From the moment we wake, our minds are busy understanding the world. If you are like me, then perhaps your mind over analyses those thoughts. One negative thought breeds another thought and this one leads to another thought until the drama plays so vividly in the mind, that it becomes real. Up until quite recently, I was not aware of a skill that could help me to tell a positive story.
I want to give you an example. Very soon, I will have the opportunity to attend a conference at a Ski Resort in Canada. The negative story could go something like this:
The flight will be long haul and the children will have difficulty sitting still for that amount of time. We will all have problems adjusting to the time zone and the whole family may eat some bad food on the stopover in LA and spend the first few days in the bathroom of the hotel. The snow will be cold and no one knows how to ski anyway and so it goes on.
I can now rewrite this story in my head to a more positive story which goes something like this:
It is great that we have movies on the plane which will keep the kids occupied for much of the time. One the way, we will have the opportunity to stretch our legs and pick of some souvenirs in LA on the stop over and this will help to break up the flight. Photos of the ski resort look like a fairy land. The children will have a great time learning to ski and the whole trip will make a great couple of pages of photos in the family photo album as well as memories that will last a life time for the children of a truly family holiday and a magical white Christmas.
Not very long ago, I would not have had the skills to do this. What is worse, I actually thought that I could not learn the skills to do this and that positive thinking people were born and not made. I truly thought that I was born as a half glass empty type of gal. I am proof that through daily meditation, masterminding with like people and personal growth, people can change.
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