Change your Story, change your life

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**Date:** 02-18-2013

**Author:** Hands in the Clay

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I'm really big on "Telling a New Story" (also known as "pay attention to how what you're telling yourself and others ***feels***") and one of my favorite, beloved, most-cherished examples from Abraham explaining this concept is from a Boston workshop (June 28, 2008). This passage has been quoted here before, but it's been a while and this is really so very, very illustrative of what it FEELS like as you change your Story, and how it is a matter of tweaking it into place, feeling your way as you go, *keeping an ear to the ground* on what your emotions are doing as you find new ways of telling things that feeeeeeeeeeeel better. It's the magic of beating a different drum, even if it's only a *slightly* different drum. It's a skill that is at once obvious and subtle, and soooooooooo worth mastering!!

**You just gotta tell the story the way you want it to be. And what we notice is, at first your story will be sort of like this:**

"I don't like it this way at all. I don't like it this way at all. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. It's not fair. I don't like it, it's not fair."

**But then, as you start telling a new story, your story will sound like:**

"I'd like it to be different. I'd like it to be different. I'd like it to be different, but I don't see that it's very different. I'd like it to be different, but I don't see it's very different. I'd like it to be different, but I don't see it's very different. I'd like it to be different, but I don't see it's very different. I'd like it to be different, but I don't see it's very different."

**You can stay in that holding pattern your whole life.** "I'd like it to be different, but I don't see it's very different. I'd like it to be different, but I don't see it's very different."

**But now hear this story.** "I'd like it to be different. I want it to be different. I hope it will be different. It doesn't look different."

***That much difference in your story will help it be different.***

"I want it to be different. I hope it will be different. I'd really like it to be different. It's not different."

**Can you *feel* the difference? Before it was** "want it, don't have it, want it, don't have it, want it, don't have it." **Now it's** "want it, hope it, really hope it, really want it, don't have it." ***More air time over here*, did you see?**

"I want it to be different, I'd like it to be different, I see some things are a little different... this isn't different." **Mmmm... Better story.**

"I want it to be different. I've noticed it's becoming a little different. It's not as different as I would like it to be...but it's *different*."

"Oooh, I like this different story. The manifestation hasn't come yet, but I'm *feeling better* in the story. I wish you'd come along.... But! I'm feeling better in this different story. I'm feeling better, I'm feeling better, things are loosening up. Ooh, did I tell you that this happened? Something good happened, something good happened, something good happened." **Milk it!**

"Something good happened, something really good happened, something really good happened, something really good happened, something really good happened!" **Call everybody you know.**"Something really good happened, something really good happened, something really good happened, something really good happened!"

**Ilovejazz**

Love this! The minute we start feeling a teeny bit differently about the active subject, we become different to the Universe and can expect different manifestations in return. From there, it's just noticing what manifests and adjusting our vibrations/feelings/emotions..

**Salynn**

Amen to that. Listening to how you feel, and feeling better about what is feeling off. Its always about the FEELING which yields the corresponding VIBRATION. What-is ie physical stuff doesn't matter. It has NOTHING to do with it.

Better FEELING= different VIBRATION= better LIFE.

**Betty A**

Thank you Hitc for this nice thread about telling a new story.

I am a huge fan of the concept of "telling a new story". Yet I never sticked to it because it used to make me feel uncomfortable and sometimes downright sick to my stomach and then I will run away from it... until I decide to try it again and then repeat the cycle.

But since a few weeks I started again and I decided that this time I will stick to it. Now I don't want to do it quickly to attain a goal, I really want this to be something more profound. And somehow this time it's quite easier and more enjoyable.

This morning I was testing different phrasing regarding loving my body and it was very nice to see the big and subtle differences of feeling that it was evoking from me depending on the wording. I soon found myself having fun. I really liked it.

It's good to be able to locate what makes you feel better and when you are closer and closer to the wanted feeling it feels like ecstasy lol.

Now the tricky part for me would be not to turn it into a chore but rather enjoy it while still doing it on a regular basis ah ah

**Hands in the Clay**

Don't worry, Betty, cela deviendra une habitude avec le temps....just pay attention to how you feel and, when you recognize negative emotion, find something to say or think that shifts it. Soon enough, feeling negative emotion will feel so SUBSTANTIALLY bad that you no longer let it just "sit there" unaddressed.

**Betty A**

Merci I can definitly see the difference. Since I started I feel really happier and alive and now it's more like I am seeking time to do more daydreaming/ telling a new story. Plus each day I stumble into threads or images that support my new state of being, new beleifs, which makes me feel even more good, etc... I feel like the pieces are falling into place. Somehow I feel more peaceful like 'ok now everything is going to be alright, no need to do anything beside feeling good'.

**Hands in the Clay**

C'est ca! T'es sur le chemin!

**Betta A**

*Merci . Je me sens super bien. C'est vraiment génial !!!*

*Thanks for being a cooperative component*

**Hands in the Clay**

My pleasure!! Isn't it nice to be on the other side of the struggle and know what it feels like to be going with the flow of the Stream?

**eleven11**

Awesome, HitC! I spent many years studying the Bible before I found Abe, and now this Abe stuff really makes all those scriptures come alive for me, and when I was reading your post I couldn't help but think about a scripture where God (interject Source, Inner Being, Universe, whatever you like) said, "If I were hungry, I would not tell you." And I think that is all about telling a new story and not regurgitating that old news again and again. Not that its wrong to tell someone else when we are having contrast, or to seek help, not saying that at all - just seeing how important it is to try to focus a little more on telling the new story! The only reason old news stays current news is because of attention to it.