 Hello, beautiful souls! This video is for anyone out there who is frustrated with or confused about finding your purpose, seeking your purpose, expressing your purpose, or anything related to purpose. So before we go any further, let's just do a quick energy exercise to assist with this and then I'm going to explain some ideas about purpose that could help you get a breakthrough around this. So if you would, just put your hand on your heart, right, just your fingers on your heart chakra, and then put your awareness right in the middle of your chest, right in the middle of your heart, and then imagine that you've got a hand or finger on the inside from the center of your heart chakra reaching out to touch the fingers on the outside. Just sit with that for a bit and after a while you'll feel your heart chakra opening, okay? So just feel into that energy, that heart energy, and I want to tell you a story, and this is about my mother. When she was five or six, she was signed up by her mother for her first piano lesson, and you know she got to that lesson and it was like magic, right? And from that day on you could not pry her away from the keyboard. Now she recently turned 81, and in the whole lifespan, you know, that was her thing. That was her thing. She was always at the piano. She went to school and became a concert pianist, and she was a teacher, and she founded a piano teacher's group in our local area here, and that was what she was known for. You think Nancy Royce, you think piano, right? And so to a lot of us I think that that is kind of like the the model for, you know, somebody who knows their purpose. And it's something that I think we have in the back of our minds a lot. It's like, why can't I find my thing? But I want to tell you a little secret about my mother, and I think this may be true for many people like her, right? Is that she struggled with it because it was so all-consuming. And when you have a purpose like that or something that really calls to you a calling, I think is a better word for it, you have to kind of learn to balance. And some people just choose, and that's all they do, right? Other people, for her, she had to make some sacrifices, right? She actually stayed home with myself and my brother, and it was the greatest gift. I think she could have given me was being there for us when we were little. I mean, I can remember when I was tiny, tiny listening to her practicing at night after I'd been put to bed and these beautiful melodies of Chopin and Beethoven and Schubert and all the greats, right? And so, like, even though she in her own mind wasn't practicing her big calling, you know, by being a big concert pianist somewhere, yet it really, you know, I think she's really impacted the lives of everyone whose life she has touched. And so that's one way, right? And as a visual artist myself, I like to think of one's purpose as a work of art, right? And there's several ways you can do it. There's several ways you can approach a painting, right? If you're standing in front of the easel and you have a canvas in front of you, one way is to have the concept of the painting full blown in your mind and you just break out your paints and you do it, right? You paint the painting and there it is. And that's beautiful when it happens, right? And somebody like my mother, she approached life like that. She was able to just kind of know what her heart was calling her to do and do it, but we're not all like that. So if you have been struggling with this, know that that's not the only way. And it's also really easy to get confused, between purpose and your calling in life. But coming back to the art analogy, another way to approach creating a painting is just to throw a bunch of paint on the canvas. Just slap it on and have fun with it and play and see what comes out of it. And after you've got some paint on there and you've been playing around with it for a while, just stop and you can take a look and you may see something in there. Oh, that looks like, that looks like a daffodil or that looks like a horse's head or something like that. And then you can begin to draw out from that image and start to shift it and create around that little image that's forming and see what happens, okay? And so there's other people who approach life more like that. And it's really easy when if you're watching somebody do this, you know, maybe you're watching yourself and to think, well, they're not doing anything. They're just kind of finger painting and they're just playing around. If you're not really feeling into the vibration of it, it can look like a waste. It can look like this is going nowhere. And I have to tell you sometimes when you're painting like that, sometimes it does go nowhere. Sometimes you reach a dead end. You're like, this really isn't working. And sometimes you got to just take and paint right over it, a whole new layer right over it. And sometimes you have to do that multiple times, right? But in the end, if you keep in your heart, right, the downfall of any piece of art is when you start getting in your head, right? And thinking about it and thinking, oh no, that was wrong. This was wrong. And this isn't working. And this just isn't the way I had conceptualized it. And when we start stepping out of the heart and out of that beautiful play space of the heart and into this judgmental kind of mindset or worry, right? Oh my gosh, what if it doesn't turn out? What if? What if what if? What if I can't, you know, find it or if I can only find the right place. Only I can find the right person to be with. If only I can find the right thing to do, then things will work out and I'll be, you know, have found my purpose. Well, consider one more, one more possibility as you're standing before this canvas of your life. And that is maybe, maybe you're not creating a two-dimensional image. Maybe what you're doing is multi-dimensional, okay? And so I have a friend and I'll just call her Miranda for now, okay? And I stopped in yesterday to pick something up from her house and we had a long conversation and she'd recently worked with me and with another practitioner about finding her purpose, but she was still in this kind of stuck place, right? Like, you know, I just don't know what I'm supposed to do. And I was like, well, come into your heart. And she's like, I know, I've been trying to follow my heart and it's just not leaving. I don't know. And so something just told me, like this little download was like, well, consider, consider this. What if? What if you're already in your purpose? What if you're already doing what you're here to do? What if you're already there? What if? What if you're already there? And so I think one thing that we tend to overlook or not see sometimes is that we exist in more than just this, you know, life that we're witnessing and living, that we are multi-dimensional beings, right? That we have this 3D life that we're living, but there's other dimensions of who you are that exists, that are here and that you are, you know, this life is communicating with these other dimensions. And when I felt into Miranda, right, when I felt into her field and really started feeling it to what was happening with her, it was like, you know what? You're already there. You're already there. You've got all these other dimensions. All these other dimensions and as you go along your life here, they're out there doing this incredible energy work. It's incredible energy work. And this is the kind of person, just so you know, when Miranda walks in a room, I've seen it happen. I've seen her walk into the room and the room lights up. It's like she's got this light. And I've known other souls like this, that they have an energy, that they carry with them. They have a presence. And I call these anchor souls, right? Because they are just anchoring a certain energy, a certain frequency into the world. And so there's the ego mind that wants to equate what we're doing with our reason for being with our purpose. And the ego wants to see us doing something great, something magnificent, something that makes an impact, right? And when the ego doesn't see us doing that, when we're just living an ordinary life and maybe a life that we don't even see what the purpose is, it's just like we have a job and we're alive, right? What the ego doesn't see because the ego is incapable of seeing is the whole aura and the energy and the frequency, the vibration that you have. And how impactful that really is. And it doesn't matter if you seem to be making an impact, right? If you are in that heart space and you've activated the heart and you've activated the vibration of yourself, right? Through the heart. You are having the most incredible impact that you can imagine. And like this friend of mine, she cleans houses for a living, right? And so I asked her about that. And she said, Yeah, when I'm and because she was talking about some of her clients and she's got elderly clients and and she kind of mentioned that, you know, somebody was like, Oh, when Miranda's been here, it's just feels so much better, right? And and Miranda hangs out with a bunch of energy workers. And I was like, Okay, well, you are an energy worker. And she's like, What? I just hang out with you guys because because I like your energy. And I'm like, No, you're an energy worker. If you were just hanging out because you liked our energy and you weren't an energy worker yourself, it would be just draining us, right? That doesn't happen. You're an energy worker. And what's happening is like the higher dimensions of you are doing massive energy work. And when you're doing your cleaning work, she's because she told me when I'm when I'm cleaning a house, I'm just in the flow, I just get in the flow and it just the time passes. Like exactly, right? Exactly. Because think about, you know, what she's actually doing cleaning a house, it's clearing work, she's clearing the space. It's amazing energy work. But she's got higher dimensions of herself that are that are taking this and going back and forth. And, and she doesn't even know it, right? And this is the same for all of us, whatever it is that we're called to do, when we're called to do something that feels right, right? Even if it's washing the dishes, even if it's pumping gas, I got to pump gas right now. And this is the right thing to do right now, right? Whatever it is, there's aspects of ourselves that we aren't even aware of that are at work, right? The only thing that can get in the way of that is that little mind thing. This isn't important. This isn't important to do. You know, why are you, why are you making a pie right now? You should be doing something else, right? You should be doing something more important. You know, you should be doing something more important. When that little voice comes in, it's like, this isn't enough. This isn't enough. This isn't enough. We pay attention. And when you notice that, that's the time put your hand in your heart, and invite your heart chakra to open and just breathe and let your, you know, just let yourself know, let your ego know we've got this. I hire self has got this. You know, sometimes, you know, we have, we have a life where we got to throw a lot of paint on the canvas. And sometimes our real purpose doesn't show up. We don't become really aware of why am I here? And what do I need to do next in order to really stay in that purpose led place? Sometimes we don't really have a concept of what it's all about. Until we've matured. Maybe we've had to develop certain skills. Maybe we've had to learn certain lessons. And a lot of these things that seem like dead ends. They're not. They've given us the lessons, they've given us the skills that we need to move forward. But none of us and including the ones that know what they're calling us, right from day one, none of us is really going to fully express our purpose until we have that, that vibration till we come into our hearts. Because it's from the heart space that it all blossoms forward. And even if you're doing your calling what you're here to do your healing work, your art, your whatever it is, you know, maybe you're a farmer, whatever it is, right? If you're doing that work, and you're not in the heart space, and your mind's off here somewhere else, or your mind's off here saying, I'm not in Carnegie Hall, I'm not doing it well enough, right? Or I don't have empty million clients, I'm not doing it well enough, right? If that little voice, if you allow that to start distracting you, you're not going to be allowing yourself to express your purpose in a way that's going to be most fully benefiting the world at large, because make no mistake, everything that you do from that heart space is healing. It's healing the world, right? So sending all my love, all my love to you, wishing for you the most beautiful, peaceful, joy filled day. And remember, you were born to be free.