How To Be Happy | Series One | Article Four | What Is Your Unique Life's Purpose © 2011
WHAT IS YOUR UNIQUE LIFES PURPOSE?
Realizing your
life’s purpose is like climbing up the shaft of a giant catapult, getting
inside, slashing the ropes that are holding you back and launching yourself
towards the shining castle of your dreams.
We actually have
two levels of purpose in our journey through life. One is on the worldly plain
and can change with time. The other is at the heart of why we are all here on
this human journey and is also at the heart of unveiling the experience of
ongoing peace and happiness we strive for. Lets have a look at both.
1.
Your Worldly Purpose
What we are looking for here is our ‘Unique Life's
Purpose’ This is the one that all other worldly goals and aims tend to fit
within once it is discovered. For example, I feel my worldly purpose is to help
others experience joy, peace and happiness in their lives on a consistent basis.
Then within that greater purpose many of the goals & dreams I would like to
accomplish fit nicely as they are in alignment with this purpose. Naturally
these can and generally do change with time.
If you feel you are already clear on your unique
purpose in life, fantastic! You could skip to the next section. Otherwise, to
find your ultimate life’s purpose is not really all that tricky. One way I
recommend is that you look into your past for times when you were engaged in
activity that felt effortless and fun. Activity that made time stand still,
hours passed by and you did not even notice, when you came out of it you felt
like you had more energy than when you started. It uplifted you and really made
you feel alive.
All of us have these experiences at some point in our
lives and it is at these times that we were on purpose and in alignment with our
source energy, we just may not have consciously known it. Once you discover
your true purpose and maintain positive related action within it, this time
stopping joy is exactly what you will feel for the majority of your life within
your worldly story!
What was it that you were doing? Were you playing a
sport? Were you reading a book? Were you sending an email? What was the email
about? Were you playing with children? Were you with your family or friends?
Were you at school? Were you at work? Just stop and consider these for a
moment.
Now look a little closer, what is it you were
actually achieving on an energetic level in each of those experiences? By
energetic I mean what were you feeling and therefore what vibration were you
sending out to the universe in those moments? Also, what were the outcomes of
your actions? Were you bettering yourself in some way? Were you directly
assisting others? What were you adding to your life or the lives of others or
to the universe itself? And most importantly, how was it purposeful? (Patting
your cat can be a purposeful activity by the way)
Ok, now stop, your purpose is within those
experiences, while holding those experiences in your mind ask yourself the
question again. ‘What is my unique life’s purpose’? The answer is right there,
it has always been right there, it is only a matter of your awareness opening
enough to access it. Don’t concern yourself with how you will know. You will
know. If it does not spring into your mind with all the power that makes you
feel elated, do not concern yourself with this. Just trust you have opened the
door through which the answer will come and expect it to do so over the next
short period and in the meantime carry on with the commitment to your positive
thinking. For now though, just read on.
When you do have it. Can you see how all activities
you are engaged in right now can be infused with it? If you are pushing burgers
in a McDonalds store and hating it, can you see how your current position can
be a vehicle through which you can execute your life's purpose? Let me tell
you….. It can always be done and, in fact, once you truly see this and take
things from this new perspective with a strong sense of purpose, your life
story will change dramatically simply because you will be far more engaged in
each moment of your experience, and letting life flow through you rather than
trying to control the flow of life. This leads us nicely to the greater purpose.
2.
The Purpose of Life!
Ok now this is the gem I have been hinting at since
the start of this series! This understanding could potentially wipe out the
relevance of the entire previous email program for some of you. It is literally
‘out of this world’. By that I mean it is not part of this worldly story we are
all engaged in and trying so desperately to make better. Rather this understanding
points to the ground from which this worldly story springs. This could become
quite confusing quite quickly so try to stick with me because it may also
become the most liberating understanding you have ever come across.
There is an aspect of you that recognizes that you
have a body, yes? You say ‘this is MY body’. You say ‘I have a body’. Would you
then agree that this part of you that can say those things can’t be your
body? It must come before your body so to speak. Right?
If you ‘have’ a body then who is the ‘you’ that ‘has’
the body?
Let me try to clear this up. The ‘you’ that ‘has’
this body is who you actually really are. It is life force energy expressing
itself as ‘your mind & body’. You are the life force energy. Or we
could say, you are consciousness and your body and mind are aspects of your
expression.
It’s not the other way around as we have been taught.
You are not a separate physical unit that contains a portion of consciousness,
or a body from which consciousness comes and goes, this has been the great human
misconception. The apparent truth is that you are the consciousness and the
body plus all forms, including the world appear within you.
The seeming problem with the human condition is that
we are totally convinced that we are the story we have projected rather than
what has projected it. We believe in it so completely that within the story we are
strongly affected by everything that happens and so we are all on an endless
mission to make the story better.
Now there is nothing wrong with making the story
better, if we are going to dream and have the power to create within the dream then
we may as well make it a good dream, there is no doubt about that. However, deep
and consistent peace and happiness does not reside within the story. It resides
in a far deeper place to which we all have an unbreakable, permanent and
immediate connection if we care to look.
The purpose of our existence is simply this. Consciousness
is expressing itself into and as this universe in all its forms, including us.
Then from this place of unconsciousness (the world of form) we have the ability
to become aware and recognize ourselves as the projector of the story (as consciousness)
and therefore become liberated within the story. In this way
consciousness is experiencing itself consciously and that it seems is the whole
purpose.
Just as pure light in deep space cannot be seen, or
realized so to speak, unless there is an object for it to reflect off.
Consciousness cannot know itself without experience and so the whole physical
cosmos has been manifested to that end alone. Through the creation of a
dualistic universe, up – down, big – small, in – out, wrong – right, here –
there. Experience is born and consciousness can know itself.
Once we, as individual expressions of consciousness
not separate from the whole, are self-realized the play of life simply
continues but now from a perspective of joyful exploration with no attachment
to outcomes within the story because it is all simply a perfect, necessarily
dualistic projection. Right here is our deep peace and contentment.
So we have just jumped in the deep end here and no
doubt many people will find it a little crazy and even delusional and that is
of course fine. But just consider for a moment, could we have it all backwards
and so be delusional already? If so then it makes sense that the truth from our
current deluded perspective would actually look like the delusion. It’s a mind
warp, I know.
It is said that this is not something that can be
taught or even transferred between individuals. It is an understanding that
must be personally realized. If your are truly looking for how to be deeply, unconditionally
happy then this could be the path for you and I recommend you explore these
teachers on YouTube to start with. Adyashanti, Mooji & Bentinho Massaro.
Also a couple of ‘must buy’ book are these:
I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is said that this may
be the only spiritual book one needs to study if the aim is full self realization.
Also this one:
Be as You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
If this is not for you and you are just looking for
ways to make the story more pleasant, which can also be done in conjunction
with the above, then the preceding email series program can be of great benefit
to you and I also recommend regular yoga and meditation classes. I hope this
series has served you well so far and I look forward to providing you more in
the future.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch via the Contact Page on the How to be Happy website if you
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