Fantastic Fridays-#279 The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast

I Decide How My Story Ends

 

There’s a saying I love…”Everything will be alright in the end, if it’s not alright, then it’s not the end.” That saying does two things for me

• It reminds me that things are temporary and my problems won’t last forever.
• That I can choose how I want my story to end. If I’m stuck in a place I don’t like it doesn’t have to be the end of my story…I can choose if I want a different ending

 

When I talk with people about changing their story, some people get offended as if I’m saying that what they’re experiencing isn’t happening and that it’s only going on in their mind. But I’m talking about a higher level of perception. That level of perception is first understanding that how we experience things is in our mind, not just happening around us or to us…we are processing what has happened. So if we are processing what is going on then, then we can decide how we want to experience that event. We can decide what story we’re going to tell about that event first in our mind which will make us happy, sad, angry, complacent, or determined…and then we can process that story outwardly into the world on how we function in the world with that belief.  The story we tell, which are the emotion we associate to the story, will determine the places we decide to frequent because of that story.

 

The story of whether we are worthy to have what we want, the stories of our complaining about silly things and wondering why bad things always happen to us, the stories of sadness and endless struggle…and you see while bad things will physically happen…when we tell stories that don’t give us hope, that don’t inspire us, that don’t see the love and beauty within ourselves and in the world…then we stay stuck in a story we don’t want to be in.

You are in control at every moment on how you decide to experience an event or situation. So if you see the negative and what you don’t want it’s easier to get trapped there. But if you decide to see something more beautiful, if you decide to see the solution instead of just the problem, if you decide to find the grain of hope in the moment—then the story you tell changes, which will change your life, and which you… will change the world around you as well.  You may think it’s just your perception that changed, but it’s more than that. You were able to see something more in the moment, and you were able to change the energy you brought to that moment which then changed the moment’s energy as well. So are you going to let the moment define you…or will you define your moments…are you going to be just a character in your play, or will you be the author and write a better ending to the moments that haven’t gone your way just yet?

Today’s Personal Commitment:
What endings have upset you in your life? Think about the times that you might have given up too early and decided something wasn’t possible. I’m not saying to change things that are impossible such as trying to win someone back who is gone, sure anything can happen, but I’m looking at the bigger picture. So if you were to look at a failed relationship…instead of looking at getting that exact person back what if you were to change the ending by working on loving yourself first. That way you could attract the right person, and this time when the issues that split up previous relationships happen you can deal with them differently this time.  For me most of my relationships ended because of a lack of communication, I was afraid of expressing certain things, and the fears I held were that I wouldn’t be good enough and they wouldn’t be able to love me for forever. Which gave me ammunition to my subconscious to purposefully sabotage the relationship.

So write down the endings that you didn’t like, and after you do that write…down how you can change the ending this time around. As I said you may not change the past situation, but you can change the current road to succeed in that next situation. We go through many of the same situations just at different times. So if we were to take that relationship example, just because one relationship ended doesn’t mean your story is over in relationships…it just means you are getting prepared to be better in the next relationship this time, and you are giving time for someone else to get prepared for you. That’s if you decide to tell a better story of hope and self-growth instead of self-pity and anger.

I Decide How My Story Ends

 

 

Thanks for listening.  I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn

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- I Have Often Told You Stories (guitar instrumental) by Ivan Chew (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.
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