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that happened to me a number of years ago.
I was working in a small company that had about 12 employees all in all. The environment had gotten very political and VERY toxic. I hated it, but saw nothing I could "do" to change any of that. I certainly wasn't in a position of any power. (Or so I thought.)
I'd read that if you're having problems with someone, find SOMEthing about them you can genuinely appreciate, and whenever you think of them or the problem, just focus instead on whatever it is that you could genuinely like or appreciate about them, no matter how small and superficial.
Well, I did that for all the various people, just a few times over one weekend. Really, no more than a couple of minutes total, maybe 4 or 5 times.
When I went in on Monday it was literally a different place. I felt then -- and still do -- that I'd slipped into a different reality, some parallel universe perhaps. The political infighting was GONE. People were pleasant and agreeable, and there was no evidence that there had ever BEEN political infighting, cattiness and ugliness. It was absolutely one of my biggest miracles.
I've used the method with others with whom I've not gotten along with very well, to good effect, but that particular instance was pretty dramatic.
Another good example (IMO): Working at the same company, it was time to buy a new car, something I dreaded fiercely. But I needed to do it. Instead of worry about it, I "decided" that it could just as easily be a pleasant and positive experience as one that robbed my power and left me feeling betrayed and cheated. Come to find out one of my co-workers hated car salesman and had made a little study of "how" to buy a new car, which he shared with me. Following his system AND my own strong intention to have a GREAT experience, I did. I found a wonderful car and negotiated a great deal. I later shared the method with my son who, still a teen, also negotiated an incredibly great deal for his first vehicle ($100 UNDER what the dealer paid -- verified by a completely different dealer who couldn't match it).
Another: A few years prior, my husband and I manifested our first house (wnd marriages for both of us) when it was clearly impossible that we could (a) afford it, esp. the downpayment (which we simply didn't have) and (b) qualify for a mortgage. So, with just a little effort we found a fabulous house which we fell in love with in a gorgeous upscale neighborhood. We couldn't have this one, could we? Nahhh. But -- we then found out it was owned outright by the seller and then we found out he was willing to carry the mortgage himself. And then we found out that a friend would loan us a downpayment and we paid it off on time with appropriate interest. The big lesson on this was: keep going. Just do the next step and follow through. Even if it seems impossible or just unlikely, don't give up your dream. If one avenue seems closed, make sure it IS closed before you give up, and if it is closed then try another route or avenue to get where you want to go.
Right now I'm in the worst situation I've ever been in, and I wish I could share the details but I don't feel it's appropriate. It's financial, it's health for one of us, it's lifestyle, etc. It's everything -- a complete transformation, and potentially NOT for the better. For a year I've prayed for guidance and apparently not received it -- or perhaps, as my brother put it: if you haven't reached the turn-off for your path yet, you're not going to get the guidance to make that turn yet. And yet, in my saner moments, I KNOW you always get help when you ask for it, and I KNOW that -- usually, at least -- I'd get an inner urge to DO soemthing if there was something I should be doing. But this whole year there'd been precious few urges to do ANYthing. And meanwhile this horrible set of circumstances that could not be denied or avoided kept coming closer and closer. YIKES!!
Well, things are starting to move (finally) and I see things that I can do about them, and am doing them. And I finally begin to see, I think, why nothing (or very little) occurred to me earlier (and my brother's comment is right on target). Oh, me of little faith.
What also helped tremendously at this point, and I'm glad to see it mentioned, was the Sedona Method. I can't say it's something all that new or earth-shattering, but it came into my life at EXACTLY the right moment, and that together with The Secret (also not "new" in any way) have been powerful reminders and stimulants for getting my head in order. The change in me -- in my mental outlook, my daily practice and most of all (most IMPORTANT of all too), my thinking, have been simply profound.
I can't know if the Sedona Method is right for others, but it sure has been really, really powerful for me: the teacher appearing at the right time for the ready and willing student.
Anyway, my husband and I had a business meeting with a professional advisor re our sitution this afternoon and I am ecstatic. If all goes well (and I don't know why it won't), there is a way out of our situation in the short term and I KNOW that I can create (manifest) a longer term "solution" for our prosperity as well. I am just ecstatic that this underlying piece of what I felt could happen was on target, that there is a way to achieve what we both want for now. And I'm so very, very grateful. SO grateful. Obviously, I also feel my own intuition and inner guidance has been (once again) validated, including the non-guidance guidance, what felt like a lack of guidance. And truthfully, that's as important to understand as how to receive and follow the active guidance we get, isn't it?
So now I know this: it seems like prayers aren't being answered, guidance not being given? Maybe it's just because the timing isn't right. Stay cool. In the MEANTIME, I now know that in those periods it's important to put the Law of Attraction into high gear, and the releasing principles of The Sedona Method. Dynamite combination.
There have been so many days over this last year when I've been beside myself with grief and especially panic, punctuated by strong positives and the certain knowledge everything would be okay (won't it??) -- but again and again would come the panic. Fortunately, The Secret reminded me that one positive thought is much stronger than a bunch of negative, fearful thoughts.
What was really so cool, I thought, was that The Secret and The Sedona Method both hit me within a several day period, and the combo was not unlike a lightning bolt. Clear, vivid, DYNAMITE guidance and reassurance and ways to get through the mess we've got. It was as if the guidance I'd been praying for hit with such intensity and immediacy and power that part of the message was: SEE? YOU ARE GETTING APPROPRIATE GUIDANCE AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME. THIS IS HOW POWERFUL IT CAN BE.
And so it is.
I am now daring to create pictures of prosperity for myself and DH at a level that I have never dared dream before. I am daring to let go (thanks to Sedona Method) of limiting thoughts and beliefs and fears that I thought -- feared -- I'd go to my grave with, so deeply entrenched did they SEEM.
I'm going to try really, really hard -- nope, let's do that again: I'm going to MANIFEST an end to doubt and fear for myself and the beginning of prosperity that I've never seen or thought possible prior to this.
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