Meaning and Purpose and Self Employment

The way of self-employment is a fast track way of personal and spiritual development, and if you live it rightly, then it will take you beyond the development of self into the living wonder tale you are here to be.  When you move through the stages of personal and spiritual development that I refer to as the path of the chakras, then you very quickly learn to integrate many skills and qualities within yourself.   One key reason why people take the challenge of self-employment is freedom.  They have freedom to express who they are and why they are.  If you enter the wild life of self-employment only for the sake of making a lot of money you are focused on the means and not the essence.

What is it that is calling to you from the deep heart’s core to find meaning and purpose inwhat you are here to do?  To begin to answer this question is really the first step on what is called the Hero’s Journey.  This is the step on the Hero’s Journey that is referred to as the Call.  It is the voice of the unconscious asking you to make conscious what is to be made whole within you. It is the still small voice within that asks you to merge the opposites within you that you then gift to the world.  It is this gift to the world that you market to your community in the widest sense of that word.  There is no sense here of making a killing.  There is no sense here of exploiting and opportunity.

There is the opening up to the creative within you whose sole purpose is expansion to a point where the work that you do is the work that Love does through you for the highest good off all.

When you learn to come into alignment with this universal creative process that arises from the stillness that speaks then you find that you love to express how that process moves through you.  You give of your life force in the unique way it designed you to give.  This becomes an energetic flow where you live life from being and not simply from doing.    Of course you do have to do. You need to be engaged with time and space and form.  The key to aligning your work that gives meaning and purpose and abundance  is  in how you allow this movement to arise from within you and move through you.  When you work from a first chakra motivation, which is the motivation of fear and lack,  you work from a deep sense of separateness.  Your world view is about trying to make life fit into a box called me, my and mine.  Essentially, you view the world as finite and the best that you can do is to get as much as you can while you can.

This is the prominent world view at present.  It is the consumer society gone mad.  It is a view that is based on fear.  It leads to moral and spiritual bankruptcy.  In Ireland at the time of writing this article, it could even mean national bankruptcy.  This is also the case in other parts of Europe. The USA is more indebted than at anytime in her history to the point that for the first time in recent history her triple A financial rating has been down graded. When you are primarily focused on working in order to alleviate fear – fear of failure, of not making ends meet -  you attract the very energy that you are trying to avoid.  We see this happening more and more as the media promotes fear for its own interest.  Fear allows vested interests to enact laws that allow for more control and less freedom.

To live a wild and precious life you need to be free.  Primarily, you need to be free to expand into infinity (seventh chakra).  The forces that keep you in bondage are those energies that you lock away in your personal Pandora’s box (second chakra).  When these energies are not integrated into the personality (which is a third chakra process) then the unconscious blocks your freedom to express the wild creative and precious energy of your creative self.  The result is that you mistrust the creative energy available to you to express into form and allow you to give and receive in ever more expansive ways.

Now there is living to give instead of to get. As you concentrate on the giving, you discover that just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving – even the most wonderful things like health and happiness and inner peace. There is a feeling of endless energy, it just never runs out, it seems to be as endless as air. You seem to be plugged in to the source of universal energy. – Peace Pilgrim

I hope you can begin to see now why this path to finding meaning and purpose through self employment has the name “The Hero’s journey.”  Anyone who takes the step into this journey – and, to be frank,  we are all moving on this journey in unique ways – is a hero.  To move from the known into the unknown, no matter how uncomfortable that feels, takes courage. It takes courage to own the work and the worth that you are here to give to your community.  This is work that invites communion with the Love force that created you.  This is the infinite force that created you to be the expression of Love in form – giving and receiving – at higher and higher levels of beauty and power for the greater good of all.

No amount of consumer society trinkets will compensate for the loss of this process.  In some traditions the loss of this connection to the universal creative process  is called loss of soul. It leads to a loss of meaning purpose and the pursuit of ever more emptiness. We see this experience happening as the Western world sinks deeper into the possibility of bankrupcy. This is a distortion of the unending creative expression we are here to live – to give and to receive in return. This alignment with this universal creative process is true prosperity.

Let the Beauty you Are be the Work that you Do – Rumi

This is the real work.  When you align with it then the wild and precious life is the life of work that gives you life meaning and purpose as well as access to true abundance.   Making a living  is love’s purpose and the only work worth doing.  This is because it arises out of the uniqueness of the  human endeaver which is first to be and then to do.  You need freedom to do this.  By committing to being employed in your own right and for the service of Love in action, you are free to do and be as Creation intended for you.

Whatever way you choose to do your work and at higher levels of personal and spiritual development, allow the work to be done through you ensure that you align yourself with true empowerment. You are the power of one but you are also aligned with the One who knows how to bless this world in working through you. In the book A Course in Miracles we are told that there are only really two choices. This is the choice between fear and Love. I leave you with an inspiring invitation to finding meaning and purpose in allowing your work to fully be expressed through you.

The women who gives such an inspiring talk in this video says that nothing in life happens without a cost. This might be true but it is also true that nothing of meaning and purpose happens without a cause. Be the cause you are here to become and allow this cause to be expressed as the highest good that you have been created to gift the world. Let the very cause of your very being be aligned with your core values and trust the creative process to reveal to you how that work you are here to be is to be expressed through you. This will give to you the blessing of finding meaning and purpose in work.