Purpose

There is a constant need as humans to know and fully realize our purpose.

Even during the time before we fully understand the concept, we are trying out our abilities, talents and skills in an effort to express ourselves. Our entire lives become an endless investigation into the perfect way of expressing what we have to offer the world. When we deny those innate skills, abilities talents and impulses, we often become confused, restless, bored and depressed. It somehow becomes more important as we grow in years to finalize that purpose. Lately people have become almost obsessed with trying so hard to figure it out, as if their lives depended on it. People no longer are content with the same patterns and ways of living that have consumed them for decades, perhaps even generations.

In our younger years we instinctively lived our purpose. However we didn't need to define and address it out loud. We just did it effortlessly and selflessly. That's what I love about children. They are masters of living purposefully. They fully get the beauty of being themselves without apology and without question. Where does that innate sense of purpose go?

I was looking back on my childhood and the pieces of the puzzle are pretty clear: I was the leader. I organized the neighborhood plays, coordinated the picnics and kickball games, gathered friends to do fundraising efforts. I was also the star babysitter. I had an innate sense of what it meant to take care of and help people. My friends would always come to my door everytime there was something bothersome going on at home or they needed some support. My house in small town North Dakota was like a beacon for light. I remember distinctly the feeling of loss when I moved out, wondering how I would continue to help people after graduating from high school. I took a few detours, and now have created the perfect form for my innate expression of purpose in my life: a psychic medium and intuitive coach. I create events, organize people, meet with people one-on-one, just as I did as a child and young adult.

There is a danger I'm noticing in our search for purpose that can lead it to becoming more a function of the ego than a true journey of seeking. It is in stating that there is something missing in life, that it's somehow imperfect. Feeling a lack of purpose cannot be confused with the feeling of unhappiness in our jobs, our marriages, our lives. While purpose may be unclear in those moments, no job, marriage or perfect life can ever fix that feeling of a lack of being purpose driven. You can be purpose driven in any situation or circumstance. It is truly a choice.

I've become aware that more of us are not content living without a sense of purpose. However, there is such a deep uncertainty about it at times, it seems as if someone is hiding it from us. The great news is, it's right within us all along. Being afraid of not knowing or being able to uncover our purpose is sort of like being a grown adult and being afraid of not remembering your own name. You don't question your name when you sign a check, you just know it. It's like second nature. That is what purpose is. However, unlike our names, we don't often learn to sign our purpose as quickly. It often can be similar to one giant puzzle. In fact, it's the neverending puzzle. Purpose is ongoing, it's what we signed up here to spend our time uncovering piece by piece. It continues even after we die, in the endless and limitless realm of spirit. By asking about it as something missing, we are creating the illusion that it is out there somewhere waiting for us to find it. Start at the beginning, when you were a child, or young adult in those days when everything seemed possible and within reach. Make a list of who you were in your neighborhood, what sorts of challenges did you overcome or triumphs did you have? You will be a lot closer to clarity than before.

Ultimately your purpose is to be where you are right in this moment, creating and expressing yourself through the eyes of love. That is what we are all here to be and do. The form (jobs, projects, hobbies) with which you express your uniqueness will change and grow over time. However, there can be nothing else but now so why not stop to see how you can incorporate more of a sense of it into your current job, your marriage, your life? Stop waiting for it to hit you like a lightning bolt, and start to become a living expression of who you are inside.....that leader, the artist, the creative thinker, the organizer....you and your purpose have been in there all along, can you feel it?

I also have a secret that may help you open your eyes to it. When we release the need to have the answers right NOW, the freedom available causes a deeper sense of connection and purpose automatically rises to the surface of our awareness. The next step falls into place without effort. Stop to look at yourself in the mirror. What do you see? Be still and listen. Get present in your life and you will begin to see you are a living expression of your own purpose.

Motion Sickness

We are powerful creators. What we spend the majority of our thought processes on is what the universe starts to send us, especially when it is aligned with our emotional guidance system. Those seemingly chance happenings in our lives are not so much chance as choice. Everything else lines up to match what we are spending our time thinking about (creating).

Troy is writing his book. He has a contract with Llewellyn Publishing. As he goes back and sifts through his journals, he is starting to see clearly what he began to create 10 years ago. He spent much of his time writing about helping people, serving the world through his work as a medium. It pretty well consumed his thoughts back then, as he was trying to find his place in the world at 20 years of age. His wishes were set pretty clearly out there as he wrote about the miracles that were being produced in the world via mediumship. It was inspiring for him to read back and feel the optimism and enthusiasm around his work and the development process. The universe has responded loud and clear with a thriving client base and many testimonials of how this work has changed their lives.

There were also some things he created that exist now that he doesn't want. For example, he wrote about wanting a comfortable living, but nothing extravagant, just to pay the bills. Guess what? That's what he got. Only, recently those goals and desires shifted to want abundance beyond his wildest dreams. So that's what he has focused his time and energy on, and it is beginning to shift everything. Business flows in effortlessly, with the abundance to follow.

I've seen Troy's life completely turned upside down by honoring his desires and then setting the intention, it being a perfect match with what he believes he deserves and wants for himself in his life. However, it wasn't always easy. The constant attention to his thoughts and not defaulting to fear every time something comes up has been vital to his success. I have seen someone come from a mindset of lack to one of endless possibility and joy. One common theme emanates from all of it: his ability to deal with the ebb and flow of life's changes.

Life is about change. It's essential to the evolution of this planet. Change isn't always easy to settle into. What I find is that it settles in and feels somewhat like motion sickness. Everything seems to happen at once. We shift jobs, consider a move, get a book deal, start a business, kids are leaving home...why does it all seem to come at once?

Our spirits don't know anything about space and time. However, our bodies feel it much more intensely. The effects of change show up like anxiety, fear, stress and anger. Bringing awareness and calm to the emotional connections to the changes in your life assists your body in adapting much more easily.

Our job as clairvoyants, coaches and healers is to assist you in the changes of your life. A session with either Troy or I can give your body the ability to identify and release those feelings of motion sickness that come with the changes of life. You will feel yourself becoming more aware, releasing the energy that holds you back from feeling joy in your life and allowing your spirit to shine. While we do often get information for your future, we are not fortune tellers. It is like having help rearranging the furniture of your heart. It suddenly just feels better to be you.