So many people come to me asking what their life purpose is. I feel that I’m aligned with my life purpose, but not everybody does, and some people will ask what’s their soul purpose, what’s their life purpose, what are they here to do. They don’t feel aligned with what they’re doing right now. What I want to do is help you peel back the layers on the onion because you have an agenda on what you think your life purpose is. I want to stretch you into a different line of thinking.
Let’s start off with this question. Who are you? Because the ego is self-identification. So what most people do is they go, what am I here to do? What is my purpose? What is my mission? Who am I here to help? What am I going to do?
What the ego wants to do is get to an identification of I am… I could say, I’m a coach. We put labels on things because it allows us to give us meaning. What your ego wants to do is cling on to an identity of I’m a network marketer, and this is what I do. But is it really who you are? Is it really what you do?
So first and foremost, who are you? If you think you’re your job, your career, you’re not. So go deeper. You guys could say that I’m all these things, these crystals and pictures and books and all this stuff. But none of this stuff is me. None of it’s me. It’s just an illusion. It’s just an image. It really has nothing to do with my purpose.
The first thing about detaching from things, and this is all related to your purpose if you follow me on this, is realizing I’m not my house. I’m not my car. I’m not these crystals. I’m not these books. I’m not these bookshelves. I’m not anything physical because guess what? You’re not taking any of it with you. So if that’s not who you are and you’re not your job and you’re not your career or you’re not your bank account, then who are you?
So let’s take it a step further. My name’s Ryan because that was the name I’ve been given. But who am I outside of Ryan? I know that name. I know that personality. I know that the character traits of Ryan. I know my brand. I know what I portray to the world, but on a deep, deep level, who am I outside of Ryan?
And then you take it to the next level. My ethnicity is I’m half Japanese. You could say I’m Japanese or I could say that you’re Asian or I could say that you’re black or I could say that you’re white. Whatever. But that’s just your body. Your soul is eternal. You could identify and say that you’re that thing with that name with these labels with this house with this stuff, but is that actually who you are? Or are you basing your perception on life on externals?
The ego’s biggest fear and how you will find your life purpose is to strip away all the things you are not. That’s how I found my purpose, which is through the law of detachment. I’m not attached to these things. These things could all go away. My career could all go away. The material things could all go away. And I am totally safe because I’m not attached to these things.
One of the best ways to become detached to stuff is to actually give away something that is truly important to you to somebody else. Then it cuts that cord of us needing to hold on to things.
Suffering is caused by attachment. People try to get out of suffering because they want to be free. People say I want freedom. I want to find my life’s purpose, I want to feel aligned. I don’t want to feel this anxiety, suffering, pain. I want to be free. But in order for you to feel a sense of freedom, you have to embrace the suffering. It’s a part of life. You can’t have the light without the dark. So it’s actually not getting away from the suffering. It’s going into the suffering, and how you go into the suffering is you look at everything that you’re attached to that you believe is your identification because it’s not actually who you are, and you go whoosh. You peel back a layer of an onion.
And then there’s the internal stories. Your stories are not even who you are. We could say I’ve been through this and I’ve been through that and this is happening in my life. But those aren’t actually who you are either. Those are illusions that we’re re-creating and then we get stuck in a story and then we carry them with us until you realize your story is an illusion and you detach from it, for good or bad, joy or happiness. Because joy doesn’t last. But neither does pain. It’s all an illusion.
Your life purpose is not what you do. It’s who you are. It’s who you are as you carry yourself through the world. So it doesn’t matter what you’re doing with your career. You might say I don’t like this job. I’m not happy in this job. This job is causing me pain. I want to be an amazing entrepreneur. I want to grow my business. Can you fall in love where you’re at? Can you constantly choose? My life purpose is to constantly choose a higher version of myself on a moment to moment basis. Because all I have is now.
So I’m not what I did this morning. I’m not what I did 10 years ago. I’m not those stories. I’m not the things behind me. I’m not a label that you see me place myself as on social media. I’m none of these things. The only thing I’m doing with my life purpose is in this moment, can I be an integrity to my soul and can I listen to what my soul is telling me, and can I choose to express the highest version of divinity that’s running through me in this moment around everyone I meet or even when I’m by myself? And can I allow that level of God or spirit or the divine to flow through me with ease and effort and not be attached to how I think things should be but instead be totally open, psychically open, stop living life clinched? And can I just let things go a little bit easier and recognize that my suffering is caused by my attachment to things? When I surrender and give up control and allow, it allows my soul to come through and my ego voice to become quieter. And now my life purpose opens up.
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