Anti Static Dust Fairies and Stories that Create

The business of writing your own stories and creating your own reality can be fun!

For example, I invented anti-static dust fairies. 

The year was 2004, and those of you who have been with me for decades know I did a number on myself that year, breaking a foot and getting laid up for five months. I had told myself a story I didn’t actually believe. I told myself I could do a “Crouching Tiger / Hidden Dragon” leap and land up on a 3-foot sawed-off tree stump in my tai chi instructor’s backyard. I wanted to believe it, but in truth, I didn’t. In a fateful moment of ridiculous pretend bravado, I humbled myself thoroughly. As a result, I had a lot of time to sit, think, and rewrite my very off-balance life at the time. It wasn’t easy, but it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.

With five months of downtime, I had plenty of opportunity to stop, ponder life, and create a new story. I had previously been starring in the “I can be everything to everyone” show.  The injury forced me to create a different reality. It has served me well.  Back to the point, cleaning the house was difficult while on crutches. I used a belly bag that acted like a tool belt and loaded it with rags, Windex, and other cleaning supplies. I’d hobble over to a piece of furniture, get situated and clean while standing on the good foot. After the first challenging attempt to clean the house, I decided to create anti-static dust fairies!

I imagined translucent little beings shining their anti-static pixie dust on all my furniture. It would repel dust, of course, which would no longer be a challenge. I became so enamored with the idea I started to tell my little pretend friends how much I loved them, how I appreciated their service, etc. It may have been a little like Tom Hanks talking to the ball in the movie where he was stranded on a desert island, but I was having a lot of fun with the idea.

The fairies did their job. The dust stopped sticking to my furniture, and in the past ten years, I have only needed to dust maybe once every 2-3 months. I live in the desert. This is an anomaly in the matrix!

Throughout the years I find that the crazier and happier I get about imagining some new reality, the quicker it appears.  When I gave myself a horrid mouth infection (never, ever tell the universe to get all your past life fears out by the ROOTs, now), I did research about how to heal my mouth. Then every day looked in the mirror and told my gums how wonderfully they were healing in spite of appearances. Repeating the “facts” to myself was dismal, but envisioning the future I wanted even before my eyes could see it benefitted me tremendously. I avoided a root canal, and my gums grew back beautifully.

This story telling business is powerful stuff.  In one of my classes we tell one of our favorite “woe is me” stories three ways—the usual disempowering way, a neutral way, and a powerful way. The energy in the room rises up and off the charts. Inevitably, people discover that they can rewrite their reality to star in a better story.

As we move into a new year, catch yourself telling stories about yourself, life, the world, politics, etc., that you like and tell more of those. Catch the ones that make you feel bad and write new ones. Make stuff up if it pleases you!  I’m not talking about lying to your friends. I’m talking about making up stories that you tell yourself that uplift you, empower you, and pull you forward into a kinder future.

Perhaps no one else knows it, but you are truly a wizard or a wise woman who secretly blesses people with your presence… at least in your own story!  As the familiar quote says, “Be as a child to enter the kingdom of heaven.” Make up stories that please you, raise your vibe, and, best of all, empower you to expect a better reality.

Here are a few ways to play with the stories you tell yourself…

1.  Rewrite something in the past

If something in the past still bothers you, rewrite it more powerfully. If your best friend ghosted you or your ex stole from you, or your parents couldn’t love you as you wish, instead of telling the same old disempowered story, make up a better one, perhaps based on a hero’s journey of trial and triumph.

As silly as this sounds, it works. I love making up little songs or rhymes that engage the child within:

I had a friend who left my life. My ex ran off and found a wife!
I grew. I flew I wanted more, and that is when they found the door!
It stung, but deep within, I know.
I wanted change! To learn! To grow!
And so we went our separate ways.
Each to star in separate plays.
I like the life I live today!
It’s grows better and better in every way!

This is, admittedly, a silly game, but it will change the energy around a memory and shift your vibe as a result. Hence, it will shift your future for the better.

2. Get Creative with Creating

Do what it takes to tell stories that make you feel better. You can be serious, or like me, childlike. Make up songs or rhymes. Sit down and write yourself a little story about your future. Create a vision board starring the best version of yourself.

The goal is to start telling yourself a story that makes you happy, so you will naturally start to attract it.

Years ago, I wanted a few things — to get my body straightened out, to feel amazing, and to meet someone. I started up with this rhyme:

My back is straight.
I’m feeling great.
I have a date.

Within a week, a wonderful guy I had admired asked me out. We hiked every weekend. My body recalibrated, and I felt amazing. We dated three years and enjoyed every minute of it, then parted ways with love when he moved. It was all so beautiful.

The words don’t have the power, but the vibration they inspire within you does. Tell your stories in a way that pleases you whether that is writing a mini novel about your future, making up rhymes, or just day dreaming without restriction.

3. Tell yourself good stories about others

This one is powerful. We cannot change another’s reality or behaviors, but we can support what they are already creating. Best of all, we can shift our experience of them.  When you’re in love, you make all sorts of excuses for your dear one’s bad behaviors and love them in spite of it all. When you’re upset, you can pick fault with even a well-intentioned action and, as a result, feel terrible.

When you tell yourself the best possible story about anyone in your life, you wlll experience them in a different way than if you tell yourself the worst possible story. Most people will live up and down to match your expectations, and it is only the strong and well-centered person who can avoid living up or down to match your vibrations!  This can be used for good.

I have had a family member who has come close to the edge of life on several occasions these past years. During one of their many surgeries, I sat in Phoenix on my couch, eyes shut, whispering my story to their soul. “You are loved. You are going to get through this. Everything is going to be ok. I’m with you. More importantly, God is with you.” I felt the choice point, at a moment where the medical staff nearly killed my dear one by accidently choking them with a tube that was too large. Quietly, on my couch, I kept telling the good story. The heat flowed. The prayers flowed. They lived.

While everyone is responsible for their own vibration, we can support loved ones by telling the best stories about their lives, creating the best vibration, and helping them resonate with that reality as well.

Instead of worrying about your dear ones, tell yourself the story of their success, health, happiness, and well-being. Instead of fearing those in power, tell yourself the story of them growing into greater light. It may or may not happen, depending on their own intentions and vibration, but you will keep your vibration clean, and create a better reality.

I play with telling myself better stories all the time. Occasionally I get sucked into the “reality” around me but quickly try to tell a better tale. I broke a few toes last year and didn’t bother taping them to mend, so of course they’re a bit crooked now. Instead of beating myself up, I have proudly owned the fact that I had very little pain during the healing process, navigated airports, and walked miles during a family visit in spite of it. Now I expect my toes to return the favor to me and straighten out! They will. That’s the story I’m telling myself. The body does know how to heal. I just have to stay out of the way!

This sort of thing can defy logic but I’ve been practicing vibrational living long enough to know that the universe is logical only insofar as it responds to vibration.

So my wish for us all this year is that we can take the reality in front of us a little less seriously even in spite of how serious it can be. I pray we can start to tell ourselves more empowering, happy stories, which in turn will begin to create a kinder future for us all.