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How to Use Your Story to Find Your Life Purpose

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
~ Maya Angelou

"Everyone has a story.
Some stories are happier than others.
Some are tragic.
But below the surface of our stories,
each of us have wounds that need to be healed.
My story is a mixture of happy and tragic.

I grew up poor with a dad who was an alcoholic.
He loved me deep down, wasn’t a mean drunk,
but growing up with an emotionally unavailable father caused some deep wounds.

I quit high school at 15 years old and managed to wiggle my way
as a dancer in a strip club.

This is something no 15-year-old should ever have see or do,
but I was wounded and I wanted money, attention, and love.

It’s taken me 33 years to realize this wasn’t my fault.

I was doing the best I could with that I knew.

I loved to eat. I loved to cook.
Food was my comfort from early on and being in the kitchen
felt as a natural as breathing.

I had a deep need to find the sense of belonging I didn’t have at home,
at school, or in my town, so I started moving around.

I moved to Toronto and Montreal and collected people wherever I went.

These people truly saw, heard, and loved me,
and this became a major part of the path to healing.

I miraculously enrolled in cooking school.

My life’s dream was to move to NYC and making my dream happen was #1,
even though I didn’t know how this was going to happen.
Because of cooking school, I was able to offer free cooking
to someone who had a room for rent in their home,
and I moved to NYC from Toronto with $700.

Stripping taught me how to work for myself.

I created a job around my passion of cooking
and supported myself doing what I Iove.

In 2008, I moved to San Francisco to continue the quest of finding out
where I truly belonged, and finally found my place
amongst the most amazing city in the world.

It’s not until this mission was fulfilled that

I was able to begin climbing the ladder of self-actualization.

Here are five ways to beat the odds and use your story to find your life purpose.

1. Excavate your story

Our story affects us in ways we don’t realize.
It’s also what makes you special, unique, and YOU.
Taking the time to write your story
– figuring out your deepest pain points, your greatest achievements, your true strengths.
You may share it with a friend, a coach, or on your blog,
or you may never share it all.
But having someone truly hear you, see you,
and empathize with your story is a powerful way to heal your wounds.
When you can find meaning in your deepest wounds,
you catapult your life to the next level.
You release the pain, shame, and discomfort little by little.
And the next thing you know, your life feels more purposeful
and you have more energy because you’re no longer entangled in your story.

2. Locate your shame points

Shame happens when we do things outside societal norms.
Finishing high school, getting a college degree, getting a respectable job,
having a wedding, buying a house and creating a family
is the socially accepted path in our culture.

When we deviate from this path,
the sense of belonging we deeply yearn for can be missing from our lives.
We feel deeply inadequate and a deep sense of shame over lives,
as though we’ll never be good enough to belong anywhere.

Working in the sex industry, not finishing high school,
spending every penny I earn without saving
– these are my shame points.

I shed the shame by sharing it with the world,
which helps dissolve the emotional charge around it.
Moving past your shame is possible.
You have to realize that you are not alone,
it’s not your fault, and we all have things to work on and move through.
No amount of socially accepted achievements is going to make you feel
like you’ve had a purposeful life if it is not truly aligned with your path.

3. Figure out what you truly value

What’s important to you?
Love? Connection? Professional success?
Living in a nice house in the suburbs with 4 kids
or traveling the world by yourself?
Being connected to what is most important naturally
aligns you with your higher purpose.

For me, finding a sense of belonging has been my strongest drive.
When I moved to San Francisco, I found people who truly mirrored me,
believed what I believed, and valued what I valued.
Finding my community healed my life in ways I cannot describe.
From there, creating a career I love, spending quality time with friends,
and having beauty around are the driving forces in my life today.
Life isn’t perfect and things happen,
but being connected to what’s important will hopefully bring you
some peace at the end of your life.

4. Find small ways to care for yourself

When I started to make small changes in my life, everything changed.
I started taking care of my body through eating healing foods.
I lifted weights and felt strong.
I found my take on spirituality through vipassana meditation and yoga.
Instead of dwelling on my shame points
and defaulting to old self-destructive behaviors,
I learned that caring for myself changed the way I saw the world.
I felt better, I had less desire to drink, eat junk food,
or resort to other escapist behaviors.
These changes didn’t happen overnight.
It took years to become more aligned with my life
and change my junk eating, couch lounging self-destructive behaviors.

If you don’t know where to start, pick one area of your life that needs work.

If it’s diet, come up with one SMALL change you can do every day.

Maybe it’s adding a serving a vegetables to your plate.
Drinking more water. Eating less sugar.
Create the habit and do it every day for 30 days.
Don’t let your mind tell you it’s not enough.
Let yourself feel the success of change.
Small change creates sustainable change.
Go slow and be kind to yourself.
Once you’ve mastered the art of one small change,
it becomes easier to create traction.

5. Realize you are NOT your story and create a shift in perception

Your story is the path to uncovering your life’s greater purpose.
A person who is in a car accident and ends up in a wheelchair
copes with their pain and makes the best out of a difficult situation
by helping others going through the same
(see the show “Push Girls” for a beautiful example of this.)

You have a choice:
to accept your story and use it as a teacher,
or reject it and become a victim.

Your story isn’t who you are as a human being,
but knowing yourself and turning your deepest wounds into strengths
is the greatest contribution you can bring to yourself and to the world around you.
You may find out you are much more valuable than you think,
and that all that you’ve been through has a purpose after all.

Are you ready to turn your wounds into wisdom?

You can share your comments by joining the conversation
in the comment section below."

Brigitte Theriault

This article was written by Brigitte Theriault.

Brigitte is a transformational coach.

She works with people who’ve tried everything from fad diets to sex
to escape and helps them jumpstart their lives
by situating what’s holding them back from being free, happy, and healthy.
Connect with her through
www.365daysofradicalselftransformation.com
if you’ve been feeling stuck and are fired up to start making some real changes in your life.”

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Susan at age 2

Three Promises, from The Book of Love

"There are three promises made at the dawn of time, each of them sacred.

The first promise is to God, your Mother and Father in heaven.
It represents your most divine mission, what you have come here to accomplish in the image of your Creators.
It is the reason for incarnation, the purest intention of your soul
The second promise is to the Family of Spirit within which you were created and will belong through eternity.
It represents your relationship to each of the souls in your family and how you have agreed to assist them in their mission and they in yours.
The third promise is to yourself. It represents how you desire to learn and frow and love within the context of incarnation.

Align yourself with these promises you have made, for they are sacred above all else.

Remember them and cherish them, and you will know the greatest joy available to humankind.

Do nothing that you know to be against your sacred promise, for that is the truest definition of sin.

For those with ears to hear, let them hear it. "

From The Book of Love as preserved in the Libro Rosso (interpreted by KDM, in The Book of Love, 2009)


Matilda's Rose, Orval.

Jorgelito - Posted 2 Hours Ago

Re Three Promises, form The Book of Love

Thank you for sharing, Susan.
Evidently it was a book with a red cover, copied by Phillip the Apostle.
See Secrets of the Cathars.

We believe what we are all continuously telling ourselves very important things,
so, what are your thoughts saying to you ???

Jorgelito - Posted 4 Days Ago

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We believe what we are all continuously telling ourselves very important things, so, what are your thoughts saying to you ??? -Susan The eXchanger

An excellent question. If we knew what our thoughts were saying, I daresay the dialog would soon become quite still. Is there such a thing as a wordless thought? The feeling is like . . .




There is content beyond word and metaphor;
experience seems to capture the whole of it.

Also it has the feeling of jumping off a perfectly good boat . . .



What my thoughts are saying now is that there is another kind of thinking
(a kind that heals body and soul) that I've forgotten.
It affirms who we are and our nature every moment of self-awareness.
It's a way of seeing more directly without distraction of structure and form.
And it's something I can put into practicee..

What I need to do now is actualize these thoughts and give it a test run.

A GRAND CYCLE is a phrase used to describe one journey as a fragment from Tao, all the way through the incarnations, the Astral Plane, the Causal Plane, Mental Plane, Messianic and Buddhic Planes and reuniting with Tao again. A soul can then choose to leave again and choose a new Role to use through a whole other Grand Cycle and live as a completely different species on a different planet with different Essence Twin, Entity, etc.

If you think of your soul as a Spark that takes on a Role for a Grand Cycle, then you could say that a Grand Cycle is like a single lifetime is to your Role.

According to Michael, most on this planet average about 3 Grand Cycles,

but many of the current older souls can have 9 or more.

They don't really have any tangible effect, but for those with higher numbers of Grand Cycles t

here does tend to be a deeper, more profound spirituality about them, and they "wise up" faster than others, it seems.

This is why, say, some Baby Souls can actually seem older in soul age than they are,

because of that deep undercurrent of experience within the spark/soul.

I hope that helped!

Troy

www.truthloveenergy.com

The 8th Chakra ~ The Seat of the Soul

The conflicts of a human's life are directly proportional to the distance
at which energy of personality exists separately from the harmonic frequencies
that emanates from the divine spark or soul.

The seat of the soul, the eighth chakra, holds the ancient knowledge of our soul contracts and ultimately, our life purpose.

The 8th Chakra is the energy center of divine love, of spiritual compassion and spiritual selflessness.
The seat of the soul is the major core star of our energetic system,
also holding the records of what our souls had agreed as specific lessons in our upcoming lifetimes and past lives.


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The Michael Teaching™
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The Michael Teaching™ is a comprehensive metaphysical philosophy that has four major interrelated aspects:

Presents a cosmology describing the structure of God, as Michael calls it (the TAO), Nature and the physical Universe and how these are constructs that provide the platform for the Spiritual Design of Human Experience.
Provides a complete description of the building blocks of human psychology in the form of a Personality Trait System known as the Overleaves. The Overleaves are the “templates” of perception and style that allow for both consistent similarities within the human family; while allowing for virtually infinite variation and diversity. At the same time!
Describes the foundations of World Views underlying social movements and group dynamics; redefining the concepts of spiritual evolution in terms of Soul Age and Soul Level.
Offers anyone, who is open-minded and personally activated, to partake in direct consultation with the Michael Entity in a channeling session. This can take place with assistance of a practiced professional channel, or the individual making direct contact in a conscious trance or Quija Board. (Michael does not discriminate, but it does take practice, focus, and aptitude.)


Where did the Michael Teaching™ originate?

The Michael Teaching concepts have derived from many sources: including the works of Gurdieff and Ospensky and from the historic precepts of the Sufi’s. It was first introduced in the book “Messages From Michael” by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro in 1978. More recently, the Michael Teachings have evolved from a number of dedicated students, including Channels: Sarah Chambers, JP Van Hulle, Aaron Christaean, Jose Stevens, Simon Warwick-Smith, Emily Baumbach, Joya Pope, Larry Byrum, Holly Coleman, Shepherd Hoodwin, Troy Tolly, Marina Tompkins, Terri Benning, Philip Whitmeyer, David Gregg and Stephen Cocconi.

Collectively, this material has evolved into this form. Who or what is Michael? For the Channeler, Michael is a separate but shared identity. Having existance unto itself, Michael describes itself as a group soul of 1,050 members. Using their own terminology to describe spiritual evolution, they say they reside at a level of soul development known as the “Causal Plane.” All once human, they have merged together and combined their knowledge, skill, and wisdom gained from thousands of human lifetimes. Michael has compassion for us, knowing the human path can be hard. They gain clarity and philanthropic karma for serving us here on the physical plane.


Overleaves as part of the Michael Teaching

To begin, the Michael Teaching is a metaphysical view of creation and the human experience.

The Universal Force driving this creation is referred as the TAO, rather than God, in an effort to remove the gender stereotyping of a masculine deity.

The Overleaf Energies are the “flavors” or “primary colors” of the TAO. It follows then, that when an unique Essence or Soul

decides to experience individuality (separation from God) that the building blocks available to it are the same basic materials of the Universe

itself. (i.e. the Overleaves)

. As a personality trait system, the Overleaves have been channeled and are validated intuitively and empirically by Michael Students,

rather than statistically like other personality trait systems. Each Overleaf trait has distinct, identifiable physical appearance and energy signature

that one can be trained to discern and recognize. Michael Channel’s have been born with this talent though refinement of the skill occurs with practice.


Michael Teaching Overleaves Chart v. 4 by Stephen Cocconi. Click on the image below to download a copy.



Why would one study this material?

This is a teaching based upon the principle that all people deserve compassion.

And, there is no better place to start than with yourself. When we speak of Self-Love we are not referring to indulging in ego-aggrandizing Narcissism.

Rather, the Michael philosophy promotes the kind of unconditional respect of our shared human dilemma, a term the Greeks called “AGAPE.”

Equipped with Self-Knowledge, Self-Forgiveness, and rejuvenated with Self-Esteem, you achieve “amour-propre”

and become empowered to resolve conflict between yourself and others.

Thus, you set an example and model the kind of behavior and attitudes that can overcome hostility and engender trust.

http://www.themichaelteaching.com/michael/

my 1st Grand Cycle as Scholar

FROM MICHAEL: This Cycle appears to have been lived through a species that might be seen as rather etheric and gossamer in body, ghostly if you will.

This species is related to descendants who would come to be known as Lemurians on Earth.

My 2nd Grand Cycle as Warrior

FROM MICHAEL: This Cycle appears to have been lived through a species that might be seen as electrical currents,

existing in a medium of a planet wrought with electrical storms.

My 3rd Grand Cycle as King FROM MICHAEL: This Cycle appears to have been lived as an insectoid species that would most resemble a Praying Mantis,

on a tiny planet lush with the equivalent of trees and plants.

This species was profoundly philosophical, with a great emphasis on meditation and exploring off-planet via means that were not physical.

This had led them to become rather adept at Astral Travel, visiting the dreams of many civilizations. This species still exists.

My 4th Grand Cycle as Priest

FROM MICHAEL: This Cycle appears to have been lived through a silicon-based species that inhabited Earth previous to the current population of Sentience on the planet.

This species would seem to be lava-like to you, and many of our students who lived as this Cycle tend to have a strong attraction to ancient and prehistoric levels of life on this planet,

as well as a strong attraction to the Mineral and Shamanic kingdoms.

[Geraldine says:] I'd like more information on the first sentient species on earth, the silicon- based or "lava-like" species whose "bones" are agates.

This is the first species I'm aware of that wasn't carbon-based or alive in any of our current meanings of the word.

How long did their Grand Cycle last, what types of things did they "do" to evolve, how did evolution/civilization express itself, etc.

[Michael] The silocon-based life forms were flourishing approximately 4000 million years ago, just after a meteor collision with Earth

that prompted the Sentient development within the molten elements.

Consciousness exists in all forms, and all matter, to some extent, so the bacteria aboard the meteor, having been completely destroyed,

transferred Sentience to what you might see as molten or lava-like "blobs" by accelerating the growth of consciousness for some time, first.

The Sentience, then, had transferred mid-cycle, so to speak. Having already been in bodies that you would recognize as bacteria, being "molten blobs" was not a stretch.

My 5th Grand cycle as Priest

FROM MICHAEL: This Grand Cycle appears to have been lived through a species that was disc-shaped and capable of flight and burrowing.

A great amount of the "surface" of the planet was a thick, tangible gaseous cloud, if you will, where most of this species spent its lives working through its Cycle.

Rather than reincarnate into new bodies, this species would eventually "crash" to the more solid surface,

burrowing beneath the ground in a long hibernation that allowed for a regeneration of its magnetic qualities that allowed for it to exist in permanent flight for each lifetime.

The entire electromagnetic system would shut down, allowing for a reset of Overleaves and programming,

which allowed for each Essence to keep using whatever body it began with.

Mating was a matter of friction, in that the rubbing together of two or more bodies would create "sparks" that the gaseous cloud

would then accumulate around, creating a new body for a new Essence.

All fragments were in bodies before the first body actually died, which is when the first Essence cycled off.

From there, the Cycling off came rapidly for each successive wave, as each removal of a body would cause a weakening of the magnetic dynamic,

generating faster cycles of "crashes," until no more bodies could stay afloat.

My 6th Grand Cycle as King:

FROM MICHAEL: This appears to have been through a species that would be considered "snake-like," though some of the body types had wings that allowed for flying.

The biological wings were an indicator of those with status in some way, which the King Essences gravitated toward, even after development of an artificial means

of gliding was adapted by the species. This was the only sentient species on the planet, or in the star system.

My 7th Grand cycle as Sage:

FROM MICHAEL: This appears to have been through a species that was highly-mobile, and quite eager for off-planet travel,

as the body types were of quite a flexible and resilient nature, with no bones, or required shapes, so much so that they may have been seen as "rubbery."

Thoughts shaped the bodies. Depending upon the cycle of civilizations at the time, body shapes were agreed upon

and generally adhered to, but as the species aged in soul age, thoughts gave way to moods and feelings, and bodies took any number of shapes

to reflect this more honest representation. This species traveled its star system freely over half of its existence.

My 8th Grand Cycle as Priest

FROM MICHAEL: This appears to have been in a humanoid species that would be difficult to differentiate from your current species,

except for the upholding of intuitive and psychic development that allowed for not only telepathic communications as a standard,

but also such things as psychokinesis, etc. This species currently still exists, but as a completely new Design of sentience,

and actively explores the galaxies using these skills.

My 9th Grand Cycle as Artisan

FROM MICHAEL: This is a cycle that most of our students shared together on a planet with only two species;

one being large amphibian species and one being small tree-dwelling humanoids.

A eco-dynamic was in place that was specific to the symbiotic nature of these two very different species.

Because there was no process of weather that would bring rain, the trees would suffer without water.

The large amphibians, then, would live in cycles that moved in and out of the river beds and bodies of water

that would become so populated, it would push the waters above the shores for the land to use more accessibly. In return,

the tree-dwelling species would ensure that the perfectly-ripened fruits were made available from the trees to those amphibians.

This Grand Cycle, for many of our students, and including ourselves, was one of the most peaceful and restful Cycles we have ever experienced.

Troy www.truthloveenergy.com

Peter Farley, who categorizes them as follows:

From: the twelve primary races of our universe

"There are 12 primary races in this universe

(and probably a countless number of other races):
Felines
Carians
Humans
Reptilians
AI(worry)
Cetaceans

Crystallines
Electricals
Elementals
Insectilians
Liquidians
Orbs

Each of the races has their own specific traits. For example,

AIs don't have emotional body.

Also Electricals don't have real emotions."