Where Do You Go When Things Go Wrong?

The reason I am asking the question in this post title is that often we think we are believing one thing when really we are believing another thing entirely, and working REALLY HARD to cover that up.

For example, I may think that I believe I am worthy of having a more peaceful, joyful, deeply fulfilling, and beautiful life and that all beings have this birthright within them, and I may have no trouble feeling this truth when things are going okay or going right…

But when things go wrong, and things don’t work out as I planned, and people aren’t behaving how I want them to, and all my controls are breaking down — where do I go then??

Those are the most powerful moments in truth. Because those are the most revealing moments. They are not revealing the truth of how things are, however. They are revealing the truth of what you BELIEVE about yourself and life.

When things go wrong or don’t work out as planned, the place my mind tends to go is that I am just not good enough, that I don’t belong here, and I never will, and that life is just hard, and then you die. That that is just “how it is,” and I am a crazy idiot for believing in or moving towards anything different, and the current challenges in my life are my punishment for going off the rails from that belief and my “proof” that it doesn’t exist, so I…