I know. I know. There’s no way you would EVER want this experience or someone to do to you what happened.
Obviously, someone or something else is to blame. How could you have caused this? It happened outside of you, out of your control. Wouldn’t anyone feel the same way?
If I elaborate on the idea that your thoughts and feelings are things, and they shape your world, you might want to land a punch on me if I were close to you. You might believe I don’t understand this situation. I’m delusional. Or perhaps you think that you already know we attract experiences through our thinking, but you had nothing to do with causing this fill in the blank issue.
Instead, I’ll share two examples, leaving you to evaluate if this idea might have any credibility. It might make more sense if you’ve spent years being angry or blaming others or wondering why things keep happening to you… and perhaps you’re coming to the awareness that those approaches haven’t gotten you what you want.
First is a woman who had COPD and several other physical disabilities that necessitated someone to be with her 24/7. She shared with me that she used to end up being the one to take care of people. She used to say to herself, when’s it going to be my turn to be taken care of? She got her answer, although not in the way she wanted.
Another woman left a position she’d had for several years when she realized the job was literally killing her. The business she planned on starting when she left her job never took off, which was a good thing because she was unwell and extremely weak.
Having no money, she went back to work at a job she had decades before – delivering pizzas. Not her dream job at the age of 60, to say the least.
The job actually had many redeeming qualities for her. She built up her strength. Finally, she was surrounded by a supportive and caring manager and team of co-workers. She made money she desperately needed.
For a while, she did a lot of complaining. Delivering pizzas was a far cry from living her dream. “I’m too old for this. A few months ago I could hardly walk, and now I’m slowly carrying heavy boxes of pizza and soda up flights of stairs, and sometimes I don’t even get tips.” She couldn’t see well while driving at night, had a hard time on access roads and finding places, and she hated those stairs and delivering to apartment buildings. To top it off, she decided that people of her race never tipped. She saw that as a fact.
These upsetting things appeared completely out of her control.
She couldn’t govern the randomness of which orders were next in line to deliver, who they’d go to, if they were tippers and where people lived.
Everything changed when she realized she was using her imagination to dwell on annoyances instead of what she chooses to experience.
She decided to change her focus and found that her outcomes improved the more she directed her thinking to what she wanted.
This success inspired her to become very intentional, with her thinking being the only thing that changed. This is what happened on that shift.
- All her deliveries were to houses except one to an apartment building, and they lived on the first floor.
- She had no need to travel on any access roads.
- Locations were easy to find.
- People of her own race always gave her great tips.
- She had her best night of tips ever, nearly doubling the tips she made on any good night in the entire three months she worked there.
- Everyone was friendly and nice.
The following week, she decided to leave that job. She’s now the happiest she’s ever been. She’s confident that financial opportunities she’s considering are going to work out because she’s learned the power of using her imagination wisely.
She discovered that effectively using one’s imagination is more real than the so called “reality” of outer circumstances.
Now, she’s no longer worried or depressed.
She’s relaxed because she knows money will come and she’ll have time to pursue her dream. Based on opportunities coming her way, she has good reason to continue to believe things will work out.
You’re bigger than anything or anyone that’s upsetting you.
Rearrange your thinking. You are the change that changes your world.
Pay attention to what you’re telling yourself, the conversations in your head, during the day.
It’s not that you won’t be aware of your outer circumstances, but don’t freak out about them! Don’t give in to thinking nothing will ever change. Instead, focus on how you choose your life or business to be.
Take a breath. Shift gears. Imagine your life, really imagine it with your thoughts and feelings, as if it’s the way you choose and that everything’s working out in divine right timing.
And remember to tip well your servers and delivery folks. That’s how they earn their living.
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