Living Your Life Purpose

Do you know your life purpose? Are you living your life purpose? How are you making progress in fulfilling your life purpose?

So many of us are waking up to realize we do have purpose in our life, that life is not some random accident but we came here for certain reasons. But many are also frustrated because, as much as we sense we have life purpose, we cannot figure out what it is.

I know the frustration of not knowing the purpose of my life

I certainly know that frustration – I lived in it for years. In my early years, I thought I could find my purpose in higher education. I studied hard and was admitted to one of the most prestigious universities in Japan. Boy, it disappointed me. There was also a time in my life when I thought I could find my purpose in a relationship. Nope. And I did my share of corporate life in America.

Since I left my corporate job last year and put my full attention in my spiritual development, I now feel I have a better perspective on this issue of life purpose. I have the sense of direction that I am making a progress in my life purpose, and this gives me calming satisfaction.

In fact, this was the very reason I started this blog. I want to help you live your purpose. (And if that involves starting a business – which is not necessarily the case but sometimes is, I want to help you in that effort, too) Yet I realize I haven’t written a core post on what life purpose is, so here it is.

General and individual life purpose

In the most generalized level, we all come to live in the physical life form for one common purpose: to experience life in this physical world and to learn and grow through the experience. Steve Pavlina puts it this way in his recent interview with Hunter Nuttall:

“. . . So if consciousness is the only potential common element to this life and the afterlife, then we get the greatest possible long-term gains by developing our consciousness in this life. And what’s really fascinating is that by focusing on the development of your consciousness now, you’ll enjoy an incredible life while you’re here. You’ll lose your fear of death because you’ll know you’re doing the very best you can to prepare for it. And once you lose your fear of death, you’ll live much more fully in the here and now.

For starters you’ll be less timid about taking risks such as quitting your job to start a new business. After all, if you accept that you’re going to die, how you can be afraid of minor stumbling blocks like going broke? Those things are just part of the expansion of your consciousness.

Consciousness develops through expansion, through exposure to new experiences . . . We’re here to have the greatest growth experience – the greatest adventure – any conscious being could ever wish for. . . You’re here to develop yourself as a conscious being.”

So true. I would like to add to this, that there is a reason why each of us are unique. In addition to the big general purpose, each of us have more specific purpose, or set of purposes. Knowing the big purpose is helpful, but I think it’s also helpful to get more personal.

Expression of your uniqueness is one of your life purpose

Have you ever stopped and thought why each of us are different? Our uniqueness is a gift for for ourselves and to the whole world.

Large part of our unique strengths (and challenges) come from our soul origins. Each of our soul (what Steve calls consciousness) has origins. Is this surprising to you? If our soul can survive the death of this lifetime, it has survived many previous lifetimes. Go all the way back when it first incarnated in the physical body on Earth. Where was it before?

For many people, life is meant to be simply lived. There is nothing wrong about this – these people are the salt of the Earth. Their souls know only this Earth, and in the early stage of development.

If you are reading Steve Pavlina or this blog, however, you are probably not one of them. Deep down, you know you have higher aspiration and more specific purpose for your life (or for your many lives). Your soul originated in other sources to make certain contributions to this Earth.

Soul group and life purpose

The origin of the soul (sometimes called soul family) defines your soul level gifts. And you wanted to incarnate on this Earth so that you could make your contribution with your gifts. This is your group level life purpose.

When you express your wonderful soul gifts, when you offer your gifts to improve this Earth, you are fulfilling your life purpose. You are also growing spiritually yourself.

For example, some of my Akashic Record Reading clients’ souls come from outer space (the exact location is not identified at this time) and have firsthand expertise in the blueprints of this Earth and our souls – they really know how things were originally planned to work. Some know this into technical details. Because there have been many corruptions in the blueprint codes, they came to work on the restoration of the blueprints. They are working on the soul level to correct the negativity with their great technical abilities.

On the physical level, they may be working as engineers or program managers. Or economic analysts or medical researchers or even philosophers. These are all different ways they utilize their soul gifts, their analytical and well-organized thinking capabilities, and they are restoring the original blueprints. (I haven’t read his Akashic Records, so I’m not 100% sure, but I think Eckhart Tolle, author of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Oprah’s Book Club, Selection 61), belongs to this group. See how meticulously he works on the technical accuracy and perfection.)

Another example is Dr. Eric Pearl of the Reconnection. He is considered to be a Pleiadian. (In this case, we know the location of his home.) Pleiadians are here to bring changes (and entertain us along the way).

Souls also take trainings, like taking college majors, that further define their gifts and purposes. I’ll write about this into details later in another post – this itself is a huge topic.

If you are interested in learning more about various soul groups (soul families), there is a book called Soul Mastery: Accessing the Gifts of Your Soul. It doesn’t include several soul groups somehow, and it doesn’t explain the critical steps to identify and straighten up the energetic issues prior to reading the Akashic Records (sometimes, the “book” may have the wrong cover, etc.), but it’s an interesting read.

Life purpose and life lessons

Each individual soul chooses a set of life lessons prior to incarnation. Dr. Brian Weiss’ Many Lives, Many Masters explains this important issue. So working on the life lessons you yourself chose before incarnation is part of the life purpose. This is your life purpose that is specific to this lifetime.

By the way, this is another thing I check in my Akashic Record Reading, and it is such a joy when the client says something like, “I knew this! This XXXXX has meant so much in my life! So I’ve been learning this all my life.”

Then there are some additional purposes, such as healing the energetic wounds you still suffer from previous lives. Along the way, we intend to fulfill some soul agreements we made with other souls.

Your life purpose is NOT a must-do list given by someone else

I hope you are not getting overwhelmed. It is essential to realize that living your life purpose is more about being than doing. I know it looks like we have to do so many things. But our soul’s expansion does not correlate to the quantity of experiences. We can learn so much and make huge progress in our life lesson from one experience. And expressing your soul gifts is more about offering that special energetic quality through your existence than doing something with it.

Your life purpose is definitely NOT an order from heaven that says, “You must do this, or else.” (True divinity doesn’t use this kind of fear tactics.) You, your soul, chose your own life purpose. Let me summarize:

• You chose your origination and training, and you came here to offer your special energetic qualities.
• You chose to come to life each time you incarnated to experience this physical world and to grow and evolve.
• You chose your own life lessons for this lifetime.

Look, aren’t you a beautiful soul? So ambitious and so generous. You chose all these with joyous expectations – otherwise, you didn’t have to incarnate.

How do you feel about life purpose? Do you have a sense of direction that you are living your life purpose? (Photo by Kjell)

My Gratitude Journal Online – Thanksgiving Edition #18

Gratitude Journal works

Happy Thanksgiving! Well, my regular readers may be wondering “It’s not Friday yet, Akemi. . .” I know. I am refreshing the Gratitude Friday series to Gratitude Journal series. It will continue to be posted biweekly, but the posting day may shift slightly, like this. I mean, how can I miss Thanksgiving?

I guess much has been said about Gratitude Journal. But the one thing is you won’t know how it works until you do it. Daily practice is of course ideal, but really, just start anywhere you can. You will be amazed how much peace and joy it can bring to you.

Gratitude is like all-in-one apply-anytime-anywhere medicine. You are afraid of the economic future of yourself and the world? Write (or even just recite) things you have that you are grateful for. You are depressed with the health issues of yourself or tired of taking care of your sick family? Try gratitude and see what happens. You have relationship problem? Do gratitude for yourself and for that person. Etc.

You do have something you can be genuinely grateful for

I started using gratitude consciously when I was getting divorced. Because my immigration application was based on my marriage, this also meant I could be denied and be deported. I was in horrible financial state, too, because he wrote so many checks that he never intended to pay in order to get the money for his drugs.

Because he was in rehab earlier that year, I was introduced to al-anon and was working the twelve steps myself. They teach gratitude there. I remember one summer afternoon when I was sitting at my doorway, feeling totally scared and confused. Things were deteriorating fast to the point that I wasn’t sure about my physical safety.

There was a big maple tree in front of my place that provided nice shade in the summer. It was one of those summer afternoons when things seemed to just sit still in the heat. And I felt calm and safe for a moment. “Right now, in this shade under this tree, I’m safe and okay. Thank you.”

I also thought of many people who were helping me, like the people who gave me ride (I didn’t have a car, so I had to use the bus or ask for a ride to my friends) and people who called me from time to time to see how I was doing. I counted my good health for the gratitude, too.

That was nine years ago. Fast forward, I am legal in the US, I have money in the bank, and I drive Civic. Cool, huh? (I don’t attend those twelve step meetings any more, but I can recommend it to anyone who is new in spirituality and need some peer support.)

The Intention Game

Here is another new feature – the Intention Game – that can help you utilize the Law of Attraction. I will play it, and you are welcome to join anytime. This is the idea:

1. State your intention. It can be something you want to attract or a certain state you want to achieve. It can be small or large.
2. State how you feel. Statement of gratitude is encouraged, including gratitude for things you perceive to be negative.
3. If you notice how negative you are feeling, see if you can start feeling positive.
4. As follow up, we report the results of this game.

It’s a game. Take it easy. Have fun.

The Law of Attraction says there are two way we can check if we are allowing or rejecting what we desire. One is the feeling – if you are feeling good, you are letting the Universe work for you. Another is the results – what you have around you is the result of how you utilized the Law of Attraction, whether positively or negatively. So this Intention Game includes both verification systems.

Here, I’m going to start with very physical, visual items.

1. I want a light green iPod Nano, new Nike sneakers, and some surprise present for the holidays. All or any of them ^_^
2. I feel excited. It will be so much fun to walk around with my new sneakers on and listening to my iPod. To be honest, I’m a bit scared, too. What if they don’t come my way? Well, that is really no big deal, right? This is a game. Oh, and I just remembered something – my local friend told me about Nike outlet in Portland. I haven’t checked it out yet.

I’m grateful for my health. I was watching a small kid at Starbucks yesterday – remember the joy and pride of being on our own two feet? We forget and take things for granted, don’t we? I’m also grateful for the trees and plants. They are like my friends.

. . . after I wrote this, I was flipping through my copy of Living The Law Of Attraction, and am inspired to put out another intention:

I intend to lease option my house in Tennessee. It’s located north of Nashville, off I-65, in a quiet neighborhood with good public schools. It has 3 bedroom, 2 full bath, 2 car garage, bonus room over the garage, and very nice living, dining and kitchen. Large fenced backyard with separate storage. It was built in 1998 but we are painting the whole house, putting in new carpets, staining the deck and resealing the deck and driveway, so it’s like new. I have more to tell you about the beautiful house, like the gas log in the living room, but I’ll keep it brief here.

What is important is I want someone who really appreciate the house, love to live in a great neighborhood, and willing to care for the house like an owner and want to buy the house in a few years. For that kind of tenant who is just not ready to really purchase, I can offer a great program that asks for a fraction of upfront payment compared to the down payment to get a mortgage. So it can be a win-win. The tenant will have two to three years to come up with more money to secure the mortgage later, and I don’t have to be concerned about the house.

Okay, this is it for today. Enjoy your long weekend! (Photo by Mr. Greenjeans)

Reading And Receiving The Reconnection

I learned about Dr. Eric Pearl and his healing called the Reconnection in Jenny Mannion’s Heroes of Healing. He is considered to be able to work miraculous healing by hovering his hands above the patient. Jenny also emailed me personally about his work and I was intrigued. (Here is her recent post on the Reconnection) After reading his book The Reconnection, I was even more intrigued that I went ahead and received the Reconnection session myself the other day. Here is my review of the book and the in-person session.

The Reconnection: the book

The book consists of three parts:

Part I: The Gift
This is mainly about his autobiography to explore how he may have received his special “gift” of healing, what he calls the new frequency of vibration. First he killed his mother in the labor – I mean, his mother died while giving him birth and then came back with vivid after-death memory. It is a beautiful memory of the outer planes and the life-giving Light. I often explain the process between physical lifetimes to my clients of Akashic Record Reading, so I found this part very interesting.

I was also excited to read his account of being a Pleiadian. This is the very thing I do myself in my Akashic Record Reading service (well, part of it . . . my reading includes far more than identifying the origination of the soul. And in my method, you don’t have to come to me in person and hold crystals in your hands, like Dr. Pearl had to do). Now I haven’t read Dr. Pearl’s Akashic Records (I only read with permission), but in his case, it is so clear just by reading his book that he is indeed a Pleiadian. His daring attitude for change, his grandiose sense of humor, his impatience with step-by-step (boring) aspects of life . . . all indicate that he is a Pleiadian. Oh, I wish he’d let me read his Akashic Records further!

He was a successful chiropractor when he realized his own special healing power. He says he didn’t “need” this mysterious power really. He resisted quite a bit to accept this new power, something he didn’t understand himself. Then he sought out various psychics for explanation. This process is so common to those who open up to the spiritual potential, and I feel for him closely.

However, I disagree with him about one thing. I think he jumps to a premature conclusion when he dismisses the existence of negative energies. Just because the “psychics” he happen to meet made him laugh with weird “rituals” doesn’t mean there are no negativity out there. Combined with his cheek-in-tongue sense of humor, I’m afraid he may be misguiding some readers to turn away from what he himself actually believes in – the existence and potential of metaphysical realm.

Part II: Reconnective Healing And What It Means
This part includes a lot of valuable ideas for everyone who seeks spiritual development. He points out the importance of staying “childlike”. People who are serious about spiritual development often make the mistake of becoming judgmental to others and themselves, getting too serious and uptight. But it actually works better when we are like a child, accepting whatever happens as it is and fearing nothing.

I so agree. When I do Akashic Record Reading or communicate with my own spirit guides, I do far better when I relax, get into my inner child, curious and simple minded. Yes, it is a serious business to read other people’s soul records and repair the energetic blocks – it can affect their lives so much – but being serious and uptight doesn’t serve in getting the work done.

Even if you are not necessarily interested in hands-on energy healing, I strongly recommend this book for this part. It can help you to review your attitude in your spiritual development. And if you are interested in energy healing, make sure you read this including the next part of the book.

Part II: You And Reconnective Healing
This part is mostly about the Reconnective healing. I tried feeling “it” myself following the steps described here, and got the “well . . . is this it? My hand (especially the left hand) feels some pressure, and I can move it between the hands, but . . . I’m not quite sure.” kind of result.

But I was motivated enough to follow this modality further. I’m not interested in becoming a hands-on healer (it’s just not me – I prefer to reach larger audience through my writing and to offer my Akashic Record Reading, which doesn’t require my clients to come see me in person and therefore allows people worldwide to contact me) but I think this may help improve my psychic abilities further. So I checked their website and found a practitioner in my area.

The Reconnective Healing and Reconnection

There are two kinds of sessions. One is the Reconnective Healing session, which is for, well, the healing. Another is the Reconnection session, in which you “receive the Reconnection”, or in other words, get aligned with the Earth’s (and the Universe’s) grids. It is the updated version of what Dr. Pearl himself received from the gypsy woman in the book. Because I don’t have any serious health problems and my intention is to improve my spiritual power, I chose to receive the Reconnection session.

The Reconnection session takes two days. My practitioner was an older woman who also practices the law. (Does this add to her credibility?) I made my appointment just before she was leaving for Japan to travel with Dr. Pearl to assist him in his seminars there.

One the first day, she and I talked for a few minutes and then started the session. I lied on the massage table on my back, she dimmed the light and asked me to make myself comfortable and close my eyes. The whole session took probably about 30 or 40 minutes. I’m a side sleeper, so being on my back this long was not very comfortable for me, but it was okay. I didn’t see any angels dancing around me nor my limbs move automatically, as reported with some patients in the book. I did feel a cool breeze in my face for a while. After the session, I looked around, but no window was open, and the vent was closed. Hmm.

Next day, I returned to her office, and we started the session pretty quickly. At one point, I thought the light in front of me got much brighter, so I opened my eyes briefly, but nothing seemed to be happening (the light was just as dim as it was before) so I closed my eyes and relaxed again. The light also seemed to got red at another point. No angels. (Hey, I wanted to see them!)

My practitioner, however, said she saw something unusual. She asked me if I wore blue eyebrows because my brows glowed in blue. I told her I draw eyebrows in dark brown, not blue, and certainly not with something that glows in the dim light.

What I think about the Reconnection

I think it’s a very interesting healing modality. I don’t know if it utilizes brand new energy frequencies, but if you want to try out something new, if you are tired of chiropractors or Reiki healers, check this out!

I will let you know if I experience something new that I think is due to receiving the Reconnection ^_^

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