Awesome Career or Dharma Questions to Ask Yourself

 I love to work.  I won't bore you with the astrological details of my Saturn (hard work) being conjunct my Venus (love) in my second house of money, but that creates a person that would probably choose to work over eating, sleeping, playing and just about everything else.  Work is play.  I guess that explains my entrepreneurial skills and my enthusiasm for building yoga centers, websites and creating workshops and products.

Another thing that I have tapped into that supports all of this is the ability to embrace uncertainty.  If you could relax into the uncertainty of changing jobs or launching your own career, you would find that the whole world colludes for your success.  Relaxing into uncertainty is a practice.  You can begin this practice by envisioning your dream job that is connected to your Dharma or life's purpose.  When you can combine your passion for work, need to achieve success, and desire for income with helping and serving, you have a slam dunk recipe for passionate work.

Think about the following questions:

• If you had all the money and time in the world making those two things irrelevant, what career would you choose?
• Today, how can you help and serve another?
• What skills do you possess that are unique and set you apart from others?
• What did you want to be when you grew up and how has that changed?  Has it changed?
• What is your biggest material desire and why?  How will you feel when you receive that desire?  How will your life be different than it is today?
• Who do you admire and why?  How can you cultivate that quality within yourself?
• What is your biggest obstacle stopping you from having the career you desire?  What small thing can you do today to begin to move that obstacle?

Manifesting your dream job isn't really that hard.  I think the hardest part is simply giving yourself permission to dream.

Om Shanti,  Pamela

Find Meaningful Work

Live as if you were living already for the second time ~ Vince Lombardi 

Last night I was teaching Week 3 of the Elemental Cleanse Course to my teachers in training.  Week 3 is fun because we have the opportunity to talk about Dharma or Life's Purpose.  Dharma is the idea that you incarnate in this realm to serve some specific purpose through the daily work that you do.  Finding meaningful work where you express your unique skills and talents in the capacity of service to humanity fosters happiness.

Tapping into Dharma is about getting up every single day of your life and LOVING the drive to work.  It's about being passionate about what you do.  It's about helping others.  We spend an exorbitant amount of time at work, so you know how important it is to be happy at work. Many have had the experience of serving a job that they were not happy in.  It takes a toll on your whole life including your emotional and physical health.

As I was speaking, I was picturing that last breath that each of us will take.  I imagined how your life flashes before your eyes.  For a moment, I was sad as I imagined a person greeting death, looking back, and not feeling like they had really embraced their life.  Don't do that.

Instead, tap into your skills and talents.  What are you naturally good at?  What do you do well?  What do you get lost in?  What activities do you engage in where time seems to stand still? Of course, I have yoga centers and teach health and wellness for my work.  I also have my own business and that means freedom to come and go.  I get to help people feel better all day every day.  It's an awesome job and I'm in my dharma.  I know that sounds fun and obvious, but what you might not know is that I used to be a CPA (certified public accountant.)  Each morning, as an auditor, I would slip on my suit, grab my briefcase, fight traffic and head off to a client to audit their books.  

If you've ever been audited, you can imagine.  You can also imagine that you aren't the most popular person in the building.  It's a tough job and requires about a 12 - 14 hour day most days.  There's extensive travel and the pay is lousy.

I LOVED IT!!!

I was great at it.  You see, I took my job very seriously.  As a CPA, I knew that I was keeping the financial reporting system honest.  I also knew that I was helping the company to improve systems and flow.  I loved the travel and meeting new people.  I  was thrilled to have a stack of papers a mile high in front of me, to bury myself in it and to come up for air at the end of the day.  I was young and vibrant and loaded with responsibility which translated to "power" in my young mind.   

There was nothing spiritual about being a CPA.  Still, I was in my dharma.  Think about that.

Om Shanti,  Pamela

What is your life's purpose?

Have you ever paused to consider that you are here on this planet at this time in this current situation for a reason? Have you ever paused to consider that you very well may have a job to be doing here as a human being? If not, you should because you are here for a reason. You have a life's purpose or what we call in yoga "dharma".



Dharma is loosely translated as "life's purpose", but it is much more than that. It is the law. When you decided as a Spiritual Being to come back here as a Human Being, you basically signed a contract that you would accomplish certain things. Why? Your soul craves to learn and grow. Your soul craves experience and knowledge. Your soul craves love.

Pause here to wonder for a moment what your life's purpose is.

When I ask people to do this, most of them simply give me a puzzled look. I mean, geez, that's a big one. I know it seems big, but its not that hard to initiate the process of finding your life's purpose. You simply need to start studying yourself. What are the things that you love to do? What are the things you are naturally good at? What are your talents? Hidden within these, is your purpose.


Questions to get you rolling?

• Do you love to work with kids, the elderly, animals?
• Do you love math or writing?
• Do you love politics & change?
• Do you love cooking, cleaning and taking care of your family?
• What do you love?

Today is Saturday. In the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, today is the day that we honor our Dharma or "Life's Purpose". Below is the practice for Saturday to start the process of connecting. Spend time in silence. Wonder why you are here.


Most importantly, ask how you can help and serve all day. When we connect what we love with serving others, we find our life's purpose and experience total joy.

Mantra in Sanskrit		Om Varunam Namah
Mantra in English		My life is in harmony with cosmic law.

The law of Dharma states that we are spirit in nature and that we have taken a physical form to have a specific experience and fulfill a specific purpose. Every person on earth has a purpose.

	Each of us is here to realize that our true nature is spiritual. We are spiritual entities that are on this earth to have an experience.
	Each person has a unique talent or gift that no other person has. There is one thing that you can do and one way of doing it that is better than everyone else.
	You are here to serve humanity.
	In yoga, move your body with awareness.

"OM" Work

	Every day and in every situation, ask How can I help? How can I serve?
	Practice witnessing awareness. Pay attention to the quiet stillness within you.
	Make a list of things in your life that bring joy to you and to others while you are doing them.

who am i?

I've been on this journey for a few years. It began on May 2nd of 2002, but that's a whole other blog. I'm a big reader and studier. I tend to be very analytical in my spiritual pursuits so in my spare time, you can find me cuddled up somewhere reading and learning. Sometimes I feel like I have read it all and that everyone is saying the same thing in a different way. I wonder what I would say....

I have a friend who says to fake it until you make it. I've pretended to be Deepak, Dr. Dyer, Louis Hay, Claire Diab, Shiva Rae and Rod Stryker while teaching my yoga students. Lately, I've started to notice who I actually am. I do have my own philosophy and my own voice. I've started to use my own ideology and it seems true and resonates.

Sometimes I feel so much just like me that I can't even believe how good it feels to just be me. When I feel just like me I feel soft and fun and energetic. I feel creative and vital. I don't feel that way all the time, but I do more and more. Sometimes I just feel perfect.

We are all perfect in this moment. Love yourself. Each person is unique and has a purpose or "Dharma". What is your truth? Who do you sound like?