Dear Friends,
Back in the early 1990’s I sold my first car, a 1983 Mazda GLC. I loved that little car but was embarrassed as I had not taken very good care of it. When it came time to sell the car, I just knew no one was going to want to buy it. The upholstery was stained from dropping my drinks on it. The doors all had scratches and dings on them from various other cars hitting them as well as my own carelessness. And the back doors would not open.
You probably can guess what happened. It didn’t sell for over 2 months nor did I receive even one call despite having it in the “for sale” section in the Seattle Times. At the time, I was working with a spiritual teacher up in Canada and I explained my situation to her. She shared with me that I was focusing on all of the flaws of the car instead of the good things about it. She pointed out to me that this pattern was a deeply ingrained pattern I held. She communicated that I showed myself to the world in this same way, by concentrating on what I perceived as my flaws and then living my life from this place of insecurity. This kept a lower vibration around me and did not allow any energetic space for my desires to find their way to me.
I took my teachers words to heart and went home and contemplated on my sweet little car. I owned and drove it for 8 years and it always started up easily. I drove it across country in 1986 to start my new life in Seattle. It carried me on numerous trips without ever breaking down. I was grateful for it. And after feeling immense appreciation for this car, I put information on it back into the “for sale” section in the Seattle Times.
Within a day, a young woman and her father called me stating they were interested in the car. They drove it for 5 minutes and we went back to my apartment and we drew up a sales contract. They then handed me a check for $1000.00. The young woman was very excited about the car as she thought it was a luxury car for her. After all, it had a cassette player! She also thought that the doors not opening in the back was a bonus as she had young children and thought that would keep her children safer. Although, I’m sure her dad probably had other thoughts about that issue. However, my shift in energy towards the car allowed someone else to see the car in a positive new light and extremely quick!! What an important and exciting lesson that was for me at that time and in the future.
Fast forward to 2006, I was selling my first home. I had a set price in mind that I wanted for the house. My realtor held a broker’s open house at my home and the group that gathered decided that the price of the house was worth about $40,000 less than what I was requesting. I knew in my heart these particular realtors were not seeing the value of my yard and gardens and were focusing on the perceived flaws of the house. I had spent many hours landscaping and creating a beautiful yard. The children in the neighborhood used to enjoy coming into the yard and helping me garden, playing with my dogs and climbing my Japanese apple/pear tree.
I held firm to my own KNOWING, in this case. I felt and knew that there was someone out there who would also see the value of the yard and love this home and feel it’s potential. I was fortunate enough to meet one of the potential buyers and was able to share with him how much joy I felt with the yard and my sadness in leaving. This sharing was from a place of truth.
This man was the person who ended up buying my home. The reason he bought the house was because he loved the yard! His wife was excited about playing in my gardens. And I ended up getting the full price I had in mind. I am so happy I held to my own truth and knowing. In this particular situation it paid off financially as well and I was able to buy my next new home with a better down payment.
My reason for sharing this with all of you is that sometimes we go out in the world from a place of insecurity. We don’t see the value in who we are or what we are offering to the world. We might be wanting a prospective love partner, a new job, greater health, more abundance. However, if we are focusing on what is wrong with ourselves or in our lives, the love partner might not be able to get to us as our energy is not vibrating from a higher place of wisdom. We might not get the job we are wanting as we feel somehow insecure about our abilities and the person interviewing us will feel this. Or we might not regain our full wellness because we keep focusing on aspects of our health that are wrong at the moment. In this case, focusing on the lack of health creates more lack of health. Focusing on what is working creates even more things to work out for us.
As a nurse, intuitive, and energy healer, I often tell people to focus on all the things in the body that are working for them at the moment. Even a person who has cancer in some of his/her cells, has trillions of more cells that are doing their job perfectly! If you put the energy towards all of those cells that are working amazingly well then you will have more cells that will step up and do their jobs well too!
I am so incredibly grateful to that teacher, years ago, who pointed out a very deep pattern I was holding. I still fall into negativity at times, but luckily, I have such strong experiences that worked out so powerfully and that continue to inspire me and hopefully others as well.
I am wishing all of you the power, healing, and abundance that comes from focusing on the good things that are occurring in your lives, no matter what they might be. Beautiful changes can happen very quickly. Even if you have to focus on the smallest of things that are working for you that is sufficient.
The good things will grow the more you water them with your focus, appreciation and imagination! May this new Spring season be filled with the beauty of creating and allowing your hearts desires to bloom!
Happy Spring!
Namaste, Rosemary Veilleux RN