How to recognize opportunities for your growth and development, chances to radically change your life, or get an answer to your question in seemingly ordinary situations and words?
This question worries many. But seeing an opportunity is only half the battle; it is also important to be able to use it.
Learn a simple algorithm for recognizing opportunities, as well as how not to miss them.
Algorithm for recognizing opportunities
I like to break everything down into algorithms. Because when you break it down, you immediately understand at which stage you are lagging, and where you need to take some measures or make adjustments.
When we look at problems or some task globally like this, it is often unclear what needs to be done.
Step one
Ask yourself the question: “Do I see opportunities or not?”
By opportunities, we mean financial opportunities, opportunities for relationships, for development, without specifics. A wide range of opportunities that appear literally every day.
Do you see them in principle?
Step two
If you see them, do you use them or not? This is the second question you ask yourself.
If you answer positively, great; if not, another question arises: “Why? What is holding me back? What is stopping me from using these opportunities?”
Here is a concrete example. You are invited to speak somewhere, or someone says that someone is looking for a new employee, and you hear about it — that is an opportunity.
You might want to, but you do not do it. The question: What is stopping you, what is blocking you?
If you honestly answer these questions for yourself, many tasks for working through will arise.
Someone is afraid, someone has a fear of change, low self-esteem, believes they are unworthy, won’t cope, can’t do it, and so on.
After such an analysis, it immediately becomes clear where to go and what to do. Also, what to do so that the next opportunity is not missed?
Take the Meditation “Boundless Opportunities,” where you will define the desired events for yourself and also fill yourself with the feeling of the boundlessness of the opportunities opening before you.
What happens if you miss an opportunity
At one time, I was not allowed to travel abroad; I couldn’t leave the country. Because I was unmarried, with a child in my arms. For foreign countries, I was considered unreliable, and at the same time, I worked as a poor teacher, so I couldn’t provide a certificate of high salary and couldn’t get a visa.
When I was offered to go to Turkey with other people’s children as a chaperone, I refused. Because I would have had to abandon my own child or find money to take him along.
After that, I didn’t go anywhere for seven years. Later, with the help of spiritual practices, I managed to turn this point around in my life. Perhaps because I had too strong a desire to leave.
There is such a cycle: a missed opportunity does not come back. The Universe offers several times; if you keep refusing, the window of opportunity closes. When this last time will come is unknown, and when the window of opportunity will open, and whether it will open at all, is also unclear.
Here is a situation. I understand that this is a rake. I got hit in the forehead with full force, with full gratitude, but I got hit.
And if I put this situation aside, even if I worry but do nothing, then next time it will repeat, and I will again be unprepared for it.
There are many people who repeatedly step on the same rake and suffer, fall into the role of a victim, and, in principle, that’s where it ends.
They read a lot, attend various trainings, but nothing changes in their lives because no evolutionary development occurs, and when an opportunity comes into their life, they are not ready to take it.
What measures can you take to not miss it next time, but to be able to accept new opportunities?
See also: How to keep your focus of attention on the reality where you want to be
Readiness to accept new opportunities
Make a decision not to refuse next time. Give yourself a head start — some time to think, get used to this opportunity, and also prepare.
I will give a personal example. At one time, I translated books. I sat at home at the computer, using dictionaries, and I was comfortable working that way.
And then I was invited to perform on stage as an interpreter. I realized that this was a unique chance for me and there might not be a second one. This is a new level with new opportunities.
Opportunities come in different forms, but there are moments when you understand that this is a fork at a new crossroads.
For me, this was a chance. I understood that if I refused, this door would close, and there would be no more such a chance.
I understood that I was not ready. I had an internal struggle. But I had time to prepare. I spent the next two months on tremendous preparation so that I could still go on stage.
What to do to see the maximum spectrum of opportunities
1. Shift your focus of attention
The longer we think about something, the longer we carry it inside ourselves, we stop seeing it. There is even an expression: “the eye gets blurred.”
On TV, when an advertisement plays, the volume increases and the frames become brighter. This is done to capture your attention.
Because people have a reflex — not to see. On websites, it’s the same: when an ad is displayed, people are simply used to scrolling past and not looking. They don’t even notice it’s there. There is even a concept called “banner blindness.”
The same goes for opportunities.
If you pull yourself out of a hectic, everyday state and for a while rise above it, detach from it, you will see a completely different perspective.
You shift your focus of attention, energy moves along with it, and then you allow many processes to happen.
See also: Synchronizing your desires with service, or Why it is important to follow a heartfelt impulse
2. Reconsider your worldview
Our beliefs and stereotypes prevent us from seeing new opportunities. They stand as a filter on the path to perceiving opportunities.
Reconsider any of your statements, any assertive claims that something is this way and no other. Check them every time. Check them for consistency.
Because very often it turns out to be some frozen-in-time conclusion that you took on faith, like an axiom in mathematics. And since then, you have not conducted a revision, you have not reconsidered it.
Usually, people live like that, but you and I are developing, which means we can draw appropriate conclusions and make decisions. And change our beliefs.
See also the Process of Depth and Expansion. Which aspects of worldview will it affect and what to pay attention to
3. Engage the pineal gland
The pineal gland is a center that acts as a relay, allowing you to see new opportunities, expanding the spectrum and radius of your vision.
The pineal gland is located in the center of the head, and during puberty in adolescents, it is still large, but as soon as puberty begins, it shuts down, becomes small, and practically stops functioning. This is what scientists say.
During puberty, a person’s vibrations do not match this higher organ. It initially vibrates at a different level because it connects different dimensions.
But it can be activated. We have already conducted a meditation where this organ was engaged. Go through it to allow yourself to see more — “Expanding the Vision of Opportunities.”
How easy is it for you to accept new opportunities? Have you often missed or rejected them?
The article is based on materials from the group meditation “Expanding the Vision of Opportunities”