Stories to Soothe the Soul

Human beings have always told stories. We tell stories to explain where things came from, we tell stories to pass on the values of our community, we tell stories to create community, we tell stories to show the connections between all human beings; to show that we have more that connects us than divides us. 

Without stories, we don’t know who we are, or who we were. We don’t know where we came from. We don’t understand how we function in the world. Today our stories come in the form of movies, television shows plays, they even come in the form of video games. 

But there’s something very special about sitting in front of a live human being, telling you stories. Research shows that brain waves and heart rhythm sync up between the audience and the storyteller, because there’s something special to everyone about the sound of another human voice…