Wellness

Become the Master Storyteller of Your Life

BY KIM RAAIJMAKERS

Once upon a time there was a ……

Your mind is already filling in a whole scenario of characters, the quest and likely speeding right onto the ending. Your life is the same as a fairy tale, you get to choose how it goes and how it ends. The only difference between a fairy tale and your life, is your willingness to believe in what is possible. Why is the story you believe in important? Because we all tell stories! All day, every day! As humans we process and remember information best when we tell it in a story. What about the stories that you are telling yourself in your own mind? These stories you have created over time so that you could process and remember information. These stories you created and told yourself countless times over the years, have formed your values, beliefs, mindset, actions and ultimately the outcomes of your life. What if these stories, while useful when you created them, now no longer serve you? So often I have found myself saying ‘I can’t do......’ and when I look back it is a story I created around why the first time I tried it didn’t work – a fairy tale. So in order for me to feel better about failing, I just comforted myself with I can’t. This kept me safe for every time in the future that a similar situation would come up.

A masterful storyteller can adapt, change and re-write the stories they tell their audiences to suit the needs of that audience.

Except now I want to change and try something new. That’s scary and my brain goes into it’s protection mode and begins to tell me the same fairy tale. We all have one that begins to play as soon as we want to try something new. What if instead of listening to this one, we are able to change and adapt? A masterful storyteller can adapt, change and re-write the stories they tell their audiences to suit the needs of that audience. So can you. A change is only scary if you perceive it that way and focus on the worst that could happen. To make effective change, create an empowering story, one where you are the hero conquering all the villians and obstacles in your path. You can scale mountains, fly across oceans and leap between tall buildings in a single bound. Create the story that encompasses the very best of what you want to realize. Make this story has real as possible. What does it look like, in complete 3D, technicolor? What does is smell like? What does it feel like? Create an experience that includes all your senses. Believe that this fairy tale can and will become reality. If you can hold it in your mind, you can hold it in your hands. Now you have primed your brained to actively go out and achieve the reality that you have created in your brain. Will you achieve exactly what you wanted in your new story? You could, and even if you didn’t you would still have achieved so much more than you had otherwise. AND you will feel so much more empowered and motivated in this empowering fairy tale. So will you begin crafting a new story that serves you, empowers you for the most important audience in your life? Yourself? You have it all inside of you to become the Master Storyteller of your life, if you’re willing to make that choice and do the work to change!