{"id":11979,"date":"2022-08-10T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=11979"},"modified":"2022-08-09T16:20:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T23:20:04","slug":"what-if-we-could-change-the-past-prompt-671","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/what-if-we-could-change-the-past-prompt-671\/","title":{"rendered":"What if we could change the past? . . . Prompt #671"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What if we could change the past? According to Sam Keen<\/a> and Anne Valley-Fox<\/a>, in \u201cYour Mythic Journey,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 we can change the past simply by retelling it differently than we usually do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe past is open to revision because memory is a function of present intention. You can turn your story over (and over) and find new perspectives on past events and emotions.\u201d \u2014Sam Keen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about some stories you have told over and over again. It could be a little thing or a big thing. It could be something that happened a long time ago, or recently. It can be repetitive thoughts you have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choose one story or one repetitive thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In your mind, \u201csee\u201d that story you have been telling and re-telling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pause, while you choose a story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See this scene as if you are looking at a wide screen. You can see everything in this scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is in this scene?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you hot or cold or can\u2019t feel a thing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the dominant emotion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where do you feel this emotion  in your body?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a deep breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you smell?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scan the entire scene, from left to right, top to bottom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, drill down, zero in on one aspect of this scene. It could be a button on someone\u2019s coat, or something someone is holding, or food someone is fixing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or someone\u2019s shoes, or an every day useful item.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prompt:<\/strong> I see . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or<\/strong>: I know . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or<\/strong>: I think . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or<\/strong>: I remember . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please practice self-care when writing about difficult topics<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to write without adding trauma.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing About Difficult Times In Your Life<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An excellent book to help with your writing: The Write Spot: Writing as a Path to Healing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What if we could change the past? According to Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox, in \u201cYour Mythic Journey,\u201d\u00a0 we can change the past simply by retelling it differently than we usually do. \u201cThe past is open to revision because memory is a function of present intention. You can turn your story over (and over) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[650,1190,646],"class_list":["post-11979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-sam-keen","tag-writing-freely-just-write-writing-prompts-the-write-spot-blog","tag-your-mythic-journey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-37d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11982,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979\/revisions\/11982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}