It can start physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually.
One might suddenly awaken one day due to a life changing event or out of complete boredom. You may experience a sense of:
- Loss, confusion, depression
- A sense of urgency or a hunger for something unknown
- Different than others
- Sick
- Old belief systems are no longer working
- Extremely happy for an unknown reason
- An urgency to visit sacred places
- Time to leave a relationship that isn't serving you
- Finding a new professional path
- and the list goes on.
There are so many of us that have known there is something different about our personality, our mission and perhaps even your family has teased you along the way because you don't fit into their paradigm.
Sometimes a sudden illness wakes you up and you start pursuing a healthier lifestyle. Nutrition, exercise, yoga, meditation etc.
Maybe you thought you had everything in life only to find out the rug gets pulled out to make you start all over again. Confused you may get depressed, drop out socially, take up drinking etc.
During times of spiritual growth it is important to find a community that supports you, take walks in nature, breath properly and find a creative outlet.
Things you may notice:
- You become more aware of things you never noticed in life before
- Friends and relationships may change
- You have a sense of inner peace
- You eat more consciously
- You realize life is much shorter than you knew
- You breathe deeper, you cry deeper
- You laugh more, dance in the rain and love more deeply
- You are more compassionate
- You don't sweat the small stuff
- You have gratitude daily
- and yes, much more!
What can you do to assist on this path?
Sure you can read books, travel to sacred places, attend workshops, learn from elders etc., However, the bottom line is all of these things will not change you. You make the choice. You listen, observe, discern and find what your calling is on this plane. The time has come to take responsibility for your own mission.
Watch children. They are in awe, they live in the moment, magic is in their eyes when they look at the world. We "grow up", we forget and then we 'grow out' to remember.
Find time to get quiet. Observe, listen. Perhaps a sign or symbol comes to you to remind you to stay on your path. Draw it, paint it. You don't have to be an artist. Doodle, scribble, finger paint - create your own masterpiece!
Watch children. They are in awe, they live in the moment, magic is in their eyes when they look at the world. We "grow up", we forget and then we 'grow out' to remember.
Find time to get quiet. Observe, listen. Perhaps a sign or symbol comes to you to remind you to stay on your path. Draw it, paint it. You don't have to be an artist. Doodle, scribble, finger paint - create your own masterpiece!
This symbol came to me during a 3 day silent yoga retreat after a meditation
I use it to remind myself where I am....Where I am going.... What I need to get there!
Life is a journey. You choose how you want to travel. You can make it hard or you can make it heart!
Signs you are living your life purpose
- You no longer care what others think about you
- You wake up grateful everyday
- You live in joy
- You go with the flow
- You inspire others
- Doorways open you never knew existed
- Your intuition is heightened
- You are open to receive
- You follow through on the messages received from God
- You love the life you live
Enjoy the journey ~~ Let's all go surfing now
~ Ku'uleialoha
Gloria 'Ku'uleialoha Coppola, educator, author, mother, grandmother, massage therapist and one who inspires recently wrote "Both Ends of the Rainbow ~ Lomilomi, a healing journey". It is about life, the synchronicity, the healing, the pain and the love.
As a child, I was very gifted. But no one understood the strange little girl that I was. So I shut it out although I always knew there was so much more. I spent the next 30 years searching for something, but not knowing what. Two years ago I found what I was looking for. The Journey has now begun it's next phase. It has taken two years for me to get to the point I'm at today. And for the first time I can look at all that I am, at all of my gifts, and I say "okay". I accept and I receive and today I truly own it. No trepidation, just acceptance.
ReplyDeleteAs many wise teachers have said.. "the path is not easy. But I promise that it's worth it."
The affirmation that I was given today was "The Path has no power over me." to that I add "But I have the power to choose the Path."
Thank you Candy for sharing your story!
DeleteI was always told I was a difficult baby, child, teen and adult and that no one in the family understood how to deal with me. I was and am more emotional and passionate than everyone in the family. As a toddler/child I would have tantrums where I would black out and not remember anything that had happened. As I got older I would feel so overwhelmed being in school or other places with lots of people I started acting out and later turned to drugs and alcohol at a very young age. Buy the time I was 12 my parents having sent me to various doctors and therapists decided to put me on zoloft so I would be easier to be around. It became so overwhelming to be in social situations with groups larger than 3 people that I started using harder drugs finally putting my self in the hospital on two separate occasions. With the last scare to my family at age 16 they hired a company that "kidnapped" children and took them to treatment facilities. It was during the two years in this lock down facility that I started seeing energy radiating off of people and on some there would be light orbs that would follow them connected by a light thread. I thought I had lost my mind and was foolish enough to tell someone. I was then tested, poked and diagnosed with some mumbo jumbo and was told to take some drugs. Luckily my parents realized maybe I wasn't crazy and what I was seeing was kind of cool so they back me up and said no to drugging me. Through the years of drinking to numb myself I have lost my connection with that kind of imagery and I miss it. When I was discharged at 18 from treatment my agoraphobia was so intense I couldn't go to the grocery store without panicking, too many people. I feel too much and it can spin out of control from me and I still have a hard time in large groups of people. I have studied and mentored here and there but I have just recently started to rewrite my life script I have been following. I have been put on various antidepressant drugs through my 20's and I have just come to another cross roads, to learn to be what I am or to continue with the insanity I have creating by not accepting myself and becoming who I was meant to be in this life.
ReplyDeleteChildren are extremely sensitive and open. Unfortunately not everyone comes into an environment where this is understood or nurtured. It sounds like you are very gifted and I pray you honor those gifts once again.
DeleteLet go of the past, it does not serve you any longer. Re write your script YES!
You are a beautiful radiant being of love - own it! Thank Goodness your parents realized it too!
Now learn how to protect yourself so you don't go 'tilt' because alcohol and/or drugs will throw you off balance.
Thank you for sharing!