What is your purpose? You are always discovering your purpose when you ask yourself “Why am I here?” If you ask yourself this question and are still not sure, just look back on your life. You have been fulfilling your purpose your entire life even if you don’t know consciously what your purpose is.
So how do you find out your purpose?
Your purpose can be summed up in a few short words. It is helpful to start with “I am ________.” If you keep your statement simple, you will remember it and allow it to inspire you. It might become more detailed later but start with simple words.
Your purpose should indicate direction and movement. For example, “I am a person” may be true, but it doesn’t indicate movement and direction. “I am a loving explorer of life” is closer to describing your purpose.
Your purpose is not a goal and can never be checked off on a list in the way that a goal can. Your goals are just desires achieved along life’s purpose.
Your purpose is instead the essence of your life in every moment and you are constantly fulfilling it.
If your desire is to be loving, but you’ve spent your life in a more begrudging than loving way, you simply need to bring yourself more in alignment with your intended purpose. Pay attention to the times and places that you can CHOOSE to be more loving to others and to yourself.
When your actions line up with your intentions (purpose), you will find that you move into a state of greater flow and the essence of your life changes.
As for my own experience, I knew early on in life that I was a teacher and seeker of knowledge. I also came to know that I felt most in synch when I sought to raise my own consciousness as I raised the consciousness of others.
While I started my career in an academic setting, I felt that I would realize the best version of myself if I were in a setting that had no outer-imposed limitations. Hence, I have with excitement explored many venues of learning, become an entrepreneur, and hope in this way to bring new ideas to you. My purpose? –I am an inspiration to myself and others. I seek to raise the consciousness of others as I raise my own consciousness, bringing greater love and freedom to all.
Finally, what is your contribution to your world? What is the BEST version of you? Your purpose is to BE the best version of you!
Heartliving Workshop, The Power of Your Dreams, coming up on Saturday, November 4, 2017, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., has quickly filled up. Good news however— a few spaces are still available!
Your dreams are extremely powerful as a source of information and healing. In this exciting and informative workshop, we will explore:
The history of dreams and approaches to dream analysis
Sleep stages and cycles, particularly progression of five sleep stages
Tips for achieving a good night’s sleep and remembering your dreams
Types of dreams, such as night terror, lucid dreams, & paranormal dreams in particular?
Format for keeping a dream journal of entries;
Ways to categorize your dreams, for example, clearance, spiritual guidance, psychic/prophetic, and lucid dreams;
The thirteen themes of spiritual guidance dreams;
What “chase,” “search,” “avoidance,” “entrapment,” and “flying” dreams may mean
Meanings of dreams of injury, disease, or fighting, as well as recurrent dreams;
Importance of dream fragment
Ways to enhance dream recall, including creative dreaming activities!
Program Fee: $165 (includes course materials, supplies, and food).
Ready to Enhance Your Life? Call Diane Roche, 757.467.6470, by October 31st to register.
Many of us are affected by the colors around us—either positively or negatively. The eyes are the sense organs that allow color to enter the body, yet methods of chromotherapy (color therapy), a form of energy therapy used in different cultures, is based on the idea that color enters the body through the eyes as well as the skin. It is believed that light and color affect our environment and also our bodies.
The science behind color therapy is that the universe is a magnetic field full of positive and negative charges of vibration. Each color’s vibrational wavelength is different and has varying therapeutic values that affect our organs. Different colors can relax and also stimulate a person’s body, mind, and spirit. Here are a few examples of effects of color:
Yellow: energizing and uplifting; encourages positive feelings and calms tension;
Red: stimulating and strengthening for the body;
Purple: balancing for mental and nervous imbalances; spiritual association;
Blue: calming and cool, inspires inner peace; gives a sense of security;
Green: harmonizing; the color of nature that connects us to the Earth.
In color therapy, it is believed that when colors enter the body as light, they have an effect on the overall health and well-being of our chakras, organs, and meridians. Find ways to incorporate color therapy into your wardrobe, home and/or work decor, and change the way you feel!
Spots are quickly filling up for “Healing Wisdom: Understanding the Body-Mind Connection”, Heartliving’s August seminar taught by Dr. Cynthia Bischoff, sponsored by Deepak Talreja, MD, of Cardiovascular Associates! Don’t miss this powerful evening of learning and insight designed to deepen your understanding of:
Integrative views of healing;
Human energy fields and centers;
Intuitive meanings of symbols;
And the symbolic meanings of major parts of the body.
The seminar will be held on August 30, 2017, from 6:00-8:00 p.m., at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital, Virginia Beach, VA.
If you’re ready to improve your life? Click: Register.
“Prosperity is a part of the natural process of life…. Countless men and women have … moved beyond the illusion of scarcity into the reality of unlimited wealth.” –John Randolph Price
Abundance has been said to mean different things to different people, but it is generally defined by a person’s ideas about what he or she believes is available to him or her.
Perhaps to some, abundance is measured by quantity. It might be seen as having access to a storehouse of plenty where anything one needs is available to him or her. In this way, abundance might be measured by believing that you can have enough of something or more than enough if you so desire.
From a soul or metaphysical standpoint, though, abundance is more related to quality. In this way, abundance would refer to being one with a Source of plenty that exists in its highest consciousness. To feel and be connected to abundance in this way would imply that each of us is connected to an unlimited Source of supply that not only has all that we need and everyone needs, but a Source that responds to our needs with a high quality of awareness. Through our language, behavior, and belief, we “tell” this Source what we need. Therefore, our ideas, thoughts, words, and actions are extremely important to what we manifest.
What does abundance mean to you? It has been said that each of us determines what abundance is and defines it through our own thinking. Abundance is said to be like an ocean. We can go to the ocean with a small pot and get only a small amount of water or we can go with a large truck and take more. It really doesn’t matter to the ocean nor will it change the ocean either way, but it is our consciousness that determines what we decide is available to us.
Another way to view it would be to imagine that each of us is placing an order with a shipping clerk who isn’t biased about our order at all. The clerk wants to fill our request. We just have to clearly fill out the form. Our currency that we send in as payment is our faith and beliefs!
A mantra that we can say is: “Abundance flows through my life in surprising and miraculous ways every day!”
Your attitude toward life reflects the way you interpret your world. Your experience is impacted not so much by what life brings you, but by the way your mind interprets what happens.
If you don’t like something that happens and you cannot change it, at least change the way you think about it!
Triggers that cause negative thinking:
Overgeneralizing: assuming that because it happened once, it will happen again.
Catastrophizing: predicting and expecting the worst outcome.
Mind-reading: believing that you know what others are thinking.
Exaggerating: giving negative events more importance than they deserve.
Personalizing: taking things very personally without evidence to support it.
Blaming yourself: accepting blame–“it’s all my fault.”
Extremes: using extremist words, like “always,” “never,” “nobody,” and so on.
People take you at your own estimation of yourself, so it is important that you behave “as if” you can do something well or that life is good. Remember that “like attracts like,” so if you put out negative thoughts, you are likely to attract more negativity to yourself. Be your own best advocate!
What is your purpose? You are always discovering your purpose when you ask yourself “Why am I here?” If you ask yourself this question and are still not sure, just look back on your life. You have been fulfilling your purpose your entire life even if you don’t know consciously what your purpose is.