Have you ever taken a decision where your mind tells you to choose the other option but you go with the option that feels right and it brings you to beautiful places? Let’s try to reverse engineer this decision making although it’s difficult.
I get asked so often “why did you chose Norway?”. And even after two months living here I can’t give you a clear response to that. The reason for that is that I have a Business background, worked in Consulting, fulfilled my dream of working in Silicon Valley and all odds were pointing on me continuing to pursue this career.
After doing my GRE/GMAT (the score wasn’t amazing haha), I had the opportunity to join the best business schools of the world. I openly can talk about my privilege of having the support of my parents, which I don’t say to brag about it, but more as a sign of gratitude. Hence, I had all opportunities to conquer my dream of doing a MBA in San Diego or go the route of the CEMS Master in Sydney which certainly would have opened myself to a phenomenal global career in business.
But when I finally took my decision for my masters, I decided against my past, what my environment & most importantly my mind was telling me. What do I mean by that?
I got my offer letters by several business schools but never felt a high on it. I had sent one application for Leadership & Business Psychology to BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, but didn’t hear back from them a long time. One day however, I got the acceptance and the moment I read it, I got chills all over my body & felt a big emotional high. Don’t ask me why, but this reaction of my body kept me up the whole night.
It was the moment I decided to follow my instincts and this higher power that was doing its work through my body’s reactions. I’m 100% sure that it was not a coincidence that this happened. The days following after getting the acceptance letter, the universe or however you want to call this higher power gave me various signs that this is the way to go, against what I thought my direction of life would be.
I had never been to Norway, knew nobody in Norway and had never before debated the odds of going there. But I always had in the back of my head my dream of making my living by inspiring others to unleash their inner leader as I had done it. This was congruent to my mission of life which is to be a radiating force of joy and love for myself and others. And studying leadership was certainly the most appropriate choice in order to go in the direction of my dream life. But what has this in common with spirituality?
Firstly, the chills and body reaction as previously mentioned. Secondly, I had found this mission on a spiritual journey through a powerful meditation at a Tony Robbins events, hence, I knew that it is who I am. Moreover, the night I was laying awake in bed after getting the confirmation, I did a meditation.
I used a powerful meditation technique by Joe Dispenza which is about connecting to the quantum field where opportunities are limitless, hence, the best place to get my final inspiration for my decision on my masters. While doing this meditation I could vividly feel how it would be to live in Oslo & pursue my dream life. I had to cry. Another interesting experience emerged from the meditation: I started to walk through the journey of pursuing a business degree. My subconscious mind and the higher power made me realise that pursuing that route would make me be a rich 40 year old, but not fulfilled with life and full of regrets.
It’s difficult to explain these experiences, but once you believe that there is something greater than us in this universe, you can actively seek advice by that higher power. I have had multiple experiences where I saw this is a fact, f.ex. when my grandma died and I could vividly talk to her, experiencing her death in a meditation at a Tony Robbins events which took away all the fear of death from me or when I was getting up the stage in China at the role play in front of the whole school and the TV without remembering my texts. It worked out because I let myself be a vessel of this higher power.
I did the same with my decision of moving to Oslo and I now fully understand that connecting to my spiritual side opened this new sense of feeling and instinct which ultimately put me in a position of total joy and happiness here in Oslo. There are many things that happen in our lives that we suppress by our mind and beliefs. However, these things are always happening for us. Can you think of something that has upset you but was the biggest gift of your life?
Maybe your ex-girlfriend cheated on you. Someone died. The problem is that it’s often hard to see the positive impact of these experiences. However, once we believe that everything happens for us and that the universe has a bigger plan for us, we can step into this new way of living. My mess in my past, my shyness in my childhood and growing up in a beautiful home but with a divorce, were painful BUT I now can see that only thanks to these experiences I am where I am in life. What messes in your life can you turn into messages that inspire your future and others after living through them?
It just takes the belief that all these things happen for a bigger reason that serve us and the world. We’re not on this universe to be stressed or angry. We’re here to remember who we really are and live full of joy and passion. For doing so we need to trust this higher power and turn down the volume of our “realistic” mind. Because the most precious experiences can’t be described by this rational mind.
Through my coaching I would love to deconstruct this connection to the higher power so that you can flow with the ease of life while being guided by your instincts and the higher power. Life is always happening for us and not to us. We can start seeing this once we connect to this high power as we’re all spiritual beings having a human experience.
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