Shifting from "failure" to freedom
What if I said there is no such thing as a mistake or failure? That those are just hidden opportunities that we can learn to appreciate and even look forward to...
Whether it's as big as a relationship or career ending or as small as putting your foot in your mouth... (again!), we've all made "mistakes" or experienced "failure".
How do we shift our mindset after we experience the perception of failure? How do we integrate our lessons and experiences?
We have the opportunity to take time to workshop it – what lessons are learned? What self-limiting beliefs were accessed? We can integrate the experience before diving into and getting lost in the next chapter.
If we view failure as feedback, we free ourselves from the fear of making mistakes, and it can keep us from carrying it as another heavy burden of suffering that adds to the accumulated pain we carry in our lives.
Message from the universe: There are no mistakes, there is only feedback and realignment, understanding, awakening and awareness.
When we give ourselves time and space to notice, feel and be aware of the emotions that arise in an experience, we can then move into shifting our mindset around the lesson so we don't turn it into a story of victimhood. We can release our story, our attachment to the experience, and have faith and surrender to the universe.
When we take time to notice the lessons learned and integrate them into our lives, we become grateful for the insight into the self, and we shift without fear into something more aligned because now we have more information about ourselves. Our awareness and consciousness is more open and finely tuned to reality.
The path that lies ahead of you is always in the present moment. So, take the time in the moment, as things happen, as the thoughts arise about your mistake or failure, and allow the emotions to come up. Allow the feelings to pass through you. Notice if there is something you learned about yourself from the experience.
Perhaps your thoughts will start blaming others or yourself for the mistake or failure. Notice that, then bring it back to love. How can you be more compassionate with yourself and others? Can you give yourself and others grace and forgiveness, knowing that everyone is always doing their best in every moment (with what they have, who they are and their consciousness in that moment).
I know that my present moment self would not make many of the same choices I made in the past now. That is fabulous. Instead of looking back with regret, I can look back at mistakes and failures with the gratitude for my personal growth and the evolution of my consciousness.
And we will keep being faced with the same patterns in our lives until we choose differently. Perhaps the choice is to realize our part in the dynamic. Or maybe we can notice, validate and feel a feeling that we have previously stuffed down or avoided.
Patterns in our lives will keep repeating themselves until we begin to heal the parts of ourselves that are triggered by those events/people/situations/thoughts. Therefore, nothing is a mistake.
After we integrate an experience as a lesson, we can also shift into gratitude. Thank you for this lesson! Thank you for this awareness! Thank you for this freedom from carrying this story of victimhood - how empowering!
We can feel the pain, process, release, integrate and shift into gratitude and freedom.
Isn't that beautiful! You are beautiful! Everything around you is beautifully connected and supporting you!
Everything is an opportunity, a gift to see yourself more clearly, to shift toward more awareness, presence, love and connection to all things. Feel all the feels, turn inward, and trust yourself and the universe... you are the universe. All things in life are supporting you and your spiritual evolution. Because All is Love.
- Morgan Boszilkov