{"id":3191,"date":"2019-04-27T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2019-04-16T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T21:00:00","slug":"story-the-creation-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/27\/3191\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creation of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>All thought systems \u2013 and therefore all human ways of interpreting the world \u2013 have been devised by humans. We often get the world we think up and believe in; at a personal level, this means that we become what we believe in and what we think, hope and fear. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This rule has far-reaching implications in terms of both\nour health and our psychological, material, financial and social conditions. We\ncan of course share our individual worlds with others by communicating them\nverbally and non-verbally, and to a certain extent turn our environment into\nwhat we believe it to be. All reality is created on the basis of a communicated\nand therefore shared world. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohammed created a world. Freud created a world. Tolkien created a world. McKinsey created a world. The Aldi owners created a world. Bill Gates created a world. Can I too create a world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A German sales company uses the advertising slogan, \u201cEvery week a new world\u201d. New worlds are indeed created every week. Most of them are not very original; they swim in the wake of the established worlds and do not gain any traction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What kind of a world have you created? A philosophical\nworld? A spiritual world? A commercial world? A mathematical world? A social\nworld? An aesthetic world? A material world? A communicative world? A world of\nfun? An ethical world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might be thinking to yourself, \u201cBut I haven\u2019t\ncreated any world at all!\u201d I don\u2019t believe that for a second. As soon as you\nlook at something \u2013 anything \u2013 and inadvertently think something new, you start\nto create a world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n(From: Stefan Hammel: Handbook of Therapeutic Storytelling. Sories and \nMetaphors in Psychotherapy, Child and Family Therapy, Medical Treatment,\n Coaching and Supervision, Routledge 2019)\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All thought systems \u2013 and therefore all human ways of interpreting the world \u2013 have been devised by humans. We often get the world we think up and believe in; at a personal level, this means that we become what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/27\/3191\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}