Something happens. Ok. It happened. Then what?
Then you made a story about it. You replayed that story over and over and assigned it meaning – “This event shows that…”
The story and meaning elicit emotions from you.
Those emotions release chemicals into your bloodstream that make you feel good or bad.
Your bahavior or actions changes based on those emotions.
Question – was it the event, or the story you told over and over that were the most influential?
In the event you may have not had any choice. But in the story and meaning, you have ALL the choice.
You get to make the story and the meaning.
The really cool thing is that you can assign NEW meaning to things that happened a long time ago – you can literally change history.