Authentic Success: Bring Your Soul Purpose to Life!

The other day a friend asked me to share how I came to work as an intuitive medium and shamanic practitioner.   He wanted to know about my encounters with spirit and how early this began. 

From an early age I knew what I was born to do.  In the third grade I told my teacher that I was here to teach the world to love more.  “That is why I am here” I announced. Speaking with spirits was not mentioned because it is a natural ability through which my purpose is able to come to life; not my singular purpose.

You also have a purpose.  Most people think of a purpose in terms of a career or some overtly tangible achievement.  Authentic Purpose has to do your soul evolution and is your reason for being here in this lifetime. Fulfilling your soul purpose gives you the deepest sense of fulfillment.  Your soul purpose helps you to grow and supports the evolution of others.  It is the easiest and most effortless path to abundance, health, self realization and bliss for you.

Success in our culture is often defined by our external achievements but authentic success manifests when you do what you were born to do. Authentic Success will empower you to the core, serve your soul’s evolution, nurture your body and emotional health and uplift and inspire you and others. 

Fulfilling your soul purpose begins with the willingness to know who you are truly.  It means moving into alignment with your soul, not your personality.  Authentic  success  comes to life when you become willing to listen to the consistent intuitive guidance offered to you and act upon it daily. 

 

You have been set up to succeed at fulfilling your soul's purpose in this lifetime.  Your natural talents, passions and core values are the foundation of your soul purpose.  

Whether you own a business, manage a family and home; serve as an educator or health care practitioner; whether you are a solider, police officer, artist, machine operator or a physician – your innate wisdom can guide you into realizing your soul’s purpose and potential.    

    Steps for Bringing Soul Purpose to Life 

Discover who you are

• You are a soul with a purpose for choosing your physical body, life circumstances, skills and talents.
• You have infinite resources beyond the physical world to support you.
• You are set up for success. 

Pay Attention

•  Your Soul Purpose comes to life through intuitive listening and action.
•  Intuition communicates through your senses.
•  Spirit also gives messages through whatever you will notice!
•  Divine guidance is uplifting, empowering & inspirational. It is never  critical, judgmental or demeaning.
• Spirit gives you present time action steps to live out your soul potential

Notice Repetition

• Divine guidance nudges you repetitively until you take action.
• You may feel called to do something; have a persistent thought; see a consistent internal image; bump into people, places and things that represent a singular message; dream the same dream; hear songs or comments that speak to the message.  
• Divine guidance will not waver.  It doesn’t get bored or give up.  You will receive the same message until you enact it in this lifetime or the next.
• Divine guidance always aligns with your soul purpose.
• Divine guidance repeats only messages that serve your highest good while revering and enhancing all life

 Listen to your body

• Your body is constantly revealing whether you are in alignment with your soul or your ego. Action on divine guidance feels positive down to your cells and has no backlash.
• Divinely guided action elicits sensations of equanimity and enthusiasm. Gently your heart and chest open; your stomach/solar plexus calms; your mind settles; your body relaxes; your health improves.
• Ego driven action creates feelings of anxiety; tightness in your heart and chest; quivering or unsettled gut; racing and unkind thoughts; desire for distraction; rigidity; disharmony and weakened immunity; depression or persistent longing and sadness. 

Honor your Soul Essence Values

• Soul purpose is founded upon your true essence values.
• Essence values reflect your soul not your beliefs. 

• Essence values support soulful action, words, thoughts & creations.    Essence values promote health, fulfillment, thriving for you and all life.  No one is short changed when you are aligned with essence values.

• Essence values are not founded on your beliefs.  Beliefs stem from paradigms through which you filter your ideas of self, life and what you can experience. Essence values transcend all learned paradigms.
• Example:  I declared my purpose at eight by saying:  “I want to be a psychologist because I am here to teach the world to love more.  When people heal what hurts their hearts, they will love more and the world will be a more peaceful place”.  My essence values are reflected in that statement: love as a healing energy, responsibility for healing; world service; integrity; sharing what I learn; understanding & being responsible for experiencing and creating love throughout my lifetime.  My beliefs are reflected in that statement too; becoming a psychologist was a paradigm through which I perceived my ability to fulfill an essence value. 

Attend to the Present Moment

• Imagine an infant who was not fully in the present? They do not exist. You were born capable of being fully present.  Feeling uncomfortable being present is a learned experience. Presence is how you connect with your soul self.
• Choose to release distracting behaviors.  Distracting ourselves from the present moment has become a cultural phenomenon.  We text, call, tweet and often do this while with others.  We believe we can multitask.  No one is born to multi-task.  Multi-tasking is a form of distraction.  Distractions keep us from feeling our intuitive truth and living our soul purpose.
• What we learn can be unlearned.  Presence requires a commitment to presence. Take a deep breath, choose to know your soul and honor your intuitive impulses one day at a time.  
• Intuitive allowing happens moment to moment. Your soul lives in the state of infinite potential that comes alive through your attentiveness. How you experience this potential in this moment is how that energy is shaped. To realize your soulful potential and experience authentic success, you tend to your essence through calm presence, compassionate witnessing of what you discover and non-resistant allowing.

 Know your limits

• Uh Oh!  What did you think that meant? You are NOT your limits.  Learned beliefs shape your limits and often define our lives.  Beliefs are rarely formed upon divine truth and therefore do not reflect your soul’s potential and purpose.  
• To thrive soulfully, you will need to challenge your beliefs.  To challenge beliefs, you have to fearlessly examine them.
• What thoughts keep you from full-on soul success? 
•  “I have children; parents; responsibilities so I can’t do that now.”
• “I don’t have the money; time; resources to make that happen"
• “Who am I to do that?”
• “If I do that and make a lot of money, I may lose it all; not know how to handle it; make more than my love/partner/parent; I may not be able to manage parenting or other responsibilities…”
•  “I’ll go broke”
• “What if I fail?”
• “There are already so many of that out there.”
• “This is so impractical!” 
•   “I’m not as good as that other”
• “Have no idea where to begin.” 
• Divine guidance moves you into alignment with your soul’s purpose by offering you sound methods for implementation. 
• Every soul inspiration that propels you toward Freedom, Joy, Peace, Prosperity, Fulfillment and Full-on Success has a friend called “Fear”.
• Fear sounds practical, logical and realistic.  It can always prove its case. 

• Fear is the foundation of your belief so it gets louder when you choose to listen to your spirit. 

• Fear can sound like a parent or an authority figure or your inner critic.
• Fear is the illusion that the rational mind or ego rests upon.
• Fear is the framework of the ego which is an impermanent aspect of you – one that forms after birth and is not a permanent part of your soul after death.    
•  The ego’s understanding of life is confined to all that it can comprehend.
•  The ego can only comprehend what it can prove through physical resources.  It is therefore limited to a scarcity framework for its perceptions.
• The ego will never become the authentic ally of your intuition and therefore, your soul purpose. It will limit you to your beliefs about you and your life.  It will keep you from experiencing full blown thriving in this lifetime, if you give it power to rule your choices and therefore your life.
• The ego has become the dominant creative force through which humanity creates.  It is the source of our suffering, alienation and struggle on the planet.
•  The ego is designed to be a useful tool, once you understand it because it allows you to experience the physical world.  You do have the power to transcend your identification with your ego and allow it to serve your spirit.

• YOU can decide whether ego or spirit will be the pilot of your life of your life.  Once you give power to your spirit and learn to master your intuition, the ego will fall into an ancillary role connecting you to the physical world while you learn to navigate both spirit & physicality successfully.     

 Acknowledge your Support Team

• You are always supported by benevolent spirit guides throughout life.
• Every divinely inspired action you take will be met with an equal amount of benevolent support
• All people within your path have a purpose for your life as you do for theirs.
• Your support team will expand as you live your soul purpose. 

Soul Purpose uses your Natural Talents, Interests and Skills

• What activities allow you to lose a sense of time?
• When you were a child what were you most passionate about?
• What can you do most easily with full engagement?
• What would you do if you won the lotto and had settled into that after a year?

 The Big Picture

• To live fully requires an awareness that life is impermanent.  You will die. Take time to actively accept this and reflect on your death.
• What do you want your legacy to be?
• When you consider dying; what will matter most to you about how you lived your life?
• What do you dream about doing before you die?
• Are your choices today supporting that legacy?
• After you die, you will  be met by benevolent spirits who will guide you through a life review.  Within that experience you will feel everything you have created in this lifetime.  What do you want to feel?  What do you not want to feel?
• You have the power to review your life now and create what matters most to your soul.  As you do that, everything in your being and life becomes peaceful.

Take time to know your soul’s purpose, listen to your intuitive guidance and bring your divine purpose to life.  A soulful life brings balance, fulfillment, health and prosperity into your experience through your natural talents, interests and skills.  You were born to succeed and are supported in every meaningful way!

You have the power to live a Soulfully Successful Life!  As you fulfill your soulful destiny, you open the door for all others to do this more easily and enhance life.  Thank you for bringing your light into our world.

Namaste, Lori