How to Stop Believing in Problems

Disclaimer: This post is not for unconscious creators, and it isn’t even for every conscious creator. Depending on where you’re at vibrationally, it might just be offensive or it might inadvertently activate unhelpful vibrations. Check in with your guidance to see if it’s really helpful for you to read now. 

This is by request from a fellow creator who asked me to expand on an idea I shared briefly on a recent GVU call. My intention is that this story help you put your problems in a more empowering perspective.

I had a big problem that appeared to be long-lasting and was causing me severe anxiety and stress. It was ruining the good life I’d created. It weighed on me and clouded otherwise enjoyable moments.

I couldn’t fix it (I’d already tried multiple things); no one could help no matter how much they wanted to; and it was only getting worse.

I knew that resistance wasn’t working, but I didn’t know how to let it be okay. I was smack dab in the middle of a really big problem that I couldn’t get out of.

And then, something happened …

Something much worse happened. On a whole different topic. Something that mattered even more to me.

(I think it was that one of my dogs had a significant health scare, although I’m having trouble remembering exact details.)

At the time I didn’t know it was just a scare. For a while it looked like I was at risk of losing my most loved one. I was terrified for their well-being. It was the most awful thing I could contemplate. And I wasn’t just contemplating it – it seemed to be happening. This way more terrible thing than anything I’d ever worried about before was happening.

And in that moment my formerly great big unsolvable problem became a joke of a problem. It was a giant joke that I had ever even worried about that. Because in comparison to this brand new real problem, it was the most inconsequential thing ever.

This old thing that had cost me sleep?! This other situation that had deprived me of joyful moments?! It was the smallest most ridiculous reason to worry that I could ever conjure.

Because now I knew what a real problem was. It was not this other thing. How could I have ever let minuscule issue cost me a moment’s peace? It wasn’t even in the neighborhood of real problems – it was just a life event that sometimes happens. I couldn’t even be bothered with it any more. In fact, I’d welcome that thing in my life, knowing what I know now about real problems.

This was not a real problem.

I knew that now.

All right, and then this thing happened where I saw that something else could make me believe the thing I was looking at now, it could also shrink it into a nothing-problem, too. And there was something else more legit that could shrink that into nothingness, too. And so on, and so on.

Which is how I knew that there’s no such thing as a real problem.

They aren’t real.

They just seem like it temporarily while we’re believing that about them.

But they aren’t really problems in and of themselves.

The same way I couldn’t even believe my ridiculousness at worrying about this other thing, I realized that was also true for my new problem. It also was inconsequential and not worth giving up my peace and joy for. Indeed, that was true for every “problem.”

That’s why I’m sharing this story.

It taught me not to believe in big problems like I used to. I don’t think they’re an actual thing.

It might look like a problem. It might sound like one. It might feel like one. But it’s probably fooling you. Because … I learned I can be fooled about what a problem really is. So anytime I’m believing in one, that’s probably me just fooling myself temporarily again.

I’ve seen the truth about big problems, real problems. They aren’t remotely that.

And yes, I know they’re convincing. (I was convinced, too!) I know they seem legit. (I 100% believed in its problemhood at one point!)

And I also know believing in problems can serve us in lots of ways (including the contrast). Including the chance to choose better feeling thoughts and perspectives.

So I’m not sharing this to ridicule us for believing in problems when we do …

I’m sharing it so we can each pop the illusion bubble of our problems next time we’ve had enough of them. Because I’m pretty sure real problems don’t actually exist. Pretend problems are probably as close as we’re gonna get.

Maybe look at it this way …

• What if there were no such thing as real problems?
• What if there was just us and this adventure of life?
• What if there was just new incentives to expand into even better?
• What if it was just a chance to flex our focusing muscle and give universe direction for “even better”?

For the record, I’m not trying to talk you out of your problem. You can have it as long as you like. Maybe problems really do exist and I’ll be convinced of a new truth one day.

But in the meantime, even when it’s the death of our most loved one, or our own death, or the death of our planet, or worse – we don’t even get to die – we have to keep living the miserable experience we’ve painted ourselves into – even then, I feel like I can genuinely say, “That’s not a problem.”

I can’t be fooled into believing in them as easily as I was before, and that’s what I’m hoping to share with you here.

At least maybe you’ll be willing to question the legitimacy of your next “problem.”

Here’s to empowering perspectives and better feeling thoughts that let all our biggest and best dreams come true.

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