I recently discoved that one of the things we as humans need to survive this journey is a purpose.
So what is your life purpose?
Many of us can rattle off a few things that come to mind but how many of us know our true life's purpose?
So, how do we find out what it is? I have been doing this search myself, so the answers you find here are ones that have worked for me.
The first one seems very simple but is actually quite challenging.
Get a piece of paper and write or open your word processor and type whatever comes to your mind when you ask youself, "What is my purpose in Life?"
Write down every thought that comes into your head, you may have them flowing in a certain direction or jumping all over the place. That's fine, just keep writing. Set aside at least 30 mins for this but also know it could take up to an hour.
Do you deserve to give yourself an hour of your life to get the guidance you need to suceed?
Turn off your mobile and put a do not disturb sign on the door. This may well be the most important gift you ever give yourself.
As you write or type you will put down something and it will really resonate within you, it will feel like the sun has come out from behind a cloud, but don't stop here, keep going!
That's right, keep going, this will probably happen a few times until you get to your real purpose....you'll know you've found it when you feel the tears welling up in you. You will have that feeling of coming home after being away for a long time.
Sit with this for a while, close your eyes and ask for devine guidence then write it out and put it where you can see it often. This will guide you in everything you do.
When an opportunity comes your way, ask yourself, "How does this fit in with my life purpose?" and use this question as your guide in all you do.
For those of you who want a step by step process to help you , follow the steps below.
1. What things, people, activities bring a smile to your face even when you just think about them?
2. What do you get so immersed in that you loose track of time, or have in the past?
3. Who inspires you. If you had to ask someone for help, who would it be? If you could attend any workshop in the world who would it be run by and what would it be about?
4.What are your natural talents and abilities?
5. What things make you feel good about yourself?
6. What things are most important to you? What are your beliefs or deepest values?
7. If you were to die today what would you regret not doing or not finishing?
8. If you were present at your own funeral, what would you want people to say about you?
9. If money was no obstacle what message would you want to get accross to the world? How would you acheive this?
After answering these questions and doing the writing exercise above I was able to find my life purpose.
For me, it is
To love myself as I am, to accept myself, all of me. To Be!
To trust in God that he has everything under control
I am free to speak my truth and to be me because I am ok. I am loved, I am at peace.
Through this I can love and accept others and allow them to be."
I would love you to share your life purpose with me also.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Happiness
I have just come accross the Hapiness Project. Yes I love it's name, but also the idea that we are in charge of our happiness. I have been having major computer issues which has tested my resiliance to the max and I found this site refreshing. So check it out and see if you find it helpful too. An excerpt is "Each month, I’ll propose an area of life to tackle, and over the next four weeks, I’ll suggest concrete, manageable resolutions to help you boost your happiness."
http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/the-year-of-happiness-challenge.html
http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/the-year-of-happiness-challenge.html
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Dealing with Stress
I found this great article by Georgia Foster. It's worth a read.
One of the thinks she tells us is that a simple tool when you are feeling stressed is to take a deep breath in and hold for 5 seconds, then release the breath and hold for 5 seconds. Repeat this 3 times. At the same time say silently to yourself on each breathe in positive statements such as ‘I am safe’ or ‘I am calm and confident.’
I have found combining this with looking at an image of nature and it has amazing results. Give it a go & let us know if it works for you. Go to the link above and read the full article.
One of the thinks she tells us is that a simple tool when you are feeling stressed is to take a deep breath in and hold for 5 seconds, then release the breath and hold for 5 seconds. Repeat this 3 times. At the same time say silently to yourself on each breathe in positive statements such as ‘I am safe’ or ‘I am calm and confident.’
I have found combining this with looking at an image of nature and it has amazing results. Give it a go & let us know if it works for you. Go to the link above and read the full article.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Chakras, What are they?
What are Chakras and how do they work?
Many of you may have heard people mention your chakras or energy centers but don't understand what they are and how they work.
Illness and injury happen.
What is often referred to as a persons aura is in actual fact the magnetic field that surrounds our bodies.
Getting back to the chakras, they are energy vortexes within the human body. There are 7 that are commonly referred to and some people also have an 8th. I will explain this more a bit later. For now we will concentrate on the 7 common ones. When these are fully open and balanced then our body is in harmony and therefore well. This article will explain what they are, in future articles I will explain how we open and balance them.
Each chakra is located at a different part of the body and has a color associated with it and is responsible for certain organs within our bodies. So let's have a look at them.
The first one is the Base or Root Chakra. It is located at base of the spine and its color is red. Organs associated with it are the bladder and kidneys and also the hips, legs and the spinal column. It is also connected with our sense of smell. The emotional aspects it represents are survival and stability. It is the center of self awareness.It is also the sexual core of our being. The Sanskrit name for this one is Mulahadra (derived from Mula meaning 'root' and 'adhara' meaning 'base or support') In females it rotates anticlockwise and in men clockwise....maybe there is more to attraction of the opposite sex than we knew!
Many of you may have heard people mention your chakras or energy centers but don't understand what they are and how they work.
Firstly the body has long been recognized as having its own magnetic field. The earth is like a huge magnet to which living things are attached by magnetic attraction.
Our bodies have their own magnetic field and bio-magnetic frequencies or patterns that react to the earths magnetic field and also other magnetic influences around us. The ancient healers used magnetic lodestones along the bodies meridians to treat pain and bring the body into harmony. Modern magnetic therapy follows the same principle.
Science tells us that every living thing is made up of individual molecules which vibrate at such a rate that they appear as a solid mass, for example the human body, but it is actually the energy both positive and negative created by the movement of these cells that keeps them working in perfect harmony. So what happens when this harmony is disrupted?
Illness and injury happen.
What is often referred to as a persons aura is in actual fact the magnetic field that surrounds our bodies.
Getting back to the chakras, they are energy vortexes within the human body. There are 7 that are commonly referred to and some people also have an 8th. I will explain this more a bit later. For now we will concentrate on the 7 common ones. When these are fully open and balanced then our body is in harmony and therefore well. This article will explain what they are, in future articles I will explain how we open and balance them.
Each chakra is located at a different part of the body and has a color associated with it and is responsible for certain organs within our bodies. So let's have a look at them.
The first one is the Base or Root Chakra. It is located at base of the spine and its color is red. Organs associated with it are the bladder and kidneys and also the hips, legs and the spinal column. It is also connected with our sense of smell. The emotional aspects it represents are survival and stability. It is the center of self awareness.It is also the sexual core of our being. The Sanskrit name for this one is Mulahadra (derived from Mula meaning 'root' and 'adhara' meaning 'base or support') In females it rotates anticlockwise and in men clockwise....maybe there is more to attraction of the opposite sex than we knew!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Dealing with the loss of a pet
My heart goes out to you.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Overcoming pain with love, laughter, and help from above!
Do you suffer with chronic pain? Pain that drives you to despair at times, pain that others cannot understand? Have you tried all the medical options and been told. "Sorry we can't help, you'll just have to learn to live with it"? I do, I have severe osteoarthritis and fybromyalgia and am only 47. Yet despite the odds, I have learned to live with it and how to laugh again. Come on the journey with me and I will show you how. It's FREE, and available to each of you. It is not religion or theoretical platitudes, it is real life and what has worked for me.
"Overcoming pain with love, laughter, and help from above!"
When I say these things people look at me very strangely. How do you overcome pain with love?
I can only relate personal experience and from that experience I have come to learn that if we rage against our pain, which is so often the natural thing to do, then it just becomes worse and we become frustrated and angry.
If we can instead look at our pain, especially those of us with chronic pain, as our friend, as someone who is with us all the time. It is a constant companion, so instead, choose to send it love.
When the pain comes, it is trying to tell us that it's crying out to be loved. So send it love.
As you do that you will find that laughter returns to your life because you will see that in spite of the pain you are able to laugh at life knowing that it is your friend, it's not something that you can change, it's not something to get rid of, it's something to embrace. By that I don't mean making it more than it is, I don't mean hanging on to it, I mean letting it go, loving it for what it is, when it's there and when it's not being joyful and happy.
About now I can hear you say, "She's nuts, who would want to embrace pain?" But for a moment keep an open mind while I explain. I am not talking about clinging to pain or making pain a crutch or becoming a hypochondriac, I am talking about chronic pain that is with you all the time and that Doctors and medical science seem so ill equipped to deal with.
As I mentioned in the title, 'help from above', this is NOT religion, this is not ideology or theology, to me 'help from above' is the real help from the universe, from the creator of the universe. All around us in this world there are things that can help us, for me, that help has come from nature. Being out in nature, being able to photograph nature, and to be able to share it with others and to give something back of what has been given to me.
When I take my camera and I absorb myself in taking a photo out in nature, or even when I am sitting at the computer, working on my images, creating the artwork that I do, I become lost in what I am doing and I feel alive again. I feel that I have a purpose, I feel that the pain has given me something beautiful that I would never have found otherwise. At times when the pain becomes so much that I struggle to find the love to give it that it needs, I ask for help from above. I ask that the white light would pour love into that pain and that the pain would be able to step forward into the white light and I hand it over from me to God, or for others, to the universe, to release it and then rest in the arms of love. That to me is who God is, not religion, not theology but pure precious love.
I hope by sharing this with you that you too will be able to find it in yourself to love your pain, to learn to laugh again and when it becomes to much, to call on the love from above to help you get through.
Look for something that is special for you, be it sitting out in nature, be it looking at artwork or doing some yourself. Be it appreciating what others do for us. We each have our own passion. It may be sitting in a garden or sitting on the beach, it may be spending time with family. Whatever it is for you, find that thing and recognize it for what it is. If you struggle with this, then again, ask for help from above, that's how I discovered my photography, I opened myself up to suggestion and said, "Please help me, let me find something that will take me through this journey" and I found my photography.
I encourage you to do the same. Pain can be debilitating, it can be heart breaking, it can be soul destroying, if we allow it to be, but we can turn it around and we can love it, we can know that it is part of us that is hurting, that needs love far more than any other part, so give it that love, listen to the pain, rest when you need to, don't struggle against it, flow with the river instead of fighting against it. and let yourself be free, finally free to be all that you can be.
"Overcoming pain with love, laughter, and help from above!"
When I say these things people look at me very strangely. How do you overcome pain with love?
I can only relate personal experience and from that experience I have come to learn that if we rage against our pain, which is so often the natural thing to do, then it just becomes worse and we become frustrated and angry.
If we can instead look at our pain, especially those of us with chronic pain, as our friend, as someone who is with us all the time. It is a constant companion, so instead, choose to send it love.
When the pain comes, it is trying to tell us that it's crying out to be loved. So send it love.
As you do that you will find that laughter returns to your life because you will see that in spite of the pain you are able to laugh at life knowing that it is your friend, it's not something that you can change, it's not something to get rid of, it's something to embrace. By that I don't mean making it more than it is, I don't mean hanging on to it, I mean letting it go, loving it for what it is, when it's there and when it's not being joyful and happy.
About now I can hear you say, "She's nuts, who would want to embrace pain?" But for a moment keep an open mind while I explain. I am not talking about clinging to pain or making pain a crutch or becoming a hypochondriac, I am talking about chronic pain that is with you all the time and that Doctors and medical science seem so ill equipped to deal with.
As I mentioned in the title, 'help from above', this is NOT religion, this is not ideology or theology, to me 'help from above' is the real help from the universe, from the creator of the universe. All around us in this world there are things that can help us, for me, that help has come from nature. Being out in nature, being able to photograph nature, and to be able to share it with others and to give something back of what has been given to me.
When I take my camera and I absorb myself in taking a photo out in nature, or even when I am sitting at the computer, working on my images, creating the artwork that I do, I become lost in what I am doing and I feel alive again. I feel that I have a purpose, I feel that the pain has given me something beautiful that I would never have found otherwise. At times when the pain becomes so much that I struggle to find the love to give it that it needs, I ask for help from above. I ask that the white light would pour love into that pain and that the pain would be able to step forward into the white light and I hand it over from me to God, or for others, to the universe, to release it and then rest in the arms of love. That to me is who God is, not religion, not theology but pure precious love.
I hope by sharing this with you that you too will be able to find it in yourself to love your pain, to learn to laugh again and when it becomes to much, to call on the love from above to help you get through.
Look for something that is special for you, be it sitting out in nature, be it looking at artwork or doing some yourself. Be it appreciating what others do for us. We each have our own passion. It may be sitting in a garden or sitting on the beach, it may be spending time with family. Whatever it is for you, find that thing and recognize it for what it is. If you struggle with this, then again, ask for help from above, that's how I discovered my photography, I opened myself up to suggestion and said, "Please help me, let me find something that will take me through this journey" and I found my photography.
I encourage you to do the same. Pain can be debilitating, it can be heart breaking, it can be soul destroying, if we allow it to be, but we can turn it around and we can love it, we can know that it is part of us that is hurting, that needs love far more than any other part, so give it that love, listen to the pain, rest when you need to, don't struggle against it, flow with the river instead of fighting against it. and let yourself be free, finally free to be all that you can be.
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