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Hello, hello, beautiful souls, and welcome to the Claim Your Power podcast, the ultimate show for all things New Age spirituality, entrepreneurship, and embodied leadership. I'm your host, Kim Peretz. I'm an author, entrepreneur, and yoga enthusiast. If you're ready to step up, tap into your gifts, and unleash your potential, you are at the right place. It's time to claim your power.
Hello beautiful souls and welcome back to another episode of the pod. Today I'm back with a solo episode which I'm very excited to be doing because I honestly missed having just a solo episode where I talk to myself in the mic. It's honestly very therapeutic so if you're someone who loves to talk to themselves, starting a podcast might be the thing for you.
But anyways, I decided that I'm going to start a new thing on the podcast. So I got this new crystal wisdom affirmation deck from the crystal shop and
And I really like it. And I think what I'm going to do every time we have a solo episode is I'm going to pick a card for the crystal and I'm going to have an affirmation for the collective audience and whoever is listening. So the card that I pick for today is Ruby. And the affirmation is, it's time for me to shine.
And honestly, this affirmation really leads me to what I want to talk about today. And that is this idea of healing is not linear and that you have to trust the divine timing and everything that is unfolding in your life.
Specifically, I want to use this idea and concept to really dive into rejection and feelings and vibrations of rejection. I don't know why, but I've been feeling very called to talk about rejection. I think a lot of people as a collective right now, if this resonates with you, are experiencing some form of rejection, whether it's from a job, a partner, a
school, so many things that you can be experiencing rejection from. Maybe it's even your dream. You want to have this aspiration come to life, but it seems like there's a lot of roadblocks in the way of your manifestation. And it feels like the universe is low-key rejecting you. But I want to really dive into this topic of rejection because it's
I've been feeling rejected this past month and I really did a lot of shadow work and reflection on why I'm feeling this feeling and I came to a really profound realization that I want to share with you guys. So I just came back from a little getaway trip to Palm Springs for the weekend and I really really set the intention. I was like when I get to Palm Springs in California and
I am going to just really focus on my healing. I set that intention. I meditated like crazy on that trip. I had my notebook. I was shadow work, all this journaling, all this stuff. I was really going at it, okay?
And a lot of things are resurfacing up for me. A lot of past feelings and emotions that I thought were like over were coming back up and resurfacing. And I was seeing that I was still carrying them in my subconscious and they were forming the subconscious block within me. And it's so good that these things came to surface because I was really able to clear through them and flow through them and then eventually accept and heal them.
And one of these things and these vibrations that I saw was still within me is this feeling of rejection. And the reason I say that, and the reason that I noticed that I was carrying this vibration of rejection within me, is I really believe that the universe reflects and projects to us things and situations of how we feel within ourselves. And for the past month,
Honestly, I'm going to be completely honest with you guys. Rejection has been a reoccurring theme in my life. There's been a lot of feelings of rejection from different things happening in my life for me. And I don't know, at some point, when this reoccurring theme just kept coming up,
It was a signal for me, okay, there's a part of myself that feels rejected and is rejecting myself. And that is why the universe is responding to this vibration and showing me situations where I am constantly feeling rejected. I'm constantly doubting my worth, my hard work, whether I'm enough or not.
And I realized that I no longer want to be in this vibration because this vibration of rejection is not serving me. It's making me doubt my worth, doubt my self-love. And when I went on my trip, I was like, you know what?
It's done. I'm leaving Palm Springs and I'm coming back a whole new person. I'm tapping back into my highest self. I'm no longer carrying this burden. And that is exactly what I did. And that is why I feel like I can finally have this episode and talk about it on the podcast because I really feel like I have been able to reawaken the strength within me. And I did a lot of self-connection and healing. And I feel like I can finally talk about the topic of rejection and
and what it really means on a spiritual level. Okay, so I had a little epiphany on my last day in Palm Springs. I realized that rejection stems from attachment. So whenever you feel rejected by a person, by an experience, by a situation,
It is because you had an attachment to it. You had an attachment to that person. So when that person walked out of your life, you felt rejected. You had an attachment to that future plan, to that future experience, to that college, to that job. And that is why when you didn't get it, you felt rejected. And so the key to healing through your feelings of rejection is
is being aware of where your attachments lie. Because honestly, having an attachment to certain things in life is good. It's not all or nothing. It's not black or white. You're going to have some form of attachment to people that you love, to experiences, to a job of 10 years. You're going to be attached to it. But...
The honest key to your joy and to your happiness is letting go from as much attachment as you can in your life. Let go of the attachment that you have to have every single thing figured out. Let go of the attachment that this was the perfect person for you, that this was the perfect job for you, that that was the perfect house for you. Because in all honesty...
What I've realized is that every choice that we make, we make in divine timing and there is never a wrong choice because every choice leads us down a different path, down a different lesson, down a different experience. And at the end of the day, it's our free will that is making that choice.
And so when you feel rejected by an experience, by a person, by anything that's happening in your life, if this is something that resonates with you, if you feel like right now this is the energy for you, I really urge you to go within and be introspective and ask yourself,
Where am I putting my attachments? Am I putting my attachments into a certain outcome or into a vibration? So I'll give an example. I do have a lot of young teens listening to this podcast. And so specifically, I want to give an example about college applications. Okay.
Let's say for the past year you have been working your butt off applying for colleges and you have this one dream college in mind that you think is perfect for you. Everything about it, you're just like, it's perfect, I have to get in. Your decision comes back and you don't get in. And you will feel devastated in that moment because of the attachment you form to this specific college. Okay?
Because you formed an attachment to a specific outcome, not a vibration or a feeling. And so the way you change that perspective and make that quantum shift is realize that you are going after the vibration. You are not going after the specific outcome. You are going after a college that is most aligned for you, that will help empower you, that will give you all the right opportunities, that is your place.
And sometimes we think we know where we want to go. But let me tell you something, your highest self always knows best. Your highest self will always put you in situations and experiences and relationships where there's most growth for you, where there's the most blessings and the most lessons. And so when you let go of that attachment with the college example of I have to go into that, get into that certain college, and instead you pick the mindset,
and the narrative and the story of, I will get in into the college that is most aligned for me, that will make me feel like my highest self and that is aligned with my highest vibration.
When you change that story in your head, when you shift that narrative, you open the door to endless opportunities. I am telling you when that narrative shifts in your head, you are signaling to the universe, universe put me exactly where there is most abundance for me. Universe put me exactly where I will prosper and be as much empowered as I can be.
And that is the shift that changed my life when it comes to rejection. When I realized, okay, this is going to sound cliche, but when I realized that rejection is truly redirection. I mean, there are so many stories of very successful people talking about how they got rejected. I mean, one that I'm thinking of right now is Albert Einstein. I was talking to my friend and her mom about this the other day about
how Albert Einstein got kicked out of school for asking too many questions, okay? He just got kicked out because the teacher said that he was crazy, that he needed help, that he asked too many questions and he can't be in school. And I remember in the story, Albert Einstein's mom would start homeschooling him. And at some point, Einstein asked his mom, why did they kick me out of school? And the mom told him, she was like,
My son is such a genius that he got kicked out of school because he, you are so smart, Albert. You are such a genius that they couldn't handle your smarts.
And she did not let her son believe that he got rejected. She let her son believe that he was so, so smart and such a genius that he got kicked out of school. And that wasn't what actually happened, but that was the narrative and the story that he kept telling himself because that is the only thing he knew.
And so his mom, honestly, did him a huge favor because your belief, everything starts with a thought in this world. So our belief system shapes and creates our reality. And so honestly, now look, looking back at this whole story, I mean, Albert Einstein is literally the biggest genius ever in history. When you think of someone who is a genius, you think of Albert Einstein, right?
which she helped him create that reality for himself. And I think years later, he found this letter of how the school kicked him out. And he was like, wow, like, that's crazy. And fun fact, Albert Einstein was very spiritual. He was all about quantum physics and things like that. But I think spirituality led a lot of his work, which is a topic for a completely different episode. But moral of the story is when you change the narrative inside your head,
of this rejection does not define me. This rejection has nothing to do with my self-worth. This rejection has nothing to do of how successful I will be because what happens now does not impact the future.
When one door closes, another one opens. You have to keep your head up. You have to believe and trust the process that when one door closes, another one opens. I said that twice because it is so true. And sometimes the universe will put roadblocks ahead. The universe will make it difficult for you.
but it will never give you something that you cannot handle because you are strong, you are powerful, and you are the creator of your reality. And you can always choose the type of frequency and vibration that you will respond to every situation with. So if you respond to rejection with open arms, with love, with gratitude, that wow,
Maybe I'm not supposed to end up with that person. Maybe I'm not supposed to go to that college. Maybe I'm not supposed to go to that job. And you realize that things genuinely work for your highest good and
That is when your life will transform. Because in all honesty, the universe will move you out of certain places that you are not meant to be. If you're not meant to be in a relationship with that person, the universe will forcibly pick you up and put you somewhere else. If you are not meant to go to and move to that house, the universe will literally make sure that you have no way to get the lease, that you have no way to get that house.
And it seems tough at first, but your spirit guides and the universe always have your back. So when you feel rejected, I really want you to dive deep and ask yourself, what part of me was attached to this specific outcome? Because when you let go of the attachment, the rejection no longer exists.
Attachment fuels rejection. When attachment isn't there anymore and you're not attached to a specific outcome, to a specific person, to a specific place, then the rejection does not feel like anything. It feels just like a little speck in the air. Like, okay, I wasn't meant to go there. Sounds good. Like, thank you universe for protecting and guiding me exactly to where I'm meant to go.
And so that is really what I learned about rejection. It's honestly such a big redirection. And I know that's cliche and there's a bunch of quotes about that, but it's so, so true. And I really just want to bring this episode together
back in full circle, back to the affirmation that says, it's time for me to shine. Because honestly, you're a superstar. Like if no one has made you feel that way today, go make yourself feel that way because you are a star and you are meant to shine. And every rejection that you face in your life is leading you to exactly where you're meant to be, exactly to where you will flourish, and exactly to where you are meant to shine.
Beautiful souls, thank you so much for joining me in today's episode. As always, feel free to DM me on Instagram if you have any topic suggestions for future episodes or if you would like to apply to be guests on the show. I hope you feel inspired to claim your power today. Bye!