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.

The Meaning of Life

The great ancient sages of India sat in meditation pondering their existence. They asked the same questions of Spirit that we ask...Why am I here? What is my purpose? What is the meaning of life? Thousands of years later we continue to ask the same questions.

Its actually not that hard to find the answer to your life's meaning. The problem is once you've decided upon the answer, you have closed yourself off from possibility. All of life's problems are solved. Life becomes easy...tedious. You create dullness by choosing the answer.

Learn to enjoy the question itself. The continuous enjoyment of the journey that you have undertaken in this lifetime gets you closer and closer to your purpose. It gets you closer and closer to the meaning of your life. If you find yourself bored or unhappy, then you are not close to the meaning. If you find yourself excited and enthusiastic, then you are close to the meaning.

“Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.” Rainer Maria Rilke

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?