🕊️ What if everything is already working out for you?

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Enjoy today’s read, where our editor Grace shares how changing her energy led her to love. 💛

Warmly, Kate
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Happy Sunday!

As we head into the week, I wanted to share a question and concept with you that has tremendously, tangibly changed my life.

If you KNEW that everything was going to work out for you – that you were going to get everything you want, and more – how would you show up differently today?

This concept struck me while I was listening to a podcast from Jenna Zoe a few years ago. She said something to the effect of: If you knew with complete certainty that you’d meet your soulmate next year in February, how would you show up differently in your dating life today? Would you be endlessly swiping on apps? Wondering what’s wrong with you? Complaining about dating? Or would you operate with a calm sense that everything was working for you, total peace and permission to enjoy the day in front of you?

I listen to a lot of self-helpy spiritual podcasts – but when I heard this, I had one of those full-body aha moments. How would I operate if I really had trust? If I didn’t think I was the one who needed to solve everything? If I could lean back into the universe’s better-than-I-could-imagine plan for me? Not only would I feel happier, and more free – but possessing this energy would actually be what attracted everything I wanted to me.

The core of this idea is that your energy transforms your experience and aligns you to what you want. It’s a radical idea, but it suggests that if life isn’t going our way, shifting our energy could unlock the way forward. And as someone who is a self-proclaimed problem solver, I always seem to forget that change and healing are often an inside job.

Last year, I had a very clear, real-life, no-joke, demonstration of this idea. I was doing some field journalism for The Good Trade, writing a piece called I Met With 5 Psychics — Did They All Agree? I decided to go to see 5 different psychics in a row to see if their predictions aligned at all. Beyond their predictions coming true or not (which I’ll be writing a follow-up on later!), something the psychic Wendy said really stuck with me… and ended up being the thing that changed my energy and then changed my life.

I had gone into the reading mostly wondering about my on-again, off-again relationship. I basically knew it wasn’t the right relationship for either of us, but going back to it was a comfortable habit that was hard to break. And even worse, I couldn’t even enjoy the relationship when I was in it, because I felt so guilty that I was doing something wrong and betraying myself. Wendy immediately picked up on the relationship and told me, “He’s ready for a relationship now. I see you in observation mode, seeing what unfolds – either he’ll totally evolve into the one you want to be with, or you’ll meet someone else very soon after. Regardless, you’ll be in love, and very happy!”

Regardless, I’d be with someone and be very happy? My stress about the rightness of the relationship instantly dissipated. If that was true, why spend any more time doubting myself or feeling guilty? What would happen if I trusted that the universe was going to guide me instead?

My energy followed suit – I was elated!! I showed up with love, attention, and treated that on-again, off-again relationship like it was holy work. After all, relationships are our opportunity to heal and grow above all. His energy changed too, and he even commented, “What happened?! Our relationship is better than ever.” My certainty that everything was working out for me changed the entire dynamic. But a few months later I got a call that redirected me…...