KAJAMA.COM NEWSLETTER

11 Ways to Discover Your Life Purpose Through Your Intuition, by Kris Franken

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Your purpose is so much more than your career or job; it's the way you are in the world, your natural state of being. The way you feel called to do certain types of work, collaborate with particular individuals, serve humanity, and inspire those around you is all an intuitive part of who you that you can access anytime.

Here are 11 ways to intuitively discover the purpose written in the light of your Soul.

1. Follow Your Joy
   Your Soul has come into your body in this life with a natural inclination for joy. Bliss is your natural state; when you follow what lifts your vibration into the realms of bliss and joy, you can be sure that you are listening to the pull of your purpose.Your purpose and career aren't meant to be draining or demanding; they're intended to be uplifting and fulfilling. And although there will be periods that challenge you along the way, when you're feeling satisfyingly deep joy from service and sharing your gifts, you know that you've been trusting the divine process and following your heart.
2. Listen to Love
   If you're not sure of your talents and gifts, listen to love. Love is the voice of your intuition that is aligned with the highest expression of your Soul. Love will show you how you best serve, help, create, transform, collaborate, and inspire.How do you love others? Perhaps it's through a long hug, kind words, compassionate energy, a watercolour painting, cooking a scrumptious meal, writing a poem, or practical, everyday ways. The way you love others is a reflection of how you serve the world and it matters. The world needs you to make mindful waves with an open and generous heart.
3. Sit in Stillness
   The blueprint that's etched into the fabric of your Soul cannot be felt or heard if you're rushing, hustling, or busy all the time. Make time for stillness. Create space for the wise whispers of your heart to guide you each day.This purposeful blueprint is a continuation of all your incarnations; you have been building on your talents for lifetimes! Your intuition has so much to share with you, but it doesn't use words, so it can't compete with the chaos of a cluttered mind. In stillness, you'll feel the knowing that's always present, always loving, always nudging you toward greatness.
4. Expect Miracles
   Miracles are unexpected consequences of living aligned with the flow of your own lifeforce. Your breath and interconnected spirit are connected to the One Spirit, and as you feel this and allow it to guide your life intuitively, miracles will happen at every turn.Your purpose will unfold miraculously if you give up judgments and expectations around what it should look like or what you think you must be doing. The more you hold onto specific desires that leave no room for the fullest expression of your highest purpose, the smaller the field you have to play in.
   Miracles yearn for space. Let go of your pre-planned life and open up to all that is meant for you. Let life surprise and delight you.
5. Learn How You Help
   Consider for a moment what your gift is to your community. What do others ask you for? How do you help others in a way that feels relatively easy, humbly fulfilling, and energetically abundant? The way you help others is a portal to knowing your purpose on a deep level.We all have natural gifts—our own sweet medicine—that feel genuine and freely available. These gifts have been curated and crafted by our Souls over many, many lifetimes to help others—and us—into the highest version of ourselves.
6. Show Up
   Knowing about your gifts is a blessing for you, showing up and putting them to good use is a blessing for humanity. The love, joy, peace, and service in our being will multiply when we give it to others unconditionally.Showing up isn't about hustling or marketing yourself in any way that feels uncomfortable or misaligned. It's about being available to intuitively serve in any way the Divine calls on you through those in your grassroots and/or online communities. The more you love and heal yourself, the more you surrender to the wise intuition within you, and the more you trust in the path of your Soul, the more joyfully available you will be to all those who need you.

   Each time you show up, expect an energy exchange that speaks of abundance in all areas of your life. Believe that you will always be taken care of, financially and otherwise, for that's exactly what the cosmos wishes for you, too.

7. Dance with Life
   If you're working relentlessly, expecting your diligence to provide you with an abundance of rewards, you're more likely to become burnt out than richly satisfied. While you absolutely need to show up, you also need to rest up. Have a dance break, take a trip to the markets, catch up with friends, tend to your garden, and otherwise surrender deeply enough to receive fully from the universe.If you're giving all the time, there's no space to receive. Time away from your computer or workspace will also amplify your creativity and provides the ultimate opening for insight—new and aligned inspiration—to find you.
8. Revel in Your Uniqueness
   There is no one else on earth with the same harmonious fusion of talents, gifts, wisdom, karma, and medicine. There is literally no one in the history of humankind who's got what you've got. Revel in your own kind of magic. Explore and express it, love and care for it. Learn to be inspired by others without following them on their path.This journey you're here to traverse is exclusively yours. Your uniqueness is what draws people to you. Bring your quirks to life in every way that your heart and Soul desire.
9. Expect Challenges
   The challenges you hold within yourself that have not been healed and released will show up in your life externally until you heal them. If you are dealing with self-judgment, you will feel the judgments of others until you make peace with yourself. If you feel unworthy, you will attract others who magnify this unworthy state of being until you feel completely worthy of all the abundance in the world.Welcome the challenges in your life as a gift for you to grow, heal trauma and karma, find yourself, and come home to the greatest version of you.
10. Learn to Pivot
    There are no mistakes or failure in discovering your purpose, only pivots. We all need to pivot when we come across an unexpected roadblock, be it the fallen branch of "failure," heavy clouds of confusion, or the prickly discomfort of someone else’s judgment or opinion.Roadblocks are not a sign you did something "wrong;" they are simply the universe's way of escorting you onto another path that is more aligned with your Soul. Learn to pivot in faith and grace onto a new way. Bless the blocks, embrace the ruins, hold your chin up, look to the stars, and begin again.
11. Trust the Process
    Without trust you may find it difficult to move forward. When self-doubt sneaks into your mind, come back to your heart. Your heart knows and loves all. Through your heartspace you have access to the eternal wisdom of your Soul and Highest Self.Trust that your Highest Self will always have your best interests at heart and that you can count on this expansive part of you to guide you toward the most exciting and blissful path. With deeper trust, your intuition will be clearer to recognize.

You hold the keys to your future and the gold of your gifts. Go within and trust what you intuitively feel to be the next step for you.

If you'd like to explore your intuition, instinct, and insight more deeply, you will find an abundance of spiritual rituals, scientific exploration, journal prompts, and much more in my book, The Call of Intuition: Learn to Recognize and Honor Your Intuition, Instinct and Insight.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2020. All rights reserved.

I keep having recurring dreams of a boy who was in my middle school class 18 years ago. When we were classmates, I had a crush on him. I saw him a few times before I left home, and ever since then, I've had recurring dreams of him. In my dreams we are a couple. Recently, I was deployed to Iraq, and I happened to bump in to him! I thought I was dreaming! I got back from Iraq a month ago, and I haven't had any dreams about him since. What does this all mean?

Astrea:

First I'll offer the most reasonable explanation for you two running into each other in Iraq: Since you grew up in the same place and have the same backgrounds, you're very similar, so it would make sense that you might both decide to serve your country via the military.

Something in your early experiences planted that seed for both of you, and coming from the same generation gives you similar views on things. Your choice of career was no doubt directly and powerfully influenced by experiences you both had growing up.

In my view, the metaphysical explanation makes just as much sense as the rational one; in fact, I feel the reason for all of this is more spiritual than mundane.

The two of you have known each other many times in many different lives and situations. Long ago, you were soldiers together in some far off places. You certainly share a bond that goes way beyond this lifetime.

Since you've done this together before, it was natural for you to choose to do it again this time around. Even without knowing that this person was part of your Ka-Tet or Karmic family, you found each other again.

An event like this happens to reinforce your own beliefs about reincarnation and other spiritual truths. You can use this gift to better tune in to the others around you. For reasons known only to the Universe and your guides, your Karmic family is working very hard to reunite.

Soon there will be other people coming into your life. Some you know from this incarnation and others from past lives. Some people will be all new to you, and some you'll recognize on a soul level as familiar in some way.

While I know it seems highly unlikely that you would meet someone you knew so long ago halfway around the world, it does happen, for the Universe has a way of putting people into our paths when and where we least expect to see them.

Your own experience illustrates that it doesn't matter how far away your Karmic family strays, you are still going to be naturally brought together from time to time no matter where you are and what you are doing. Learn from this great experience and allow it to reinforce your awareness of the enduring nature of Karmic relationships.

*****

Susyn:

It's fascinating when certain people from our childhood reappear in our lives over and over, and in some of the most unlikely places. Usually these kinds of events are fairly random, but they can serve as reminders that there are special people in our lives to whom we will always be connected on some level.

Since you've known this man since middle school, your dreams and interactions with him could be taking you back to a time when your life was simpler. This in and of itself can influence how you feel about him and your life in general.

It's possible that you shared a past life with this person as well. Your crush on him as a young girl, the dreams you've had, and running into him halfway across the world suggest a past life in which you were a couple or perhaps a lifetime when the two of you fought in battle together.

It's interesting to note that most people reincarnate in the same groups, so they are surrounded by people with whom they have shared many lifetimes. This is one of the reasons we tend to be attracted to certain people and repelled by others for no apparent reason.

There is a good possibility that you two will cross paths again when the time is right, as it appears that the connection between the two of you is very karmic. Sometime in the near future, you may start having dreams about him again, hear news about him through a friend, or accidentally cross paths with him in some out of the way place.

If this is a soul mate connection and the two of you are destined to be together, it will happen naturally when the time is right, with no effort on your part. Many couples cross paths for years before they finally make a lasting connection.

To discover more, the first place to start would be with a past life reading. If you'd like to explore this connection with me in depth via a private reading, you can email or watch for me on line at here at Kajama.

Once we've reviewed your past life connection, we can take a look at what might lay ahead for you romantically, and whether this man will play an important role in your future. In the mean time, give thanks that you have such a wonderful, mysterious, fascinating connection to this man.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.