Are you on a search for purpose?
Have you finally admitted to yourself that your life doesn’t fulfill you and what you’re seeking is beyond everything that you have?
Perfect.
You’re ready to find your answers.
In this article, I’m going to cover some of the reasons why you’ve chased what you’ve chased for so long and the critical component that you’re missing.
The Search for More
You’ve spent your life up until this point searching for purpose, happiness and fulfillment. You’ve grasped at this fleeting concept of lasting happiness at every stage of your life: throughout your studies, your career, relationships, family and every other aspect of your day to day.
And let me guess? You experienced happiness to some degree but after a while it just became more work: more things that you have to do with no real reward or satisfaction.
So if the answer doesn’t lie in all of these things, what are you really searching for in life? What unexplored part of this world has all the answers that you’re seeking?
Before we get there, let’s take a look at the things that you’ve been chasing so far and how they fit into your search for purpose.
Money
This one is obvious. You need money to eat, protect yourself and ultimately, to survive in this world.
Beyond that, you seek money to be free from the mundane. You want to have enough so you don’t feel chained to your work all the time. You want to have the freedom to choose how you spend your time.
Sure, you had the opportunity to choose your career path, but it didn’t really pan out the way you’d hoped. What you spent so long studying in school is so different than what you’re doing now. Right now, you feel like just another cog in the machine of society. This is definitely not what you were searching for.
You want to make an impact and love what you’re doing. You know that the relationship between you and society should be a two-way street, it shouldn’t just be you giving your time and energy just so that someone somewhere can get richer.
From this standpoint, the reason that you seek money is to feel secure, have the freedom to choose how you spend your time and feel like you’re actually making a difference in the world.
Having a comfortable amount of money also allows you to search for purpose in other areas of your life. There are so many things in this world to explore and money is your ticket. Click here to read about my adventures in my own search for purpose and how each fantastic option ultimately left me feeling emptier than before.
Nice things
From money, stems the desire to possess. Beyond wanting to prove to yourself and the world that you’re doing well, you want to use the money that you worked so hard earning to treat yourself to nice things.
You want to be able to spend a few extra dollars to purchase higher quality things without worrying about breaking the bank. This desire stems from wanting to feel safe, comfortable and at home in your space.
Having nice things also brings you emotional validation from yourself and your peers. It connects you to a feeling of safety that stems from within. This feeling of safety and of being taken care of is also something high on your list of qualifiers in your search for purpose. That is: you know your search for purpose will be fruitful when a number of factors have been satisfied, one of those factors, is feeling safe and taken care of.
Pleasure
Pleasure brings you a glimpse of deep inner peace and satisfaction. Throughout every pleasure in life, there is a certain quality of lightness, expansion and joy.
Your every action is motivated by the promise of this reward. Whether that is a sense pleasure (anything that pleases the senses – music, food, aromas, touch, sights), an emotional pleasure (feeling loved, safe and protected) or an egotistic reward (something that feeds your ego), if something has brought you an experience of this pleasure in the past, you will continue to repeat this action in hopes of experiencing that pleasure again.
Now, this is where the hiccup is.
You’ve spent your time trying to recreate these pleasures and what you’ve found is that what made you happy in the past, no longer makes you happy. That glimpse of peace you experienced is nowhere to be found.
So, if your happiness doesn’t lie in any of the things that you’ve experienced in your life, where does it lie?
And this is when you start to ask yourself, ‘What am I searching for in life? Where is my life going? What am I doing with my time? How else can I search for purpose?’
The Answers to your Search for Purpose
You may have started to wonder what the point is or if there even is a point to life.
So, let me put a real name and answer to the questions you’re asking.
You are going through a spiritual awakening and you are seeking yourself – and not as an arbitrary concept. You’re seeking your authentic Self and the abode in which that Self resides.
That abode is your home.
In that home, is you; the true, authentic version of you that has shed all the pain, anxiety and desires that keep you running in circles with nothing to show for it.
In that home, you are complete. There is nothing that is not provided to you; emotionally, physically, mentally, you are whole.
And the doors to that home are wide open, waiting to welcome you so you can finally rest.
The journey home
So how do you get to this beautiful, graceful place?
Through the ancient practice of yoga.
I know that right now, life seems pointless and impossible. The question of your purpose may depress you right now but having been there and passed through that stage, I can reliably tell you that what comes next is the most beautiful unfolding that you could ever imagine.
Like mine, your tears of sorrow and frustration will turn into tears of joy and gratitude. You will receive more than you ever could’ve asked for. Everything you want in life and infinitely more. You will be emotionally full up to the brim and you will bring joy to everyone around you.
Your life will flow and be the manifestation of joy, grace and perfection. At the centre of it all will be you: radiant, innocent, wise, unshakable you.
The ancient practice of yoga
Thousands of years ago, the ancient practice of yoga was a secret. It was passed down from master to disciple only when the disciple was deemed ready.
The practice is designed to help disciples raise their vibration and bring them home to their selves: home to the Universal Self.
Today, the waters of commercialization and international markets has diluted the gift of yoga. Every yoga studio you come by will not be able to offer you this spiritual depth.
However, authentic yoga is not impossible to find.
Come home to your Authentic Self
In your search for purpose, you search for a place to call home. Where you can be at ease regardless what you’re doing. And this home you seek is not a physical place, it is a state of being.
The road to that home is as simple and difficult as letting your idea of home descend from the intellect validating that yes, this is where you live, to the heart telling you that yes, you’re home, you can put everything down and really, truly, and deeply rest.
Your home is both the destination and the path. And while the path is long, the destination lies in every step.
Know that you’ve been on this path before and that you just took a temporary detour.
It’s time to come back to that path and come home.