It’s so amazing how we just get what we need, as long as we keep our eyes, ears and mind open to what comes along.
Some years ago I was down and out, on the verge of taking my own life. I was almost broke, spent many sleepless nights in fear of the day, when I would not have anything left, and become a financial burden to my loved ones.
And despite this anxiety I picked up a book I had recently received and opened it to this:
No person can be confronted with a difficulty which he has not the strength to meet and subdue … Every difficulty can be overcome if rightly dealt with: anxiety is, therefore, unnecessary. The task wich cannot be overcome ceases to be a difficulty and becomes an impossibility … and there is only one way of dealing with an impossibility - namely to submit to it
James Allen, “The Byways of Blessedness”
There are several ways of reading this. What I did NOT see – if something becomes an impossibility, submit to it, ie. commit suicide. What I did read was: that anxiety is unnecessary and there is no purpose to submit to it. God/universe does not give us tasks that we cannot handle. We all have what it takes to deal with what life throws our way. All we need to do is look for the things that will help us overcome.
What is needed is to stay open to new information (which I must have been). When a challenge (or popularly called – a problem) comes along, it may at first glance seem that there is no way around, through or whatever.
An impossibility is something where we simply do not have the information required to handle it. So why waste time and energy on it?
I allowed myself a change of attidue and began changing my thoughts, stopped worrying. Every time I felt anxiety creep in, in my mind I crossed it out with black paint. (Today I know that white paint is better). I began substituting these thoughts with new positive, creative thoughts. It took some time, but everything began to change, and it did also give me renewed strength to look for new ways, new informations, new knowledge.
What I also realized was that when facing challenges one of the most important qualities to have is patience. Nothing changes overnight. If it did we would have no need for our creative powers and persistence.
Instead of the depressive thoughts I began asking myself: what can I do to change the situation? What do I already have that I can use to create what I want? What qualities do I have? What knowledge do I have?
And of course the answers kept coming. And they still do, because I keep asking myself these or similar questions. In fact at some point I felt so overwhelmed with options, I did not know where to go and which one to do first. But I continued to explore, since I also began knowing more in details what I wanted and where I wanted to go.
I began setting goals, but soon realized that as important as it was to reach these goals, the way, the process was equally important. It was as if I was driving on a dark, deserted road, knowing from where I had come and to where I was going, but not being able to see further than the headlights were lighting up. But that was enough, because once I had travelled the distance to the edge of the headlights, they were again out there ahead of me, so I could keep seeing.
Is it easy? Not always, just as it is not easy to drive on a dark road with only the headlights to show where I am. But it sure is fun, entertaining and illuminating. The further I go, the more fun, joy and gratitude I feel for having found that quote.
Now, you may ask, is one quote like that enough to get someone out of such a black hole (as I call it)? thank you for asking. Of course not, there was much more in the book, and I soon also found many other tools (that was part of my searching).
But once I took the decision not to wallow in anxiety, one thing followed another. And when a dear friend introduced me to a global community, I went for it. What they were doing took my breath away, and is now shaping my life in ways I could not have imagined. I get more and more tools, I am now CREATING my life and ATTRACTING all that I need to go where I am destined.
And you know what? Somehow I was not as broke as I made myself out to be. I kept finding the means to travel the road I had chosen, and as these things unfolded, my vision of my life became clearer and clearer.
You see what got me off track to begin with was not having a track, a path, a vision. I had left my dreams behind in the process of life. I had abandoned what I had once aspired to do and be. We are nothing without our dreams and aspirations, our vision and missions.
I am forever grateful to my friend and all the friends I now have in the global community who help and support me. But more importantly who allow me to help and support them. This is part of who I am, and my life’s mission.
My eternal gratitude for this community and for all that the people there do.
Birte Edwards
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