It should be simple to be your true self, shouldn't it?
However, you've been conditioned to value effort within a paradigm that has you working hard to earn things, struggling to feel deserving, and constantly striving to improve. And so, you end up viewing your life purpose as a project to be completed - something that has to be achieved.
This way of viewing your life purpose is exactly why you might feel stuck.
It is possible to live in a way that honours your true nature, brings you meaning, purpose and joy and which doesn’t leave you feeling like you are not enough or there is something missing. Living your purpose can be effortless.
You’re probably used to blaming distractions for your lack of productivity. Instead of trying to eliminate distractions from your life, it’s time to understand the role distraction is playing for you. Is it possible that distractions are here to help you master your energy? To break a circuit of pressure, control or disempowerment. To stop DOING and PUSHING all the time and embrace the downtime you need to focus and be productive.
Being connected to your purpose, not your problems, allows healing to happen. You stay sick. You keep repeating stress cycles. You get stuck in survival mode. Because you’re fixated on fixing. Mistakenly believing that you’re broken. What if your healing journey is simply waiting for you to move to the next phase? To allow yourself to take the next evolutionary step. To embrace your purpose.
Being connected to your purpose, not your problems, allows healing to happen. You stay sick. You keep repeating stress cycles. You get stuck in survival mode. Because you’re fixated on fixing. Mistakenly believing that you’re broken. What if your healing journey is simply waiting for you to move to the next phase? To allow yourself to take the next evolutionary step. To embrace your purpose.
Being connected to your purpose, not your problems, allows healing to happen. You stay sick. You keep repeating stress cycles. You get stuck in survival mode. Because you’re fixated on fixing. Mistakenly believing that you’re broken. What if your healing journey is simply waiting for you to move to the next phase? To allow yourself to take the next evolutionary step. To embrace your purpose.
Being connected to your path, not your programs, brings you peace. It seems that we’re all suffering from this ‘straggle shame’. The constant comparison with others, the nagging anxiety that you’re falling behind, the embarrassment that you’re not further along your path, and the critical judgement that you’re not where you should be. Your straggle shame has the power to lead you down a path you don’t want to go. When you take responsibility for consciously choosing to own your purpose, to honour your own path and embrace your own pace in following it - there is no such thing as straggling. There is no such thing as hiding. There is no such thing as not being where you should be.
Being connected to your destiny, not your destination, keeps you centred. It is your purpose that anchors you with a sense of safety and stability. When you shift your awareness away from the changing environment to the unchangeable essence within you, your sense of equilibrium is restored. Your purpose is your CALLING. And when you connect with your calling, your PATH CALLS YOU. It is your purpose that gives you clarity about what you are CALLED to do and where you are CALLED to go. You are shown the direction you need to take by your inner guidance system.
Being connected to your purpose, not your positivity, is the key to progress. Your purpose is not a slavedriver, dictator or bootcamp instructor. It won’t pressure you into productivity and it won’t enforce crazy conditions. It will, however, offer you a sense of connection and centredness that guides and encourages you to act, whether you feel good or not.
Is There a Conflict Between Who You Think You Should Be and Who You Are?
A few issues ago we discussed healing the relationship between the mind and the body. We explored how we rely heavily on the ‘mind’ to determine our identity – our ‘idea’ of ourselves. It is usually the mind that ‘calls the shots’ and maintains our identity by dictating our choices, actions and behaviours. But the body and its senses, feelings and intuitions often has very different ideas about who and what we are. This difference of opinion can result in anything from a niggling source of dissatisfaction or discontentment to a full-blown inner conflict about our life purpose and choices.
