One of the most unforgettable teachings of Chassidus I studied in Jerusalem is that on faith and confidence: faith that everything is good, and confidence that G-d will give me the power to discover that everything is good. I learned this teaching in a course I took three years ago at Torat Hanefesh in Jerusalem.
Since then I've been trying to internalize this teaching in my daily life. And since I left Jerusalem at the end of September 2023, this has become one of my biggest challenges in life simply because my egoic mind has been whispering to me even more strongly that not everything is good though deep inside I know intuitively but non conceptually that everything is good.
The hardest part of this challenge is to see revealed goodness in hidden goodness in real time. So the above mentioned faith is fundamentally different from seemingly similar faith that everything will be good, which I've already experienced a number of times in life.
For example, a series of rejections I experienced privately or professionally lead to an outcome that was much better than I had initially expected. But when I was in the middle of each rejection, I couldn't see this goodness as it was hidden.
Through the above mentioned teaching on faith and confidence I've acquired at least conceptual knowledge about how to turn hidden goodness into revealed goodness in real time. But I can't say that I've internalized this knowledge and can already see goodness in everything I experience.
In the meanwhile I've been trying the following two affirmations, among others: "Ask yourself what this tries to teach me instead of asking yourself why this happens to me." and "Tell yourself that everything is happening for me and not to me."