Your Personal Healing is a Service to the World

Much of my personal story began through a search for purpose. I was looking to find what it was that I specifically was meant to be doing in the world, so that, in the words of Oprah, “I could get to the business of doing it.”

I believed fulfillment, peace and happiness lie in aligning with my purpose.

There was only one problem—I didn’t know what my purpose was or how to figure it out.

This proved to be quite frustrating, since the answer to feeling fulfilled, peaceful and happy seemed to lie in knowing your purpose. It was as if the answer to all that I was seeking lie just outside of my reach.

I was ready to “get to the business of doing what I was sent here to do”, but I didn’t know what that was.

Here’s what I’ve learned:

Our primary purpose is to awaken. It is to show up and do the necessary inner work to shift our identification with who we are from ego (fear) to spirit (love). This is our inner purpose and it may or may not be directly reflected in the work we do as a part of our outer purpose.

Our outer purpose can change over time, but our inner purpose is to continually use all of our experiences to further our own awakening. Our changing outer purpose (or changing roles in this physical world) may serve as perfect catalysts to further our inner awakening, if we allow them to.

Believing that peace, fulfillment and happiness lies in knowing and aligning with an outer purpose is a recipe for frustration if we don’t know our purpose and a recipe for heartbreak if our outer purpose doesn’t work out in accordance with our expectations.  These are conditions for peace, fulfillment and happiness set by ego, not spirit.

Our personal healing is a service to the world. Each time that we heal a perception based in ego, we remove an energetic strand of fear from the collective unconscious. There is one less seed of conflict in the world.

Our healing directly impacts the people we’re closest to. Instead of directing thoughts and words of conflict towards them, we’re now witnessing them from a place of love. This is extremely advantageous to their own healing, whether we consciously recognize it or not. There is great purpose in this.

Our inner light and capacity to love extends in conjunction with our personal healing. This expands our capacity to fully accept another into our heart. There can be no greater act of love than to fully accept someone right where they are. In doing so, we act as a witness to their divine potential and give them the space to actualize this potential in their conscious awareness, in the timing that it’s meant to occur.

We’re building a bridge for others to traverse the higher path a little more smoothly. Similar to the early explorers of our physical world, our exploration helps to create an easier path for future seekers to take.

The last thing that ego wants us to do is to awaken, since the very process of awakening edges out ego’s power in our awareness. Once we’ve begun to open up to the idea that our life is meant to be purposeful, we’ve started to hone in on ego’s game…

We see how chasing things (status, possessions, money, etc.) for the sake of having them doesn’t lead us any closer to feeling fulfilled, peaceful or happy. We’re actively searching for meaning, which is a good thing.

We just have to be mindful that ego doesn’t swoop in and use the idea of aligning with an outer purpose against us. If we’re not careful, ego may use the search for an outer purpose like an “if, then statement” for gaining inner peace…

Ego says: “I would feel peace (fulfillment + happiness), if I knew what I was meant to be doing with my life.”

The use of any “if, then statement” means that we are attempting to find peace, fulfillment and happiness through our ego’s conditions. This can never work, since it claims that these things come from outside of us.

Peace, fulfillment and happiness come from knowing ourselves as spirit…that part of our nature that is already whole and complete, regardless of what is happening outside of us.

As soon as we begin to look for these things outside of ourselves, we’re under ego’s influence.

When we know ourselves as spirit (which comes from doing our inner work), we begin to extend from a place of wholeness/love.

We’re not looking to gain something from the actions that we’re doing (which is the case when we’re looking to find peace, fulfillment and happiness through an outer purpose); instead, we’re in a state of pure giving.

This is a state in which all that we do is done from the purest place of love. It occurs as a function of our inner healing. This is why I’m such a huge proponent of both showing up to do your inner work and seeing great purpose in doing so.

If you’re already aligned with an outer purpose, that’s awesome! Keep doing your work in the world, but don’t forget to commit to your inner healing, as well. It’ll extend what you’re already doing.

If you’re not yet aligned with an outer purpose, this blog was for you. Scrap the chase, turn within and know that your personal healing is a service to the world.

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To serving through our own healing,

Shanna

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