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The Journey of the Life Purpose

We are born into a world of what may seem to be confusion with lots of voices willing to tell us
exactly what to do with our lives. As we grow to adulthood we go through childhood phases of
development. Often young children about the ages of 3 to 12 will have a pretty good sense
themselves and will be more in touch at those ages with living out and fulfilling their Life
Purpose. Many times we are more able to remember that it was what we were drawn to do at
very early ages that truly suits us. For many of us, this may be a first stage in sensing and
identifying our Life Purpose.

Blocks to Life Purpose

Challenges may come to us as we grow up in our society and family systems however that can
lead us far astray from what we envisioned ourselves to be or do with our lives. Often family
systems, our society and the media in general is much more concerned about financial security and status. These often loud voices will encourage children to do something practical or financially solid and worthy of what they consider to be income-producing or raising status to insure that once the child grows to adulthood they will not be dependent on others. These
goals are often aimed more towards fulfilling financial and ego-centered needs of our society
rather than those of the individual. In this mass of pressure to make money and often fulfill the
dreams of family systems and our society, the original calling of our hearts later becomes just a cry of longing, loneliness and a sense of emptiness.

The childhood phases we pass through as we age---where ideally we learn a sense of competence and confidence in ourselves---may be marred by family problems of addictions, crisis, or be very dysfunctional in other ways. Many of us learn that the last consideration is to love and accept ourselves unconditionally and we become much more concerned about what other people think or say about us. In other words, we become dependent on others for our sense of self and their approval for our sense of being OK. Truly, we learn to live our lives outside of ourselves, becoming focused more with appearances and opinions of others rather than answering any inner calling. Here we can be more focused on pleasing others, friends, family and neighbors than ever fulfilling our life purpose.

Sometimes we are Blocked to Life Purpose because of a sense of fear caused by what some
identify as traumatic past lives, where the purpose was followed but ended tragically.

Sometimes, our purpose is associated with very upsetting events caused in this existence or as identified in some other existence that causes us to become afraid to follow our hearts. This sets us up to have inexplicable fears around following our purpose and passions. Other people may be chronically sad from being off their own purpose for extended periods of time and suffer with blocks to motivation to follow any path other than routine daily activities. Other people may not feel good enough or strong enough inside themselves to take the necessary risks towards their Life Purpose. Sometimes we need help to remove blocks so that we are freed to get back on our path.

How I help those who come to me

When working with others, I often find that teaching emotional release methods and using a combination of brief therapy tools including my own creation of Reimaging can be a key to helping folks begin work towards living out their Life Purpose. Reimaging is basically brief therapies sped up into fast guided imagery technique that clears multiple levels such as emotions and beliefs. Sometimes, hypnotherapy with regression is needed to find out the root cause of what holds someone back. Sometimes channeling clients’ guides in one way to help them to determine what is right for them. There are usually strong subconscious reasons, as well as practical reasons as to what keeps someone blocked from getting on their path.

The School of Life Purpose

I have found in my own experience and that of working with others that to follow and stick to one's life purpose is our challenge for growth in this school of life to rise above and clear our fears, learn to take risks, take rejection and to begin to embrace humility and rise to the challenge that life offers. I feel that everything we experience, is yet another challenge that contains the gift of growth. Our life purpose offers us the richest classroom to grow and at the same time gives us a sense of healthy fulfillment, inspiration and strong reasons to feel we fit in like a piece of the puzzle into all that is. This adds a great deal of meaning to life. From what I’ve seen, living out one’s life purpose is the answer to healthy self-esteem and many other forms of happiness, joy and fulfillment.

From my own experiences of faltering on my own path, and later as I was helping others, I noticed that the Life Purpose is in itself a developing pathway. If one chooses not to step onto it, much may be missed in terms of life lessons as the classroom of life, potential friends, loves as well as that deep sense of fulfillment and happiness that can only be met by doing what we are passionate about. Many as I have seen begin to compensate for this vacuum created within themselves and experience a loss of control over substances, of many different kinds addictions such as food addictions, sexual addictions, entertainment addiction, and even religious/spiritual addictions. For example, often times, overeating is more about just this kind
of lack of fulfillment as it is emotional issues and many other things.

My Own Experience of Overeating and Addiction

In my twenties I had a burgeoning weight problem. The more I dieted the more I binged and I ended up gaining about 30 pounds from binging and dieting. I found before I developed my Whole Life Weight Loss Program that much of what I was eating over was a lack of fulfillment from not pursuing what my heart truly wanted to do with my life. I also suffered from entertainment addiction and constantly had to be talking to others, playing something on the radio, or watching TV. All the while, I was basically distracting myself from my true needs. In my loneliness, I pulled strongly on others to fill my emptiness.

The Higher Agreements and the Life Purpose

From what I’ve experienced with others and myself, I feel that the Life Purpose has usually been an agreement we made with our guide well before we even entered this life. Living out our Life Purpose along with fulfilling Karmic debt contains much of the classroom of life from which we experience and learn. We have the opportunity built into our Life Purpose to experience deep spiritual lessons to help us evolve further along the lines of great spiritual attributes such as more compassion and unconditional love. Following the Life Purpose is not only fulfilling, inspiring, a great source of happiness, creativity and fun---it can also be challenging, taking much self-discipline, and contains many tests and lessons we need to evolve.

The Golden Circle and the Three Kinds of Life Purpose

When I have sessions with people on life purpose, the way I sense or see it is that it is actually a golden circle of energy behind the heart area. Usually I can delineate (if there's not too much clouding it in the way of blocks) the percentages of various types of pursuits that would fulfill it.

When I’ve done Life Purpose readings, The Life Purpose itself usually appears to be one of three kinds: “Unified”, “Split” or “Creative”. Often each one of these types of Life Purpose has a unifying central portion that is either business-oriented or more oriented towards teaching as a means of expression of the Purpose in the physical world. In other words, I find that either
Life Purpose is oriented more towards the business world or the world of teaching (which can
also be political or religious in nature) etc., and seems to allow a means for the Life Purpose to
be expressed in a connected and practical way in the world.

Each of these life purposes has their own challenges for growth. The “Unified Life Purpose” for example, can be met all in one field of endeavor yet the person may be called to take many
roles within that field. For example, I had one client who seemed to have his whole purpose revolving around film. His purpose seemed to call him to express himself in screenwriting, acting, camera work, producing and directing. In other words, he seemed called to work in
front of and behind the camera.

The “Split Purpose” is usually seen as a Life Purpose that can be met in a couple of fields. One
side of the Purpose in this “Split Purpose” will often be scientific, teaching or a business, while
the other side will often be of an artistic or athletic nature. For instance, one client I saw had a
purpose in both being a healer/teacher type on one side of the purpose and on the other side it
appeared to be heavy involvement with music specifically singing, drumming, etc.

The Third type of Life Purpose seems to be the “Creative Life Purpose”. Here’s the Life Purpose may be met in "owning the shop" so to speak where one can contribute creative aspects in design, production, or creating the end product or service, as well as be involved in management and many other involvements it takes to own a shop. One person's Life Purpose whom I read, contained creative art work and business. It appeared that this calling could be met by owning their own New Age book store that featured not only their art but that of others’ art, as well along with the usual products for sale in such a store such as books etc.

The different Life Purposes contain benefits and challenges that are unique to each. For
example, in the Creative Purpose one has the gift of many choices of expression, yet these clients often complain of feeling scattered because they are capable of doing many things well. Here, choice becomes a challenge. On the other hand the Split Purpose offers balance between polarities of expression so there is relief from burnout in the fields of passion. At the same time, finding time to dedicate oneself to one field let alone two is often the challenge that this type of Life Purpose presents. The two different sides can be joyous and simultaneously
challenge us in dividing our time and energy between them.

Starting in little steps

I encourage my clients to begin by taking little steps even if they can only start by reading about what they are passionate about. In time, they can often begin to take classes around their true Life Purpose and start to experience that joy and fulfillment that can only be found by following one’s path.

Even if we can only begin our path in little ways, it’s fun to see how the blessings of the Universe to begin to work with us. Another gift of the Life Purpose is Universal support. I truly believe our guides and angels and the Universe itself begins to open up more in the sense of flow and synchronicity. If we have the courage and faith to risk to take the first steps, there is so much assistance around us to support our efforts. Life is often truly magical and beautiful when we finally resolve to take this higher road regardless of what may appear in front of us in the moment.

Santosha Nobel, CHT. Author of Reimaging: Transforming Your Life by Re-Inventing Yourself.
www.reimaging.com

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