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#16 How To Believe It's All Rigged In Your Favour (Day 12 of the 21 Day "Clear The Way" Project)

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"It's all rigged." - The Fates The following is an excerpt from "Clear The Way", the 21 day project by Fallon Publishing and The Grit + Grace Podcast to get unstuck. To learn more and to join the next group, visit @gritandgracepocast, fallonpublishing.ca or email hello@fallonpublishing.ca Amor fati is a Latin phrase that loosely translates to "love of fate" or "love of one's fate". We owe its popularity to German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary. Can you imagine such a thing? Now, I am very care not to dip my toes in the rivers of toxic positivity (which is a term I am grateful to have learned about recently from my brilliant sister) but I do invite you to this notion just for a moment. This may seem mega-esoteric and woowoo but I invite you to suspend your disbelief — just for a moment — and consider that everything might actually be rigged in your favour. If that sounds too wild, then ask yourself if you have ever looked back on a tough situation and thought, wow I’m actually quite glad that happened because [insert the amazing thing that happened]. The Stoics believed in The Fates – or Moirai – who were a group of three sister-goddesses who assigned individual destinies to mortals at birth. Their names are Clotho (the Spinner), Lachesis (the Alloter) and Atropos (the Inflexible). Can we just marinate on this please? The stoics — who were huge believers in accepting one’s fate without fuss believed that their destinies were woven by a trio of goddesses. Not only did they accept this, they celebrated it. Exercise: lean into the idea of amor fati and pick two tough or inconvenient experiences that you are now thankful for. Write them down. Repeat them to yourself. And then tell them to your partner or a friend. Next, pick a new, current situation or attitude that is nagging at you or causing frustration. How would things change for if you believed that it was all rigged in your favour?

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01/22/2021

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Episode Description

"It's all rigged." - The Fates

The following is an excerpt from "Clear The Way", the 21 day project by Fallon Publishing and The Grit + Grace Podcast to get unstuck. To learn more and to join the next group, visit @gritandgracepocast, fallonpublishing.ca or email hello@fallonpublishing.ca

Amor fati is a Latin phrase that loosely translates to "love of fate" or "love of one's fate". We owe its popularity to German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary.

Can you imagine such a thing?

Now, I am very care not to dip my toes in the rivers of toxic positivity (which is a term I am grateful to have learned about recently from my brilliant sister) but I do invite you to this notion just for a moment.

This may seem mega-esoteric and woowoo but I invite you to suspend your disbelief — just for a moment — and consider that everything might actually be rigged in your favour. If that sounds too wild, then ask yourself if you have ever looked back on a tough situation and thought, wow I’m actually quite glad that happened because [insert the amazing thing that happened].

The Stoics believed in The Fates – or Moirai – who were a group of three sister-goddesses who assigned individual destinies to mortals at birth. Their names are Clotho (the Spinner), Lachesis (the Alloter) and Atropos (the Inflexible).

Can we just marinate on this please? The stoics — who were huge believers in accepting one’s fate without fuss believed that their destinies were woven by a trio of goddesses. Not only did they accept this, they celebrated it.

Exercise: lean into the idea of amor fati and pick two tough or inconvenient experiences that you are now thankful for. Write them down. Repeat them to yourself. And then tell them to your partner or a friend. Next, pick a new, current situation or attitude that is nagging at you or causing frustration. How would things change for if you believed that it was all rigged in your favour?


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