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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As human Beings, we have an absolutely stunning capacity to ignore the consequences that we have created through our choices. Is our business income declining? No worries, it’s sure to turn around soon. Is our body tired and unhealthy? We’ll start our diet and exercise regimen next week … or next month. Is our relationship dissatisfying? It’s just a phase … it happens, right?

My response to this kind of thinking is simple: AAAAAARGH!!!!

If we ignore the consequences of our choices, we are missing the whole point of incarnation: To learn, grow and evolve through conscious Creatorship.

Everything – absolutely EVERYTHING – that shows up in our human experience is a result of a choice we have made, directly or indirectly. Let’s say we choose to ignore our physical body, for example. We skip out on exercising and spend a week eating out or indulging in lots of deserts … well, that choice is going to have a consequence, beyond the obvious extra pounds. The key here is that we’ve chosen to “ignore” ourselves. Guess what we’re going to receive back from this ever-responsive, perfect Universe?

Indirectly, we may find that people aren’t returning our calls. Our emails may go unanswered. Maybe our child isn’t listening to us and decides to ignore our rules. If we’re running a business, our direct mail may go unopened. More directly, our body may decide to get ill and ignore what needs to get done (no surprise, we just ignored its needs, right?)

If, on the other hand, we choose to deeply honor ourselves by saying “no” to a social obligation, what might happen? We may find that others deeply acknowledge our authenticity, that we are invited to events we are thrilled to attend, and that suddenly our boundaries are upheld more readily by others.

Every choice we make, no matter how small, has a consequence. We are constantly experiencing the consequences of our own choosing, whether we are conscious of this or not. The question is: Are we willing to learn, to study, to look at everything that shows up in our lives as a self-created result of our own making?

If we are willing, I can guarantee you this: Major disasters will no longer happen in your life. The bottom will not “suddenly” drop out. That’s because disasters never “suddenly” happen out of nowhere. Long before financial hardship happens, relationships fall apart or our body becomes significantly ill, there are many, many, many small consequences that inform us of the quality of our choices.

It’s only if we disown the consequences of our choices, if we wait for things to change on their own while we keep doing the same things over and over again (Crazy thinking, right? But that’s what lots of people do!), that life seems to have unpleasant surprises in store for us. Life’s surprises are an illusion. If we study our choices and their consequences diligently and consistently, the results we create become obvious.

Are you ignoring any of your self-created consequences? Leave your comment and share!

Blessings,

Andrea

You may be familiar with the fable of the scorpion and the frog:

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a river and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion says, “Because if I do, I will die too.”

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp “Why?”

Replies the scorpion: “Its my nature…”

Usually this fable serves as a cautionary tale not to engage with “scorpions” who are going to cause us harm. But I think we can actually learn a lot from this scorpion!

Let’s face it – all of us have engaged in self-sabotaging behavior at one time or another. What we say we want and the choices we make simply don’t align. We want to lose ten pounds, but keep skipping the gym. We want to make more money, but we stay in our dead-end job. We want to create a business, but we keep getting distracted by reality TV.

When we catch ourselves engaging in self-sabotage, we can be hard on ourselves. Why can’t we be more disciplined, more motivated, more inspired, more educated? And so we try harder, we work more … and often end up repeating the pattern of self-sabotage. Sometimes our choices may even negatively affect other people. Sometimes our self-sabotage can feel like we are causing ourselves to drown.

Is there something wrong with us? Are we lacking something?

What if there’s nothing wrong at all?

What if either WHAT we are trying to create, or HOW we are trying to create it is simply not aligned to our nature?

There’s nothing wrong with the sting of the scorpion – after all, Mother Nature created this creature perfectly. Scorpions sting. It’s actually their Divine gift! Stinging is how they paralyze their prey and keep themselves fed and alive.

But what the heck was that scorpion thinking by climbing on top of that frog? What was so great about the other side of the river?

Here’s the lesson I see in this fable:

Our work is not to become something or someone other than who we are. But it IS up to us to know ourselves well enough not to climb on top of frogs. Our nature is not suited to that path – we must find one that aligns to who we are. Perhaps there’s a different way across the river. Perhaps that frog would have made a great meal before we started swimming. Perhaps we are on the perfect side of the river already.

Perhaps in every self-sabotaging behavior is a Divine gift that is inappropriately expressed.

We just have to stay out of the river. Then we can sting joyfully, in alignment with our nature.

Blessings,
Andrea