How Media Is Rewriting Your Life

Acceptance and Rewriting Your Life Story

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Part-time work would give me time with him when he is home and allow for my advocacy work. All the jobs I looked at made me grimace.

Nothing felt right, sounded right or was the right pay. Through my friend Erin—the founder of End Sex Trafficking Day and my partner in fighting the crime of human trafficking—I scored a contractor position with Padron Social Marketing.

I learned so much working with that company. I also realized I loved working from home, and a vision for my own business began to take form. I thought I could ease myself into it—that I had months to think about it before I had to actually do something. Then something terrible happened. My dad unexpectedly passed away in the beginning of November. This was a brutal reminder no one knows how much time they have. I no longer wanted to waste precious days waiting for the perfect moment to start a business.

Once I analyzed my goals and my strengths, all I needed was motivation and it all came together. The moral of this story is that you always have a choice in how you interpret events, circumstances, and interactions with others.

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You can choose to focus on the negative by looking at all that is wrong, which leads to more pain and suffering, or you can choose to look for what's right—to find the gifts or the opportunities—which leads to more potential, and more joy, happiness, and fulfillment. Rewriting your story requires that you take an honest look at where you blame other people or circumstances for the way your life has turned out.

Frame the story in the positive. Think about what gifts have manifested in your life as a result of you not having had your needs or wants met at that time.

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As you become more adept at finding the opportunities in every challenge, you will begin to look on past experiences in a new light, and you will begin to rewrite your story. Had you gotten what you thought was needed at the time, you may not have the gifts that you have today.

How to Rewrite Your Life Story. Neblett Everyone has a story. How You Create Your Stories Everything you experience comes first through sensory perception—taste, touch, sight, sound, or smell—and generates some sort of feeling. These limiting beliefs might sound like this: The Negative Loop Can you recall a time when you listened to the voice of fear and robbed yourself of your ability to move powerfully forward toward your vision or a goal? How to Rewrite Your Story The good news is that you are the author of your story.

You can start by looking at how you interpreted your past experiences. Having spent the last decade traveling the world, being trained by and sharing the stage with Dr. Deepak Chopra in the field of consciousness and mindfulness-based practices, Tris has a real gift for integrating the ancient spiritual teachings with modern-day mindfulness to help people all over the world let go of their past and create an empowered new future.

I was definitely more confident. During research for subsequent novels, I would learn to walks into places safe or dangerous and ask anyone questions. This is not an isolated case. The detective thriller writer Sue Grafton crafted a similar experience. She started as a hospital receptionist who hated her job.

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So she conjured up private investigator Kinsey Milhone, a brassy, dominant, profane private investigator - and started to assume aspects of her character. Aristotle said that we acquire virtues "by first having put them into action"; "we become just by the practice of just actions.

Now we have the blessing of psychology to confirm such advice. As Timothy Wilson says, "one of the most enduring lessons of social psychology is that behaviour change often precedes changes in attitudes and feelings".

How to rewrite your own life story

This fits in with Walt Whitman's view that we are large; we contain multitudes. There is an almost infinite number of narratives we could construct about ourselves. Because there is no real truth about who we are inherently, we can construct the truth we want.

The act of defining our future self can become self-fulfilling. The way this seems to operate is through our unconscious mind finding every opportunity to put such opportunities in our path, and encouraging us to make our actions congruent with our rather starry-eyed view of who we are.

This makes the definition of our desirable self and our future narrative acts of enormous importance. There is just one final thing to say.

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The unconscious mind will not create a characteristic, or realize a goal, unless we believe that it is possible to have the attribute or reach the goal. It is no use a grown woman who is short of stature aspiring to be six foot six, and it is futile for me to think that I can become a Wimbledon champion.

There are some limits to what we can believe and make happen. Yet there is an enormous range of outcomes that can be believed and attained, and we might as well reach for the highest level within that range.

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