You have no doubt, read someplace in some book, or heard someone say, that you are your story.  Have you stopped to think about how you create your story, and therefore, create your life to fulfill that story?

            It is given we are all energy and put out a frequency that the Universe answers at the exact same frequency.  So what is your story?  What frequency does it carry?  The story you need to be telling is the one that holds the vision of your dreams, the image you wish to be, the joyfulness of your life, the perfect health of your body, and the loving relationships you share with others, including yourself. 

            As has been said in this blog more than once, your feelings, thoughts, words, and actions create your life.  Your belief in who and what you are creates your destiny, as Gandhi so rightly said.  Do you think about what you say to people in conversation?  It can start with someone asking how you are.  What is your response?  “Fine.”  Are you just fine or are you terrific?  How you answer is part of your story.  Personally, I’d rather be terrific than just fine.  Then the conversation begins.  It could be about family, work, neighbors, or the world situation.  What do you say?  Is it the conditioned response of how bad the economy is, how you wish your spouse would (whatever fits into this slot), how you hate your job, or that you feel underpaid?  How you see all these things becomes your story.  Is it a happy story, the story you would like to be living, or is it a pat answer?  “The economy is terrible and so many people are in debt, including me.”  I wish my husband/wife would (again – whatever you are wishing they would be or do).”  “My boss is a jerk and never appreciates what I do for the small wage I earn.”  What do you say when someone asks how you are?  Do you begin the list of maladies afflicting you?

Everyone knows someone, or more than one someone, whose identity is their illness or problems.  The sad truth of this is, once you allow an illness or problems to become your identity, it is truly what is given to you.  People who feel that they are their illness, and it is most of what they discuss, will continue to have that illness, for it is what they believe about themselves.  The same is true for those who “wish” their spouse was different in some way.  They will keep on wishing.  Or complaining about how your boss treats you is allowing him/her to continue to treat you that way.

The way you look at things, your very own perception and how you broadcast this out to the Universe through friends and family, is exactly how the Universe will allow your life to be.  You get what you believe, focus upon, put a vibration out upon, and perceive things as being.  How would you like to feel about your health?  Do you want to continue to become your illness, if that is how you see yourself?  Wouldn’t you rather be strong, healthy, vibrant, and have a zest for life?  If so, then see yourself that way.  When someone asks how you are, tell them you are well, you feel great!  Or take smaller steps.  Begin by saying you feel better!  You may not believe what you are saying at first, but over time things will turn in that direction.  It is Law.

How would you like to see the world?  Stop believing all the media tells you, or the politicians tell you.  Everyone has his or her own agenda to manipulate the collective consciousness.  If you want the world to be a better place, begin to see it that way and stop watching all the hype.  See it as you would like to see it - a heaven on earth, a place where there is total trust and friendship around the globe, everyone having all they need.  When you begin to see your own desire for this world, you drop the collective consciousness perspective, and stop being the sheep.  Be the leader.  If people talk about how bad things are, turn it around and reach for something that is right with it all.  There is much right with things – the media just doesn’t talk about it – it doesn’t sell news.  There are heroes in this world; there are some wonderful things happening around the globe, but no one focuses upon those so they are lost to the collective.  Look for the good.

What you speak becomes your truth and your life.  What kind of life do you wish to have?  Begin to tell that story instead of the story about the life you do not like, which most people speak of as a rote thing, out of habit.  The Universe loves stories; and if you want a more joyful life, healthier life, prosperous life, or more love in your life, begin to tell that story and the Universe will create things for you in alignment with that new energy you are putting out.  It is Law.

I am going to use an example of something I recently experienced to describe how this can work for you as well.  It has to do with how I chose to perceive what appeared to be a crisis, in order to tell the best feeling story I could muster.  My home flooded a few days ago, which was the first drop of any water in this house, ever.  Water was coming into three sides of my basement apartment at an alarming rate.  I called for help in dealing with it from my landlady’s friend, who showed up with a wet vac, along with the one I had.  We stemmed the tides all day.  He had to leave eventually, so I was on my own through the night.  Twenty-seven straight hours of wet vacuuming and carrying heavy gallons outside to dump.  Yes, I cursed a few times after my back was aching from carrying all that water.  But I knew there was a lesson in this, so what I focused on was what it meant through each moment; what I could learn, what opportunity for growth there was.  Water means going with the flow.  When a man resolved the issue with an excavator, finding a clogged drain pipe, I had to ask what I had been blocking that finally purged.  This was the reflective perception I needed to understand the metaphor.  Because I saw it as an opportunity to grow, I found the stamina to deal with vacuuming for 27 hours. 

I came to know it was a test of initiation, which happens when you desire and choose to walk a path of enlightenment.  I know that when something happens in the physical, something is also happening at a higher level where true reality lies, like a reflection.  I wondered what it was I was supposed to be seeing in this reflection.  I discovered it was surrender and trust that all is truly well on an even deeper level than I had worked to get to.  And the tests of initiation come from the Universal Law of Relativity, which deals with how we manage thoughts as we face problems.  We can go through self-pity, or see them as opportunities.  We have a choice in every moment as to how to perceive things.

Seeing this as an opportunity allowed me to tell my story, not from self-pity, but with a wondering, an excitement of what I was to learn through it all.  I maintained neutrality (Law of Polarity) and was able to smile through much of it, for the anticipation of learning was foremost to me.  When it finally came to a conclusion, I had learned a deep lesson of trust, a deep peace that I was totally taken care of by my own higher being and the higher realm.  It all came from a choice in perception and the more positive story I told family and friends. 

This is true for all stories, not just mine.  When crisis arrives in one form or another, look upon it as an opportunity and gratefulness (seems crazy I know), but if you can see the lesson in the metaphor, tell the story with a smile, think positively before you speak, and see a chance to grow, your stories can also have a happy ending if you tell them in a positive way.  It IS the Law of the Universe.