We are the culmination of the stories that we tell ourselves every day, more so than anything else in our lives. We are not the experiences or the people around us. We are not the end result of other people’s actions. That is the crux of giving away your personal power: believing that, somehow, you are defined by what happened in the past.
So, have you ever thought of yourself as a book, a holy book, written by the hands of the Gods themselves?
Each memory you have is a story that you tell about yourself and you tell it the same way (or close to it) every time. You cast yourself in a role, describe yourself, your thoughts, and your feelings about the experience in a certain way. Sometimes you are the hero, sometimes the victim, and maybe even in some memories you are the villain.
Each time you retell the experience, or relive the memory, you are reinforcing the role that you play, until the role is not just a story anymore, but a testament to who you are. It becomes a definition, a kind of shorthand to who or what you are when no one is looking, when it is only yourself thinking and rethinking and reinforcing an idea.
But these roles that we cast ourselves in are not permanent. They can be changed, they can be edited, they can start to paint a picture of a new version of yourself, a truer version, one that captures the dynamic being that you are without stagnating in outmoded thought patterns and beliefs that you have outgrown.
Taking a look at the stories we tell ourselves in an honest way, without trying to justify or explain them, is key to being able to edit and rewrite them.
One by one, we can rewrite the stories of ourselves until our lives reflect our deepest inner truth. Do you really want that ‘beach body’ or do you want to feel confident and have energy for the day? Rethinking our goals in this way takes the pressure off ourselves to appear a certain way for any reason and brings the focus back to ourselves and how we want to feel as we experience our lives.
We do not have to repeat the story of ourselves as someone who does not follow through, who does not show up for themselves as much as they show up for others, who lets themselves come in last after all the other to-dos on their list.
We can change that story into one that reflects our true divinity and goddess-hood by remembering to pause and ask what our soul yearns for as we create a life aligned to our Soul-expression.