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….

Your mind is the most powerful piece of technology that you own and when did you last take it in for a service?   Spring is a great time for massaging the mind which can be done in a number of different ways.

My first recommendation is to learn how to meditate.   Mediation is an incredible tool for going beyond the conditioned, “thinking” mind into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness.  Getting into a regular mediation practice of as little as ten minutes per day will generate incredible benefits such as to greater focus, creativity or self-awareness, or just simply a more relaxed and peaceful frame of mind.

As the days get longer and you feel more energy returning, why not sign up for a course in something new and perhaps creative – like sculpting, playing a musical instrument or learning a new language.  Learning new things, particularly a language or skill, increases the brain’s plasticity and there is growing evidence in Neuroscience that the brain is structurally altered when learning occurs.

This is something I concentrate on and explain in further detail during some of my workshops and talks – why not massage your mind with a Dream Mapping and Goal Setting Workshop or by coming to the talk that I am doing at Women 4 Women in October in Cape Town.

Tip 5 – Connect to Spirit