Introduction
Have you ever reached a point in your life where you look around and wonder, How did I end up here?
Perhaps you have done everything you thought you were supposed to do. You built the career, paid the bills, took care of your family, met your responsibilities and kept moving forward. Yet somewhere along the way, the life you were building stopped feeling like your own.
You may not even know what you want anymore. You simply know that what you are doing isn’t it.
In this episode of Jenuine Healing on News for the Soul, world-renowned energy healer, Jen Ward and Marvin Schneider explore what it means to reclaim your purpose and direction when conditioning, expectations, responsibilities and the pursuit of conventional success have pulled you away from yourself.
The important word is reclaiming. The premise of the episode is that somewhere beneath everything you have accumulated through life, there is already a deeper knowing of the direction that is uniquely yours.
When Did Your Life Stop Being Yours?
Very few people deliberately choose a life without purpose. It happens incrementally.
You listen to the parent who thinks they know what is best for you. You pursue the sensible career. You become responsible. You prioritize security. You take care of everyone else. You postpone what matters to you until some imaginary point when there will finally be enough time, money or freedom to pursue it. Then years pass.
The releasing sequences in this episode captures that experience through images of walking through molasses, rambling through life and wading through quicksand. It also confronts the belief that your only purpose is to take care of other people.
There is an important distinction made during the healing: serving others because you genuinely choose to is very different from being conditioned to believe that your existence is supposed to revolve around everyone else’s needs. If you have spent decades living according to everybody else’s blueprint, it shouldn’t be surprising if you eventually struggle to recognize your own.
Stop Following Someone Else’s Breadcrumbs
Purpose can also become confused with success.
You are taught to follow the breadcrumbs of money: build the career, earn more, accumulate more, achieve more and eventually you will arrive somewhere called happiness. But what if the breadcrumbs are leading you away from yourself?
The episode doesn’t portray money itself as the problem. Instead, it challenges the order of the equation. When the pursuit of money, possessions or conventional success becomes the primary objective, you can gradually sacrifice the very passion and purpose that might have given those things meaning in the first place.
And money isn’t the only trail you can mistakenly follow. You can follow somebody else’s definition of success. Somebody else’s career. Somebody else’s awakening. Somebody else’s idea of what a meaningful life should look like.
The healing therefore moves into releasing the belief that meaning comes through emulating another person’s journey and removing blockages to your own direct knowing. Your purpose isn’t necessarily hiding somewhere in the world waiting for you to discover it. You may simply need to stop drowning it out.
Your Purpose Doesn’t Need to Look the Way You Imagined
There is another trap waiting once you begin pursuing something you love: deciding exactly what the destination must look like.
You may love singing but decide success means becoming famous. You may love dancing but decide it only matters if you reach a particular stage. You may discover something that makes you feel profoundly alive and then immediately impose an external measurement of achievement upon it.
Jen describes this as becoming trapped by the end goal. The passion itself may be leading somewhere meaningful, but tunnel vision about what the outcome must look like can cause you to abandon the journey when life takes you somewhere unexpected.
Join Us for an Upcoming Free Group Healing Event
Jenuine Healing on News for the Soul is an opportunity to move beyond simply talking about the challenges in your life and actively participate in the healing experience.
Join world-renowned energy healer, Jen Ward and Marvin Schneider for an upcoming free group healing event exploring the deeper energetic patterns that may be influencing your life, relationships, identity, empowerment, passion and purpose.
If you feel stuck, directionless or as though you have somehow wandered away from the life you were meant to live, you don’t necessarily need to invent a completely new version of yourself.
You may need to clear away what took you off course and begin listening again to what was already there.
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