Do you believe in bad luck? Is bad luck something that is or can be influenced in the spiritual world, or is it just coincidence? How do you get yourself out of bad luck, if you can?
Thank you!
Irene
Dreamchaser:
Irene, while most of the human race seems to believe in luck, I personally do not. I have learned through my own experiences and by watching other people that luck is something we create, or in some cases like Job in the Christian Bible, it is handed to us. I have also learned that one's mindset about life can create what appears to be more "good" or "bad" luck.
We all go through trying periods in our lives. Some would attribute this to bad luck, and others would attribute it to lessons we need to learn or just plain old living. No one leads a perfect life. Everyone has times of trouble, drama and sorrow. Some people go through very long periods of time when it appears that nothing is going right.
I myself have been guilty of blaming "bad luck" for my experiences a time or two (or ten trillion!). I often hear that expression, "If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all." That is awful thinking. We need to choose mindsets more like, "I sure am glad all this is happening before summer hits so I can enjoy myself then," or "I sure am glad I got that flat tire. I could have been in an accident up the road." That would be so much better for us.
I really do believe that our experiences are products of our thinking. If we think positive, positive things will happen. If we can see potential negatives as positives, we will make the rough spots in life much easier to go through. THAT is how you change your "bad luck" - you change your mindset. Instead of seeing everything as bad, turn it around and see if you can see the good in it. There is good in every situation. I am going to repeat that: THERE IS GOOD IN EVERY SITUATION!
Now, oftentimes we are given a whole lot to deal with at once. Some higher power deems it necessary for our growth to throw everything but the kitchen sink at us. Those are the times when it is REALLY difficult to see the positive. Those are the times we need to poke our heads WAY up over the pile and see if we can look down the road. For example, if your man says he is leaving you, you can choose to look at the present, which is horrible and hard, or you can look up over the pile and envision the future. The future promises that you will be happy again, you'll get to take that class you wanted to take, you'll get to flirt and date again, and your life WILL go on. All of that is positive stuff. Look OVER the pile when you get slammed.
One of my mantras is, "This too shall pass." NOTHING stays the same. Keep breathing and you WILL get past it all AND be better for it.
I wish you far-sightedness.
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Astrea?
A wise old man had a horse. The horse ran away, and his neighbors tried to console him. "Isn't this bad luck?" they said. He answered, "Maybe." The next day the horse came back leading six wild horses with it. The neighbors came to congratulate him. "This is good fortune, is it not?" they asked. The peasant said, "Maybe." The next day his son tried to ride one of the wild horses, but he fell down and broke his leg. The neighbors said, "Isn't it a shame?" The peasant said, "Maybe." Then soldiers came to conscript the youth of the village, and the peasant's son was not chosen because of his broken leg. When the neighbors came to congratulate him, you can guess what the peasant said.
When I was working on the telephone, at least 50 percent of the callers would ask me if I saw them winning the lottery. I only saw that once in five years, and that person won five thousand dollars. She called back the day after to fuss at me about her BAD LUCK at only winning that SMALL amount. (At the time, this was a FORTUNE to me!)
A man who falls madly in love with a married woman with three kids may say to me, "I can't believe I had such bad luck to fall in love with someone who was already married! Why do I always have such BAD LUCK?"
Well, I bet you can see where this is going. One person's good luck is another person's bad luck, and it's the individual's perspective that makes all the difference. If you THINK and PERCEIVE that all you're having is bad luck, then surely, that is all you will have. If you welcome the events into your life as they occur with an open mind and heart, then you will begin to see that luck is something you CREATE, not something that falls out of the sky.
We can change our bad luck to good. If we live our lives in Spirit, then we have an easier time of things. Having faith that God will work FOR us seems to lead to general happiness.
Certainly prayers are often answered, and our Guides and Angels do their best for us, but as long as we are creatures of conscious thought and Free Will, we can think that we are victims of our "luck." The person who seems SO LUCKY to us may have just as many issues and problems as we do. On the whole, however, a person who has a positive outlook will have positive experiences, and a person who insists on seeing the glass as "half empty" is not going to have great "luck." While Spirit can assist us, it's up to us to create what we want in our lives. To change the bad to good, change the way you LOOK at things that happen in your life. It's easier than you think!
Astrea:
Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.
Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!
While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!
I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!
As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.
I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.
You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!
Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.
A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.
You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.