Acknowledging when to let go
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Today I wanted to talk to you about letting go of certain ideas that hit an obstacle, and allowing for the Universe to provide you with something better.
Yesterday one of my beautiful friends decided to pull an angel card for me and sent me a message in the morning with the card reading. It was from the Guardian Angels Tarot Deck by Doreen Virtue. The card was "Five of Thought" which was essentially "an idea that you thought was a good one has now faced a challenge but don't worry about it because something better will present itself which will be better for you in the long run". When I received this card I was slightly confused about what idea the angels were trying to tell me. So after an hour or so of pondering, I thought that perhaps the topic of this card was my idea of launching a corporate massage offering. This was later confirmed when the same friend told me she thought it was in relation to that, and when I did some automatic writing to connect with my guides, I was told the same thing.
Let me give you some context - I launched this corporate massage offering last month thinking that it was a pretty neat idea. I trialled it out at the company that I was working at and have been very fortunate to get a number of supporters. It worked at my company for a number of reasons, but mainly because they had a spare meeting room which was pretty much private and big enough for me to set up my space and do my stuff. The first time I did it in February it was a "soft trial" so not widely publicised. The second time (this month) it was publicised and I didn't get many "new" people from the last time but it was still busy. On top of that, the HR director told me last week that someone had complained about having a woman touch him and was uncomfortable with the idea. "Er ok" I thought, "I just don't have you as a customer". The same person also raised a "conflict of interest" issue which the HR director quashed because we actually had it cleared by the higher ups. With this in mind, I was beginning to wonder whether it was worthwhile doing it but having had a chat to my HR director, she told me that this guy complains about everything and to just ignore him.. although next time I did the day I couldn't publicise it widely and I should just tell the "friendlies" that I was coming so they could rock up. Sighs.
So moving that aside, as you know, I had been given the opportunity to meet with the director of a massage clinic out in the Eastern suburbs. Well, that didn't happen for the main reason that the poor woman fell sick. Funnily enough, I also fell sick around the same time so not only did I miss the opportunity to massage some professional sports players, but I also didn't get to meet this lady for an interview. However, fate would have it that there was a gig on Tuesday that I could rock up to and work with some senior therapists on the same sports team, so I happily took that up and had a really good time massaging some players on the team and meeting the other massage therapists.
So, after I had received that card from my friend yesterday, about 2 hours after that I received a phone call from the director of the massage clinic to pass on feedback from my massage session. Essentially the feedback was positive, the other therapists thought I fit into the culture well and she was happy to extend more opportunities for me to massage the team as and when I was available. Then she dropped some exciting news for me, there was potentially a position at the clinic closer to my home (and closer to the sports stadium) and the initial thought was to have the position for 2 half days on Monday and Tuesday! So instead of me working at the other Eastern suburbs clinic, I could potentially work at the one closer to me on the days that I had off. It was almost as if she was changing things in order to fit my time. Whether that assumption is true or not, I knew one thing - that this was the better "opportunity" that the card had alluded to because if I was to take it up, I wouldn't have time to pursue my corporate massage stuff anyway! We arranged to meet up next Monday to see each other in person and discuss the way forward. Also, this opportunity was so much more closely aligned with my big vision anyway so I was definitely cool with that.
After letting the excitement settle for a bit, I began to look back at what had transpired and quite frankly, I was quite happy with myself with how I had handled things. Usually if things were cancelled on me at the last minute, I would get REALLY pissed off, even if I knew it was completely out of my control. On top of that, if an idea that I had come up with didn't fly, I would've done everything in my power to stick with it and stubbornly try to take it forward because of the emotional investment I had put into it. Didn't happen this time - my attitude was pretty much "Ok well things happened for a reason. To tell you the truth, it was great that the meetings were cancelled as I was feeling like crap anyway, and there would have been a reason why the corporate massage stuff wasn't working out and I trust that the Universe would show me the right direction" - and guess what - it did.
I guess if your perspective on your world changes than the things that used to get to you before no longer do. I don't think I would've reacted in the way I did above if it hadn't been for lots of self work in terms of challenging certain belief systems, having a different take on things and trusting that there is an inherent intelligence to how things work and nothing is random. Not only this but being surrounded by people who think the same also helps a LOT. The other week I found out a friend of mine was pregnant and she has had lots of issues around her womb area so there was always a chance she could lose this baby. However, having chatted to her, she was pretty much of the school "Everything happens for a reason and even though the timing of this isn't the best for me as I had planned all these other things to do this year, if it's meant to be than we will work something out". I absolutely love that from her - I was really proud of her as well when she told me.
So the crux of the story is this - if you were working on bringing a particular dream to fruition and went about it a certain way and kept hitting obstacles or it was just really hard to progress, then perhaps stop for a bit and see whether the Universe will show you a different and better way of getting there.
Have a beautiful weekend everyone!
Today I wanted to talk to you about letting go of certain ideas that hit an obstacle, and allowing for the Universe to provide you with something better.
Yesterday one of my beautiful friends decided to pull an angel card for me and sent me a message in the morning with the card reading. It was from the Guardian Angels Tarot Deck by Doreen Virtue. The card was "Five of Thought" which was essentially "an idea that you thought was a good one has now faced a challenge but don't worry about it because something better will present itself which will be better for you in the long run". When I received this card I was slightly confused about what idea the angels were trying to tell me. So after an hour or so of pondering, I thought that perhaps the topic of this card was my idea of launching a corporate massage offering. This was later confirmed when the same friend told me she thought it was in relation to that, and when I did some automatic writing to connect with my guides, I was told the same thing.
Let me give you some context - I launched this corporate massage offering last month thinking that it was a pretty neat idea. I trialled it out at the company that I was working at and have been very fortunate to get a number of supporters. It worked at my company for a number of reasons, but mainly because they had a spare meeting room which was pretty much private and big enough for me to set up my space and do my stuff. The first time I did it in February it was a "soft trial" so not widely publicised. The second time (this month) it was publicised and I didn't get many "new" people from the last time but it was still busy. On top of that, the HR director told me last week that someone had complained about having a woman touch him and was uncomfortable with the idea. "Er ok" I thought, "I just don't have you as a customer". The same person also raised a "conflict of interest" issue which the HR director quashed because we actually had it cleared by the higher ups. With this in mind, I was beginning to wonder whether it was worthwhile doing it but having had a chat to my HR director, she told me that this guy complains about everything and to just ignore him.. although next time I did the day I couldn't publicise it widely and I should just tell the "friendlies" that I was coming so they could rock up. Sighs.
So moving that aside, as you know, I had been given the opportunity to meet with the director of a massage clinic out in the Eastern suburbs. Well, that didn't happen for the main reason that the poor woman fell sick. Funnily enough, I also fell sick around the same time so not only did I miss the opportunity to massage some professional sports players, but I also didn't get to meet this lady for an interview. However, fate would have it that there was a gig on Tuesday that I could rock up to and work with some senior therapists on the same sports team, so I happily took that up and had a really good time massaging some players on the team and meeting the other massage therapists.
So, after I had received that card from my friend yesterday, about 2 hours after that I received a phone call from the director of the massage clinic to pass on feedback from my massage session. Essentially the feedback was positive, the other therapists thought I fit into the culture well and she was happy to extend more opportunities for me to massage the team as and when I was available. Then she dropped some exciting news for me, there was potentially a position at the clinic closer to my home (and closer to the sports stadium) and the initial thought was to have the position for 2 half days on Monday and Tuesday! So instead of me working at the other Eastern suburbs clinic, I could potentially work at the one closer to me on the days that I had off. It was almost as if she was changing things in order to fit my time. Whether that assumption is true or not, I knew one thing - that this was the better "opportunity" that the card had alluded to because if I was to take it up, I wouldn't have time to pursue my corporate massage stuff anyway! We arranged to meet up next Monday to see each other in person and discuss the way forward. Also, this opportunity was so much more closely aligned with my big vision anyway so I was definitely cool with that.
After letting the excitement settle for a bit, I began to look back at what had transpired and quite frankly, I was quite happy with myself with how I had handled things. Usually if things were cancelled on me at the last minute, I would get REALLY pissed off, even if I knew it was completely out of my control. On top of that, if an idea that I had come up with didn't fly, I would've done everything in my power to stick with it and stubbornly try to take it forward because of the emotional investment I had put into it. Didn't happen this time - my attitude was pretty much "Ok well things happened for a reason. To tell you the truth, it was great that the meetings were cancelled as I was feeling like crap anyway, and there would have been a reason why the corporate massage stuff wasn't working out and I trust that the Universe would show me the right direction" - and guess what - it did.
I guess if your perspective on your world changes than the things that used to get to you before no longer do. I don't think I would've reacted in the way I did above if it hadn't been for lots of self work in terms of challenging certain belief systems, having a different take on things and trusting that there is an inherent intelligence to how things work and nothing is random. Not only this but being surrounded by people who think the same also helps a LOT. The other week I found out a friend of mine was pregnant and she has had lots of issues around her womb area so there was always a chance she could lose this baby. However, having chatted to her, she was pretty much of the school "Everything happens for a reason and even though the timing of this isn't the best for me as I had planned all these other things to do this year, if it's meant to be than we will work something out". I absolutely love that from her - I was really proud of her as well when she told me.
So the crux of the story is this - if you were working on bringing a particular dream to fruition and went about it a certain way and kept hitting obstacles or it was just really hard to progress, then perhaps stop for a bit and see whether the Universe will show you a different and better way of getting there.
Have a beautiful weekend everyone!