Your Life’s Purpose & The Power To Create
Posted on December 22, 2006 | Category: Creativity, Power, Purpose
Many of us struggle to define “what is my purpose in life.” At one point or another we lose interest in a career, live life with an empty feeling, lack of direction or motivation and feel a sense of disorientation. Many become confused, worried and disappointed. This feeling is universal and shared by many, but it can be overcome.
Remember the story of the impoverished young boy who comes into the possession of a magical oil lamp? He discovers that it summons a genie and will grant the boy whatever he desires. Think along those terms and you can begin to understand what I’m about to suggest.
Suspend any beliefs you may have about how the universe works. Pretend for a moment that if whatever higher force you believe in were to come to you and ask “What is you desire. No matter what it is, how much it cost or how hard you believe it is to achieve, what you would like to have?” You are then assured this object or circumstance is yours. It’s a done deal. Hard to believe? Would this perk your interest?
Whatever it is that makes you happy in life is now going to be yours, so you want to be sure this is really what you want. You are now forced to examine what in life brings you joy. Does it give you a sense of power… of control in your life?
Sometimes we sense a lack of purpose, motivation or direction in our lives because we feel powerless. We have no feeling of power to live or create the life we want so, in essence, give up. We become rudderless. Why try? But in reality we do possess this power.
Many would agree we are free individuals that are a product of what we have been thinking in the past. Despite our circumstances in life, we have created the person we are today. No one else but us. We have been making decisions in life that have brought us to where we are today. We have been creating all long. But if we knew our desires would be granted, would that sense of control and purpose in our life return? We now are consciously creating through this higher power, knowing that this higher force is going to grant our most cherished dreams.
We possess this higher force from within. I firmly believe our purpose in life is to create. To do nothing but create. It returns that loss sense of purpose. Humans are creators. If we truly know we have this power to create whatever we want in life, our sense of power and control return and our desires become focused. Michael Gerber has written, “Purpose is the manifestation of vision. Vision is the creation of passion. Passion, vision, purpose, the holy trio which lives in potentiality within each and every one of us as a deep, deep, pure well of life-giving water, the water of our spirit, the spirit of our lives.”
Even if you don’t believe you have this power… pretend. Pretend you get three wishes and they will most definitely be granted. What would they be? What would bring you joy? It may take you days to figure this out, but you eventually will. Then pretend to go about creating it. Feel your sense of empowerment return and know without a shadow of doubt, that you can be, do, or have anything and everything your imagination can dream.
This article is Copyright © 2006 by Robert Hunt
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