How To Overcome Disappointment
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Being disappointed is defined as feeling sad or let down when someone or something has failed to fulfill your hopes or expectations.
Disappointment can come after a single incident, such as a friend telling you they can no longer attend an event you were so looking forward to. It can also come after a long string of events. Such as being continually disappointed with the recognition, acknowledgment, or financial payback you’ve received from work and the continuous reasonable efforts you’ve put out.
Disappointment wears many hats. It can show up in your life in many ways. And at some point or another, we all have to deal with the feelings of being let down.
Even Ascended Masters have had moments where they felt they had to walk away from the pack and into a state of higher enlightenment.
This, I feel, is what disappointment often is calling us to do.
Disappointments often asks us to look away from the failures of human needs and imperfect systems that are continually improving. Instead, it encourages us to look within our immediate environment to see what we can do to inspire and reignite the belief in our own hopes and dreams.
Disappointment can be a sign; it's time to go within. It can be an emotional signal that you're drained, too. Now it's time to call your energy back from the world and draw it closer to you.
This inward time can help you cultivate your own power again. Doing this can also restore hope and faith in humanity, and hope and faith in yourself. From that, you can eventually deliver this hope and trust back to humanity.
So if you’ve been only recently feeling disappointed or if you’ve been feeling this way for a very long time - you can say enough is enough with this feeling.
You can rise above routine disappointment and feel another way.
If you’re interested in this, please read on. The below steps can support you in a shift from feeling disappointed to feeling inspired again -
5 Ways To Let Go Of Disappointments And Move On
1. Start lifting the vibration of your innermost environment
Sadness and let down with how the outside world is supporting you can, over the long term, become taxing and draining on the body, mind, and spirit. So one of the best things you can do is to start lifting your internal vibration with the resources of thought and mind.
For this, I like get the mind going in a more positive direction with affirmations.
Here are a few to begin:
2. Food improves mood and you can do nutrition at a low cost
Nurturing oneself is one of the best self-transformation tools for disappointment. The antioxidants in foods can also promote positive emotions of safety and satisfaction, so filling your stomach can indeed help shift your mood. To boost yourself out of disappointment and into a state of gratitude, there is sometimes nothing better than a full belly.
Sometimes just drinking water provides a boost!
Excellent ideas for nutrition options that are filling, vitamin-rich, and low cost are:
Squashes
Root vegetables
Anything in the brassica family including cabbages, brussel sprouts, kale, all when in season
Dried then soaked beans, lentils, and rice
You would not believe how tasty, diverse, and nutritious rice can be when you shop all the different brands out there to find the one you like the most.
3. Uplifting music
I personally like uplifting orchestral instrumentals, but you can choose any music that you like and has an inspiring tone to it. Music has been scientifically shown to improve the mood and most of the time, you can find it somewhere for free.
4. Find groups that inspire you
Now that you’ve inspired your thoughts, filled your belly, and updated your style, it’s time to go connect with other humans. Whether you’ve been disappointed with a work situation, a lover situation, a financial situation, or a life situation, humans are pack animals.
The divine also speaks through other people. Others will be able to provide you with the support, insight, and love you need. You now have to find them.
My best advice here is to look around in-person or online classes in your interest areas - we have an intuitive development group on this site as part of The Membership. Go to two or three meetings with each group and decide if you feel ultimately good after going or, ultimately, worse.
Eventually, you will find a few folks that make you laugh or have similar thought patterns to you, that you’ll start to feel connected again. And from connection comes hope, joy, and inspiration. All you are looking for is a little feeling of connection you can build on to get that feeling of joy back into your heart.
5. Aromatherapy to keep your new emotional set-points going
If you have been through any trauma or hardship, you already know how easy it is to fall back into the memories of the past and the feelings of how it could all happen again.
As you are working on holding your thoughts in a more optimistic state, know that fragrance, which is sensed by one of the oldest parts of the brain, activates memory. When you are continually working with aromas that enable good feelings, it can amplify good feeling memories and how well we remember them.
This can cement into your experience new emotions that are positive, uplifting, and motivational, and strengthen those thought patterns in your brain. Meaning with all these practices, plus working with aromatherapy, the feelings of disappointment can be a thing of the past.
So to recap, to move from disappointment to inspiration:
Take some time to say a few positive affirmations
Get some nutritious food in your belly - sometimes just hydrating helps!
Change your music soundtrack to inspiring, uplifting tunes
Find new inspirational groups to hang out with
Consider aromatherapy to hold a set point for your new mood
If you’ve ever felt disappointed, know that it’s natural to feel sad with life experiences.
Still, this feeling can also be a great motivator to go within, revamp your immediate inner and outer environment, so that you can eventually step out and attract new experiences and people that will help you feel more hope, inspiration, and love.
To transcend disappointment, I encourage these how-to's, of course, but also opening up and surrendering to the process of life, meditating, and following the guidance you receive.
As you ask for help from the Universe, just as you did when you found this article, the guidance comes, generally in a slow trickle. And as you observe, the signs that you’re on the right path do reveal themselves to you.
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