Consult the Experts

Consult the Experts

20 Ways to Change Your Story

10. Consult the Experts

One sure-fire way to inject new life into your story is to consult with the experts about the places where you’re stuck and to get their guidance and advice for moving forward.

And I’m not talking about doctors, therapists, coaches or people who are successfully living the story you’d like to be living, even though those are definitely valuable resources and you will benefit from calling on them as needed.

What if I told you that you have a whole team of experts, 100% devoted to you?

Their services are free of charge and literally at your fingertips 24/7.

I’m talking about your Inner Experts, a team which includes your
Inner Experts

  • Higher Self
  • Future Self
  • Inner Child
  • Body & Body Parts

as well as specialists such as your

  • Inner Nurturer
  • Inner Protector
  • Inner Einstein
  • Inner Spiritual Advisor
  • Inner Business Coach
  • Inner Organizer
  • Inner Millionaire
  • etc.

These experts are ready and waiting to hear from you. You can bring any question or struggle to them and access their wisdom any time you choose. They want only one thing in return and that is your love and attention.

They want to be recognized and appreciated.

A great way to access this bounty of inner wisdom is by carrying out a dialogue with the inner expert of your choice.

You can do this by quieting your mind and getting into a meditative state. Invite a specific inner expert to have a conversation with you, or state your intention to get help with your specific need or desire and invite whichever inner expert who’d like to offer that help to join you.

Now, once you become adept at this, you may be able to carry on this dialogue in your head or through automatic writing. It’s often easier, particularly in the beginning, to use a form of written dialogue using both hands to write.

JournalingStart by writing down you current concern. What is it you want guidance, advice, help or direction about? You may even want to draw a little picture of the situation.

Now, ask your inner expert questions by writing them down with your dominant hand (the hand you normally write with). Then let the inner expert answer through your non-dominant hand (the one you don’t normally write with). You may be astounded at the answers that come through.

Here are some useful questions to get the dialogue going:

  • Who (or what) are you?
  • How do you feel?
  • Why do you feel this way?
  • What can I do for you? (or what do you need from me?)
  • Is there anything else you’d like me to know?

You can always ask other questions as well – whatever you’d like to know. Remember, this is YOU asking and the inner expert answering.

When you have completed your dialogue, remember to thank the inner expert for talking to you. And honor the requests it made of you or the suggestions it gave you. The more love, attention and appreciation you give to your inner experts, the more willing they will be to share their wisdom with you.

Let’s say you are experiencing some neck pain. Here’s an example dialogue to illustrate the process.

Current Concern: My neck has really been bothering me for a few days now. I don’t know what’s causing it or how to stop the pain and stiffness I’m feeling.

OuchieGrouchieDominant Hand (DH): Dear Pain-In-The-Neck, who or what are you?

Non-Dominant Hand (NDH): I am Ouchie. Ouchie Grouchie.

DH: How do you feel?

NDH: Cramped and tight and angry.

DH: Why do you feel this way?

NDH: Because you ignore me. You spend all day on the computer leaning forward so I have to hold your big head up awkwardly. Every day this happens! I’m sick and tired of it.

DH: What can I do for you?

NDH: Get up and stretch. Walk around. Don’t sit so long. And don’t lean forward all the time. Sit back with your back on the chair. Give me some support. Give me a break!

DH: Is there anything else you’d like me to know?

NDH: A nice cool ice pack would feel really good right now.

DH: Thank you, Ouchie Grouchie. I can see that I haven’t been treating my neck very well. I promise not to sit for more than an hour at a time without getting up to walk around and stretch. And I will remember to sit back and to let the chair back help you to support my head. Now, let’s go get that ice pack.

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This is the 11th post in a 21-post series sparked by Chapter 9 of Fallen, The Adventures of a Deep Water Leaf, in which Lizard suggests that Alora change her story.

#20WaysIn20Days, #ChangeYourStory, #Fallen

The Great and Powerful I AM

The Great and Powerful I AM

20 Ways to Change Your Story

5.The Great and Powerful I AM

Toward the end of the Wizard of Oz (spoiler alert) Dorothy and her crew discover that the Great and Powerful Oz is not all he’s cracked up to be. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,” the fraud wizard shouts through the speakers in one last desperate attempt to keep his sham alive.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

 

There is one Great Wizard you ignore at your own peril, however, and that is The Great and Powerful I AM.

These two words are the most powerful you will ever utter. There is true creative magic afoot each time you say them, whether aloud or only inside your head. It would behoove you to pay careful attention to the words you pair with I AM, for you will soon be living the story you create with them.

  • I am stupid.
  • I am unlucky.
  • I am ugly.
  • I am poor.
  • I am alone.
  • I am unloved.
  • I am unlovable.
  • I am undeserving.
  • I am unworthy.

What misery we can unleash into our story when we pair hopeless, ugly words with the powerful words I AM.

TheGreatAndPowerfulIAMFor there is a wizard behind the curtain – behind the curtain of your mind. An all-powerful wizard whose only job is to grant your every wish. There is only one catch. The wizard has no sense of good or bad, no sense of just or unjust, no sense of joy or grief. He has only the desire to grant your every wish, and the magic words that unleash his power are “I AM”.

You must pay attention to the wizard behind the curtain, and be mindful of the wishes you ask him to grant. Don’t wish for misery when you can choose bliss.

Follow the words “I AM” with only your truest desires, and your story will lead to happily ever after.

 

 

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This is the 6th post in a 21-post series sparked by Chapter 9 of Fallen, The Adventures of a Deep Water Leaf, in which Lizard suggests that Alora change her story.
#20WaysIn20Days, #ChangeYourStory, #Fallen