Goals and inner expansion

Posted on October 26, 2007
Filed Under Embrace Your Highest Path and Purpose, Manifest Your Desired Outcomes, Releasing Limiting Beliefs, Spiritual Development |

I’ve been very busy lately building my business - creating a working brand, publishing my book, working on receiving some publicity, and generally putting myself “out there.” And I definitely find that I’m pushing my own comfort zone. This weekend, I’ll be an exhibitor at a Healing Arts Fair and will actually do some live mini-readings … something I very rarely do, and usually only when the occasion arises in private. Stop by this Sunday at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts between noon and 6 p.m., if you’re near Tempe, AZ!

All this activity has had me thinking about the goals we set for ourselves. Expanding my business isn’t about more money (although I’ll take it), about success (already feel I have it) or even serving the world in a broader, bigger way (although that’s definitely a huge motivation). Why do we set new goals for ourselves as soon as we reach old ones? Is it human nature always to strive for more? Is it all about wanting and craving? I’m a goal-oriented sort of girl, which seems to be in contrast to lots of spiritual disciplines that teach non-desire.

I think we frequently put the cart before the horse when we contemplate our goals. We ask ourselves what we have to do in order to get where we want to go. But reaching the goals we set for ourselves is really just the outward manifestation of inward expansion.

When a new goal arises in our mind, we must ask ourselves what energetic qualities this goal represents. The next question, I think, must be: “What qualities that are already present within me must I expand into further, in order to create the appropriate energetic circumstances which will attract my desired outcome into my life?” Every new goal we create for ourselves is an opportunity to expand our comfort zone, to move further into our existing gifts and talents, to release limitations. It’s not so much about what we want to accomplish. It’s about how expansive we are willing to become, how brightly we’re willing to shine our gifts, and how much of our Divinity we can allow ourselves to embrace.

We set goals for ourselves. And while we do what we think we must in order to accomplish our goal, we are well served to focus on the inner expansion we need to undergo in order to create space for that goal to manifest itself. Our goals aren’t about wanting more money, more love, more “stuff” - although that’s how they may first appear, even to ourselves. Our goals are the outward reflection of our willingness to embrace more of our Divine self.

What are your current goals? And what inner expansion must you undertake, so that they may manifest themselves into your life?

Blessings,
Andrea

Comments

6 Responses to “Goals and inner expansion”

Anna on October 26th, 2007 11:35 am

Great article Andrea.

I set goals and sometimes think that it’s all about my goals. I become so focused on them that I can’t remember what the point of them is, and even having goals like trying to help people as a goal in itself, to try and improve the world doesn’t seem to sit right.

I often forget that it’s about expanding and experiencing my own divinity. That feels a lot better. I guess you reach your goals anyway as you expand and become more of what you are.
Andrea on October 26th, 2007 2:22 pm

Thank you, Anna! That’s exactly what I was trying to express! I do think if we create the expansion necessary to reach our goals, we attract them more easily than if we “go after” them …

Blessings,
Andrea
Berit on October 27th, 2007 2:27 pm

In this time of “The Secret” I feel your article are so importen Andrea, thank you! Anna, you said it so simple and clearly, Goals is all about to expand and experience my own divinity! To me my goals, desires and intention must be pararell with my inner calling, not deny myself, to prove new limitations, go out of my comfort zone and lose my breath for a while! How wonderful it feel to reach it!
David on October 29th, 2007 11:35 am

Thank you Anna! That says it so well. I have never been much of a goal setter and and have had some bad feelings about that as society places such a high value on it. I am a “human being”, not a “human doing”. I have never been very competetive. If a thing doesn’t come somewhat naturally to me I become exhausted and lose interest.
All of my life I have consciously been on a journey to myself, as you said, to “expand and become more of what you are.” My intuition is if I do that, the rest will fall into place.
Andrea on October 29th, 2007 11:43 am

Berit - I think you mention such an important thing - that our goals must line up with our highest path and purpose. When our goals are aligned with that, then we truly expand into our divinity as we move towards our goals.

David - “human being” vs. “human doing” - I love it! What a great way to put it. And of course, we’re also spiritual “beings” rather than spiritual “doings.” I think this is a post all on its own!
Tuan on November 1st, 2007 9:18 am

I agree with David, we are the “Human Being”. Focus on “being” the goal will manifest and resolve itself. Focus on “doing” the goal sometime doesn’t manifest and evolve into something else unwanted.