Write Yourself a Different Story: Rewiring Your Mind
Have you ever realized you’ve been living the same inner script for years—and it’s not even one you wrote?
It happens slowly. A belief gets embedded in childhood. A survival pattern forms after trauma. And over time, we wake up each morning in the same emotional environment, repeating thoughts and behaviors that feel automatic. Eventually, we become the story we've unconsciously told ourselves.
This week, we’re exploring how we can shift that narrative—through presence, awareness, and practice.
🌀 Survival Mode Becomes the Default
When we’ve lived in survival mode for such a long time, we stop questioning our thoughts. We wake up already feeling anxious, stuck, or small. We don’t choose our mindset—our conditioning does. And that conditioning becomes our personality.
As Dr. Joe Dispenza states, “If you want to change your personal reality, you have to change your personality.” That means changing how we think, act, and feel.
🔍 A Personal Story
For years, criticism embedded two deep beliefs in me:
That I’d be judged in every social situation
That shame was something I needed to carry
The result? Social anxiety, low self-esteem, internalized shame, and bottled-up expression. I was present physically—but not emotionally, not fully.
✨ The Turning Point
Once I began tapping into conscious awareness, everything shifted. It wasn’t perfect—but I started noticing the unconscious in real-time. And from that place, I could choose again.
I could feel into a new story—one where calm, worthiness, and authenticity existed. So how can we tap into the unconscious more consistently?
Below is a tremendously helpful practice that’s inspired by Dr. Joe Dispenza. This simple, yet powerful set of tools helps us to quiet the mind and to remember who we really are, underneath all of the noise:
🧠 Rewiring Your Mind: A 2-Step Practice
Step 1: Meditation
You might be thinking “Meditation?... really?” But let me tell you from personal experience, meditation is a cheat code. Why? As Dr. Joe Dispenza’s research shows, slowing down our brainwaves from beta to alpha helps us move past the analytical mind and into the subconscious—where the real rewiring can finally happen.
This is where we free ourselves up to allow “rehearsal” to begin. This means we can now visualize a new emotional state. Not just the words—but the feelings behind them: confidence, peace, joy, ease. We can live them in our body first. By rehearsing the new emotions, we are re-programming how we think, act and feel, which in turn will alter our personal reality to be aligned with the truth of who we are.
Step 2: Put It On Paper
Don’t keep this work in your head. Write the new story, physically. Name the positive emotional states you want to live in and list the old beliefs you’re ready to let go of. This is how we let awareness catch outdated thoughts before they slip by unnoticed. Over time, we strengthen this awareness, and move into a new, conscious way of living.
Again, in the words of Dr. Dispenza, “How many times do we have to forget, before we stop forgetting, and start remembering?”
This phrase is a helpful reminder that your life isn’t limited to the story you’ve been living.
You can rewrite it—moment by moment, choice by choice.
Peace & Love,
~ Austen 🫶🏼
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