Dealing with Job Loss, the Spiritual View

The first mistake we see many people make when dealing with job loss is to panic and force a decision too soon. For many of us with a strong work ethic, we feel being between employments is much like running across an open field during combat. We feel financially exposed and emotionally stressed beyond measure. For some of us, we panic and fall apart. We may have house payments due, medical or child support obligations, which we must meet, and our children depending on us.

Welcome to our website. Thank you for joining us. If there was ever an event that brings on severe stress, anxiety, and depression, the loss of our gainful employment is certainly it. For most of us in the employed masses, our employment is our only security, and without that, we feel very vulnerable to the ravages of scarcity we face. Dealing with job loss can be as traumatic as anything else we face, since for most us our job is our life. The truth is we are more than just our employment, and we need to keep that in mind. We encourage you to take a moment to consider an even more secure source of your supply. When you do this, you will feel much better and have greater confidence in facing the task of finding your replacement employment. Dealing with job loss first means understanding your source is not just the job; your source is your individuality and your talents, which brings you to your employment station in life.

No, we are not advocating turning to religion and putting all your faith in a doctrinal stand, nor are we going to sell you on a multi level marketing program or some insider secrets to the stock market, real estate, or getting rich working from home an hour a day. All of the aforementioned is lies and garbage, and we all know that. Dealing with job loss means reconnecting with your source within, which will lead you to your next source, without, that is how it works.

In dealing with job loss, what we are suggesting is to turn to God for help, but the God we recommend is the God ‘outside of religion,' as we call it, or the God within your self. Whether your job loss was expected, and was going to happen for some time, or whether it was unexpected and hit out of nowhere, your response should be the same: Stop, settle down and search your feelings for a moment, and assemble a little insight before taking action. Instantaneous responses and massive applications submissions to hundreds of employers up and down the street will not work, and will only further your feelings of desperation, since employers will not read ninety-nine percent of them. Before we do anything at all, we need to assemble a few facts first, to make your reemployment efforts more effective and your closeness to your God Self within more apparent to you. We believe that perhaps you may have experienced having to deal with job loss as a Soul Lesson to teach you something about yourself, that you never realized before. Is God trying to teach you your powers to provide for yourself?

The reason for the loss of employment. Firstly, we need to know was it in the slowing economy, and the cutback of your company, or in the local needs of your community and neighborhood where your job was located? Was it in a changing industry and a realignment of labor skills? Was it in the closing down of your employer as they move jobs overseas? Was it in the change of your city towards companies there, charging them more taxes and forcing them to move or go out of business? Was it in a new law raising the wages required, forcing your employer to lay off workers they could not now afford?

Secondly, was it in a deficiency within you, such as behavioral problems or lack of productivity, or personality clashes with management? Was it because of your age or outdated labor skills? Was possibly, it because your employment style was too costly to management, or fellow employees did not like you? Was it because of your status as a workers’ comp case if you had an injury on the job recently? Was it because you are behind bringing in a union or labor group, in which management retaliated? Lastly, was it because of absenteeism due to military duty or extended activity with child raising or repeated jury duties?

We need to have some understanding of both of these areas before we even begin to look for work anywhere.

On the first set of questions, we need to understand the need for our work in the same profession in our local community. If we feel that our work is in demand, we will apply at the same type of profession at other companies nearby. If we feel our line of work is phasing out, then we must consider realigning into a new profession. Statistically speaking, ninety-nine percent of the time we can find similar work at another company nearby at or above our old wages within a short period. Also statistically, with a respectable work history, we can realign into learning a new profession in a very short period as well. Life proves this out repeatedly, that our actual time unemployed is always less than we feared at the beginning of our job search. Look at how you felt the last time you faced unemployment, and look at what the true time out of work actually was. This comparison will prove our point. Dealing with job loss will happen quicker than you think, and soon it will be behind you.

On the second set of questions, we need to understand if we need to make any emotional adjustments on our part. If there is any dysfunction within ourselves, we need to know it and do something about it; otherwise, our failure to remain employed will happen again. If we have a personal profile that is different from the ideal worker, we will need to show our new employer two things: First that we are now aware of our shortcomings, and second, that we are doing something about it to correct it.

There may be evidence of fault in both areas above in our dealing with job loss. In that case, we will need to demonstrate to any prospective employer new insight. First, we will need to show them that we are aware of their position as their margins tighten, and that we will be a most productive worker. Second, we will need to admit fault on our part, and reassure the new employer that we will be supportive of their company objectives and their management policies.

That is an adequate response on the external side of things, now we need to revisit the internal side of things within ourselves, as we deal with job loss.

Let us look at who we are, and how we as humans interact with our environment, and how we provide for ourselves. Unlike animals, we control our environment as much from the inside with our minds and hearts as we do by manipulating the outside with our hands and our backs. We do this by psychic means through feeling, faith, and understanding. Dealing with job loss is as much about exerting our inner powers as it is about connecting with adequate employment without. Perhaps God sends us into situations of scarcity to help us become aware of our powers to provide for ourselves, and to teach us of our tools we have within our minds and hearts.

Let us look at the grand picture. When you were born, God gave you not just a place on this earth; he also laid out a life plan and a destiny for you to follow. You are more than a person; you are also this plan! This plan includes all the lessons you were send here to learn, and all the opportunities for supply of all your need, not just for material things, but for emotional as well, including love, friendship and much magical discovery. Furthermore, this life plan included the supply of all the settings you were to experience to teach you all the Soul Realizations you needed to learn for your Soul’s Growth. The connection of the world to this plan is in the changing of the times for society as life progresses, economically, politically, and socially. Life connects to your plan by the time in history of your birth. That connection is still intact, by the way. The connection of you to this plan is in the dreams, talents and all the other gifts with which you were born. That is where the problem lies. Society is still there, God’s Plan is still there, but you may have lost connection to it by your giving up your dreams and forgetting to use your talents. When we remove ourselves from our dreams and desires, we give up our kingdom of our self and we become lost. We abdicate the throne of our life by our discouragement. In addition, as we become discouraged and we begin to mistrust, we send out signals over the psychic internet to all life. We all hear through our hearts each other’s signals and we all respond by finding others with the same attitudes as ours, either nurturing or poisoning.

In dealing with job loss, we must realize that our supply is out there, our right job is out there, and if we trust Life, or God, it will lead us to it, as a natural unfolding of events, for that is Nature’s Way. In dealing with job loss, or with any negative condition in your world, remember this: Mistrust attracts mistrust able events and hostile personalities into our sphere of experience. Trust, Sincerity, Faith, Spontaneity, and Open Sharing of Ourselves attracts our Events of Opportunity and Nurturing Personalities into our sphere of experience also. The reason we capitalized these words is that they are proper names of the things your Life Plan contains and they are missing parts of your life still out there for you to find. Every ones’ life has them, and so too does yours.

To summarize, in dealing with job loss you must first understand the economic reasons that may have led to that loss of employment, so you can respond to the changing conditions with better preparation the next time. Secondly, you must understand if you have any dysfunctional emotional posture, so that you can resolve those matters by talking to caring and understanding friends or counselors. Thirdly, you must look deeper at the big picture and see if God or Life may be trying to tell you it is time for a change of career. Alternatively, maybe it is time to move back to the hometown you grew up in, or to the setting of your dreams, like Alaska, Hawaii, Florida, or to somewhere else you may have always wanted to move. Life sometimes dries up our life in one area to prompt us to move on to where we will be much happier. In dealing with job loss, keep in mind God will have a setting where you will be much happier. In the new setting your talents will we welcomed by the new coworkers you will meet.

Again, we want to reassure you not to make the mistake of rushing your attempts and making a choice too quickly. Relax, take a soul’s deep breath, a time out and reflect on your feelings first, then let your heart guide you in what happens next. Do not trust your mind, for that implies mistrust, and that attracts negative. Your heart’s feelings and dreams are all you will ever need to build any foundational thing in your life. Let this experience be an introduction to that forgotten childhood side of you and just try it. We talk more about these dynamics in our book Overcoming Depression from Emotional Abuse/The Tools of Your Mind. In our book, we talk about the whole overview of our soul’s journey as we follow our heart’s dreams to our ultimate destiny. We answer many questions about selfishness, prosperity, psychotherapy, and finding our dreams and happiness. We talk much about our boundaries. We also talk about the spiritual controls we have within to bring our good to us. Those controls are our Sincerity Switch, Spontaneity Switch, and lastly our Feelings and Dreams Switch.

Thank you for visiting us today and please keep in touch, sharing your trials and your victories with us. We promise to answer personally every Email that we receive.

Shayne and Lori North

Overcoming Depression from Emotional Abuse/The Tools of Your Mind The Book

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