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Unravelling.
Submitted by: Isobelle ~p
Everywhere, English and AustralianI am newly retired and have incredible freedom for creative projects with a forty year career as a designer. I lectured in graphic and interior design. My career has taken me to different cities and countries. I am fortunate to take my skills to any creative medium and business I imagine; photography, pottery, commercial design, making artworks, surface decoration, and fashion. I am a mother of three children and now grandmother of two beautiful granddaughters.
The story I tell is one of learning and putting this all into practice, and I still have a way to go on this.
I was feeling constantly down and it had become a bad habit, the negatives clouding over much of the positives. I was searching for how to turn around this habit and a way to look at improving my outlook and well-being. Somehow, The Greatest Secret, in an audio version, came to the rescue to reset my outlook.
I have listened to The Greatest Secret all at once and also in parts, many times now. I am doing this to unravel and reveal the way to help myself and everyone that I care about. Using this audiobook has pinpointed events in the past to release my way of thinking that creates guilt, and to give other perspectives to these events. It just keeps giving me these insights. I go about a normal day and ‘ping’! Into my mind comes another incident or happening that I misunderstood and now I have more self-realization and accountability.
You may say, “Oh, this story hasn’t told the results of positive and grateful visions.” However, the mental ‘pings’ I get are showing me new ways of looking at all the things I have done and thought in the past by using this new practice. This is giving me the opportunity to show gratefulness. That’s a big gift. In the past, I would feel guilty for appearing ‘fortunate or lucky’ to others. The guilt brought a huge downfall in my wealth, and health with both mental and physical events. Not all of that happened to me personally but it certainly affected my life and family. I had started to think of everything as unfair and a struggle, and the consequences of that were real. I felt low and rather broken.
However, now I can see the self-guilt accumulated because I was not being mindfully grateful. I had such a wonderful and perfect life and it all dissolved. I had missed out on being grateful.
Now I am putting into practice ideas, propositions, and lessons from all the collective teachings of Rhonda Byrne and her associates. I affirm my desires and practice gratitude using the apps. I am now adding to a huge list of gratitudes, both past and present.
One of these ‘gifts’ was recently meeting the right person who owned a building I knew would make an amazing studio. Two years ago when I first saw it, I was with an estate agent. I asked about this unusual historic building and said I’d buy it if it ever came on the market. A chance meeting with the owner resulted in an offer to lease his building to my brother and me. I realized that this is a great place for now. I don’t have to buy it. It is a gift, as it offers so much space to produce creative work and I don’t have to have all the other responsibilities of owning such a building. I was smiling so much. I was conscious this time that this was a gift that was offered and to be grateful, not once but over and over.