased awareness" Is it in the region of time and space? Is it not either awareness or attention deficit? From the perspective of everything in me is me. Is it not us awareness and attention deficit?

Amit -- Touche.  I agree with what you point out.  I am awareness deficit.  Thanks.  Dave