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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'm a psychic reader too, and I really respect your work. I have a question about how you ladies handle clients who come back to you time after time with the same basic problem. For example, I have a client who hates her job with a passion, and has for some four years now. I know that fear is holding her back from making a leap into something better, but I don't know how to help her create a breakthrough. Spirit offers her all sorts of great advice, but she's one of those people who always say, Yes, but... followed by why she can't act on the advice at this point in time. I often see this sort of thing in my work. What do you tell a client who comes back with the same problem month after month, year after year? I feel like she's wasting her money and my time, and I'm starting to think I should just tell her that she must not really want something new, or she'd have it by now! Thanks in advance for your advice.

- Celeste

Dreamchaser:

You hit the nail on the head with this one! Of course your client doesn't really want change, or she would have gotten it by now.

There are all kinds of reasons why people stay stuck. Most people just do not know how to get from point A to point Z, and they think that they need to have some grand plan all worked out before they start.

We readers need to remember to tell our clients that everyone who ever had a great idea did NOT know exactly how they were going to accomplish it at first - they just knew it was a good idea, and that they were going to do it.

Your client does not need to figure out the HOW or the WHEN, she just needs to focus on the WHAT. She has to choose what she actually wants in a job before anything will start to move for her.

When I bailed on corporate America and was asking the Universe for my own perfect job, I requested a situation where I could be a mom first, work at home, pay the bills and have some play money, and that is exactly what I got.

That is the point that your client has not yet grasped: She can't see HOW change will come to her, so even though she may wish for it, she doesn't actually believe that she can have it. Then she just manifests more experiences that reinforce her belief that she can't have what she wants.

She is also afraid of changing and failing, and she has come to define herself by this job, so she's not sure who she will be if she leaves it behind.

Celeste, you have to remember that you are not responsible for how your clients live their lives or any of the choices they make. All you can do is give them the messages you have for them and be there for them when they need you. You can't make anyone do anything they don't want to do.

Also, remember that if she wasn't talking to you, she could very well be talking to someone who is less responsible than you are, who may take advantage of her state of mind. She could potentially be targeted by someone who would take her money and not give her helpful, useful guidance because she is so desperate for change. You are doing her a good service by giving her your time and attention.

Her path is her path, and this struggle is part of that path. I agree that our goal is to get a client to where they are happy and prosperous on all levels, but if someone doesn't move forward, that doesn't mean you are a failure - it just means that they are stuck.

As I see it, those are the clients that need us the most. They need our strength, patience, love and concern for them. Yes, it can be maddening to see them spin their wheels for years and years. You do need to be frank with your clients, but in a very loving manner. They know when we are being truthful, and they appreciate our honesty.

I wish you peace with all your clients and reading experiences.

*****

Astrea:

If someone wants change, I can help. If someone wants to just emote, forget it! I have next to no tolerance for that.

It's hard to respect someone who is circling the drain and at the same time draining YOU. Also, once you begin to feel less respect for a person, can you really do your best work for them anymore?

If your client says they want something different than what they have, and doesn't change in a reasonable amount of time, they become a big waste of time and energy for YOU.

I have found that reading for people like this is a good way to lose your psychic gifts, so send them away to another responsible reader, and don't feel guilty about it.

When clients return time after time without making any progress or changes, I realize they're not really getting anything from me. I am not doing this work for the money only: I feel a deep obligation to every person who comes to me, and I want them to get what they're paying for. If that's for someone to just agree with them and nothing more, forget it.

On the other side of this issue is the person who simply needs to talk to someone who won't judge them for their true thoughts and feelings. We all need that sort of understanding sometimes.

Of course, I've never been the sort of person to gently tell anyone ANYTHING. Since I'm a Sag, I'm naturally blunt and outspoken, and it's cost me many a psychic reading client. If someone just wants to hear how wonderful they are and how awful everyone else is, I'm not the reader for them.

Sadly, there are hundreds of fake readers out there who will tell a person anything he or she wants to hear over and over, just to take their money. I can't do it. I think it's WRONG. Those people who don't really want to change can find someone to listen to them babble on for a price, but it won't be me.

I can't count the times I've said, I am NOT helping you! and BLIP - I never see that person again. Whose loss is that, really? I think it's theirs, because they had a sincere reader who was poised and ready to help, and they threw that assistance right back.

We can't do anything to change another person's life, and the people who come to us with the same problems year after year are simply complaining to us because none of their friends will listen to them anymore. They have to pay us to do that because no one else is interested.

Those people bore the daylights out of me, and if you're smart, you'll cut them loose. They don't respect you; you're just the help - a psychic servant. Don't fall into that role! Someone will replace them who really wants a reading and truly needs your help. Make room for the people who really want to create positive change in their lives, and drop the dead weight.

You never know - you dropping those stuck clients may be just what they need to see the light.

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.