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Mind Blown by this Fascinating Take on How to Find Your Life Purpose

1/17/2022

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I've always been interested in new ways to understand how to find your life purpose. And a post I read yesterday marries life purpose to a question I often ask about everything from creating your perfect morning routine to ​planning your new year. Mind blown!
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How Do You Want to Feel?


Now, if you're participating in the winter edition of the Ultimate Blog Challenge, you may have been lucky enough to read the blog post I am referring to, a couple of days ago. The post comes from Dominique Brooks, from RebootedMomMD.com.

And she marries finding your life purpose to my favorite question - how do you want to feel?

What I'd like to do here is think through her life purpose questions for myself, as journal prompts, and give you a chance to do the same.
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The Life Purpose Journal Prompts

Internal goals are when we try to recognize how we want to feel. ... The second step is to learn how to generate that emotion. ... Finally, the third step is to find ways to share that emotion with others via a variety of services.... That’s your true life purpose. RebootedMomMD.com
Before reading my responses, I invite you to pause and consider each question for yourself...
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How Do I Want to Feel?


TW: one night, after an episode of abuse, when I was about 9 years old, I was having an asthma attack and was determined not to survive it. But a loving being (guardian angel?) materialized in somewhat shadowy form and told me that if I stayed, I would eventually learn to be or become happy. 

And ever since then, that has been my number one goal in life. I was pretty self-absorbed about it, too, for a good long while.

But eventually, a couple of decades ago, I had this moment of revelation about how people struggle to be a better person, but can't, because they can't heal or let go of the past.

The want to let things roll off their backs, or respond with compassion or kindness, or not react so strongly, etc. But something constrains them.

They want to be happier, but can't quite manage that. That was my struggle, too.

So one answer to how do I want to feel? is "happy."

But recently, in the past year or so, I have begun to add another one.

It's those moments when suddenly you notice that you aren't reacting the same way you normally do. When you feel a sense of oneness and love and want to send that out to all sentient beings.

I think of those moments as a kind of everyday enlightenment. And I want to experience a whole lot more of them.
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How Can I Create that Feeling?


I would say that it is my spiritual practice and self-care & emotional healing experiences that have worked best in this area.

Spiritual aromatherapy with my favorite essential oils, visualization, yoga poses, and yoga mudras have all been powerful sources of those feelings and experiences. So I definitely want to continue all of those spiritual healing practices.
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How Can I Share it with Others?


This is a question I've already been thinking about, though not exactly connected to life purpose.

But for most of my life, when I have thought about what I would do for the world, if I could, it's been about making everyone happy. And at an even deeper level, it means helping them heal and change the way they think and respond to life experiences, so that they are able to allow others to live in peace and have more happiness and peace, themselves.

I see people who do harm as being bound and as needing emotional healing so that they can be set free. But recently, I have thought of it in an even bigger sense, in terms of a kind of spiritual awakening or enlightenment, just as I have for myself.

So I want to write more about those concepts here and weave them into the work I do.

If you have not read Dominique's post yet, I urge you to hop on over there, because it is filled with goodness about how we can reclaim our power as women.

And in the comments, I'd love to know what thoughts have come up as you read her post or this one.

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine

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