Self-Narratization: Mapping a Personal Timeline to Better Plan One’s Goals with DR Brian Mcveigh

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Self-narratization: Mapping a personal timeline to better plan one’s goals

Mental spatialization, a key feature of conscious interiority, allows us to self-narratize or to spread out time as a succession of events upon which we can imagine ourselves moving, towards the past or a future that has not yet even occurred. Detached from limitations of physical reality, edited mental sceneries (excerption, feature of conscious interiority) provide the “I” with a panorama of previous and current events. Excerption also provides us with hypothetical, imaginary “could be’s,” “maybe’s,” “should be’s,” as well as future possibilities. Self-narratization permits us to make sense of events is a fundamental human need—storytelling—but we often get derailed from perceiving matters clearly or we put up defenses to avoid dealing with painful thoughts. Self-narratization has therapeutic uses as apparent in “narrative therapy,” which views people as constructing their own worldviews; we can rewrite our stories. Showing people that the meanings they attach to their life stories play an active role in self-conception allows them to reauthor their personal narratives. “Insight” occurs when we step back and are able to see things from a new perspective, to have an understanding of why we interpret things the way we do as they unfold through time.

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