There is a parable about enlightenment which I will now proceed to butcher. It runs along these lines:
What did the monk say when he found $10,000 dollars?
“Wonderful!”
What did the monk say when he lost $10,000 dollars?
“Wonderful!”
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On Friday night I got around to opening the mail.
Included among the coupons and credit card offers was an ominous and official-looking envelope from an organization I shall not name, except to dry-heave with fury at the audacity and mendacity of the fact that it calls itself a “service.”
The contents were ten times worse than I could have expected, with no hope of clarification or even partial-recourse until the open of business on Monday morning.
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Let me tell you how I would have handled this situation in the past.
I would have freaked the f*** out. I would have raged, ranted, cried, and possibly gotten drunk, felt a little better, and then woken up in the middle of the night and cried intermittently until dawn.
But that’s not what happened.
Initially, I sat there in shock and fury, but I did not take it out on myself, or anyone else. I tried to understand what I was reading, and quickly discovered that there was nothing I could do about it until Monday, and probably not a lot I could do about it even then.
(This would have been a good time to take a little Arnica, to be honest; if you’d like a free video tutorial on the 7 Secrets of Arnica, I’ve just made one and you can get it here.)
So I put it down. I said, “This is a growth process, a rite of passage, and a journey in the dark. This is a cosmic injustice that is actually a gift. It is not catastrophic, even though it is painful, and I will recover from it.”
Because what else could I do?
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Well, there was one thing I could do. I could call my tax attorney and ask for his advice.
Last year, I hired a tax attorney (Matt Sercely – he’s great and you should check him out if you own a business), for two reasons.
1, I have a rule, that I have had since I started my business, which is the following: I hire out everything I suck at, and
2, because I was avoiding dealing with the reality of having to manage this aspect of my business like an adult, preferring to sit in misery with a pile of receipts and a growing hatred of the universe every winter, and that did not send a message to me or to the relevant deities that I was serious about what I was doing.
This post is about trust, and peace of mind, and what it’s worth.
When I was very sick, the worst part was that I didn’t have anyone I trusted to advise me.
And I don’t mean, take this, don’t take that, go here, don’t go there. There are plenty of people out there doing that, but none of them could provide what I needed.
I needed someone who could listen to me and say,
“Let’s explore where this comes from, what it might mean, and what is really asking to be healed here.
Let me be the person who listens, who understands, and who can help you navigate it.
Let me be the person who offers you something that will go to the deepest place of suffering and gently shift the course.
Let me be the person who watches you find the triumph in all of this.”
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Financial setbacks feel bad; they just do. But they make space for financial wins. And knowing that I had a trusted expert in my corner made me feel okay, even though it’s going to cost me money, because I can say,
“I anticipated that I would need help and I assembled a team to help me. They can’t carry it for me, but they can help me carry it to the best of my ability, and give me tools to lighten the load.”
But financial setbacks and health setbacks have a lot in common; in fact, it’s not unusual for someone who suffers the former to subsequently experience the latter.
And the latter is much more important.
So before things feel catastrophic and unmanageable, when you get that little signal that tells you,
“perhaps things are not all perfection in the foundation of my health,”
Find someone you trust.
You don’t have to feel alone. Let’s talk . I might be that person.
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Thank you for sharing this Sarah! Your support & en-courage-ment is worth every cent I pay you! You are also wise beyond your years:)
I’m sorry to hear that the “service” is coming after you. I’ve found the individuals there to be completely ignorant of their own rules and unresponsive to challenges when I’ve pushed back. They are bullies, liars and thieves. And you’re of course aware of my preferred method of dealing with these kind of people. Let me know if I can help with anything.