Fulfilling Your Life's Purpose

What's Your Mission?

“Even more often and more insistently, I'm asked, 'Why am I here? What is my real purpose? What should I be doing with my life?' This lack of self-understanding and direction is a health problem itself, in a sense, for it can lead to all sorts of emotional distress, including depression, anxiety, and fatigue...It's not only your mind that wants to know your mission—this knowledge is vitally important to your body and spirit as well.”
Caroline Myss (Sacred Contracts)

Caroline Myss is a medical intuitive and author of several books about energy anatomy and disease. She connects the spiritual world with the physical world, and maintains that our “biography becomes our biology.” We are shaped, not only mentally/emotionally by our history, but physically as well. It is her belief that each of us comes into a lifetime with a sacred contract to fulfill. Some folks know from childhood what that contract is, and resolutely pursue it. My former husband fell into that camp—he always wanted to be a doctor, and never veered from that path. Others may stumble upon it along the way, and know it is right because they feel at home there. They say, “This is what I was born to do.”

There are some of us who just want to do/be everything under the sun. We may have five careers along the way, and just as many partners. We love the challenge of the new—the creative juices surge when a new project presents itself. We commit to that for however long it feeds our spirit, and then we move on. Unfortunately, some of us grope in the dark and never find our bearings; indecision grips us and we are paralyzed. And some of us, when confronted with our life’s mission, run like scalded dogs. Fortunately, life has a way of tracking us down and redirecting us toward our sacred contract, not always gently. Often, we know there is something we're called to do but we resist because it's uncomfortable; it would mess up our comfortable lives. The idea of it intrudes upon our thoughts, interrupts our sleep and won't leave us alone. All of these scenarios have consequences for our physical and mental health—both good and bad.

Howard Thurman, theologian and Harvard professor, said, “There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is, 'Where am I going?' and the second, 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order, you are in trouble.” Fulfilling our sacred contract is an individual, existential mandate. We may find others to assist us, others whose mission is the same, but first and foremost, we are here to fulfill our own calling. Finding your path and walking it faithfully is the purpose of this one, sweet life. If you do that, the universe and all the realms will help you.

In the spirit,
Jane