Ever feel like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole? Consider finding a better match… or at least put it in perspective and don’t feel bad.
A woman carefully planned and was excited to talk to a group about her business offering. It seemed like the perfect target market because there were many people of the same demographic who already used and were grateful to have found her product.
Part way through her presentation, she was cut off. They repeatedly asked her the same question. However, each time she answered, they just weren’t getting it.
They misinterpreted her, and without even being able to finish, she had to leave.
Although we hadn’t talked for a while, I happened to call her when she was driving away – hurt, bewildered, doubting herself, wondering if she was in the right business.
By the end of our conversation, she realized that even though it appeared to be an ideal group, they really weren’t in a place to “get it.” She presented a progressive perspective; her audience identified with a traditional approach. They couldn’t understand and weren’t open to new ideas.
In siutations like this, and before feeling discombobulated (cool word for confused, disconnected or upset), consider that you may be on different wavelengths. They’re not wrong and neither are you.
Suggestion: set an intention that you’ll connect with people who are in alignment with you. Life is so much easier being yourself than trying to twist yourself into a pretzel trying to fit in to be something you’re not. It works personally and in business, too.
Edited excerpt from Soulgoals’ Blog of May 15, 2017
Ready to live YOUR life, let go of blaming and complaining and gain emotional mastery?
Your life has always been blessed with miracles. The near miss from having an accident. A smile from a stranger, an email or a phone call when you felt down and on your way out. Things turned around in your favor. You miraculously manifested a goal against all odds.
When I got out of the way and allowed life to use its natural power, aka miracles, things worked out. Often in unexpected ways. Beyond what I could figure out with my best thinking.
When they didn’t work is when I put a kibosh on things because of doing things like these:
I fretted by wondering if enough people would attend an event.
I worried if I’d have enough money for something.
I felt discouraged and frustrated things might not work the way I thought they should.
Therefore, I manifested what I focused on – what I didn’t want. Worry doesn’t pay – especially the bills. In fact, worry blocks money coming to you because focusing on lack of money continues to attract lack of money.
Why? Money is energy. If you focus your energy on lack of something, you’ll attract more lack, regardless of what you claim you want.
Things to Know about Creating Miraculous Manifestations:
• There are no limits or quotas on how many you can have. • You don’t have to earn them; miracles are your birthright. • Relax and be open to them. Let go and let God. • Miracles appear in divine right timing. It’s a collaboration between your Essence and Creator as to when they show up. • Choose to believe in and recognize miracles when they’re gifted to you; it refocuses you to receive more. Be grateful and count your blessings. • While waiting for “big” ones, you may miss the small ones. Actually, they’re all big.
Life is always given according to your belief. Believe in possibilities manifesting beyond what you can mentally conceive.
We have been MISEDUCATED in believing there’s something wrong with us; we don’t deserve happiness or success; worry, fear and suffering are natural; and many more erroneous, self-defeating, negative messages.
Choose to live a miraculous life, and it’s yours. Well, your life is always miraculous. It’s easier and more fun, though, when you recognize the miracles.
5 Helpful Tips to Manifest Results:
1. Refocus your attention by making a list of your miracles and successes you’ve already had. 2. Breathe and relax. 3. Set an intention to receive your goals and intentions, what you choose for your life. 4. Choose to be in divine flow and open to receive. 5. Take action.
For those who may feel it’s sacrilegious or presumptuous to think that little ole you has the ability to create miracles in your life, here’s a quote from the Bible, Matthew 17:20
“If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you may say to this mountain, ‘Move from here’, and it will move, and nothing will be difficult for you”.
Consider that it’s your spiritual destiny to practice faith, even a tiny amount like the size of a mustard seed, instead of keeping yourself small or being afraid to truly tap into your own greatness.
Focus on what you’re grateful for, and you’ll multiply your reasons to be grateful.
What miracles have you had? Do you need one? What do you choose to manifest now?
Begin by believing just a little bit more and taking action. The rest is easy.
If you’d like to discover how to create miracles in YOUR life, and yes, it’s definitely possible, contact me for a complimentary Soulgoals’ Break-Free Session by phone. Email me at: virginia@soulgoals.com
I work with people who choose to enhance their lives or share their gifts in a BIGGER way but don’t know how, feel stuck or could use new tools or support.
I help them be richly compensated doing what they love by connecting with their Soul’s goals.
Edited excerpt from my Soulgoals’ Blog posted on April 14, 2011.
Discouraged, stuck or frustrated about things that haven’t been working?
Holding on to beliefs about how you think life, others or you should be?
What (or who) have you outgrown?
Do you sometimes wish that a genie would appear and magic wand away your fears, painful memories and thoughts, past actions and choices? If only you knew then what you know now.
Perhaps you only need a change in attitude or perspective. Another viewpoint can give you insights and direction. Your next steps of what to do are always accessible. Listen to your gut feelings and the quiet voice within. Your answers will be revealed in divine right timing. Your refresh button is within you.
By the way, don’t think you’ve got to see the big picture and know all the pieces before taking action. You can start where you are and with what you know right now.
You can make change easy on yourself by using these five steps:
Be willing to consider a change. Willingness opens you to possibilities even if you’re not ready to commit to a change. This includes a change in attitude and the way you’ve always done things.
Take consistent action in your new direction.If you were to make a change, what action would you take? Do it. Then tune in to the next step and do that. Step-at-a-time is perfect – no pushing or rushing.
Get support from a friend or coach. Discussing possibilities and being heard can be powerful steps to clarity, action and change. Don’t listen to the naysayers, including that negative voice in your head.
Choose that the change and lessons learned be gentle. If you believe change is hard, it is. There are people who remain positive in the face of disaster. Set an intention to make changes with ease and grace.
Breathe your way through it. Breathing deeply in a relaxed way puts you in divine flow instead of the flow of fear.
You can hit the refresh button of your life, and it will refresh if you are open to receive! How? Choose it.
Does this sound ridiculous? Impossible? Although it may seem farfetched at the moment that you making a choice could do anything, consider that you are that powerful! When you choose from your very Essence, not your doubting, weak, negative ego, so-called miracles can occur!
Experiment. Take a breath. Ask for… whatever you choose. Answers come in divine right timing.
Here’s a key. Open yourself to receive. If you resist that possibility, you close the door.
Give yourself a gift of a new beginning. Refresh your life. You have the power within to create positive changes with ease and grace and no drama.
Excerpt from a Soulgoals’ blog posted on March 15, 2011
If you’d like help with a new perspective so you break free to a new level of living, I can most assuredly offer many. Contact me for a complimentary Soulgoals’ Session at virginia@soulgoals.com
I work with people who would enjoy a more fulfilling life, choose to share their gifts or business in a BIGGER way but don’t know how, feel stuck or would benefit from new tools or support.
I help them be richly compensated doing what they love by connecting with their Soul’s goals.
Once I had a dream where I was in a room with no windows or doors and seemingly no way out. I searched the walls for a way to leave, but there wasn’t any.
Then I discovered that there was a stairway in the middle of the room that took me to a higher level, and that room was filled with lots of windows, doors and light.
Albert Einstein is paraphrased to have said:
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
Feeling stuck is an emotional response that can leave you feeling there’s no way out. Instead, you can find a way to untangle yourself from whatever has gotten you balled up and take productive action.
Here are four pointers that can help:
1.You’re frustrated because you’re trying to control the outcome by expecting it (or people) to be or act the way you think it should.
Alternative: Relax and anticipate this or something better will occur. Stop trying to micromanage the world. This opens you to tune into new ideas and directions.
2. You’re beating yourself up with fear, worry, regrets or other limiting thoughts and emotions because of your situation.
Alternative: Let go of judging yourself, others and your circumstances. Replace it with an empowering perspective that you’re learning, and all is in divine order and timing.
3. You’re focused on what’s not working.
Alternative: Focus on what you choose and the good feeling mojo it creates. Good feeling mojo is what opens you to manifest more quickly and with grace and ease.
4. You’re pushing to make things happen.
Alternative: Stop resisting (and exhausting yourself about) what is and allow things to be the way they are. You getting fussy about it won’t change it or help. Let go. Let God. Set new goals for what you choose. Then take action from this perspective.
There’s a part of you that doesn’t have a clue about what to do. Another part knows!! You have the ability to stop listening to your confusion or asking others what you should do.
Instead, find your answers within.
How? Start to believe in yourself a little bit more. Ask the part of you that knows the answer (it’s there even if you’re oblivious to it) and write about your situation from that perspective. Even if it feels silly or make-believe when you begin.
Journal with an intention to gain clarity; you might surprise yourself with insights. Give yourself permission to receive answers.
When you shift your perspective, you allow life to create miracles and successes beyond your wildest expectations, and the way out appears… often only one step at a time. Even if the next step is to pause, quiet your thoughts, and just BE.
If you’d like help finding clarity, contact me for a free phone consultation at: virginia@soulgoals.com
I work with people who choose to enhance their lives or share their gifts or business in a BIGGER way but don’t know how, feel stuck or could use new tools or support.
I help them be richly compensated doing what they love by connecting with their Soul’s goals.
Edited excerpt from my January 25, 2016, Soulgoals’ post.
Stop scaring yourself with the stories you tell about yourself.
“Regardless of how he presents himself he is your gremlin and his view of “what is so” is grounded in make-believe. Be aware of him. It is unnecessary to try to ignore him or to fight. Simply notice him.”
Richard D. Carson, Taming Your Gremlin, A Guide to Enjoying Yourself
I had mononucleosis in college and was out of school for a month. It took me a while to return to the rhythm of taking classes again. At the same time, my boyfriend came home from his college, and we enjoyed ourselves visiting with his family.
For me to make my 2 P.M. class, I had to leave his house at 1 P.M. At 1:15 I could have gone, but I would have been late. At 1:30 it was a lost cause and water over the dam… but not for me.
They listened to me try to decide “should I or shouldn’t I go” for a while. Then when it was too late to leave, they listened to me whine that I should have gone. Finally, his older brother said, “You made your decision. Stop beating yourself up over what you chose to do. There is nothing you can do about it now. Let it go.”
I didn’t realize I had a choice in my thinking.I thought the responsible thing to do was agonize over my decision so it would be known that I knew I should have gone but somehow couldn’t rise to the occasion… and there’s something wrong with me.
So much unnecessary confusion follows this type of thinking, because the “problem” isn’t happening outside of us.
The problem is caused from our perception and reaction to what occurs.
The downside is that a great deal of energy is spent spinning around something that doesn’t matter, and then comes another problem – frustration. It’s very difficult to get off a merry-go-round when it’s moving in circles.
When we go in circles we watch life pass us by and think about so many things we would like to do and have to do that we’re not doing…
Then we jump off one ride, not to land on solid ground of “what is,” but to go on another ride. We start beating ourselves up over what we didn’t do or perhaps what we feel we should’ve done.
There are additional carnival adventures such as getting angry, which is a variation of the frustration ride. Other forms of entertainment include blame, worry, fear, anxiety, and playing victim. Another favorite is inaction – spending a lot of time on the merry-go-round of the mind creates such dizziness that it’s impossible to think straight and be clear enough to do anything.
If you insist on thinking there’s something wrong with you, you’re off on a roller coaster ride.
You may choose to change some of your actions and the consequences they create, but there’s nothing wrong with you.
Does any of this sound familiar?
The effort used focusing on these rides instead could be redirected to what’s important to you.
The first step is to put an adult in your control booth, thank your inner kids for picking up the slack during your time out, and communicate confidence that qualified supervision is taking over.
If this sounds like schizophrenic behavior, that’s what happens when we allow child parts of ourselves to take over and rule our lives as if they are us. Our perceptions and reactions become those of a child in an adult body.
How can you make the shift?
You know. Inside of you, you know.
Think about how a mature adult talks and acts, and start talking to yourself that way.
The adult you is only found in the now, not the past or the future.
You can show yourself self-respect and appreciation. Speak to yourself the way you would like others to talk with you.
Few will treat you any better than you treat yourself.
A child part will not be shushed or ignored, or like a child, it simply will act out in another way. What it wants is what any child wants, even though it may be rebellious. It wants to know it is safe and loved.
You provide the internal terrain that is a safe haven by acting like an adult who is in control, and the child part can relax and leave you at peace. One tool to accomplish this is to simply notice it, without reacting or judging or making yourself wrong.
Be the watcher, the observer.
As your gain greater perspective, you may see that perhaps you could make different choices, but there’s nothing wrong with you.
Tired of that sickening feeling of feeling wrong? Contact me to learn how at: virginia@soulgoals.com
I work with people who choose to share their gifts or business in a BIGGER way but don’t know how, feel stuck or could use new tools or support.
I help them ignite their Soul’s goals and be richly compensated doing what they love.
What do you see? A young woman or an old one? This optical illusion was created over 100 years ago.
Many problems in our world are because people see illusions of what they want to see and believe them to be true.
Have you noticed people crazy making and buttons getting pushed? Some respond with anger, frustration or depression. Others find that finger pointing, denial and avoidance are easier than talking things through.
Opportunities abound to deal with issues, but some prefer to ignore the elephant in the room. It would take more than new glasses to correct that vision.
Changing perspective helps: step back emotionally and observe in a detached way. This reminds you not to take things personally. But what should you do about it?
Ask yourself: Is there something to get out of it, something to learn? Or is the point to get out of it and leave?
What’s the best action to take? This depends on the circumstances. But driving yourself bonkers and making yourself wrong only leads to a dead-end street.
A lovely woman sent me a very ugly email. She wrote about demonic forces and people we once knew. She couldn’t be friends with me anymore because she wrote that I was still associated with them, even though I hadn’t been for years.
Weeks later she apologized. Because of past injustices inflicted on her by this group, her deep pain was triggered. She obviously wasn’t herself when she wrote it.
The point? I got out of it lessons of compassion; forgiveness; grace; and not judging as people make mistakes.
The action? Let go of the past and move on. We renewed our friendship.
A few months later, she sent another email explaining how she couldn’t be my friend because of my involvement with these same people.
The point? Get out of it. When people are perpetually crazy making, create too much drama and repeat patterns that they’re not shifting, it’s often best to step back.
The action? Don’t respond. Bless the situation and relationship and let them go.
PLEASE NOTE: There are people who have mental and emotional considerations and are well-served by our support to receive help! I’m referring to those whose default patterns are often unconscious, repetitive, self-centered and create chaos. It’s part of our journey to learn the difference and set boundaries when appropriate.
The following ideas may help you with the crazy makers in your life. Oh well, I can honestly say I’ve learned each one by doing the opposite.
Breathe deeply in a relaxed way. Relax your body.
Step back emotionally and observe rather than become enmeshed with the story.
Listen to what’s being expressed and understand their perspective.
Let go of a need to be heard, be validated or express your viewpoint.
Ask yourself, even if you believe they’re wrong: Why is it essential that others should think and act the way you think they should? Do you need their approval? Are you wanting control? Are you letting them make you feel unsafe or insecure? Are you judging them?Do you need to be right?
Everyone has a right to their viewpoint. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to stick around, at least emotionally and mentally if you can’t leave physically.
Tune in to your gut – what do you feel is true, which usually isn’t your story about it, and the best action to take? You know the answer if you have the willingness and courage to be quiet within and see it.
“Forgive them for they know not what they do.”
Using these tips will:
Bring you peace of mind
Awaken you to greater wisdom, awareness and empowerment
Honor others even if you’re sure they’ve lost their mind
Reclaim your time and energy to enjoy life and pursue your goals
Bring you better results in the long run.
Avoidance and resistance to honestly look at a situation are futile.
Tap into your inner mastership. Don’t be afraid to step back, observe, SEE, then act, lest you start crazy making yourself.
If you don’t like what you see, envision something better. Focus on your new choice without the emotional drama.
Warning: using these tips will not give you the emotional exhilaration received from feeling right; trying to fix or rescue people; feeling victimized; having your ego stroked; expressing anger; trying to control; or the comfort of familiarity from reliving your sad story.
None of these provide long-lasting satisfaction anyway.
Using these tips will:
Bring you peace of mind
Awaken you to greater wisdom, awareness and empowerment
Honor others even if you’re sure they’ve lost their mind
Reclaim your time and energy to enjoy life and pursue your goals
Bring you better results in the long run.
Avoidance and resistance to look honestly at a situation are futile.
Tap into your inner mastership. Don’t be afraid to step back, observe, SEE, then act, lest you start crazy making yourself.
If you don’t like what you see, envision something better. Focus on your new choice without the emotional drama.
Many problems in our world are because people see illusions of what they want to see and believe them to be true.
If you’d like help with any crazy making in your life, contact me for a free consultation at: virginia@soulgoals.com
I work with people who choose to share their gifts or business in a BIGGER way but don’t know how, feel stuck or could use new tools or support.
I help them ignite their Soul’s goals and be richly compensated doing what they love.”
Edited from Soulgoals’ published on March 25, 2011, When Buttons Are Pushed
Life presents both challenges and blessings. Your perspective determines how they affect you and your ability to make your dreams come true.
Once upon a time there was a farmer named Sei Weng who had one horse and one son. One day the horse wandered away, and the neighbors commented that this was unfortunate. The farmer replied, “How do you know it’s bad luck?”
Soon after the horse returned bringing several wild mares with him. The neighbors congratulated him on his good luck. Ah, what lovely, strong horses! However, the farmer responded by saying, “How do you know it’s good luck?”
The son was thrown while riding one of the wild horses and broke his leg. His neighbors once again commented on how sorry they were for his bad luck, at which the farmer said, “Good luck, bad luck. Who knows?”
A war came, and every able-bodied man was conscripted into the military and sent into battle. Because he had a broken leg, the old man’s son didn’t have to go to war. The neighbors were excited about his good fortune, but the farmer remarked, “Is it good or is it bad?”
Another version of this Chinese folktale concludes with, “That’s the way it is.”
Another says that fortune turns to misfortune, and misfortune to fortune. There is no end to changes, and the mystery can’t be known.
Because the farmer was emotionally detached and didn’t go along with everyone’s thinking, he was able to see a bigger picture.
According to the Chaos Theory our lives are always in chaos, and this is what opens us to fresh forms and possibilities. When we reach what is called a “bi-furcation point,” a “point of departure” takes place, and a “self-organization out of chaos” occurs.
In other words, events that serve as turning points create a new order and structure.
Instead of adversely reacting to circumstances that seem bad, consider they may be a portal to something greater than you currently can imagine.
A messy divorce may be a ticket to personal empowerment and overcoming fear.
The loss or lack of worldly goods may be what cracks the shell to allow humility and what’s truly important to be seen or to create space for a new direction or life-changing insights… and the impetus to pursue one’s dreams, perhaps in a new way.
However, these new ways are often different than we previously imagined how our lives would be. Suffering, tears and frustration can be the result when we’re at a “point of departure” but resist departing from our old ways.
My recent experience:
I researched ceiling fans with lights that had to meet very specific criteria for my back porch. I invested a bizarre amount of hours to find the right one. FOUR fans that I chose became unavailable as they sold out while I was looking at them!
Getting frustrated was an option, but instead I said to myself, “this or something better.” I was on the verge of giving up but accidentally found a green one I absolutely love. Originally, it was in a price range that was over six times more than some I’d been considering.
I called the fan company with questions, at which time I inquired about the cost, too. It was less than half the price that a dozen other sites were charging for their sales price, plus I found an additonal discount code.
The rep told me that green was an unusual color, and it just went on sale for a fraction of the original cost.
It fits my needs way better than fans I’d seen at any price.
I kept getting blocked from purchasing others until the right fan showed up at the right price.
It was challenging when I missed out FOUR times on fans I spent a long time on finding. Disappointing? Is it good or is it bad? Turned out way better.
You can choose your perspective. Look deeper. When the timing is right, you may see the silver lining.
No matter how it appears, things change. The highs become lows or ordinary. Regardless of how frustrating or hopeless aspects of your life may seem, this too shall pass.
Your highs and lows come from judging how you think your life should’ve been in the past or should be in the future. Your now, this moment of time, is perfect just the way it is.
Embrace what is without a drama-filled story attached to it, and all your struggles are over.
Your dreams can come true. How? The way reveals itself. Listen to the inner whispers guiding you. Be open to receive. Consider a new point of view because nothing is what it seems. All is in divine order and surpasses your wildest imagination.
Nothing would be what it is.
Because everything would be what it isn’t.
And contrary-wise – what it is, it wouldn’t be.
And what it wouldn’t be, it would.
You see?
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
If you’d like help in creating your life to work better, contact me for a complimentary Do What You Love Break Free Session.
I work with people who choose to share their gifts or business in a BIGGER way but don’t know how, feel stuck or would benefit from new tools or support.
Edited and reposted from Soulgoals’ Blog, March 8, 2013
Feeling stalled out or stuck during Covid time? There are ways to free yourself – like untangling or cutting loose a cat who’s balled up in yarn. By the way, just because it’s stuck, there’s nothing wrong with the cat anymore than there’s anything wrong with you!
To help you unravel your stuckness, here’s an excerpt from my program Soulgoals: A Step-by-Step Guide to Live Your Dreams… even if you failed before, lost hope, are afraid, stressed or confused.
A client who emailed a request to her mastermind team wrote, “I have calls out to people, but things seem stuck.” Her goal was well written and specific, including her filling appointments for three cities and a meet and greet.
I felt the fear under her request and called her. She told me she felt pressure because an out-of-state manager was flying in, and she didn’t have appointments scheduled.
We discussed anticipating the best and letting go of expectation. Part of this letting go was a preoccupation with numbers – the number of bookings. Instead, I recommended she focus on the quality of appointments vs. the quantity.
The next night she sent us a long email. “I woke up fresh and energetic, turned things over to my CEO (God)… I decided that I was not going to “push” to “make”anything happen.” [Her bold print]
Results? Before the end of that day, key people either returned her calls to book or called prospects on her behalf to fill the appointments for her! A big client contacted her to book four trainings.
She hosted a successful event that afternoon plus found a perfect venue for a board member retreat following an unsuccessful month-long search.
If you hold onto how you expect life should be, what a person should do or act, or what’s supposed to fulfill you, you not only limit yourself but you block your success and create unnecessary pain and suffering.
Why? If things don’t turn out as you expected, you can get disappointed. However, if you set intentions but stop trying to control exactly how the outcomes should appear, you let go and let God.
Expectations can pull you away from the present moment and foist you into an imagined future of potential disappointment, discouragement, frustration, sadness, anger, or helplessness.
The beauty of the present moment is that it opens you to what’s in alignment with your soul. If one way doesn’t work, there’s a reason. Something better is available… if you allow it into your world.
Instead of longing for what mighta, woulda, coulda or shoulda been, notice the gift of accepting what is. By not resisting, you open yourself energetically to infinite possibilities.
Anticipating the best instead of expecting specific outcomes makes your words more powerful and opens you to results designed for the highest and best interest for all. It’s an important lesson, and I invite you to consider it in case it’s making the difference between creating difficulties or catapulting you to greater success and abundance.
4 Ways to Get Unstuck
It’s important to identify where you feel stuck. Feeling stuck is an emotional response that can leave you feeling there’s no way out. Here are four alternatives that can help:
You’re frustrated because you’re trying to control the outcome by expecting it (or people) to be the way you think it should. Alternative: Relax and anticipate this or something better will occur. Stop trying to micromanage the world. This opens you to tune into new ideas and directions.
You’re beating yourself up with regrets or other limiting thoughts and emotions because of your situation. Alternative: Release judging you, others and your circumstances. Replace it with an empowering perspective that you’re learning, so is everyone else, and all is in divine order and timing.
You’re focusing on how things aren’t working. Alternative: focus on what you choose and the good feeling mojo it creates. Good feeling mojo is what opens you to manifest more quickly and with grace and ease.
You’re pushing to make things happen. Alternative: Stop resisting (and exhausting yourself about) what is and allow things to be the way they are. You getting fussy about it won’t change it or help. Let go. Let God. Set new goals for what you choose. Take action from this perspective.
Feeling stuck may be a clue that it’s time to change direction or attitude. You might have to let go of what you’re holding onto to make way for something even better!
When you shift your energy, you allow life to create miracles and successes beyond your wildest expectations.
Reposted from Soulgoals’ Archives January 25, 2016
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Whatever thoughts you have that don’t feel good, whatever fears you have… they’re not about you!! They’re also not about the economy, a virus or any other circumstance!
We all created, everyone of us, a false identity, which is known as the ego. Some call it the mind – or monkey mind.
No, the ego isn’t just about those who we consider braggadocios.
It’s the part of us that feels fear, doubt, anxiety, lack, sorrow, sadness and wonders about “what if” the worse happens. What if you get sick? What about your finances? And on and on.
It’s the part that berates us for not feeling good enough, regretting the past and is fearful about the future – and, oh, how it disapproves of you in countless ways.
However, the greater part of us, an invisible yet far more powerful Essence, is within, too.
How can you access that place of calm, peace and happiness?
Soon I’ll offer a teleconference to help you understand and LET GO of your ego being in charge of your life.
You’ll learn how to allow your innate, inner mastery to be in control, new ways to set goals and MANIFEST THEM!
Interestingly, by letting go of negative emotions, we open to receive whatever we choose into our lives. Money. Health. Love. Peace.
In the meantime, I’m sharing a Soulgoals’ post from my August 12, 2019 archive about the ego.
It’s just a hint of what it is and how it impacts you.
With gratitude,
Virginia
Here’s an excerpt of an email I sent a client who’s been experiencing challenges.
Recently, I’ve observed people transitioning from the way their life has been to something new and different. That can bring up a variety of feelings, some pleasant and others not so much.
I remember thinking in the early 1990s that my entire life was about frustration. There wasn’t any part of it that worked, from health, finances and career to my marriage. All were falling apart. And why was God allowing me and others to suffer?
This perfect storm became the springboard that has shaped the rest of my life of personal discovery and helping people like you.
Change is in the air, welcoming it, liking it, wanting it or not.
For some, it’s an exciting adventure.
For others, a dark cloud hangs overhead.
You, like the rest of us, have had a lifetime of listening to the false guidance of your ego, that façade of an identity. For you, it includes difficult emotions like anger and frustration. These emotions are like software glitches.
Here’s what Wikipedia says about glitches… computer glitches are incorrectly written software, incorrect instructions given by the operator, undetected invalid data, undetected communications errors…
You are not your software.
In contrast, your Essence is prompting you to listen within. This is the part of you that knows “all is well.”
Abraham-Hicks said:
“Your emotions are your indicator of how your active thought blends, or doesn’t blend, with the thought Source is thinking about the same subject in the same moment.”
The inner turmoil you’re experiencing is the conflict between your ego’s perspective and that of the Source within you.
Naturally, your ego is taking an all out stand for you to listen to its lies, lies that lead you to feel frustrated, angry and needing to sort things out.
To protect itself, it uses a type of logic in which it’s already trained you, indoctrinated into you, so you believe that it’s telling you the truth. It presents its case that leaves you feeling anger and frustration.
The logic only works if you see things from its limited and fearful point of view.
Habitual thinking creates entrenched neural pathways in the brain. These become your default, your easy “go to” ways you react. These reactions, instead of responses, don’t always serve you.
Just because ideas are in your head does NOT make them true!
However, you can most assuredly access your true Essence instead, as it is YOU!
A key is to differentiate between the whispers of your ego and your Essence.
The ego certainly doesn’t want you to be around positive people that shed light on how it manipulates you. This way it has you, back where you can be controlled by the stress and chaos of unsupportive emotions.
In defense of the ego, it thinks it’s protecting you. But these patterns were created from a child’s approach to survival.
When presented with adult situations, the peace of your Essence offers greater insight and direction.
Ask your Essence to step forward to be heard, and choose to listen to its guidance.
If you’d like help for your life to be easier and more satisfying, contact me for a complimentary Do What You Love Break Free Session.
I work with people
who choose to share their gifts
or business in a BIGGER way
but don’t know how, feel stuck
or would benefit from new tools
or support.
I help them be richly compensated
doing what they love by discovering
their Soul’s goals.
Life presents challenges. How you respond – your emotions and mental focus – is your choice.
You can get sucked into the quicksand of negative feelings, railing against the world and how tough everything is, focus on what’s not working and bemoan your tale of woes with others or in your head… and attract the opposite of what you want.
Or you can make a different choice.
Some of my clients are in the midst of the most heart-wrenching experiences of their lives.
A man left a country where he worked over three years, in a highly regarded profession, to interview for a job. His current position finishes in three months, and so far all his efforts to find new employment haven’t produced results.
Frustrated by multiple rejection letters – literally, where in the world will this gifted man live and create an income? This follows a year of intense personal and professional challenges.
Upon his return, immigration blocked his re-entry because of visa problems. He was arrested, detained and deported back to where he had just interviewed in New York City. Banned to go back for his belongings at work and home, which is also where his girlfriend lives, he has no cell phone or office to continue his job search. His attorney says there is no help legally and made excuses for not properly advising him.
At first he was in shock and emailed “I AM REALLY F___ED… I am devastated, exhausted, overwhelmed and at the end of my wits.”
Soon after, he Skyped me from a computer in a noisy café for a session.
Decisiontime: be the victim and miserable in a living hell or surrender and have faith that there’s a divine purpose and something positive will come of this.
Feelings and thoughts manifest. His personal honesty allowed him to see how he created this experience – he really didn’t want to work at his job or be in that country anymore.
This situation assured he wouldn’t spend another minute there.
He also has a strong desire to dump childhood patterns and traumas. Realizing his former tension and aggressiveness stemmed from being where he wasn’t appreciated, he chooses now to use this time as a transformation to express his positive nature.
Cut free from the burden of having to go back, the following day brought a feeling of liberation, contentment and a sense of being in a divine comedy.
With his newfound attitude, his nightmare vanished like a bad dream after waking up.
“I’m in the right place at the right time, and I know there’s opportunity here. I have friends and feel that I’m amongst kindred spirits in this city. I have to take action and not be complacent.
My girlfriend and colleagues will pack up my things, and she’ll bring them here next month. She wanted to move away from there anyway. I’m looking at life with childlike wonder knowing my good is here. I feel purposeful. I’ll figure it out and make it work.”
Months of anxiety and fear about finding a job and where it would be disappeared, too. It’s either in this city and country or something better.
I asked him to pick an image to reflect his perspective. He chose Fred Astaire – light on his feet and with good technique.
You can transform any situation in your life by choosing to:
Let go of the exhausting struggle: your story of your hard life and what if the worse happens. Write it down and burn or shred it. Choose to let it go! Repeat as needed.
Change your perspective from one that creates stress and deteriorates your health and finances to one where you surrender to a divine source with an attitude of anticipating the best. Look for the positive in any situation; it’s always there.
Stop thinking and talking about what’s wrong and instead focus on what’s working
Enjoy quality time with those who nipped the self-indulgent habits of #1-3.
Take action in the direction of your dreams.
As you gently let go of the struggle, you’ll float to the top of the quicksand of fear and move to the shore of creativity and abundance.
Reprinted from Soulgoals’ Archive, March 22, 2012
If you’d like support
through challenging times, contact me for a complimentary Do What You Love Break Free Session.
If it’s been a while since you’ve had one, you’re welcome to contact me again.
I work with people
who choose to share their gifts
or business in a BIGGER way
but don’t know how, feel stuck
or would benefit from new tools
or support.
I help them be richly compensated
doing what they love.
Virginia Goszewska (go-SHEF-ska) awakens people to be richly compensated doing what they love by aligning with their Soul’s goals.
Based on decades of extensive research and personal discoveries, Virginia created the unique mastermind and success program Soulgoals: A Step-by-Step System to Do What You Love – even if you failed before, lost hope, are afraid, stuck, stressed or confused. The mastermind is an energy created when two or more gather in harmony for the attainment of a shared, definite objective.
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