Hello, dear one!
Do you know as you admire others’ success and happiness, they also secretly wish to have your unique qualities and experiences?
Here is a perfect story to illustrate the law of relativity.
In 2004, Dove launched a Real Beauty campaign after surveying 3,000 women in 10 different countries.
To begin the process, Dove hired an FBI-trained forensic sketch artist. The women who participated in the survey greeted each other in a loft in San Francisco.
For the first sketch, the artist was seated behind a curtain. He would draw as each woman entered the room and described her appearance to him.
The artist noticed that most of the women used pejorative words describing their “big forehead,” “protruding jaw,” or “rounder face.”
The next day, the artist drew a second sketch of the same woman. This time he asked a stranger who met the woman in the loft to describe her looks.
Upon completion of the project, the artist presented the two sketches, side by side, to the women participants.
You probably guessed it!
These women cried out because they saw themselves as inadequate and flawed, but perfect and lovely in others’ eyes.
Moved by what he saw, the artist concluded, “I think many of these brave women realized that they had a distorted self-perception that had affected parts of their lives in significant ways.”
As a beautiful soul, have you held yourself back because of the imperfections and weaknesses in your eyes?
The law of relativity states everything is neutral until you assign it as good or bad.
Growing up in China, my mother, a math genius, expected me to love math like she did. But I was challenged with math since second grade.
With her best intentions and persistence, the more she sent me to math tutoring and solving math problems, the more I hated math and felt inept.
Subconsciously I resisted numbers and accepted my failure, and of course, life presented me with financial struggles for years.
With the infallible law of relativity, my weakness in math was only relative to my advanced intuition, which led me to a heart-centered path.
Following my heart, not my head, I was imbued in self-development, which didn’t make any financial sense, but it laid the rocks for growth and expansion.
One day, sitting among the audience, I received a life-changing message from the late Dr. Wayne Dyer,
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
I experienced an aha moment!
Math was neutral until believed I was bad at it. By the way, have you noticed the “lie” in the word “believe?”
What if I was good at numbers in a different way?
Instead of resistance, I began respecting math and learned to read financial statements. In only a few years, my tide turned from lack to abundance.
The law of relativity is a law of Divine Wisdom. You can sit in the same seat and move your head to see a different view.
A pen in your hand is still a pen until you attach meaning to it. Problems and solutions coexist, depending on your definition and perspective.
As you breathe in, you must breathe out to survive. Success is on the other side of failure. Your assumed weakness in one area is relative to your brilliance in another.
I’ve met cancer survivors who went on a natural healing path and reversed their conditions. The health setbacks have set them up for medical freedom today.
As you admire others’ financial success, they also wish to have a simpler life and more time with their family and friends like you.
The lovers or friends you thought you’d lost were there for a season so that the ones who belong to your path can show up for a lifetime.
The next time you call someone or something a disappointment, the law of relativity may turn you into a discovery!