Heart-Lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling is YOURS

It’s all so overwhelming and it seems everyone is tired, discouraged, maybe angry or cynical or depressed, maybe confused or disheartened…just weary.
Each day during this April A-Z Blogging Challenge I’ll offer a short musing on an aspect or two of the many ways the ancient-yet-very-contemporary experience of storytelling – both listening and telling – is an enjoyable, fortifying and heart-lifting practice, for anyone!

Y – Storytelling is YOURS

YOURS for the taking!

For the doing, for the enjoying, for the hearing, for the warmth, for the balance, for the fun, for the reflection, for the emotion, for the joy, for the drama, for the learning, for the sweetness, for the curiosity, for the connection – for the lifting of hearts and spirits!

The benefits and delights are YOURS.

YOU need only to let yourself at ’em!

Tell stories, invite others to tell, seek organized events like storytelling performances or festivals or even conferences (whether locally in-person or online – there are lots!), or casual opportunities like swaps and circles…YOU never know where YOU might find them…or pull one together YOURSELF! And then there’s always the kitchen table, or front porch, or church basement, or (fill in the blank)…!

Storytelling is most definitely an art form that people can and do commit themselves, some professionally, to learning and honing and performing and excelling at – like singing, like acting, like painting, like any art…

…AND, storytelling is most definitely accessible* to all – certainly including YOU – even more than other arts that one might enjoy pursuing (piano, dancing, any of ‘em!). Storytelling is one of the most universally human things there is in this world, something that people have done with each other since sitting ‘round the fire in the cave.

So whether you attend any professional storytelling-devoted events like festivals and performances, or perhaps choose to seek out some training or coaching to develop YOUR own storytelling skills, or experiment with just bringing informal storytelling into YOUR home or work life…

…I can almost guarantee that YOU will find it a heart-lifting experience.

It’s YOURS.

Thanks for reading – Pam

*ACCESIBLE was my A-post at the beginning of this Daily A-Z Blogging Challenge. 🙂

Top water+hands photo by Nathan Dumlao, thumbs-up photo by Johan Godinez, delightfully-smiling Filipino woman photo by Dale de Vera – all on Unsplash.