In the Spring of 2023, I was informed that the position I had held for 13 years was going to be abolished and split into three, as the number of positions bearing that job title was being reduced to fit provincial standards.
Even though this decision did not put me out of work, and even though many colleagues were suffering the same fate, the news struck me at full speed, leaving me in utter disbelief…
As I walked away from the hospital that day, my inner voice had whispered that this whole situation “was a gift”, but my ego had quickly taken over, keeping my mind focused on all the accomplishments, the countless sacrifices, the numerous unpaid hours, the devoted soldiering during the pandemic, the blind loyalty…and all of it…only to be painfully betrayed.
I had just been treated like a number, and after so many years of service, I couldn’t accept it!
It felt as if these colleagues and decision-makers had become strangers, and as if the principles we had lived by within the organization had suddenly completely shifted.
And while I tried to process what was happening, I could hear the words of a seasoned colleague echoing in loops through my mind: “MC, beware how much you give, because an organization has no heart, and you’ll never get anything in return”. I could feel this truth deep into my bones as I wondered why this unlikely scenario was now happening to me.
Little did I know that this was actually happening FOR me at a very pivotal moment in my life.
As you might have heard before, the mystic RUMI famously said that: “What you seek is seeking you”, which means that when you align with your soul purpose and become clear on what you want, the Universe co-creates with you to ease the path to the desired destination.
Now if you have read my story, you know that in the Spring of 2023, I was well into my spiritual awakening and had already been working on birthing Aquarian Wellbeing for months.
I knew exactly what I wanted, but one problem remained: I kept delaying the launch of my business, thinking I had to deliver certain projects to the organization before asking for some time off, aware of the fact that I could not humanly straddle this highly demanding job and a new soul aligned business.
In short, some unconscious beliefs were getting in the way…
…and I was not taking the actions needed to carve time and create space to do more of what made me happy.
And as explained by Hoobyar and al. in NLP: “ That becomes a problem when beliefs that were formed when you were a kid ( knowing only what you knew then) are still making your choices. Those old beliefs have largely chosen your work, your politics, your mate and your lunch…(Hoobyar et al. p.13)”.
Furthermore, as stated by the psychiatrist Carl Jung: “The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate” (Jung p.70-71). In other words, we could say that until you make your unconscious beliefs and desires conscious, they will run your life, and you will see the events occurring in your life as fate, when in fact, they are what you have been unconsciously calling in all along.
Once I understood this, I realized that, having seen me limited by old beliefs, and short of options to carve time to actualize my soul purpose…
…the Universe had stepped in to create exactly what I needed!
And what I needed, was a massive wake up call to break off my soldier-like loyalty strings and the opportunity to choose a new human sized position!
Thanks to this event, I was able to team up with and lead wonderful like-minded people, while also being given the opportunity to create the space I needed to launch Aquarian Wellbeing and fully align with my soul purpose!
And so after the initial shock, I became aware that this situation had been divinely created FOR me…
... not as the injustice my ego had first perceived, but rather as an answer to many of my unconscious pleas, wishes and thoughts.
I had seeked to align with my soul purpose, and because I knew what this purpose was, it had also seeked me, allowing the Universe to work its magic and create a path for a new beginning.
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Works Cited
Hoobyar, Tom, et al. NLP: The Essential Guide to Neuro-Linguistic Programming. HarperCollins, 2013.
Jung, C. G. Aion: Researches Into the Phenomenology of the Self. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
