Stories Create Your Life
Posted on March 25, 2009
Everything in life is a story.
Your mind is forever making up stories; it is a non-stop story-making machine. When you focus or concentrate on a specific thought, your mind links that thought to other thoughts and abracadabra, it creates strings of thoughts that it labels ‘the truth’. Amazingly whatever story we call ‘the truth’ becomes our reality.
Many thoughts that come into your mind are not your thoughts; they are other people’s thoughts. If you are not creating empowering stories and producing a fabulous, fun life – then who is creating those stories for you?
The media?
Your family?
Your friends?
Whose stories are you using to build your own story?
The majority of us revere the media and bow down to its all-knowingness of ‘the truth’. The media is merely a group of people who are good at telling stories, particularly negative stories. Our minds grab at those sensational stories with gusto and gobble them quickly, creating daisy chains of thoughts about death, destruction and disaster.
When your mother says, ‘You won’t be able to study at University because your marks are not good enough,’ this is a story. It is her story, but we take on these comments and thoughts as our stories and look around in our reality for other thoughts we can join like little pearls onto this thought-necklace until we create a band of beliefs tightly around our necks.
Most people, by the time they get into the office in the morning, have consumed thoughts about murder, robbery, corrupt politicians and bad weather from the radio or newspaper and wonder why they are stressed, tense and pessimistic about life or the country they live in. Of course, the story about the future of a country is also a story – it is not ‘the truth’.
If the story you are telling yourself at the moment is not working, the solution is simple. Choose another story!
You can create yourself in your mind to be anything you want to be. Initially people laughed at me when I said I was a Fairy Godmother (some people still do), but as I have grown my story, more and more people now view it as ‘the truth’.
How do you Choose another Story?
The next Blog Post in 2 days time will be about How to Create Empowering Stories… but in the meantime to decrease the amount of negative stories being planted in your head why not go on a 1 week media diet?
Eg. no reading newspapers, listening to radio, watching television, reading magazines, or surfing internet news websites.
Stop ALL of your daily consumption of the media.
Stop other people’s stories creating stories in your mind and watch how your life begins to transform…..
For those of you brave enough to take on this Fairy Godmother dare…. Please comment on it below….
6 comments
This is so true and for those of us who are not born optimists I think the impact is negative and harsh. What I do to counter any negativity is to question it. Question from whose perspective it is coming from, is it being sensationalised, does this directly impact on my life?? All these things help you distance negativity and focus on what you have right now.
I think keeping away from negative media is essential – you are the only one who can control what you are exposed to, so be selective!!
Happy the man whose news is only from what he sees. This is a man whom has inhaled his day.
We breath in so much on a daily basis. How do we separate the smell of roses from the car fumes.
I will not be reaching out to the media for my dose of the bad or wrong this week
Wow, a media diet.. Its definately worth the try..
I haven’t owned a tv for years and when I think about it now, I can’t imagine where I’d get the time (or the inclination) to tune into the media madness. I’m too busy creating my own truth. Funny how my clients come to me (I’m a life coach, stress management consultant and writer) for calmness, clarity and inspiration? They’re always asking how I stay so vibrant and enthusiastic about life. When you’re creating your own truth rather than regurgitating media doom and gloom – it’s easy! You are so right Donna!
Pamina – thanks for your comment…. being on a limited or NO media diet is certainly the way that I stay so upbeat, positive and enthusiastic about life. I am so pleased it works for you too. Many people don’t realise that our minds are like our bodies – when you keep putting junk food into your body, you get junk out and your body over time becomes fat and flabby. It is the same with the mind – if you feed it negativity and pessisim and calamity which is what the majority of the media is, then that’s the type of thinking you get!
I so agree with you Pamina & Donna. I have not watched TV in years either and my life is so much better. I react to things, events an issues based on my story and not on the media hype.
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