What Is My Purpose?
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“Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action.” – Abraham
It really is as simple as that. Find what makes you happy and let it inspire you to the necessary action.
We all have a tendency to make “our purpose” way more complicated and difficult than it really needs to be. We’re taught from very young that everyone “should” have a lofty purpose to save the world in some way. The implication is that any other purpose isn’t important.
What this does is pile heavy responsibility on people that causes them to focus on what other people want and expect from them instead of tending to their own joy. Surely, it can’t be “okay” to want to do what makes you happy!
In reality this would be a much happier world if everyone did what made them truly happy. Being joyful is what it’s all about. Being joyful indicates a connection with your Inner Being.
People who are disconnected from their Inner Being are unhappy people lashing out in any number of ways and harming themselves and others. It makes sense when you think about it.
The gap that we talk about here is the disconnection between you and your Inner Being. The more disconnected you are, the wider your gap and the worse you feel. Conversely, the more connected you are, the better you feel.
You get connected by finding things that bring you joy. It doesn’t matter what it is, only that it brings you joy.
You are the only one who knows when something makes you joyful. Nobody else can get inside your experience and know what makes you feel good. Therefore, everyone else’s opinion is irrelevant.
The key to joy is to focus on what makes you feel good. That’s your purpose in this life.
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Look For Things To Appreciate
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“If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous, spectacular life.” – Abraham-Hicks
Appreciation is the key to closing your gap. As you find more things to appreciate in your experience, you more closely emulate how your Inner Being views the world. Your Inner Being appreciates everything because it does not judge anything. Your Inner Being sees only the positive aspects of anything.
We as humans are judgmental, rating everything as good or bad or some combination thereof. We tend to focus on that which we judge to be bad. Rather than amplifying the positives about any situation, we amplify the negatives by focusing on them.
We’ll say something like, “That would be perfect except for
We have the choice whether to focus on the positives or the negatives in any given situation. We have the choice to see the positives and feel good, or see the negatives and feel bad. It’s impossible to feel bad and be joyful, so if we want a joyful life, we must focus on the positives.
We must focus on the positives to the exclusion of the negatives. It’s not sufficient to focus on the positives with a big “but…” hanging over them. It’s not possible to focus on positives and negatives at the same time. We have to choose one or the other. Choosing positives is the path to joy.
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Mind Over Matter
A fairly well known bit of humor goes like this:
“Age is just mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
Actually, when you think about it, that applies to pretty much any subject, not just age. Some people really get upset when reminded that they are approaching a certain age. People find plenty of other ways to be offended, as well. Usually by something they’re insecure about or afraid of, age being a good example.
How often do you get upset by something and later realize there was no reason to be upset? We tend to have knee-jerk reactions to things that are really no big deal upon further examination. Unfortunately, by the time we realize that, it’s sometimes escalated into a much bigger thing to have to deal with.
As with all things, the key is to be in touch with your emotions and understand them. If you feel negative emotion, stop and think why you are having that feeling. This will take some conscious effort until it becomes second nature, but it is well worth it. When you have a good handle on your emotions, you can deal with them much more effectively and keep small issues from becoming big ones in many cases.
This doesn’t mean to suppress your emotions. Your emotions are there for a reason. They are your indicator of your present alignment with Source or the size of your gap. A broader gap feels much worse than a narrow one, and the broader it gets the worse you feel. By the same token, the worse you feel, the broader you know your gap has become. Once you realize that your gap has widened, you can start to work to close it and improve the way you feel.
Closing your gap consists of finding thoughts that feel better, thoughts that bring forth emotions that are less negative (or more positive) than the emotions you’re currently experiencing. Gently find thoughts that make you feel better than you did before. Don’t try to get all the way from full negative to full positive at once. That can’t happen. Your thoughts need only bring you relief, however slight it may be. Once you find a better feeling thought, the work is to find one that feels a little better than that one, and so on. Within a relatively short time, you can get to feeling pretty good and once you feel pretty good, you won’t mind any more, so it won’t matter.
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