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How Your Mind Can Play Games With You.
Submitted by: Aina Brandholm
SpainI'm 28 years old. I'm half Spanish half Swedish and I've been living in both countries during my life. I've always worked in hospitality and at the moment I work in HR at Volvo, a big Swedish company in the automotive industry. I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing for more than 13 years and been teaching for the last 6 years of my life. I love to travel, and I love meeting new people. I'm always seeking growth and new adventures.
It was shocking to discover that the law of attraction works. It was also shocking to see that everything I wanted was coming to me so fast.
Almost 1 year ago I was in a completely different situation. I was living in Sweden, working as a receptionist, and I was thinking all the time that I deserved more. I really wanted to move back to Spain where I had grown up until the age of 19. I felt that Sweden was boring and that I was becoming more negative and depressed, so I wanted to change my situation.
I had a breakthrough in February 2022. I was doing a job that I hated because I was bored. I was sitting on a chair alone without having anything to do and that was killing me mentally. I am a person that needs action all the time, and for me having nothing to do was making me feel anxious and frustrated. I decided to take control of my life and do the things that I had been wanting to do for so long. I came to know that there were offices within the same company I was working for in Madrid, Spain. I contacted people in Madrid from the company via LinkedIn and I asked around about opportunities there. One girl answered me and she said to me that we should have a call. We had that call and today she and I are working together on the same team. She gave me the contact of her manager and she told me that in a meeting she heard that they would probably need someone else on the team very soon. I couldn’t believe what was happening! I contacted the manager and in a matter of few weeks, I had a new job in my home country!
In one month I had to leave Sweden and my apartment, and move all my stuff to Spain. When I arrived at my new apartment in Madrid and it was empty. I started crying and I asked myself, what the hell did I do? Did I lose my mind? Is this a big mistake? My mind was playing games with me. Of course, it wanted what was familiar to me. I wanted to be comfortable, for things to be easy. But after a few days, I was feeling happier than I had felt in the 9 years I had spent in Sweden.
Another big goal for me was to be able to teach dance in Spain. After a few months, I started teaching at a very well known dance school here in Madrid. Again, I could not believe that things were happening so fast.
Then something happened. When I got all these things I had new goals that I was not achieving. They were much bigger goals. What started to happen was I started to feel frustrated, sad, and anxious. This was because I was not grateful enough for the things that I already had. I was focusing too much on the future, and the energy that I was using to attract these things was wrong. I was thinking from a place of doubt, fear, and frustration, so of course, I was not attracting what I wanted.
I just want to say with this story that we all have moments of greatness and moments where we feel low. But the important thing is to get back up and be stronger than the last time. Now I feel that things will come when they have to come, and if I focus on the things that I want from a place of love and abundance there is no way they will not. If someone is reading my story and is helped in some way I’m grateful and happy about that.