Finding Your True Purpose - Grace Healing Arts

Do you want to find your purpose in life? Have you ever wanted to know why you landed in your particular corner of the world at this time? Do you have a gut feeling that there must be more to life than meets the casual glance? That we each have an important role to fulfill? Life’s work or life design to find? Pay attention to those feelings. That’s your intuition at work.

It’s possible to discover your purpose, and to achieve it, but before you gallop off to find it, ask yourself a few questions: Are you open? Open to whatever that purpose might be? What if it’s a less than grand purpose? What if it has nothing to do with your current life’s aspirations, aims, goals? Embarking on this journey of discovery could lead you to help the world in amazing ways, or upon discovery you could say.”That’s it?”

NO ONE has a purpose that is LESS than grand, and it’s grand because it’s what YOU were meant to do. It doesn’t matter, in cosmic terms, whether you or anyone else thinks your purpose is worthwhile. It is. Creation is complex. Each act, each person’s own vibrational frequency goes to make up the whole. Even a small thread is crucial to the integrity, function, and beauty of the tapestry.

We all have a design for our lives. It's not working/sleeping/eating/paying bills. It’s not necessarily even performing particular tasks. Don’t confuse “doing things” with your purpose. The “things” are parts. Your purpose is the whole. When you look with the viewpoint of wholeness, it has more to do with joy and love and fulfillment. It's doing what you - and you alone- were born to do.

In the Vedas, ancient Indian texts, this is the principle known as "dharma" -- your own true work that nourishes you and society on every level.

I’d long known of the concept, yet my own journey took several unexpected twists before I discovered my purpose.

From the time I was eight years old, and wrote my first poem, I KNEW I wanted to be a writer. It felt right, heart and soul. With a burning desire and one-pointed focus I followed all the right courses through high school and college in a straight path to fulfill my life’s purpose.

Then, boom!

I started meditating, and my life opened up to new possibilities. I took advanced courses, became a meditation teacher and set out to help the world. Though my spiritual side continued to actively grow, I married, had babies, and then turned my attention back to writing. I worked for years, writing ten books that my critique group loved, but publishers didn’t. As much as I wanted it to, my career as a writer wasn’t working.

Then, again, boom!

It was as if that lifetime ended. The desire to write left. Completely. I hadn’t a clue about what to do. I’d thought I known my purpose in life, but suddenly I was searching again.

.We have each created our own pattern. Most people choose an established path or the nearest, easiest path - whatever job is available to earn money to pay the bills. They get on the wheel, and start running in circles for the rest of their lives. Others go to great lengths to find what they do best, soul searching, taking aptitude tests, going to career counselors, etc. And some people choose well. The ones who are in touch with themselves.

I had prided myself on knowing who I was, After all, I’d been teaching meditation for, by that time, 30+ years and already had a strong inner sense of Self. Still, connecting it to daily activity and finding out what I wanted to do was not easy. And as connected, as in tune as we may be, we can always connect and refine more. My work had only just begun. I asked myself some hard questions, got some unexpected answers from unexpected sources.

What did I do?

I looked at a few self-help books, such as What Color is Your Parachute and Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow. Among other things, I was advised to make lists of things I like to do, and of talents, skills and interests, along with work experience I’d accumulated. I covered several sheets of paper, then studied the results.

Though I could no longer write them, I still loved books. I’d also had retail experience. Putting that together, I thought I could own a used book store. I moved in that direction, getting more experience by working in a book store. It was slow going.

Then … guess what? Boom! Deja vu!

What I’d thought was a minor interest in my life -- alternative healing systems --paired up with my eternal interest in the development of consciousness, and I was offered the opportunity to co-create, with the Divine, an amazing line of Divine Therapies that work on the most subtle level possible in relative existence. One of them is called “Purpose.” It’s designed to help you connect all the dots inside you, to bring you more in tune with nature’s creative design, and help you not only discover what your true life’s purpose is, but to achieve it. Later, the Purpose Pendant was created. With the pendant all you need to do is wear it or use it in other ways we at Grace Healing Arts recommend.

Notice that I did not actively look in this area. I had been caught in the illusion that knowledge in books could show me the way. Books can help, of course, because they get you thinking. But knowledge is not the key. Wisdom is.

Both the Purpose tincture and Purpose pendant help you discover your true life’s purpose through opening your heart to Divine Wisdom.

This idea of healing came unexpectedly, but I was awake and intuitive enough to recognize it when it came. Once you start searching for your purpose, be alert to all tidbits of ideas that come. They just might nudge you in a new, perfect direction.

I found my dharma, and discovered that living life in dharma is far from a rooted, unchanging existence. It moves as you grow, ever widening, ever deepening. It’s like catching the right boat moving down the river. Hang on, and help steer! And be ready to change boats if it’s called for. We all do have a purpose. I learned to uncover mine, take steps to achieve it, and I learned how to help steer others to their right path.

Don’t give up. Your purpose is waiting for you. The way may be winding, smooth, or rough, but if you’re on the right boat on the right river, with the rudder in hand, your boat will take you where you want to go.

Allura Adelson is co-founder of Grace Healing Arts, offering more than a hundred Divinely-guided solutions to your quesitons and concerns to help you heal, grow, and to create more joy in your life.

www.GraceHealingArts.com

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