04 Feb Everyone Wants to Know Their Life Purpose!
[This is the second post by guest blogger, Barbara McCollough, LICSW. To see the previous one click here. To contact her directly click here.]
Everybody wants to know their life purpose! We all carry within us a feeling that there is something that we are innately suited to do or be.
Some lucky few have had lives that led directly like stepping stones, from one phase to another, each one in alignment with an eventual life expression.
But for the many of us who had less than ideal circumstances in childhood, our relationship to our hearts desire was compromised in favor of survival, whether psychologically or physically.
The period of time that others seem to be jumping happily from one milestone to another, we were deep in the throes of our healing work., freeing ourselves from histories that led us to making protective choices rather than authentic, soul-centered ones. We come to a point in our healing where we begin to feel reconnected to our authentic self and are ready to take on the world. Then a small voice says “But it’s too late! I can’t catch up to where I would have been..” or “I don’t even know where to start”.
Rest assured it is never too late to reconnect with and begin to live according to your authentic self.
Even if it has been numbed out for safe keeping, it never dies. It is ready to go when you are.
Hand analysis is a means to “catch up” in that it very quickly targets the area in which you will find the most fulfillment, and it gives you information about very specific patterns to pay attention to that are likely to trip you up. It saves a ton of time and money that you would spend in career counseling or workshops trying to help you figure out your propensities for various endeavors and then more time with therapists or coaches trying to figure out what’s getting in the way of pursuing those goals.
The whole answer is all right there in the palm of your hands..literally!
And what I love the most?
- For those of us who have had those less than ideal circumstances, we tend to look outside ourselves for answers. We spend more money on experts than any other group. As we heal, we heal the pathways to our own knowing and hand analysis is another form of self discovery based in your own body
- Knowing these two points – which we call life purpose and life lesson,- is an enormous ally during hard times. As you move toward your life purpose, for every person, the life lesson raises it head. Based on what your life lesson would make you believe, you would doubt, you would give up and turn back. But when you know it’s your life purpose, it gives you strength to push on and to claim your birthright even when it’s hard. Imagine! In your own biology you already know your goal and you know your foe. What could be more helpful?