The Story You Spin, Spins You
Everyone filters their experience of the world through different lenses. When something happens, the most that we can agree on is something has happened, but what actually happened depends on who you ask. In general, people who witness the same event have different views (sometimes vastly different) on what took place. This same phenomena takes place in relation to the stories we remember and hold about our own past.
We tell ourselves stories about our past, holding onto them as the truth. Often we use these stories as our reasons. Why our relationships don’t work out. Why we aren’t successful. Why we aren’t good enough. Why, why, why, Etc.
But these stories aren’t even real!
We make them real because we believe them. The only importance is if these stories are working for our benefit or hindering our greater joy and success.
The past is over. It’s done! It only exists in how you hold it inside of you. What if you could change that story into something that is of greater benefit in your life?
Something traumatic and difficult happened to you. Now what? How about stop using it against you?
Maybe you have realized this already, that the reasons and stories you tell yourself for you failing in your life aren’t really working for you, but you don’t know how to change it. Maybe you’ve gotten to the point where you are getting sick of telling the same story.
Wrapped up in these stories are the underlying, limiting beliefs that the story justifies, but those beliefs are just based on one interpretation of what happened, and what you took it to mean about you/others/life/God/etc.
The key is in changing your interpretation and the conclusions you drew from that story and experience. By changing the meaning of the story, you can begin to change the self-limiting beliefs that formed due to your interpretation. You can choose an interpretation based on the idea that all experiences are designed for you upliftment, learning, and growth.
There are some questions to explore in order to shift these interpretations:
What did you take that experience to mean about you, others, life, God, etc?
If this was actually for your learning, growth, and upliftment, how could you interpret it differently?
If this experience was a gift to you from a compassionate higher being that loves you, what would you take this story to mean about you, others, the world, and God, etc.?
If you find judgements underlying the interpretations you have been holding, it can help to shift into the new interpretation by first forgiving the judgments you’ve been holding onto.
As you change your interpretation about the stories you’ve held onto in your life, you start to shift the underlying beliefs so they can be more aligned with where you want to go in your life.
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