One thing that can happen easily right now is to look at the uncertainty in our world, feel a bit overwhelmed, throw in a couple of your own “challenging” situations that have popped up, and begin to feel like it’s all too much to handle. And when we have that reaction and the accompanying feelings, it’s easy to move into feeling immobilized. There doesn’t seem to be any clear action to take when you’re feeling beyond overwhelmed.
I will admit to having just that feeling of being immobilized very recently. It’s not my usual MO. I’m all about seeing solutions as soon as I can. However, this series of events picked up just enough momentum to create a feeling of “What now? I’m not even sure which thing I should focus on. I’m not even sure I can focus.” What I do know for sure is that when we are feeling like that, not only is our mind not providing its usual solutions, but we are not in a position to perceive our Inner Guidance, which is what we really need to move forward.
What I also know for sure, despite allowing myself to feel immobilized, is that firmly deciding to make our vibration our top priority is essential to moving out of immobilization. While we may have decided earlier in our lives to focus on our vibration, when we are feeling immobilized, it is time to double down on our vibe coming before anything else. It needs to be our top priority. I also know that whatever challenges show up in our lives, we have created. We are the responsible parties, even if it feels like others are exerting control over our realities. Also essential to moving out of confusion and overwhelm is to acknowledge that the “challenges” that have shown up that we have created are there for our benefit. I have not always known that. When I first learned about our energy and that we create our realities with our thoughts decades ago, I focused more on, “Oof, that is a CHALLENGE, and I need to raise my vibration, or I’m going to be attracting more of the same.”
That reaction isn’t completely without merit, but I now realize that we create those challenges because of an underlying belief that needs some attention. There is something that we need to learn from the challenge. I have been putting “challenge” in quotations because there is an alternative definition that we don’t often think of when we are facing what we view as a challenge. Because there is something that we need to learn, it is also an opportunity.
We don’t necessarily want to just think, “Ugh, I need to work on my vibration,” without looking at what the challenge/opportunity might be trying to show us. I spend a great deal of time on this important new way of perceiving our circumstances in my book, soon to be published, “Next-Level Manifesting—When Miracles Become the New Normal.” I share some things that I previously could never have perceived as anything but a challenge that turned out to be a huge breakthrough for me. Facing the “challenge” resulted in my letting go of an old belief that no longer served me. I could even appreciate the fact that the challenge/opportunity occurred; it was actually an opportunity for expansion! That has been new for me and game-changing. 
In addition to asking ourselves why we might have created the thing that is making us feel like it is all just too much to handle, we also have another outlet for that sense of overwhelm. We can decide we will not “handle” it in the usual way. We will handle it, but before we act, we will remind ourselves that we have a huge team of helpers available to us at every moment. Knowing that we have so much support from our guides, our Soul Team, our Inner Being, the Universe, and more other sources than we are even aware of can help to take the overwhelm out of the equation.
Asking or thanking that team of helpers for support and guidance can always be part of our solution when it all feels like a bit too much. Once we’ve done that, it’s nearly impossible to feel the same heightened level of anxiety, overwhelm, or inability to use our skills and mindsets to move past the issues that are ready for a solution.
So our steps can be: (1) reaffirm our commitment to our vibration as our top priority no matter what is happening or what anyone else is doing; (2) use the tools we have to improve our vibration, especially appreciating what is working, what we already have in our lives, which is easy to utilize; (3) ask ourselves what we must have believed to have created the problem/opportunity; (4) challenge that belief and let it go if it no longer serves us or makes sense for us now that we know more; and (5) hit pause at least briefly and deliberately let go of all of it as we ask, acknowledge, and appreciate that we have a huge team of helpers that want nothing more than to support us on our path (HAND IT OVER).
These steps can immediately create a feeling of more ease and positive expectation. As we begin to see the synchronicities showing up due to our shift and the help we are receiving, we can get back into the mindset where we expect things to work out for us. We will have completely changed our point of attraction and what we are allowing into our lives with that new expectation. And then, the things we want to attract will show up, and they can show up quickly.
I will admit to having a bit more work to do in looking at the challenges/opportunities that arose in the last few days, but I do know for sure that this is the pathway forward. I will feel much better and have solutions in a much shorter time than I imagined when I felt like things were just “too much to handle” and the pathway forward was unclear. I hope this works for you, too, and that you are wowed and amazed by how quickly things can turn around to different and better circumstances.
As a bonus, you should also know that you will have released a false or tired belief that created the “challenge/opportunity,” and you will not be creating a similar challenge as you move forward. You’re done with that one!
If you could use some help in turning your challenges into opportunities by unearthing why you are creating them, I’m happy to help. Sometimes, it can be tricky to see these things for ourselves. You can reach me at susan@howtoallow.net
