How to Deal With Constant Setbacks in Your Life
- Brainz Magazine
- Apr 16
- 7 min read
Updated: Apr 19
Written by Sonya Gammon, Level 2 QHHT Practitioner
Sonya Gammon is a Level 2 QHHT® practitioner and spirit travel guide who enjoys helping clients delve into their past lives and connect with their highest selves and friends on other dimensions. The third book in her New Earth series is titled The Eternal Legacy of Light: Claiming Our Inheritance from the Stars.
If life has dealt you one losing hand after another and you have lost all hope and faith that things will turn around, keep reading. There’s no telling when things may change. Everything on this planet changes at some point; nothing remains the same, and the ways in which our faith in a better future is expressed may be different than you realize.
Fortunes and misfortunes in life
I remember listening to spiritual teacher and author Matt Kahn on a YouTube video talking about how our most severe periods of contraction, or negative states and circumstances, are the precursors to our most expansive, or positive, states and circumstances. At this point in my life, I have gone through fifteen years of challenging circumstances only to realize that I’m still waiting for that expansion of miraculously positive life developments to come around.
At least I have food on the table, a car that runs (knock on wood), I have a job even if I don’t like it much, and I have a roof over my head. That last one came into question when, on March 16th, we had a severe wind/rain/hail storm here in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. The storm broke off, picked up, and slammed a huge tree limb onto the roof of my house. One part rammed right through the roof, too. Thankfully, the tree professional who removed the branch also put in a temporary patch to keep the rain out. The damage has been assessed, but the date for actual repairs is still up in the air.
That huge tree limb could have landed on the empty lot beside my house, but it didn’t. It could have landed on the long part of my property, away from my house, but it didn’t. Of course, the damage could have been much worse, and I have a lot to be thankful for. That’s what I have to focus on.
During a similar storm three years ago, my house was fine, but my car was crushed under heavy tree limbs that landed only on my narrow strip of property, and I had to buy a new used car. This time, a few insignificant dents on my newer car caused by flying branches caused $4,000 worth of damage, which the insurance will mostly pay for, but still, after a decade and a half of stress and misfortune, when will it end?
Channeling and the trials of Job
My personal saving grace has been my side business, Cosmic Connections Spirit Journeys LLC, being a practitioner of Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique ℠, channeling my ET guides and other space people, and writing books based on those sessions. I tried so hard to get the first book, “From Old to New Earth: Exploring Planetary Changes through QHHT®” published with a real publisher, but it didn’t pan out. With the subsequent books, I knew better than to even try and went with Amazon self-publishing right off the bat.
Some success coaches/spiritual teachers would blame me for all of my failures and misfortunes. I just read this on one individual’s introductory text: “[The coach] teaches that reality is a direct reflection of our inner beliefs and that by shifting our mindset, embracing self-worth, and aligning with our highest truth, we can experience rapid transformation in both life and business.” Oh, I tried every trick in the book to get my book published. I carefully crafted around twenty query letters tailored to every different publishing house’s specs and included exactly the writing samples that each of them required. I shifted my mindset. I was confident. I embraced my self-worth. I aligned with my highest truth, or at least I felt I did.
The whole process took half a year before I realized I either had rejections from every publisher or they simply had not responded to me. No matter what those coaches say, sometimes the universe simply does not want you to succeed in the way that you want to succeed. However, I refuse to give up my channeling. I will keep receiving the messages that have given me more hope in my life despite so many personal things going wrong, including the storm-brought property misfortunes. I refuse to believe they happened because I had not shifted my mindset and so forth. And I will keep writing my books.
Even Job got to experience good fortune after a series of misfortunes. Bible scholars don’t know how many months or years Job’s trials lasted, but the point is, he received more generous blessings after the bad times than he’d enjoyed before them. So, when will things turn around for us all? No matter what you have experienced and no matter how long those circumstances have persisted, it is always worth it to keep on living, to stick it out, because I gave up on life in a past life and I’ve really had to pay for it in this one. You always have to endure the same circumstances and abuses that you tried to escape from to balance the karma, so please, keep breathing.
Keep on going no matter what
When you feel your worst, focus on the next thing that you have to do, do it, move on to the next thing you have to do, and keep on breathing. That advice, which I’ve often given myself, has gotten me through many dismal days. My guides, the Tourmalines, have also talked to me about what to do when you have zero hope or faith left. These passages are from my third New Earth book, “The Eternal Legacy of Light.”
“Even the act of breathing in and out and living from one moment to the next and one day to the next, even these little things are acts of faith. Even if you do not feel that faith in your heart or your mind or anywhere in your being, even if you have zero faith and zero hope left, the very act of going about your daily business is something that requires faith because, otherwise, you would not do those things. You would not do anything if you had zero faith left.
“You have faith in the things that you do. You have faith that you need to keep things going on the Earth, in your life, with your children, with their lives, no matter what they do, how much sickness there is. Everything on this Earth passes. That is the nature of being on this Earth. Everything passes! Everything does change.”
Please remember you are not the only one going through difficulties. These times are hard on everyone, and especially the lightworkers who are helping raise this planet from the third dimension through the fourth into the fifth dimension of joy and happiness. I have no choice but to believe that better times are coming. Every time I channel a new message from the beings of light who are helping our planet ascend, I am reminded that no matter how crappy things may look now in the world or in my personal life, things will always keep changing. One day, those changes just might be for the better. Please keep on doing everything that you need to do as if the next day might bring you the biggest piece of good news you’ve ever had.
A Quantum Healing Hypnosis session may also give you new perspectives on the events and circumstances in your life. If you can travel to Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, you can check out my practitioner page and contact me to book a session, or you can find a practitioner in your area.
I will close with more quotes from my guides. They also mentioned the importance of self-care, something that Lee Harris’ guides, the Z’s, have also emphasized.
“You just keep going. That’s all that we can tell you. All we can tell you is to keep going because there is no other choice now, is there? You have got to keep going. You have got to keep making the choices for the light. The choices that you make have an impact on the collective. You are a part of the grid of light. Every choice you make for the light affects everyone connected to you, and you are connected to every one of the lights. Right now, right here, you are connected to everyone who is of the light through the network of light that has strengthened on the planet, no matter what the planet is going through, no matter the wars, the mayhem, and the violence.”
“Keep on doing what needs to be done. This is what it has come down to. Keep on doing what needs to be done. You take care of business. You do what you need to do. We love you so, so, so very much, and we are with you. We are always with you. You can talk to us. It is not the same as talking to a real person, and we know that. Do not chastise yourself for anything that you might do to relieve your pain, any small little thing that you might do as an act of self-care.”
“No matter how wretched you feel, you have value. You have value in the eyes and the heart of the Maker. You have value in the eyes and the hearts of every being who knows you! We are talking to you personally and to everyone. We want to give you hope. We want to give you that vision. Even if you have no hope, you can have a vision. See the difference? Even if all hope is lost, you can still have a vision of what can be, even if it never comes to pass for you. Even if we are telling you not to worry, that things will turn around, you may not believe this, not with your day-to-day human consciousness, but there is a part of you that is in the higher dimensions, a higher part of you who shows you now that you are loved beyond measure.”
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Sonya Gammon, Level 2 QHHT Practitioner
Sonya Gammon is a pioneer in conscious, drug-free, spirit travel. She started her spiritual journey at age 12 through meditation groups and grew up in a New Age church that was widely seen as a cult. She worked for a decade as a newspaper journalist before becoming a stay-at-home mother. After Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique℠ helped her cope with challenging life circumstances, she branched out into providing diverse spirit travel experiences for her clients that transcend the label of hypnosis and can bring about deep healing from trauma. Her new book features information about our cosmic origins.
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