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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.

My mother, Rose, has been very ill for some time now, and a few months ago, she slipped into a coma. (She's in the hospital on life support.) Here's the strange thing: not long after she went into a coma, my four-year-old little girl started playing with an imaginary friend. When I asked her who she was talking to, she told me it was Grandma Rose! I questioned her further, and she told me that Grandma often came to play with her, and at night when she was afraid, Grandma came and sat on the side of her bed and talked to her. This sort of thing has continued over the past few weeks and left me with all sorts of questions, such as: Why do people go into comas? Where are they? Can they astral travel? Can they visit us like spirits do? You guys are great!

- Becca

Dreamchaser:

As I have often explained here, when we go to sleep, our souls leave our bodies to repair from today and prepare for tomorrow. The same applies for people who are unconscious or in a coma. I absolutely believe that your mother is visiting your daughter. She is coming in spirit form and spending time with her because they both enjoy it.

My son had someone named Joseph with him when he was a boy. I think your daughter is fortunate because she has someone who is a known blood relative watching out for her. Your mother makes sure to chase away any negative or scary things. They enjoy talking to each other. Your mother is loving the role of caretaker for her grandchild.

Your mother is not in her body very often. She spends most of her time in the spirit world. She is happy and joyful when she is out of body. It feels free, and she can go anywhere and do anything.

She asks that you stop spending so much time with her body. She says she can see you and hear you wherever you are there because she IS out of body so much. She says for you to go live your life and take care of your family and stop worrying about her comatose body so much.

As she sees it, the nurses and doctors get paid to do that for her. She is also not very happy about the life support. That is another reason for her leaving her body so often - because she CAN.

When we leave our bodies, we are not in the physical plane any more: we're in another dimension. We can go anywhere and do anything. Your mother spends time with every member of her family, not just you and your daughter.

She also enjoys going to the ocean, and she likes to go to places that have wide open spaces and lots of flowers and colors. She enjoys the freedom of being out of the body, because her human body has restricted her so given its present condition.

This is not what I would call astral travel, for astral travel is something that involves more conscious effort. This is just our souls leaving our bodies and going to where they need or want to go. It actually happens every night when we sleep.

I can't tell you why people go into comas. I'm not a doctor, and certainly don't understand the medical explanation for it. When I asked Spirit to explain the spiritual reason, all I got was that sometimes, it's necessary for a body to sleep in order for healing to take place on all levels. The soul can still be attached to the body, but can go to the Otherworld and mingle with everything there as well.

Usually when someone is in a coma, their soul is afraid or hesitant to leave his or her body, so they hold on to BOTH worlds. Please know that your mother is very cognizant of her surroundings despite what the doctors may say.

I wish you peace with this entire situation.

*****

Astrea:

In my own life, I had a similar experience with my grandmother. While not in a coma, she was suffering from an advanced form of dementia, and it kept her from being able to communicate clearly with us.

Granny came to me in dreams, and we had long, lucid conversations there. In those dreams, she was the same as she had always been before she became ill.

I wondered the same thing you did at the time, but after some investigation and a few easy tests, I became convinced that she was actually astrally visiting me in my dreams.

After she died, she reassured me that this was true. I don't see her as often now, but when she comes to me, I listen to her very important messages with great happiness and appreciation.

Your child will always be able to see your mother. I wish that more of us adults could talk to our loved ones in Spirit the way lots of kids can.

Your daughter is absolutely communicating with your mother. This will be a nice memory for her, for to her, this whole experience seems as real as being with you or any other living member of your family.

It could also be a great comfort to you, for in knowing that your mother's mind and spirit can continue to be with you in this way, perhaps you will believe even more deeply that she will continue on in spirit form after she dies, and you will be reunited one day.

Even though your mother is unable to speak to you directly like she does to your daughter, I'm wondering if she comes to you in dreams, for I feel that your daughter isn't the only person she's visiting.

If it won't make them think you're too crazy, you might ask other family members if they've seen your mother in their dreams or in any other state of consciousness. Other children in the family would be a good place to start, because they don't have all those adult problems with believing in things that other people might think to be impossible.

I always ask the kids first in these situations because they can't help but answer honestly. Besides, LOVE comes through children a lot more freely than it does for most grown-ups.

Please encourage your daughter to seek her Granny every chance she gets. In this way, your mother will be able to talk to you though her. I'm sure there are things that your mother didn't tell you that she will be able to tell you now in one psychic way or another.

If you begin to nurture it, this is a family tradition that can be passed down through many generations. I'm not suggesting anything dire will happen in your immediate future, but I think it's nice to plan ahead.

I have told my son and granddaughter to look for me if I'm ever in a situation where I'm not able to talk to them with my physical voice, and I do hope they remember to listen for me!

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.