How often were you encouraged to read as a child? Trying to understand and make sense of all those squiggly characters, forming words and sentences. Like that wasn’t enough. You had to understand what you were reading. Well, some of you may have surrendered to those wonderful bound pages, obsessed with your next book fix.
The dread of coming to the end of a fantastic read and not having another series to piggy back on. The glory of drama filled story-telling that has you salivating for your next book feast. You aren’t bookworms slowly eating your way through chapters and paragraphs. You are the book vampires that love to tease themselves by smelling the unique, sweet, musky aroma of pages before sucking the life out of them.
That other good chunk of you are the eye rollers and head shakers. The thought of reading seems as arduous as doing your taxes. Too much effort trying to remember characters, decipher some of those unknown words or better yet fancy sentences. This group sees books as poetry, just a really, really, long version. They prefer simple and to the point. Short sentences, bullet points and subheadings that can be easily skimmed through are a giant thumbs up. In fact, this group is happy to wait for the movie version. Weeks of torture having to read a book when it can be done and dusted in about an hour and a half with beer and popcorn in hand sounds like a far better option.
Book vampires or not, everyone enjoys a good story and we all benefit from them in some form. It’s no secret that stories exist beyond the world of printed words. Excluding fictional stories written solely for entertainment (which are generally inspired by real life events), ninety percent of stories are life experiences, but one hundred percent of all stories are imagined. At least, everything begins as part of an imagined state before it appears as physical evidence – one that can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, touched and felt.
Everything is fantasy, imagery and illusionary until we have the evidence that it is not. Having the physical experience of something imagined acknowledges its existence and quickly takes its seat in our so called ‘reality’.
Our exposure to stories is infinite and inevitable. Ultimately, everything has a story. Every cell and every living or non-living thing possesses a story. If it is energy, it has a story. If it has a past, it has a story. If it has desire, it has a story. The only difference between a story we claim to be fictitious or fantasy and one that is not is simply the sensory evidence of it. Okay, so this is blatantly obvious. What’s not so obvious is the role we play in bringing fantasy into reality.
Stories are creations and creations are stories. It is all part of the imagination. That which you can imagine you can create. That which you create becomes your story. The experience of it is merely your belief in it, desire for it or expectation of it. Yes, this is the role of the Law of Attraction where that which you focus on and bring your attention to moves it into manifestation.
Life is one big story wrapped up in a network of infinite other stories. Stories that delight, inspire and teach us. Stories that captivate, intrigue and motivate us. And stories that scare the living crap out of us. We tell stories of magic and invincibility and stories of horror and doom. We love all of them and cannot seem to fill our indulgent, gluttonous appetites of these tales. That is why we’re such nosey, curious buggers and why we’re so addicted to the news, social media platforms and reality T.V.
We love a smorgasbord of all diversely dynamic topics.
In fact, why waste time heading to a bookstore, scrolling through our kindle devices or browsing Netflix options when there is an infinite selection of people to choose from. Pluck a person, pick a genre and ask them about their life, thoughts, opinions, beliefs or passions. With so much variety, simply talking to someone could satisfy our craving for a little inspiration, motivation or education.
However, though we can become quite obsessive, it is not about our interest and curiosity in other people’s stories; it is far more about the stories we are creating, living and expressing.
We are the authors, narrators and creators of our own fabulous fables! We are the wizards, sorcerers and magicians of incredible alchemy. The strength and power of our creative mastery is simply the degree of our acknowledgment and belief in it. We are the evidence of all that which we think, believe, perceive and allow. That’s the awesome part! Knowing or better yet, owning that we are the creators of our own reality…well, that’s another story (no pun intended).
Our stories are the perfect products of our beliefs that are expressed in infinite fashions. The stories that go on in our minds and our internal dialogue tell of a fantastic past. A spectacular portrayal of imagination transformed into manifestation through the incredible force and power of belief.
As Masterful Creators and the experiencers of these creations, the most important stories of all are our own life stories. Therefore, it would be beneficial to look clearly at what our thoughts consist of, where we allow our imagination to flow and what topics we consciously choose to give our attention to.
How much are we enjoying our own personal ‘realities’? Are we rolling our eyes or digging our fangs into it?
For many of us, our stories consist of unwanted repeat experiences. It may be a different time in our life, include different faces and places but offer the same familiar results, similar circumstances and all too common experiences. We end up with the same type of abusive partner, stuck in the same financial rut, feel the same draft of lost opportunities.
But these repeat realities are merely repeat thoughts and beliefs. They are the product of habit. When thoughts and beliefs have been rehearsed so much, it becomes what we know. Options outside of this practice are forgotten and become distant fantasies.
When our thoughts linger in past experiences, we repeat past behaviors and make the past the new future. It may feel like karma or as if a lesson needs to be learned. However, behind every truth we are willing to accept about these experiences, we cannot discredit or ignore our own creative control.
Every experience is customized by attracting all the cooperative components that perfectly match our thoughts, emotions and expectations. Think of ourselves as magnets. When we have emotionally charged thoughts and visions around a topic, we open ourselves in reception to those experiences. It does not matter whether we want the experience or not; we will attract that which we focus on and are open to receiving simply by our belief in it or fear of it.
Every story requires imagination, emotion and belief moving in the same direction. Never do we experience something without one of these elements. It is the simultaneous agreement of all three that becomes our creation and experience.
Our stories are bursts of ‘now’ moments like the pulse of a heart. It is incremental ‘now’ moments based on our thoughts, emotions and beliefs all simultaneously and instantaneously creating the experience. These incremental ‘now’s’ joined together are what tell a story.
Yes, an entire story is experienced right now, right now, right now that are strung together to form what seems like an encryption of our life chronicles.
When we feel a single emotion, it comes with an entourage of stories. Stories we have imagined or stories we have observed. Either way we make these stories the relatives of individual emotions. As we continue to feel a singular emotion or fuel it with specific beliefs, we maintain a rendezvous with these beautiful mini tales.
Though thinking or imagining is the initial part of creation, feeling it is the first full manifestation of our belief. The actual physical experience is almost like the debris of evidence. When we set our radar to a specific emotion such as joy, all our senses are fixed on experiencing joy. Our awareness of joy brings joy to us.
Just like a metal detector’s static energy is set to solely receive metal objects so too does our energy flow create a magnetic field to attract joy in every form joy could emanate. There is no end to the infinite ways one belief or emotion could be experienced even when it feels the same every time.
Don’t be fooled. Though an entire novel could be written around a single emotion, the experience of it is like a shot of tequila. Quick and packs punch. We’re emotional creatures and as quickly as our emotions change, so too do our thoughts, our actions, our stories and guess what, our experiences. This kind of makes us flighty, but we are ever moving, flexing, bending to the rhythm of our own tales.
There is almost always a specific subject that dominates and demands most of our attention we so desperately crave for. And there is a specific emotion that lurks and lingers around every corner breathing hope or despair upon these subjects. Whether it be about love and relationships, finances, business, travel or growing a family, there is a thread that binds our thoughts, emotions and experiences together to give us one complete reality.
Yep, one emotion, one single word that can blow up into an illusionary affair. A single word such as ‘unlucky’, could set the tone for our entire physical experience. There are infinite variables on how one could experience being unlucky and The Law of Attraction simply loves entertaining us with wonderful variations of this belief.
And voila! With one lucid sentence, one thought, one belief, one expectation, we create an entire story and stream of unlucky events. Well, only until we decide to tap into our inner leprechaun and find our pot of good fortune at the end of the rainbow.
The moral of the story is: we can be just as selective a story-teller as we are specific in what we give our attention to.
We are making decisions all day every day. Choosing what to wear, what to eat, where to hide the chocolate bar from our kids, what excuse to use for taking a day off work, when to officially join the gym, where to hide the new pair of shoes from our husband , who to blame for our crappy day and when to get our lazy ass off the couch. Every movement of every single breath requires choice. And every incremental choice is packed with beliefs and emotions. We pick and choose all day long.
However, what we do not choose just as consciously, deliberately and mindfully is our thoughts and stories.
We know what we want but often entertain the contradictory outcome of absence, doom and gloom. If we only understood the deliberate and direct influence our thoughts have on our actions and choices, we would most definitely be more vigilant and prudent about them. Why not choose an emotion that thrills and excites us or thoughts that please and gratify us and watch an explosive display of a fantastic creation.
We are authors of fantastic tales of strength, perseverance, joy, love, hope and sacrifice. We are the reason, the purpose, the expression and expansion of life. We are genius, exquisite beings, Masterful Creators and visionaries. There is no greater story than the story we are telling, expressing and living with all its variables. There is nothing we are not capable of dreaming or creating. We are only limited to our imagination and belief in them.
Choose worthy, uplifting, joyful thoughts. Choose emotions that fulfill you, compliment you, inspire, please and invigorate you. Feel them deeply, experience them entirely and abundantly. Re-tell them, recycle them and repeat them over and over until they become part of you. Experience the expression of the grandest version of you through your most superlative of imaginings. You have the power to decide what deserves your attention and what mood or emotion you wish to ignite or enhance.
Tell your story how you want to live it. Tell it to yourself every moment of every day. Be present when you are telling it. Be present when you are imagining it. Be present when you are envisioning it as though it already is. Tell your story that you would want to read about.
A- la-carte your story that is the perfect splendor and brilliance of you!