Dear Thomas,
Why do so many of us feel stuck? Why is it that we don't know the
path to take and sometimes we don't even have an inkling of what
our destiny even is, when it comes to our higher purpose and
greater calling?
Whenever I ask an audience of people over the age of 30, some of
whom are even over 50 and 60, "How many of you still don't know
what you want to be when you grow up?" - and this could be an
audience of hundreds of people, invariably virtually all of them
raise their hand. Mine goes up with theirs.
Why is that?
One of the reasons for this is that we're living a different life
from our ancestors. Even compared with little as 200 years ago, our
lives are 50 to 100 times more complicated. We have so many more
choices.
Back then, we were Weavers living on Weaver lane, weaving all day.
Our grandparents weaved and their parents weaved before them. Life
was easier, narrower, because you knew who you were and what was
expected of you.
And now, in the new millennium, after all the knowledge we have
gained in the last two centuries, we are asking ourselves, who am
I? What am I supposed to do?
The problem is that for many of us, without a clear identity and
without a greater story, the journey of our life fails to satisfy.
Without the larger vision of the possible, one can often retreat
into the questionable comforts of serial monotony.
We get up in the morning and do the same thing, drive to the same
places, think the same thoughts, and then we lay awake in bed at
night wishing for an epiphany about what it is we should do to feel
differently about ourselves.
This is why one of the keys to discovering your purpose and destiny
is the ability to view your life as a greater, mythic story in
which you can visualize where you've been, where you are and where
you're going in a deeper context.
This is my Purpose Activation Key #3. The ability to think
mythically and see your life in the context of the greater story.
Many of you feel like you've reached a point in your life where
you're stuck. You're frustrated that you're not doing the work you
were meant to do, that you're not using you full potential.
You see the changes happening in the world and you want to be a
part of the shift to a more evolved consciousness, but you can't
seem to gather the inertia or the creativity to change your current
circumstances.
You may be feeling depressed, stressed, burned out or maybe just
confused.
This is the point at which having the ability to think mythically
can turn everything around for you.
When you think mythically, you discover that the sorrow and
wounding you may be experiencing now is only in the middle of your
story. Just like in all myths and legends, the challenge is the
turning point. The opportunity to evolve and grow.
And, as you begin to remythologize your life and the story to the
larger purpose, you discover that your story has a magnificent
process and ending.
Your "stuckness" is not the end of the story. It isn't where you
exit the stage and where the curtain falls and the audience claps
because now they can go home.
The challenges you're feeling are an opportunity for you to
reinvent and to evolve.
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Purpose Activation Exercise #3
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Here's an exercise that you can try that will place your current
situation in context to the larger story and allow you to think
visually. Do this at home or in a private space where you can feel
uninhibited.
You are an actor on stage. You are going to enact in dramatic form
your desired condition and outcome.
Put on some music in the background - something that sounds like a
soundtrack to a great saga - and play out the story of your life,
beginning with your birth. Do it using gestures and movements.
Play both your own role and that of the important people in your
life. When you get to the part of the story that is your life in
the present moment, let your imagination and desire play out for
how you want the story to proceed.
Emulate what you desire, what you wish to manifest. Act it out,
whether it's something that's going to happen tomorrow or the next
day or next year. Whether it's some big plan or a secret desire -
act it out. Don't hold back or limit yourself to only that which
you think you can do.
Tell the story of the big change in your life as if it already
happened.
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When I have studied some of the people who were high-level
creatives, like Margaret Mead, I found that in virtually every
case, they enacted very vivid internal rehearsals of what they
wanted to achieve.
The point of this is to give vision to the life we want to live,
the greater purpose we want to embody. It helps your body align
with your mind and your spirit (and follows purpose activation
exercise #1).
If you're wanting more guidance and inspiration from me, I have
some great news for you.
On Wednesday, August 31st, I'm offering a special teaching session,
exclusively to my loyal email subscribers, and you're invited to
join me and participate for free.
I'll be revealing the reasons why I believe great change is upon us
and why we need to heed the call to a more evolved, more purposeful
way of living. I'm thrilled to be able to share some new insights
and offer you inspiration to follow your own destiny.
With love,
Jean
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