Failure is an Illusion
What sort of amazing things can happen when you open yourself up to the possibilities and allow your biggest desires to come to the front line of your consciousness? What sort of miracles can have the space to grow when you allow yourself to say yes? Yes to your desires? Yes to your growth? Yes to your own belief structure about how reality works? Yes! Then what? What can happen when you open yourself up to allowing the magic of the universe to take over?
Today’s story begins with a girl who seemed to have lost everything and failure seemed like the right way to describe exactly what she saw. She saw failure. She saw loss. There was no denying that, yes, in that moment these themes were very evident. However, with just a dash of positivity, a little bit of love from her favorite roomie, and a big perspective shift she saw blessings, room for expansion and the opportunity to finally make herself number one by following her intuition and seeking a job that would help her grow in the healthiest of ways. She knew this “failure” was a blessing that would lead her to everything she had hoped for and everything her heart yearned for in a workplace. She again, felt herself, her vibrancy, the life running through her veins and she knew she was going to stop at nothing until she found a place that felt like home.
After days upon days and hours upon hours of researching, “googling”, and staring at a computer screen combing through jobs after jobs, sending resume after resume, she found the one. She kept herself open, she kept herself hopeful and she lived in her own self worth. She knew she was not alone, she knew that the universe was with her and she would be guided to exactly everything she wanted and she knew she was willing to put everything she had into it. She had to find the perfect job. Her morals and values run deep- she believes in community, passion, self-love and love for others. She believes in a workplace that you can thrive in, that satisfies and fulfills you in both your mind, body and soul (not just your wallet). And today- she found the one. She got the job. A whole new beginning to nourish the valuable and lovable person she knows she is.
So my question to you is- is failure real? Or is it just an illusion of the mind? A wrong perspective on the right step? That day, when my time came to part from the job that I seemed to fail at- I found two very strong perspectives on the situation. I saw failure in one hand and in the other- a big step in the right direction. So what if failure is an illusion? What if it’s possible there is no such thing as failure? Where does failure even come from? Is it possible that failure is the ego attaching to an outcome? Attaching to a circumstance or a situation? Attaching because the ego/mind thinks that this is the way? This is the only way? What if it’s the mind saying “my way or the highway?”. What if that comes from a separation from our God truth? A separation from the truth of our being and the highest vibration of one’s self? What if the idea that this is the one and only way to do something or make something work is out of the mind’s need for control? The mind’s absence of understanding that there is a bigger, greater picture that is going on here?
Throughout this experience of losing my job to finding the perfect job for my self growth- I let go of control. I vibrated with my highest knowing that the universe knows exactly where I want to go, who I want to meet and what I want to FEEL like. I poured all of myself into knowing I was being led down the right path to the right place and that I had NO IDEA what that looked like. By living in this light- I had many job opportunities presented to me, (and definitely followed them through whether with back/forth emails between potential managers, sending numerous resumes in or even religiously researching a company to learn if I would be a right fit or if they would be a right fit for me) but I did not attach to any of them. I did not get too wrapped up in the idea of working at one or allow a full desire to work at one of these jobs come to fruition. Or if I did for a brief moment, I opened myself back up, pulled back and fell back into my residence in the knowing that I would be led to exactly where I wanted to be.
So what if failure comes from a distance in our higher power, a distance from our deepest knowing that everything will be okay and will work out for the best? What if failure is attachment to feeling we need to control everything? Attachment to “I have to do this or I won’t end up where I want” sort of mentality? What if we can just let go? Let go of control? Let go of needing to put all the ducks in place and just know that everything will end up in the best way possible? In the exact way we’ve been hoping, wishing and praying for? What if failure is just looking at the right step with the wrong perspective? What if failure is an illusion and you really have just taken the next step in the right direction? Then what? What else can possibly happen? What greater thing am I now being led to? How much resistance can you possibly let go of to allow the current of divine perfection within this beautiful universe to carry you to exactly where you want to be?
Give attention to the bigger picture. Trust in your value, trust in your deservance, trust in the fact that you will make it to exactly where you want to be, no matter what happens or even what that may look like. Trust that it will be okay. Better than okay. You will make it. It will come. Before you know it, you’ll already be there.
xo