How to handle fearful challenges that are out of your control.
Our challenges are our hidden gifts, the treasure of life. They help us to learn, grow and evolve. I know that in this lifetime, I am supposed to be sharing my challenges and teaching people about what I’ve learnt. Sharing our own unique journeys is how we help others.
But when we’re facing a challenge that feels really tough, that’s out of our control and we can’t do anything about it, what’s the best way to handle it?
This lesson has bitten me on the bum again recently and I’ve now got really clear advice about it from my angelic team.
The first things the angels told me was this:
"Let go of the idea that your challenges are problems that you cannot overcome. Your journey is not meant to be a straight and easy path. You will experience many trials along the way, and each one of these experiences will teach you something new. Every challenge has a hidden gift inside: lessons that ultimately provide the tools, knowledge, and awareness that you need to succeed. Ask yourself with every challenge, what is the hidden gift here? These gifts will give you strength, open your mind, and reveal a different perspective. No matter what challenges you are facing on your life‘s journey, do not give up! Trust that, no matter what, everything has been coordinated to work out for your highest good. You are on the right path, continue on this path with the knowledge that bumps and roadblocks are a part of the process. Have faith in your journey and you will surely step into your greatness"
What is the challenge?
What do you currently believe about the situation? This is really important! The challenge you’re facing will be highlighting a particular set of beliefs. Look within and open up to your own inner guidance and trust your intuition about what you need to learn in order to move on. Go within and ask yourself, what do I believe here? So, to give you an example, I was in a horrible situation where my car had broken down. The garage told me it could either cost me £1000 to fix it or £4000 to replace the whole part. I asked myself, what do I believe will happen here? And the answer was “I believe my luck is bad! I believe the car will cost me £4000. All I was doing was focussing on and imagining was how bad it would be if I needed to pay the £4000, I could hear my thoughts saying “you’re just not that lucky!”
Is this belief holding you back from finding the best solution? This is the next thing to ask yourself. In my case, yes it was! The best solution wouldn’t come if I believed in the opposite! I needed to make a different picture in my mind. I needed to imagine and focus on only paying the £1000 for a repair. I needed to believe that I was that lucky. I needed to shift from fear to possibility.
The greatest call to faith is to shift from fear to possibility. To have unwavering faith in the universe, which is total acceptance that you have no control over the challenge and to allow for it to unfold as it will. When you feel fear, which could look like anxiety, or overwhelm or frustration, or any other negative feeling about a situation, shift your focus to the possibility instead.
For example, my fear was for my car costing £4000 to replace a whole part. I turned this fear into possibility by imagining the scenario where we were told “it’s absolutely fine, I’ve fixed it and it will only be £1000 for the repair. I am that lucky!”. I visualised the problem being minor and financially less significant. I affirmed “it’s all ok, all will be well”. And I surrendered it to the Angels. I moved forward with a complete knowing that it was already done.
It comes down to ‘What do you want to happen?’ and if you can start to believe that the desired outcome could happen– enough that you can rely on faith and release the outcome to the divine timing of source – then you’re on your way to creating it. So, ask yourself, what is the perfect outcome? And focus on that. Live, breathe and speak that perfect outcome! The Angels said:
“Have faith in the end scene. Pay attention to what you believe in. if you believe that things will unfold in the worst possible way, your faith is focused on the wrong thing. When we experience challenges in our life, we tend to focus mostly on the worst-case scenario but putting all of your energy into the worst-case scenario is the shadow side of faith. Faith is the acceptance that you have no control over something and then allowing for it to unfold as it will. Faith is also a belief in a higher power. Remember that it is your faith in the perfect outcome – the best outcome possible – it will cause your wish to unfold in divine timing. Anytime you find your faith wavering, hold a picture of the perfect outcome in your minds and then ask your angels to reveal to you the perfect action to take, and then move forward fiercely with a complete knowing that it is already done. As long as you have faith in the knowledge that everything will unfold in perfect divine timing, it shall be done. All you have to do now is align with the unwavering faith that the outcome is for my highest and best good, which may be very different from what I pictured”
Surrender
Totally surrender! You aren’t able to control the outcome here so you can either keep trying to ‘do’ something to make the situation better or you can do the best thing which is to let it all go and call on higher support. So, make no ‘judgement’ for what to do, no plans for what to do, do not judge at all what to do next. Instead, trust that you are going to be guided.
State “I accept that I have no control over this situation and I allow it to unfold as it will. I have faith in the best possible outcome and I trust that it will unfold in divine timing”
Continue to hold a picture of the perfect outcome in your minds and then ask your angels to reveal to you the perfect action to take “Angels, please reveal to me the perfect action to take”
Anytime you find your faith wavering, repeat the affirmation above. Remember, you’re not giving up, you’re giving the problem over to the universe for them to provide the best possible solution.
Keep picturing the perfect outcome –that in itself will cause your wishes to unfold in divine timing (not your idea of the right timing). Hold a picture of the perfect outcome in your mind and ask the angels to reveal to you the next action to take. Then, listen and watch, observe your life closely and pay attention to their signs. Allow them to direct me as to what to do next. And the final step is
Support Team
Ask yourself if you need any support with this. The Angels are raising their hands here and saying ‘me, me, me!”. They are always here to support you and guide you through. They also ask you to seek earthly support if there is any to be had. Ask yourself, what kind of support do I need in this challenge? Be specific about the details and characteristics of the best possible team or group of people. If you don’t know how to find the right support for your needs, visualise what your ideal support team looks like. Is this team for work, my social life, my spiritual life?
For me, with my car situation, my support team was my father in law who helped me get the car to a specialist garage and the angels themselves who I surrendered the problem over to.
“Support team – we guide you to seek and align with your support team. To remember that you are not alone in this life: and it’s time to get clear about the type of support that you need. Take a moment to write down the qualities of the people you would like to be on your team. The most specific and clear you are about the type of support team you need, the easier it will be for you to attract them into your reality. Then with powerful intent, send an invitation out into the universe to rally your support team. The challenge, project or passion you are working on will be 10 times more successful when you share it with others and build a team of compassionate, like-minded people to support your vision. Release any beliefs, ideas, and fears that make you feel you have to do this alone.
Your guiding angels are letting you know that you have a support team available in them. When you set the intention and make the effort to send this welcoming energy out into the universe, you will be surprised by all the like-minded, supportive people and angels standing by to enter your life. You must be willing to share your worries and thoughts openly and honestly. Your team of people are waiting for you, and they each have something equally important to contribute for the greater good.”
The Root Chakra
When you are facing some significant challenges and some difficult emotions, the energy in your root chakra may be blocked or unstable, revealing potential fears about your safety, your feelings of insecurity, and even some depression. Issues of instability can shake you to your very core, so it’s important to get the energy moving freely through the root chakra once again. A blocked or unstable root chakra will cause you to attract from an unsteady vibration.
Call upon Archangel Michael for assistance and visualise his blue light and power feeding this area and bringing you a greater sense of your own true strength and eternal stability.
Meditate on the affirmation below and feel a sense of safety and balance return:
“My first chakra is open to its perfect, healthy set state. I am strong, stable, safe, and secure. The Archangel Michael guides and supports me always.”
What challenges are you currently facing? What do you currently believe about the situation? What do you want to happen? Do you need any support with this? Reflect in your journal and comment below ⬇️
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