Finding Your Purpose
Sometimes finding your purpose can feel like pursuing an elusive savior.
At least that’s how it felt for me when I began my search.
It felt like the missing piece to feeling totally alive and engaged in life…the key to happiness.
Purposeful people preached this like it was the easiest thing to discover. Which only made it that much more frustrating to not know.
The biggest thing I did that I think a lot of others don’t do is I began to engage with my curiosity.
I didn’t try to just think my way into knowing my purpose. Instead, I started to pursue things that interested me even if they were outside of my comfort zone.
I took my first extended trip out of the country…I went to Costa Rica for two months, where I lived with local families and took Spanish lessons.
I had no idea if that had something to do with my overall purpose, but it was an interest that I engaged in.
That led to future trips to Guatemala where I ultimately lived for a year volunteering as a teacher in an indigenous community, one of …
KEEP READINGCommit To Your Soul’s Work
To me, the goal of life is best summed up by Bentinho Massaro – we’re here on earth to become a crystallized expression of our soul.
And it starts by listening to the desires of our heart and choosing to rise and expand into the person required to bring these desires to life.
The more we do this, the more we crystallize our ability to live fully rooted in our soul.
This week alone I probably had to remind myself of this choice to rise and expand about a dozen times…
I’m in the middle of an online course, getting up to speed on industry knowledge for content sharing and I could feel myself getting overwhelmed by all that there is to master just to effectively share what I’m passionate about.
My mind wanted to create stories around why I wasn’t in a position to take advantage of what the course was teaching…
My brain was going to mush as I watched technical videos on how to do some of the behind the scenes stuff…
My motivation was slipping…
Then, I got a hold of my mind and just reminded …
Setting (and holding) Intentions
When setting and holding an intention, the only thing you ever surrender to is your need for the thing you desire, never the desire itself.
This is a super important distinction because not knowing the difference between the two can severely block the manifestation process.
Failing to surrender to ‘need’ creates an energy of attachment that stems from a scarcity belief in lack, which results in a manifestation of more lack. Super frustrating, especially when you don’t realize what’s going on.
And if you’re attempting to manifest something but think the key is to surrender to the desire itself out of the confused belief that desire conflicts with the spiritual principle of acceptance, The Universe can’t get a clear read on what it is you want to manifest.
It hears: ‘I want this but you know, if that’s not meant to be, then okay, it’s better to be accepting of what comes my way / is meant to unfold’. The energy around this intention is totally loosy-goosey…there’s not a strong energetic intention for The Universe to get behind so it reflects this indifference through a very ‘meh’ response.
And it …
Listen To The Impulse Of Your Soul
You are a soul that simply wants to shine in the direction of its own resonance. Let it!
And, of course, be open to the challenges that present themselves because they are perfectly tailored experiences needed for you to expand your capacity to shine even more!
Always Shine Brightly,
Shanna
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