What would it be like, to really “know” your Soul Purpose?
What if you absolutely knew your Soul Purpose to a high level of detail?
Let’s say that you knew with complete certainty that you are a spiritual healer, and that your niche was women who are contemplating or going through a divorce. You are to deliver your gifts primarily through public speaking and private healing sessions, and that your first step is to secure local speaking gigs at women’s wellness centers and yoga studios. Then you’d book private local clients from those speaking gigs, which you’d use to fund the building of a website. You know exactly what kind of team you need to hire for your marketing and administration. Your team would help you secure more speaking gigs and start building an online presence, and you would focus on doing remote healing sessions and group healing sessions at a national level. Eventually, you’d become a published author, leading to speaking engagements at international wellness conferences.
Because you “know” without a shadow of a doubt that this is your Soul Purpose, you also “know” with absolute certainty that you’d be met with success and abundance every step of the way.
Is this the level at which you’d like to know your Purpose?
Really?
Because it would make life a foregone conclusion.
Why bother with the experience if you “know” exactly what will happen?
And yet, it seems that many seekers wish they “knew” their Soul Purpose, not as a direction in life, but as a precise plan. Preferably one that comes with an iron-clad guarantee from the Universe that if we follow all the steps, if we do what we’re “supposed to,” we’ll be successful and financially abundant.
Of course, there is no plan. There’s nothing we’re “supposed to” do or accomplish.
Our Soul’s Purpose is to experience its Divinity within its humanity. How we do that is largely left up to physical circumstance and egoic preference. The Soul merely points us into the direction of its authentic self-expression. The implementation is up to us.
The key word here is “experience.”
We’re not here to “know” our Purpose, we’re here to “experience” our Soul Purpose. Because that’s how the Soul experiences its Divinity within this human context.
Imagine if you “knew” the outcome of your choices. Why bother making them? Would you want to live a life in which all consequences were known in advance, where all outcomes were inevitable?
If we “knew” our Purpose as if it were a plan, we would be robbed of the whole point of incarnation – the human EXPERIENCE.
At all times, we have access to enough information about our Purpose that we have a sense of the direction in which our Soul longs to experience itself. (If you haven’t yet done the Purpose process in my FREE video series, you can sign up here.)
Once we know our Soul’s desired direction, our job is to get on with it. We won’t know that we’re “right” or where we’ll end up … and thank goodness, because that would literally defeat our Purpose – which is experience. At the same time, the more often you align to your Soul Purpose to a greater level, the more trust and faith you develop in your sense of direction.
Knowing our Soul Purpose doesn’t mean having a plan. It means knowing our very next step, taking that step, and EXPERIENCING the result.
Ready? Do it.
Blessings,
Andrea
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Hi Andrea,
How true it is that many want their purpose in the form of a plan and forget it is about experiencing our their purpose. There was a time when I expected some sort of plan, even though I’m not quite a planning kind of girl. I’m now feeling more comfortable expressing my Divine gifts and becoming more of the true Me step by step, day by day,
Thank you for another insightful post,
Have a great day!
Eleanor
I find that expressing my Divinty step by step brings more peace and calm to my life rather than pushing a plan.
So true, Catherine! And we can go SO far, one step at a time!
Oh you are so right on with this post – I have gotten so involved with wanting everything completed and done that I miss the moment I am in and the flowers and the joy…
I keep reminding myself that it is a journey. I am right now stuck on getting my online phone system to work and learning chat – this is a huge lesson for me but I think when I learn it – there will be these connections I could not make without learning this form of communication…so I need to learn it step by step and well…
I have been feeling pressured because my IT person is going on a 3 week vacation and I do not have enough posts written and etc. etc….today I am thinking, WOW I am going to learn something new, take a deep breath and enjoy the ride
Thanks for you awesome sharing
Patricia, so true … it IS about valuing the experience in the moment, as well as witnessing each new experience that results from our choices …
Thank you, Andrea, for this post!… You’ve reminded me that I don’t need to know many steps ahead… I just need to know the very next step… and I can always have that knowledge by feeling my inner truth… And as long as I know what my next step is… it will lead me to my ultimate path!… Thx again!… Love, Aurelio.
Aurelio … I would go one step further and say that there actually is no “ultimate path” …
WOW!! Just the other day when I thought I had outgrown your blog because of the level and direction which I find myself…as was the time when I first subscribed…you post an article that is a “synchronistic reflection” of an issue the Universe just helped me to clarify. Apparently, it still is sending more confirmation through this article and particularly love your admonition…”It means knowing our very next step, taking that step, and EXPERIENCING the result.”
Great post Andrea and blessings to you! Keep up the good work!
Michelle
Andrea, I gotta say that sometimes it certainly would be easier if someone were there spoonfeeding us everything, but we definitely wouldn\’t learn/experience much that way. It\’s been a difficult truth to convince myself to actually act on – that all we need to do is take the one, single, solitary next step. I mean, I\’ve got this long to do list, and I\’ve got my goal way out there, so, obviously (according to my ego self) I\’ve got to do everything all at once, NOW!!11!1!!!!
I\’m doing much better at holding my ego self back and insisting on one step at a time, and life certainly is getting easier and less stressful. Just-the-next-step is something that is much calmer and do-able, since it\’s a \”just do this one thing\”, and not a \”do this, and this, and this, and thisandthisandthisWaaahhhh! I\’ll NEVER get it all done!\”
Not fixating on one written-in-stone path to reaching my goal, has been a very freeing experience, and one I\’m SO glad I finally learned. By not fixating, I put a lot less stress on myself, and while I\’ve still got certain goals, I\’m not locked into a must-achieve-or-be-a-failure any more. I\’m now perfectly fine with those goals changing as I change and grow, and that\’s been very freeing, too.
Andrea, You say so much in just a few words like knowing our Soul’s purpose is living our authentic self expression. Now I read our Purpose is to not just know our Soul’s Purpose but to experience it. It made me think about infinite love how we can know about it but to experience it expands and balances our whole life, Dee
Oh, absolutely, Dee. Life is about experiencing ourselves. If we just “knew” without the necessity of experience, then life would become a very boring foregone conclusion!