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What's My Life Purpose

by Brooks Palmer

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In this meditation, you will take a deep, honest, and kind look into yourself and discover your life purpose. It's simpler than you can imagine. Once it becomes obvious, your life becomes a more wonderful place to be.

PurposeHeartBodyExistenceSimplicitySelf DiscoveryMeditationWell BeingLife PurposeBody FunctionsExistential ReflectionBreathingBreathing Awareness

Transcript

Hi,

It's Brooks and we're going to do a meditation about your life purpose.

So I'd like you to find a comfortable place to sit down or to lie down and once you do then close your eyes.

Feel your breath come into your body.

Feel the breath go out.

Breath comes in.

The breath goes out.

Like water lapping on a shore.

In and out.

And the nice thing about noticing this is we become aware that our body is breathing us.

We're not having to manage the breathing or do it right.

It happens.

Spontaneous.

Breath comes in.

Breath goes out.

So life is breathing us.

Consistently.

We don't have to ask for it.

We don't have to deserve it.

It happens.

So life must like us a lot to do this.

Life must really think you're great.

You know,

What a wonderful thing.

Let your awareness go to your heart,

Your heart area.

Like it's sunlight on your heart.

Feel it warm in your heart.

The nice thing about life is it's also beating your heart right now.

It takes care of that for you.

Life says,

I got this.

You don't need to worry about it.

And not only is life beating your heart right now,

It's also pumping oxygen rich blood through your entire body.

From that wonderful,

From that wonderful and beautiful work that the lungs are doing,

The heart works together with the lungs to give you this constant gift of life.

How lucky can you get that life loves you so much that out of all the other things that it does,

Rotating planets,

Growing trees,

You name it.

It also makes sure to breathe you and beat your heart and pump your blood.

So maybe,

Perhaps,

Because life invests itself in maintaining you and living you and giving you life.

Because of that,

Maybe you could say that your life purpose is to be alive.

Life goes to all that trouble to consistently take actions and this loving action to give you life.

And perhaps that's your life purpose.

Being alive.

It's nice to be alive.

When you're alive,

You experience life.

You experience that vitality of being alive,

Of existing.

Throughout our life we do many,

Many,

Many,

Many different things.

Activities come and go.

People come and go.

Even our bodies changing all the time,

Nothing stays constant.

Except for this basic vitality of being alive.

Through their evidence that that's our life purpose.

Perhaps you could say that your life purpose is existing,

Is being alive.

And while you're alive,

Doing a lot of different things.

Maybe that's your life purpose.

Being alive and doing many,

Many,

Many,

Many,

Many,

Many,

Many different things.

Perhaps you can rest in the comfort of that and the simplicity of that.

And the great thing is,

It's not anything that you have to achieve because you're already alive.

And you don't have to bother yourself with that thought like,

What's my life purpose?

Am I doing my life purpose?

By being alive,

You are.

It takes some time to bask in that being aliveness in your life purpose there.

You're not.

So now we're going to end the meditation.

You can stretch,

Take a deep breath,

Open your eyes,

And congratulations on discovering your purpose here on earth and that you're fully living your life's purpose by being alive.

What a relief,

Huh?

Meet your Teacher

Brooks PalmerSebastopol, CA, USA

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Recent Reviews

Petra

January 11, 2021

Very nice meditation and very profound reassuring insight. Thanks a lot, Brooks πŸ™πŸ»

Michael

November 4, 2020

I learn something. Life purpose doesn't have to be something extravagant they can be minimal and as simple as living. Thank you.

Alina

May 2, 2020

So simple and yet so true! Thank you

Catherine

November 18, 2019

Such an interesting and heart-opening perspective. Thank you!

Beau

November 13, 2019

I see what you did there πŸ˜‰ that put a huge smile on my face... Cheers!

Jen

November 13, 2019

No problems with volume...and what a wonderfully beautiful message. Thank you.

Yvonne

November 13, 2019

Thank you sweet soul sibling! Love,light and blessed be.. πŸ’›πŸ’šπŸ’™πŸ’œ Namaste πŸ™β­•πŸ™

Steph

November 13, 2019

Such a great yet simple message to all! Thank you

Hannah

November 12, 2019

This was so comforting and really resonated with me. Thank you.

Janice

November 12, 2019

Thank you This was simply wonderful A very sweet and simple way of being

Roxanna

November 12, 2019

Very simple and yet such a powerful message. This was perfect for a fresh outlook on a subject that can plague many of us and different times in our lives. I will come back to it again when I need it. Many thanks πŸ•‰οΈ

Patti

November 12, 2019

Just what I needed. A reminder of the basic truth and what has so graciously been given to us. Thank you πŸ™ πŸ’™

Scott

November 12, 2019

A simple and straightforward message: your life’s purpose is being alive. A pragmatic and simple way to look at life each day. Just being is ok.

Dee

November 12, 2019

Simply profound.

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