Everything is neutral until you give it a story or definition. If I said the word
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What does your brain think? What's that? Or nothing. It doesn’t mean anything to you because it’s a made-up word - it means YOU haven’t given it a story or meaning YET.
Humans are meaning-making machines. We apply made-up meanings to EVERYTHING - we have stories about every single thing in our world - including concepts like relationships & love etc..
These made-up stories are what we refer to as the old story. If it’s a negative story - then we want to change it.
I gave an example this morning in the group about changing my story about drinking Red Bull. You can exchange the reference of Red Bull to ANYTHING or Anyone. It’s a symbol.
The story was : I wanted to stop drinking red bull because I knew it was bad for me, then I just had this moment one day … hang on a minute.. If I am creating my reality, it’s coming FROM me and I’m in total control - then why the hell am I letting a can of red bull have power over me??? Hell no !!
So I decided to change my story. Red bull is like water, it has no effect on me negatively AT ALL. it’s just a bunch of atoms anyway.. Everything is just made up by a bunch of atoms. Nothing is real.
And that was it. You can do this with anything and everything.
Change your story.
Another old story example :
I am never chosen by men, or men don’t want to ever to commit to me, they just always want for fun.
The new story you would tell yourself is - men always chose me, men always commit to me.
Old Story - I never make it to work on time
New Story - I always get there with plenty of to spare, traffic even seems to make way for me
Old Story - All I have to do is look at food and I put on weight (I’ve heard people say this !!)
New Story - Everything I eat is good for me, nourishes me and I can eat whatever I want and never put on weight.
You get the point now.....
