This is a sequel to a guest post I did at Reiki Help Blog called, What Is Your Purpose.
I wrote about the synchronistic events that happen for people who are meant to accomplish their purpose. Many of us are wondering what our purpose is and whether we are missing out on acting on it. For me, I did not have to go searching very hard for everything of significance that happened in my life. I believe that whatever we are destined to do, comes searching for us. I will relate four instances that really stand out for me.
One morning I awoke with a definite feeling of excitement of some change about to happen in my life. I did not know what it was. As the day progressed, I was at work when the thought came to me that I should quit my job and go on a trip to India. It felt so right, like an inner command. I know this sounds crazy, but as I thought this, I swiveled around in my chair and looked towards the open door of my boss’s office and caught her eye. I did not think anything of it and carried on working at my desk. Soon after, my boss came to me at my desk and said, “Is there something you want to say to me?” I blurted out that I was going to quit my job. Just like that! One month later I was on my way to India and met many people that had a great influence on my life. That was one of many such incidents in my life.
When I returned home a year later, I was at the bank machine one day and met my former boss in the line-up, in my neighborhood! She asked if I needed a job, and yes it is true, one week after returning from India, I was working again without having to search for work.
During my meditation one day, I heard a booming voice inside, “Work with children!” It was quite startling, to receive a clear direction from within. I started reading about Maria Montessori and her work and became very interested in that. Soon after, I met an old friend whom I had not seen in years. She told me that she had recently started a Montessori pre-school and she would love for me to work there. Even though I had no qualifications, I started off as an assistant and attended classes to train as a teacher, in the evenings. Again, without me working at it, my destiny was unfolding, it came to seek me out!
This experience of working with kids was like a healing of my own childhood learning experience. I was not very fond of school, and in fact felt traumatized in my early years in school. It seemed that working with children was only meant to be a temporary experience because soon I was getting an inner pull towards studying Chinese Medicine and healing.
In my travels, I had heard from friends I met about a type of body-mind acupressure that interested me. I forgot all about it, then a few years later, as the inner call to explore healing work came up, I looked up the ads in a local magazine. I saw three ads for the kind of body-work I was interested in. I decided to make an appointment with one person. She turned out to be a mentor for me. She was a Buddhist, a teacher in the acupressure style, and a very wise woman. She was instrumental in helping me to understand how to live the teachings I had come to learn from my spiritual teachers. I had gotten a lot of esoteric knowledge but she helped me translate that into the wisdom of daily life in the world. I was to later meet the other two people whose ads I had seen, and although they were good therapists, it was my teacher that I was destined to meet to assist me to hone the spiritual teachings and make them relevant for me.
These are some of the events that were to shape my life and make it a blessed experience. I am truly grateful for the ability to listen to my inner voice and follow. When I am supposed to do something, there is no doubt or worry. I know when I am fussing and worrying that I am not listening, for when I am in the flow, my body, mind and spirit know, and I feel at ease.
This to me is the power of purpose. Of its own volition, our destiny maps out the circumstamces and sets up the synchronicity of events as if by divine intervention. I believe that our dreams are God’s whispers to us about our destiny. If we have clarity, we will hear those whispers and adopt them as our dreams. Then our destiny will unfold. Our purpose comes seeking us out in the form of information from many sources; books, friends, dreams and so many unexpected ways. If we live with this openness to be shown without worrying about it, we will be guided and we will meet our destiny. This I know for sure.
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Dear Miruh,
Yes, Serendipity is such a beautifully awesome experience. I, too, have had “messages” and “calls” similar to the ones you describe above.
One interesting thing that I have found, if I fail to listen, my spirit guides hound me to do what ever it is that I am supposed to do! Once it is accomplished, they leave me in peace. I have learned in my old age to listen and act accordingly. Saves a lot of monkey chatter from happening.
Wonderful post…I feel I know you a bit more. It is wonderful to call you, friend!
Peace, Linda
Awareness is such a bosom friend. It keeps us hopping, curiosity peaked. At the same time, we know the loving signs are everywhere. As we choose to open ourselves to possibilities, we recognize when they present. It is patient expectancy without the negative vibes. It is accompaniedby a calm accepting that everything is falling into place.
Hello Linda,
Yes, we all have these kinds of experiences and if we are open to acknowledging them, we make more room for them to unfold us.
Life can be simple if only we can trust that we are guided and allow our minds to remain still, so that we can tune into those messages that are constantly broadcast to us.
Sharing your own experience is affirming for me. I have found a wealth of like minded souls on the blogosphere. We are fortunate to meet each other and share our friendship and experiences.
May your heart unfold in serendipitous love my friend!
Hello Liara,
Brilliant words: “Awareness is such a bosom friend. It keeps us hopping, curiosity peaked. ”
The journey to becoming is thrilling and always full of surprises beyond expectations.
You describe the experience so beautifully!
May you bask in its beauty and majesty, my friend!
Glad you followed up on this topic. There’s certainly a wealth of material out there that looks at this from a more narrow angle.
What you’re talking about is the balance of divine will and personal will. Our lives are a co-creation of the two. It seems the mainstream relies too much on the latter, while spiritual practitioners sometimes disengage personal volition a little too much.
We’re guided and helped to the degree that we show up.
Hello Pamir,
Thank you for your gracious presence here and sharing these words of wisdom.
It seems that many people are beginning to sense that there is more to life than what they have been exposed to so far and are hungering for answers as to the greater purpose of life both personally and globally.
My views are from my own personal experience and I am sure that other writers write from their experience and we all get there by different paths. Some are more easeful and yet we must each act according to our own inclinations and preferences. We are all right. There is no one way for all, thank goodness!
We seem to agree on the path of balance, in co-creation with the ultimate creator. In my experience, it is a blessed one, of a dance with the Creator.
May you always show up when you are called.
Thank-you so very much for sharing this part of your intuitive journey. You were wise to listen and be open to the possibilities. You are truly blessed to be as open as you are and I am blessed for reading this, thank-you.
Hi Miruh,
Reading your story gives me so much joy. I know these things happen all the time and I am so glad when it happens to people like you who are in tuned to their life path.
May you continue on your spiritual path and finding the joy in the moment.
Hello Mark,
Thank you for your kind words, it is my pleasure to share my experiences.
The spiritual healing journey is an adventure into the possibilities of our highest potential.
Indeed we are all blessed when we embark on this courageous path.
Peace to you, my friend!
Hello Alexys,
Your beautiful words touches my heart!
The spiritual path is a path of joy, connecting to the greater part of ourselves. It is our highest purpose and it manifests in so many different ways in our life. Whatever we do is ultimately about being aware of our connection to that joy.
May you follow your bliss and bask in its rapture!
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