Is it time to tell a new life story?

Today we have the chance to shake things up.

Take a snapshot of your life currently. What in your life isn’t currently working? What are the things you worry about, or cause you stress? Take a moment to sit back and observe the story you have around these worries, your situation, this person or problem.

If this story is creating stress and anxiety in your life, it is time to tell a different story. It is time to let go of your current story and create a new one.

How?

With ATTENTION and INTENTION

With attention and intention anyone can create a new story

One of my teachers, Dr Deepak Chopra explains the science behind attention & intention in his book

“The 7 spiritual laws of success”  

Another one of my teachers, Dr Joe Dispenza has scientific research and proof surrounding this concept. Here are a few of his quotes…

“Where you place your attention is where you place your energy” ~ Dr Joe Dispenza

“Change your energy, change your life” ~ Dr Joe Dispenza

Attention;

Whatever you put your attention on grows in momentum. Where your attention goes, your energy flows.

Intention;

Our intentions are what creates transformation. Action behind our intentions is very powerful and can transform any old story.

What is your attention on for the majority of your day?

Do you worry a lot? When something is bothering you, is all your attention on what is wrong with the situation? Do you tend to focus more on the problem and have a hard time seeing the solutions?

Focusing our attention on the problem only builds the momentum and attracts more problems.

 “When you focus on the problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.” ~ Zig Ziglar

When our attention is on worry, fear, frustration, lack and what we don’t want – more of what we don’t want comes to us.

This week is all about setting our INTENTIONS to shift our ATTENTION towards what we DO want. Over time, and with ATTENTION this will transform our stories.

We can all create a new story! 

Ask yourself if you are fueling the energy of what you do want? Or fueling the energy of what you don’t want?

In the Tap In video, I used the example of wanting more happiness in our life and creating this story of happiness by putting our attention on BEING happy and what makes us FEEL happy.

However…

What if you want more money and can not see how that is even possible? Or you want to attract a new love into your life? How do we create this new story?

We need to TRUST (more on this in next weeks blog 🙂 

Trust

Our ego identity has a real problem with trust. Our ego needs to see, touch, taste, and smell it, in order to trust it! This new story of ours hasn’t been created yet, so without trust, we fall back into our old known familiar stories.

So, our energy (attention) needs to go into tuning into our true self where the new story can be created. Our true self is the one that sits back and observes the big picture. Connection with our true self is accessed with our breathe and will come into alignment in our meditations and in our gratitude, acceptance & non-judgement practices.

If you have been following along with my blog posts these last 6 weeks, and practicing daily the themes and teachings, then you have been putting your attention on this alignment with your true self every day – and this alignment with your true self is getting stronger.

It is never too late to create this alignment! (Go back 6 weeks and begin there)

This alignment with our true self is what happens as a result of sitting daily in our meditations and setting our intentions everyday to practice non-judgement, giving out more of what it is we desire and receiving/allowing/knowing we deserve it back. We have aligned with our true self when we make conscious choices to create better karma for ourselves, when we accept the present moment as our friend, stop blaming others for our life and when we no longer feel the need to defend ourselves. 

The idea is to do less to achieve more. The action behind these daily intentions is what aligns us with our true self – the part of us that can easily create new stories and new realities.

It is important to continue to practice these intentions every day and this week we begin to create our new story. This takes time, patience and trust. We all have a choice though and our choice is to either carry on believing and living our current story OR to create a new story.

Which do you choose?

If you choose to create a new story…

Put your ATTENTION on;

• What you want – what you really, really want (sit with this and allow yourself to go deeper) Make a list of these wants/desires and read them every morning & every night.
• How would you FEEL if you got exactly what you wanted? Write these feelings down and sit with these feelings of having what it is you want.
• Act as if you already have what it is that you want. How would you act differently? Be that!

Which leads us now to our intention setting practice this week!

2 Steps Intention Setting This Week

Step 1;

Set your intention to change your story by putting your attention on what it is that you do want and desire.

Example; “Today, I begin to change my story by putting my attention on_______ (fill this in with what it is you DO want)

Write this down. Everyday write your intention down. Even if your intention is the same everyday for a while – write it down each day.

Step 2;

Ask yourself “What small step can I take today to bring me closer to creating my new story”

Write this down as well. Revisit these intentions every evening. Whether you were successful or not in following through with them doesn’t matter nearly as much as your attention to them. Each day you do this is a new day and when you create this habit of attention to your intention, your focus grows stronger and everyday and, in every way, you will slowly be creating your new story.

Stay with this practice. Have patience with this process and know that there is no time limit. One day, you will see that these intentions and small steps have actually created something new for you. Enjoy the process.

 Let’s Tap this IN…