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. 18
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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.
