Write Your Own Story
When Life Imitates Art
I was sitting in a restaurant last week surrounded by friends, and we were all laughing, eating, drinking, and toasting the guest of honor. The long table was filled with people from all over the world who I didn’t know just a few short months before moving to Italy.
Kim’s living room in Italy.
As if art imitated life (or life imitated art?), I zoomed out from that table scene and thought of the film “Eat, Pray, Love.” While there are so many uncanny parallels to my own story, there is a scene where Elizabeth (who has come to Italy to start her new journey) finds herself sitting at a table with the new friends she’s made, and they are all eating, drinking wine, and laughing. I’d thought of that scene so often since first seeing the film, and I remember wishing one day to live my life just like that.
And now (as it has many times since my arrival), that scene has unfolded in front of me. Except this time, I was not watching someone else in a film; I was the one eating, drinking wine, and laughing with my friends. This vision and desire to live fully and happily has now manifested into my new reality. It is a life I now walk through every day instead of just wistfully dreaming about.
Change Your Mind, Change Your Life
I often quote the work of Dr. Joe Dispenza. He is an author and speaker who uses the principles of epigenetics, quantum physics, and neuroscience to awaken people to their own inner abilities and powers of manifesting to create new realities. He said, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” And we all have the ability to create our own story regardless of what’s been written thus far. The future is ripe with possibility, and we can change things merely by understanding and BELIEVING that we can change things. That is half the work right there! Once the new vision is clear, we align to that frequency, and the universe will bring us that matched energy. But that seems too good to be true for most people to believe, so they keep their heads in the book assigned to them - even when the ending is predictable and like every other book on the shelf.
The other half of the work is where determination to make change comes in. By consciously overriding the limiting beliefs, fear of the unknown, stubbornness, reactions of others, and that pesky inner ego voice (the one that loves to tell us all the reasons why something isn’t possible!), we put into motion the plot changes and re-writes we want to see. We finally become the authors of our own life stories.
Overriding it all may seem daunting, but it’s actually easier than you think. It first takes an awakening to an awareness of what doesn’t feel right. When you identify those pain points, you have identified where your story is stuck, and that’s where it gets tricky because a decision has to be made - do we remain in the stories that have been handed to us, stay in the shackles of our past with those we’re no longer aligned with? Or do we face blank pages and start writing? Sadly, many opt for the familiarity of the former instead of the freedom of the latter and wonder why they are so miserable.
While there are always unforeseen external forces and an occasional villain or two that pop onto our pages from time to time, they only have as much power as the space we give them. They can always be written out.
Full moon in Italy.
Write A New Story
Tonight, I am joining friends for dinner and a concert, and I will make a conscious effort to zoom out once again and take in the scene. I know I will continue to feel that same sense of wonder and gratitude that my life could have become so beautiful and happy.
I’m glad for blank pages, and I am determined not to put my pen down until the story of my life is finished being written as I want it to be. I will make sure its pages are bursting with life and love and all the other things that make it a page-turner.
Have you put your pen down, or would you like to keep writing?
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