The normalization of our desire to evolve amid life’s everyday challenges comes down to a very simple and practical attitude.
“Our will to incarnate on Earth stems from our desire to evolve, which expresses itself through our life mission. By coming here, we have set ourselves a goal of evolution and learning. This is the purpose of existence. Life on earth can be hard, very hard. So often, the vagaries of life, work, fatigue, and the thousand and one problems of everyday life distract us, steer us away from our life mission. Sometimes we are not even aware of what our life mission is!
Yet, it is the most important, main and essential aspect of our incarnation. This is why indigenous nations all had a rite of passage at puberty. When a boy became a man, when a girl became a woman, it is very important to find one’s place in the adult world, to know what one’s role is, one’s spiritual helpers (totems), and one’s specific place within the community. That is our mission in life. Thus, the rite of passage, the vision quest, and the moon lodge allowed the young person to understand their mission and then reveal it to their community so that everyone could contribute to its fulfilment.
This wisdom does not exist in today’s civilisations. But it is still essential to understand one’s life mission and to embrace it. It is more difficult in a societal context (indigenous nations did not live in societies, they lived in communities), but it is entirely possible and commendable to make the effort to find and embrace our life mission.
How do we do this? It is simple, but demanding. Start by looking at what brings you joy. What activities that benefit those around you come easily to you? Where do you find the drive, the impulse to do, to undertake, to create? Ask yourself this question constantly for weeks on end and record your thoughts daily in a diary. After four weeks, read what you have written. You should see a broad outline of your innate talents and abilities that you enjoy doing.
Then, over the next month, look daily at how these activities and talents could benefit society, friends and family. Write this down in your diary. Above all, do not think about whether it is achievable or not. That is not the goal at this stage. With the right motivation, anything is possible, but we are not yet at that stage of the journey.
After a month, reread what you have written. You should now have a clear picture of your life’s mission. This is when we must find the courage within ourselves to assume and incarnate our life mission. Now comes the time to follow your heart. Your heart-soul has a lot more clarity than your head. The mind works with concepts. Conceptualization and thought processes are always limited and only a very pale reflection of reality. True wisdom resides within the heart.
Be aware that as we evolve, this life mission may change. Sometimes, when we evolve significantly, we exceed what we had planned, and other challenges and lessons appear on the horizon of this existence. Sometimes we fail and have to come back again and again to learn the same life lessons.
That is why it is important to forgive ourselves. Regret (not guilt and blame, which are tools of coercion) is important when we make mistakes. Confessing them to our family, work and community circles is also important. We are here to help each other. However, if the problem is not acknowledged, there is no room for a solution. Our life’s mission would suffer because, without correcting the mistakes we all make, there is stagnation in evolution. No one is perfect, to err is human, so it is important to acknowledge our mistakes and have the humility to be transparent with others, which then acts as a powerful factor of transmutation. We are not alone, we are all united, in a huge planetary ship on an adventure of evolution that leads to the summit of the expression of light and truth, of immortality and our transformation into angelic beings.
This is, in broad terms, one of the most fundamental wisdoms about who we are as human beings.
Have a good weekend.