I get this question quite a bit. Why am I here? What is my purpose? Why do I feel this way? The interesting thing about these questions is they are almost always asked negatively. The question usually comes up when things are going "badly" for the individual. For example when someone losses a job, or their relationship goes south. I also hear it when someone gets a difficult diagnosis. These are all legitimate reasons to wonder what the hell you are doing here on this planet.
I have empathy for people who are struggling. I have deep compassion for those who are suffering. But, I also have a question for them. What do you want to do about your situation? How do you want to approach your certain situation?
Over the past 53 years I too have asked the question, why am I here and what is my purpose. I too was not connected to my job in any meaningful way. I struggled in personal relationships. I lost my mother to breast cancer when I was in my 30s.
I all changed when I began to learn that I was the creator of my reality, I started to understand that I was literally creating the life I was living. This is not magical thinking or fantasy. This was simple quantum physics. Yes, when I first hear the term quantum physics I was like, "that stuff is for scientists and high-level mathematicians". No, it is really quite simple, all life as we know it is 99.9% energy and 0.1% matter. I'm sure you've heard the statement that if you took all of the earth's matter, 0.1%, and removed the energy from it the earth would be the size of a marble. Yes, a marble.
Energy follows the direction of the owner's thoughts. If you think it, your energy will create it. The only thing you have to do to manifest the life you dream of is to believe that you can create it.
This gets us back to how you look at your specific problem, illness, or relationship. Instead of looking at the problem as an obstacle, you can look at it as an opportunity. A simple shift in thought can move you from being the victim to being the observer of that same thing. If you can observe a situation, you can start to create meaning with it.
I'll give you an example. I could attract women to me but I couldn't sustain a meaningful relationship with them. I was projecting a physical image but
simultaneously I was projecting a sense of lack or unworthiness when it came to love. I didn't feel love for myself (I was not enough for me) so my relationships matched my energy. I/we selected each other based on our mutual physical attraction and the same sense of lack of love for ourselves.
Once I started paying attention to the lack of love that I felt for myself, I started meeting people who also felt worthy of love. There are no tricks of 5 steps to get to love. It is simply observing how you feel about yourself and allowing for the possibility that you are worthy. Your energy takes care of the rest. You literally don't have to do anything more.
As I started this journey of awareness and attention, other things in my life started to shift too. I was getting better and more fulfilling career choices, I started to manifest more beautiful and interesting surroundings and I started to glimpse my true purpose in life.
The pain or "contrast" in your life is a way that your energy manifests itself so that it can get your attention. Take the time to be with the contrast and listen to it. You'll be shocked at what you will learn.
