Are you, like so many others, searching for your life’s purpose, thinking it is one specific something you’re destined to do and that once you figure it out you’ll be flooded with relief, happiness, and fulfillment? Here’s a tip: Purpose is a state of being, not a state of doing. Soul Purpose is bigger than life purpose, which we mistakenly associate with vocation, and your Soul is whispering yours to you in the course of your everyday activities. It's time to hear what it has to say!
Are you, like so many others out there, searching for your life’s purpose, thinking it is one specific something you’re destined to do and that once you figure it out you’ll be flooded with relief, happiness, and fulfillment? Here’s a tip: Purpose is a state of being, not a state of doing. Your Soul Purpose is bigger than your life purpose, which we’ve mistakenly learned to associate with vocation, and your Soul is whispering it to you in the course of your everyday activities through the feelings you experience. Joseph Campbell, the great mythologist, summarized everything you need to know about your purpose in one simple and beautiful phrase: Follow your Bliss. Find out what moves you to a state of joy and follow that thing unswervingly. What moves you will always be changing--as you are an ever-expanding, ever-evolving being. Which is why, if you are searching for your “certain destiny” you just won’t find it. You need only find, and claim, your joy.
Joy is the code that your Soul and you agreed to before you incarnated into physical form. The feeling of joy is your Soul telling you that you’re “on track.” Your Soul communicates with you through emotions. That’s the language you agreed to use before being born. They allow you to communicate with the nonphysical part of you while you’re out here in physical space and time. Isn’t that fabulous? You have an inner guide with you always, telling you if you’re off course or on course by the way that you feel. When you feel good in all its forms--from contentment to appreciation to bliss--that’s your Soul telling you, “Yes! You’re on purpose.” When you feel bad in all its forms--from insecurity to rage to boredom--that’s your Soul telling you, “You are way off-track here.”
Most of us don’t use our emotions as they were meant to be used, as messages from Soul designed to keep us on track before we end up creating something we don’t want. Instead, we use our emotions as after-the-fact indicators to tell us whether what we’ve just experienced is pleasing to us or not. Emotions aren’t meant to be used to react to experience, they’re meant to create our experience. Knowing this truth can change your life. If you’ll pay attention to the way you feel, and choose to focus only on what causes you to feel good, you’ll always create what you want in your life. It’s that simple.
Your life isn’t meant to happen willy-nilly and it’s not meant to be beyond your control. You have the power to create whatever experiences you want through the power of your emotions. You are here as an emissary of your Soul, endowed with all the qualities and creative powers that it possesses. While you are here, you’re always in communication with your nonphysical Self via your emotions. In your pursuit of joy, you will naturally and effortlessly fulfill your mission.
Excerpted and adapted from the author’s latest book, Delighting the Soul: Lessons on Life Purpose, Authenticity and the Law of Attraction
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