How do you determine what your life purpose is? This can be a very intimidating question. Why would that be? All of us come to the planet knowing our life purpose, yet here on the earthly plane it is incredibly easy to forget our life purpose. It can easily become that nagging feeling of low level discomfort that something is missing or forgotten. Generally, rather than seeking clarity on what is missing we are taught to bury that feeling deeper through distractions, addictions and prioritizing other things. A pattern of pain emerges, (I am somehow missing something, I know I am supposed to be doing something, I feel discomfort, I feel incomplete, I run from these negative feeling into the arms of addiction or distraction)…you get the picture. Basically this is an insane way to conduct our lives.
Thankfully, most children are free from this crazy cycle of behavior. Many children know what they are here to do and express interests or talents that correspond with their life purpose. Maybe that is why adults are fascinated to hear the answer to “what do you want to be when you grow up?” Anyway, it has been my observation that after age eight or so, many children stop answering this question completely. They seem annoyed by it, irritated. What occurs to cause this phenomenon? Perhaps they succumb to the pressure of the adult world and it’s judgments on who they are and who they should be and how much money they should make and what school they should attend and so on.
Maybe they learn that it is a trick question that comes with strings attached. A question where the answer can and will be used against them as a means of manipulation. And it is us adults that do not know ourselves and then pass down the legacy of self-amnesia. I believe that part of the move towards universal acceptance of trans-gendered people is they represent a part of ourselves that knows on a core level the feeling of – “but this is who I really am”. They have no choice except to be who they truly are or they may perish. The same is true for all of us. Still, we are willing to go through so much pain to stay asleep to the knowledge of our life purpose.
Wouldn’t it be spectacular if we could change this process that we all are destined to go through? What if we treated life purpose as an important life lesson that children were encouraged to explore without our judgment? I believe this would be universe altering. In the spirit of change, let’s explore our life purpose. Let’s get back to the question: How do you determine what your life purpose is? Here are some tips for working it out:
Quiet your mind and do less, just be- listen to your inner wisdom
Look for clues in what you loved to do as a child
Do not judge any thoughts that begin to emerge
It does not have to be fancy and you do not have to save the world or move to a rain forest- maybe you are here to love and support your family
Ask your Angel for help in revealing the answer
Make a list of all your life purposes big and small- you can have multiple life purposes

Margaret McDermott is a spiritual writer, intuitive counselor, reiki healer, and metaphysical teacher. She is a lifelong student and teacher of the esoteric arts with a focus on tarot, angels, reiki, spiritual healing, palmistry, energy shifting rituals, the power of prayer, the healing love of the Blessed Mother, and Christianity. For the past 20 years she has helped people by offering her gifts of clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience as a means of finding clarity and peace.
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