What Stories To Tell If You Want World Peace
What I know for sure is that the solutions we come up with from a place of victimhood and outrage are not going to create peace — within ourselves or in the world. To create world peace, we must change the core of the stories we tell.
There are two elements that can be at the core of a story: love and the absence of love, which is fear. When we withhold love, fear emerges. Most of the stories being told in our world today are rooted in fear because we operate under the assumption that fear is stronger than love. However, nothing could be farther from the truth, because nothing is stronger than love.
One story rooted in love is more powerful than thousands rooted in fear. This is because fear-based stories do not have a lasting impact; they perpetuate the problems they discuss. Fear contracts and sucks us in like quicksand, whereas stories rooted in love are expansive and multiply. When a story rooted in love is shared, it creates inspiration and amplifies inside the receiver.
If you are looking to make a difference in the world, it is crucial to consider whether the stories you are telling are rooted in scarcity and fear or in abundance and love. Fear-based stories are often filled with outrage, scarcity, and victimhood. It’s impossible for them to create positive results. Solutions rooted in stories of lack will perpetuate the problem rather than solve it. It is impossible to solve a problem on the level of the problem.
Right now, many people are trying to solve problems by sharing stories rooted in fear and separation rather than love and connection.
Love is not an emotion; it is the essence of what we are at our core. Love is the energy that flows through you and expresses itself as clarity, connection, and the understanding that all humans are one. When we disconnect from this energy, we experience fear.
Our world is inundated with stories rooted in fear-based emotions like anger, outrage, depression, shame, and blame. These stories only serve to further our separation.
You cannot create positive change from a stance of being a victim. Positive change is created by rooting your stories in love-based emotions like gratitude, joy, bliss, and hope. These positive emotions connect us rather than separate us. They connect with us on a soul level and amplify within us.
Imagine a terrible childhood filled with trauma, like mine, where I grew up as the daughter of an international con man, was abused and beaten, moved 30 times between the ages of nine and 12, and became suicidal by age 12. When I told stories of fear and separation, I perpetuated my own suffering. Relationships and businesses fell apart, and I struggled to find relief.
But when I switched my thinking from victimhood to love, compassion, understanding, forgiveness, and gratitude, my life changed. I started telling empowering stories, and I attained inner peace.
We must take responsibility for our pain and realize that we create our own suffering with the stories we tell. To change our suffering, we must tell stories rooted in love, empowerment, and freedom, rather than separation and blame.
The world is filled with suffering, and it may seem impossible to change it by simply changing your mind. However, if you want true, lasting peace, your most effective and most sane action is changing your own internal climate from fear to love. Historical figures like Martin Luther King Jr. who made this switch created movements that changed political climates.
It is impossible to create love out of the absence of love. It’s impossible to create peace from the absence of peace.
My challenge for you today is to switch your thinking from fear-based to love-based storytelling. Come up with stories and solutions rooted in love that connect us rather than separate us. When you do this, you will create solutions that have a lasting positive impact, creating peace within yourself and outside of you.
World peace is attained through our own individual hearts.
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Let's change the world, one love-based story at a time.