Why You Should Find Your Blessings In Disguise

They are crucial to rewriting your life story

Patrick Paul Garlinger
The Startup

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How do you respond to calamity? For most people, the first response is to bemoan our bad luck. Why me? What did I do to deserve this? Is this my karma coming back to bite me?

Very often, however, with the passage of time, we look back upon that supposed tragedy and see it from a new perspective. Like a shiny gemstone being cracked out of bleak stone, we see it from our new vantage point as a “blessing in disguise.” We recognize that the event wasn’t the calamity we originally thought it was, but an opening to something new and better.

My own path is a testament to the power of finding our blessings in disguise. Over a decade ago, my life began to crumble around me: A long-term relationship ended, my career path was suddenly upended, and it felt like the universe was conspiring against me at every turn. With my life plans jettisoned, I was forced in a new direction, which led to a life-changing spiritual awakening, and then becoming a conscious channel and intuitive healer. Without those so-called “terrible” events, I couldn’t have become the person I am today.

Identifying our blessings in disguise is a tremendously powerful spiritual practice. It retrains your mind to meet life differently. When you make it a…

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Patrick Paul Garlinger
The Startup

Author of Endless Awakening: Time, Paradox, and the Path to Enlightenment and other books. Former prof & lawyer, now mystic, writer, intuitive.