Aligning with Purpose.

When I was a child, I was always aware of a deep curiosity from within me. I questioned the world a lot, especially the way we were educated, and the way we labelled and defined things and people. I found it fascinating that we were taught an array of subjects at school, many of which I knew I would probably never use. I knew this because I watched most of the adults around me as they went about their daily routine, never using what we were taught at school much. I saw them getting up driving to work, coming home after five, eating dinner staring at the TV, going to the town on the weekend to buy stuff, then waking up on monday just to do it all again. I was dreading becoming an adult because the idea of living a life like that scared me. Respectfully, I felt it to be mundane, boring and purposeless.

This being said, leads me back to the subject of this blog, and of my pondering of the most important question of all (to me anyway, and maybe you if the question burns within you). It is a question that I have been asking to have answered, needing to know, and striving to discover, with such a sense of urgency that everything else seemed to have little or no relevance to me at all. Nothing really meant anything to me, unless it was related to me fulfilling my life purpose. A purpose of which I was yet to truly know. That was my question. What is my life purpose?

I know this is a deep conversation, one of which could lead to many different levels of discussion about life and purpose, and what it really means on different levels. For the sake of this one blog post, let's narrow it down to the discussion of purpose, in this case meaning fulfillment of the deep sense of knowing that there is something deeper, something greater, and something more meaningful we are here for in our life. Fulfilment of purpose, to me feels like something with even greater importance than anything else, even more important than being successful in relationships, business, money or career, and any of the other things that are considered to be important life defining goals, and or accomplishments.

The question of all questions "What is my purpose?" is something that I have spent years asking myself, asking life, asking the greater powers that BE, obsessing about, thinking about, longing to know, and striving to achieve. All the while, not realising that the more I thought, strived, asked, and pushed for the answer, the more I pushed the answer away from me. Well, in true terms, and from a higher level of looking at it, the answer WAS always there all along, it was never really obscure, but the struggle was that with all the striving to know, I was not allowing myself to line up with what was already there inside of me. My purpose was always there, it had never left me. It was never away from me. It was present in my every breath, and in every beat of my heart. I felt it, I just wasn't lined up with it.

The thing is that your purpose is not something that you can ask, think, or will into being. It is a state of being that you can only feel yourself into alignment with, and when you are, there YOU WILL KNOW! Alignment with your purpose is a function of the SOUL, it can be heard in the whisper that emerges from the depths of the quiet place within, from the eternalness of the empty space inside. You cannot get there by action, or words or even by thought, but you can get there by following the nudges of your heart, and by trusting your intuition more than the thoughts in your head.

Aligning with your true purpose is not a goal to be accomplished, it is something that you already are. You just have to let it emerge.

Actions of doing and trying cannot take you there. Allowing, receptivity and BEING can.

For example, the inspiration to write this blog entry occurred today while I was in the shower, not while I was sitting and forcing myself to try to write an amazing blog post. In fact most of my greatest inspirations have come about in the most random, and effortless situations (much to the frequent irritation of those who know and love me well). For example, in the middle of the night,in a dream, first thing in the morning before I even open my eyes, during a shower, on a date or even out walking. My inspiration comes when I am most relaxed, and in my most natural state of ease and relaxation.

I have had this new blog site up and ready to go for over a week, however I have been sitting quietly, waiting for the inspiration to arise before I started writing. I wanted to write a blog that is inspired by the depths of my soul, with purpose. I didn't just want to write what I thought would be a great blog, just to get attention, likes, or to even get folks approval. For that I do not care, What I know, is that not everyone will resonate with this, or perhaps anything that I write or say in fact. I also know that there are those who will. You will know if this makes sense to you, and if you have been guided to read it because it is time for you to align with your own Soul, and the purpose that has been knocking on your heart for so long, just waiting to be realised. You have wanted to for so long, I know. You too have been busy searching haven't you?

You can feel it when you are driving to work

You can feel it when you are sitting at your desk

You can feel it when you are having dinner

You can feel it when you are paying your bills

You can feel it when you are cleaning your teeth

You have been busy trying to find it, yet it has been there all along, but your desperate need to find it has kept it away from you, yet only at arms length because you could still feel it, something else, there just waiting for you to find it! It is time to just let it be, slow down and chill. Do the opposite of whatever it is you have been TRYING to do to get there and watch what happens next. Trust. Really trust, then allow it to unfold.

The trouble for most of us is that we function according to, and are programmed to exist in a world which teaches us ways of being which are contrary to how the soul flows, feels and functions its way into becoming. By really sitting ,feeling, allowing, and often doing absolutely nothing....just like in meditation for example, is how you will begin to feel your Soul flow. This is how your purpose is revealed. The beauty of this is that when you finally bust through your human conditioning, into the sweet expansion of your SOUL, man oh man what a dream realized it is! Only then will your true gifts, desires, and all you have ever wanted will be shown, in fact you will be basking so gloriously in the feeling of the knowing of the expansion of your soul within you that honestly, it wouldn't even matter a hoot if you got that million, that job, that lover or the vacation you have been longing for, cos every breath taken in true alignment with your soul, the source of your being is a vacation in itself!

I know you are probably reading this thinking, I knew she was crazy, but not this crazy! Honestly and respectfully though, I DO NOT CARE!! Not cos I am ignorant, but because I have realized my purpose, my soul and my own reason for being, and all else DOES NOT MATTER in comparison to that feeling. When you get there, you feel the same way too.

So you are probably intrigued to know now, well what the eff is her purpose then that she is rambling on about. Mastery of creativity is my purpose, and well it is yours too in fact, but for me I am taking it a little further than most, as I can feel that my deep soul purpose in this world is to bring the creativity that my whole being embodies, and to master the understanding, and becoming of it in ways which will almost defy that of which we know, how we function as human beings, and how we create our life experience day by day, thought by thought, feeling by feeling, and breath by breath, then share that knowledge with all of you too, because guess what? It is in you too, creativity is the essence of your being. It is in us all.

I hope that with what you will see unfolding in the future blogs that I will be sharing, and in the inspiration that I will spill out through me to you, will reignite the knowing, and spark the flame of creativity that sits in your own heart and soul, to manifest it outward into being.

You are more powerful that you think you are. You are everything. You just have to believe, feel it then you will become it! If you are reading this now, I know you are ready to become it. Unless you are just a nosey parker who wants to see what the heck I am blabbing about now, then really, I know you have been guided here for a reason. Follow the guidance, go within and sit with it open mindedly, and then see what happens next......That is another story, for another day!

Take is easy, life is supposed to be fun, and don't forget........

Be realistic, Daydream Often

With love,

Ashleigh

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