I’ve worked as a chiropractor for going on twenty-six years and when I first became interested in spirituality via A Course in Miracles I thought that my purpose was to be the best chiropractor I could be.
Back then I was doing the workbook of the Course and was particularly tuned into the prayer on being truly helpful.
“You can do much on behalf of your own healing and that of others if, in a situation calling for help, you think of it this way:
I am here only to be truly helpful.
I am here to represent Love that sent me.
I do not have to worry about what to say or what
to do, because Love that sent me will direct me.
I am content to be where I am,
knowing that Love goes with me.
I will be healed as I let Love teach me to heal.
(ACIM T-2 V.8)
It was almost twenty years ago when I first prayed that prayer and it’s one I continue to pray frequently. While I have found it very helpful in my chiropractic work, ironically, it led me to a different purpose in form, that of speaking and writing on spiritual principles. I have found that teaching has been a great gift because it has kept me immersed in spiritual growth all these years. Nothing else has brought so much passion and joy into my life as continuing to evolve spiritually, and being able to share it with others.
So in this blog I will delve more deeply into living in purpose.
What is my purpose?
Our purpose in form as it relates to what we do in the world, can be different for each one of us, but in content it is the same. I like to think of it this way: My purpose is to:
Know thy Self
Know myself as Love created me,
unlimited and free.
Be only Love
Know only Love
Extend only Love
Seek first the Kingdom
Different words can be used, but the point is to recognize that our purpose is to remember who we are. The more vigilant we can be about watching our mind and keeping our thoughts aligned to true purpose, then the more we will be guided to do things that will bring us joy and serve one another.
I feel that Holy Spirit’s purpose is simply to continually remind us of our purpose.
Why is knowing and living my true purpose important?
“Everything that comes to you comes to you for your healing. There is nothing that you experience that cannot have that purpose if that is the purpose you give it. But hear Me well. I have said that is the purpose it will have if that is the purpose you give it. If you do not give the purpose of healing to your life, it shall not have that purpose. And no experience can bring to you that which you do not desire.” (NTI 2Co 1v3-11)
This is such an important paragraph. First, “healing” as it is used in spirituality refers to healing the false belief that we could ever be separated from our Source. Healing, then, is to remember who we are.
No matter what occurs in our lives, it carries the purpose of our healing, and if we don’t give it that purpose we then fall into feeling victimized and afraid. Purpose leads us and creates our experiences. Here’s how: Let’s say you have been feeling fear about money, bills and the future:
As you watch the thoughts in your mind, you see that they are fear-based thoughts around money. And then you can remember: Ah…these thoughts come from a false belief in lack and limitation, and this belief stems from the false purpose of knowing myself as lacking and limited. Ah…I see! I see! My true purpose is healing. My true purpose is to know who I really am. I now want to create from that purpose.
In this way, we let the experiences of lack and limitation, unworthiness, guilt and self-judgment be used as an impetus to remember our Truth rather than being used as a distraction that will keep us stuck.
See, in our slumber, we continue to let false purpose and belief be the driving force in our lives, yet as we awake to our true purpose and let that be our focus, we begin to create experiences from this higher level of being.
How do I practice letting my true purpose lead?
When we learn to pay attention to our thoughts, we can readily see if our thoughts support our true purpose or if they draw us away from it.
If my purpose is to be only love, does a thought of irritation and anger toward another support being only love? Do thoughts of lack and limitation support knowing myself as Love created me, unlimited and free?
Please don’t fall into feeling guilt and blame over your thoughts, because that just keeps you asleep. Simply be increasingly willing to remember what you really want.
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In all situations ask, “What is the purpose?” If we decide that we want it (the relationship, circumstance, our bodies, etc.), to be used for the purpose of healing, then it will be. If we decide that we want to use it to feel like a victim, lacking and not good enough, then it will be. This is a way to remind ourselves of what we truly want.
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All the lessons in the workbook of the Course are helpful to keep us focused on purpose, but I particularly love lesson 353:
My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today
have but one purpose; to be given Love
to use to bless the world with miracles.
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A prayer for awakening* ~332~
Let me not today
become entangled in the world I see,
in its problems or in its pleasures.
Let me remain instead
inwardly focused
with my eye and my ear
on my Teacher,
my Guide.
Let me be led
without a thought for the world,
but only a thought
for listening and following.
This is true surrender
and this is my desire,
my goal and my purpose now.
Take my hand and lead me.
Amen.
This is our purpose now, to let it lead us to the remembrance of who we are. Let us give Spirit Within permission to remind us to practice and to remember. Let me remember what my purpose is.
Thank You.
* Single Quiet Thoughts and prayers can be found here: http://www.reginadawnakers.com
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The audio contains much more than is shared here.
It was recorded on 7/3/11 and is 59 min.
Living in Purpose
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