Jen Vuhuong

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Change your stories, Change your life

Re-tell your disempowering past stories to release your pure desire to unleash your passion.

Why is it important to re-tell your past experiences?

It is important to recall your past experiences and give them empowering meanings in order to be able to consciously realise your pure desire of loving and living meaningfully, the infinite source of passion. Becoming an observer will help you detach from the past. When you become an observer of the past, you go on the journey of discovering the root of your deep down emotions, your past experiences, your trauma. When you observe the past, give it a positive meaning, you detach from it.

Steps:

Imagine you are now an observer of the past witnessing different experiences so you can move forward in your life:

Step 1: Give your electronics a break. Grab a pen and paper or a notebook, and head to a favourite place to study your writing (for example, a quiet place like your bedroom or coffee shop).

Step 2: Divide your paper into three columns.

Column 1: Write down any traumatic or unfortunate experiences in the past. Feel the pain as if it were flowing from you through a pen onto a piece of paper.

Column 2 will record the negative feelings from the experience.

Column 3 will record the positive feelings from the experience.

Step 3: Acknowledge negative and positive emotions.

Step 4: Redirect focus and Attach positive meanings and act positively for a better future.

How to acknowledge the emotion and redirect the focus:

Ask yourself: What can I learn from that? Write in the third column your positive feelings.

Tell yourself: “Thank you (acknowledge the experience and be set free from it). Everything is over (let the pain pass). I got through it, I was able to continue with new experiences in life (moving forward with strength).

Action: Write in the third column one thing I can do now to comfortably and happily enjoy the present moment. Write how I can progress forward into the future.

Step 5: Eliminate the first and second columns, the repository of traumatic experiences and negative emotions - retain the third column with positive emotions and actions.

When you become a storyteller - an observer - of your past experience, you are connecting with the best version of yourself - always leading a life of passion. This way, you have just removed a cover built by society - Past experience - to unleash your passion.