What's Your Project?

Your life purpose is not necessarily your job. Of course, when you spend a lot of your time and energy pursuing work that is in line with a higher calling, it's incredibly fulfilling; your everyday life is transformed on a lot of levels. But don't mistake discovering your calling with living your life on purpose -- with simply having a rewarding project that's powered by your passion.

You fulfill your life purpose by living -- it's not something you can fail to do. Your life purpose is also not about what you want to give others as much as it is about what others request of you -- what THEY want from you. No matter what your job or occupation is, your mission in serving others comes through -- it is always expressed. It is also defined by other people.

A life purpose is not about what you decide to do for other people, it's how you respond to what they ask of you.

You are already everything you've ever wanted to become. You're not missing anything that can't be transformed through shifting your perspective.

Your creativity is your divinity. You think you're waiting on the Universe to deliver the components of making your dreams come true, but the Universe is waiting on you.

The most obvious way I know of to transform who you are and what you love to do into a mission, an authentic expression of why you're here, is to invent one. Almost all the things you hope will magically fall into place involve other people:

• Meeting the partner of your dreams
• Connecting with like-minded souls
• Expressing yourself with spirit
• Finding the perfect job
• Feeling joyful about your daily existence
• Receiving the assistance and support you need to tackle life's challenges

When I do a Spirit Guide Reading for you or respond to your emails in hopes of motivating, coaching, and inspiring you toward living the magical life you deserve, I find that there's one over-arching realist goal that anyone can employ to change or improve any aspect of life -- you need a project!

You are here to learn from those who know the path you wish to walk; and to teach those who need to know the way that you've already mapped.

• Want to meet the love of your life? Involve yourself in activities where people who share your passion congregate.
• Want to develop your god-given talents? Practice them; study them; and teach them to others.
• Want to use your life to make a difference in the world? Take what you love, what you're good at it, what you're passionate about -- or take the greatest challenge you've ever survived, the thing that broke your heart, but did not break your spirit -- and find someone who needs to know how you do it.
• Want to ditch your sad life story and trade in your walk-on part as a victim into a hero who has triumphed, against great odds? Become it; share it; tell the world about it.

The rewards are not just about making more money, but any entrepreneur can tell you that the greatest material successes require incredible spiritual stamina, perseverance, and an unwavering positive obsession with something you never grow tired of…

The kind of energy that can change lives starts with what you love. If you love it enough, and you make sharing your passion, and teaching others your number one motivation, you'll discover unbelievable, seemingly infinite resources of energy and assistance.

Now, if you're a writer -- if you've always carried a dream of becoming an author, someday -- what are you waiting for? If that is your dream, you have absolutely everything you require, right now, on the very computer you're staring into -- to make that dream happen. You know who you are; I know who you are -- what do think I pick up from your spirit guides when you leave a comment on this site, or when you write to me with those thoughtful, articulate, fascinating personal stories?

When we're both operating in the medium of words, the words of writers glow with an obvious aura. When I read that glow one of the first things I look for is that link to YOUR blog. When the glow is there, but the Project seems to be missing, I know two things are true -- you're not sharing your writing on the scale that you should or you haven't yet begun to share your writing on the scale that you could.

Come on, now, if it's worth telling to me, why only me? My close friends will remember all the years that my energy went into telling them stories, one at a time (I'm sure more than one of you is relieved that I finally found a more effective venue and stopped sending you those huge, long-winded emails…)

If you're a writer, you won't be the first to ask me for a reading or write to me searching for your purpose only to be asked "What's your project?" See, even though Shift Your Spirits is one of my projects, it's not the only part of my mission, and it's not my job. I do readings for small donations, but that doesn't put a roof over my head… It's a project, a passion, a purpose, but not quite a "job."

Communicating with Spirit My life purpose and my mission and my job all grow outward from a single family of projects -- to teach other creative writers on a mission how to use technology they already have to share their passions with the world. A big part of my mission involves teaching the teachers -- are you one of them?

If you live each day believing "Someday, I'll be an Author" then you should know my j-o-b is all about sharing my path to Someday. I've now made the first part of my Problogging 101 Tutorial a free report for subscribers to Spiritual Blogging.

Writing | Manifesting Any manifesting technique you study is going to overlap in the most basic recipe:

• write down your intentions
• share them with others

It's not a Secret anymore. You have to create the life you want to live.

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Psychic Soft Focus

Are you trying to "focus" your clairaudient intuition, your awareness of guiding voices, your psychic perception? Are you trying to concentrate and isolate these channels -- to hear other "voices" -- your higher self, your spirit guides? Your full awareness is more than just your Thinking Mind. Your full awareness -- your total consciousness -- includes your intuition, your subconscious, your emotions, your psychic abilities, your vibes, your gut... It's bigger, broader, softer, looser, fuzzier -- it encompasses more than your Thinking Mind.

Visualizing the Invisible

Picture your psychic abilities -- your intuition -- in particular, your clairaudience -- as the beam of a flashlight. When you concentrate -- when you focus -- you tighten up, you narrow, you limit the beam of your "hearing."

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Fig 1 -- Normal Listening

Let's say the above illustration represents multiple channels of information -- other voices -- on different levels:

• The big White Wave represents the information you hear in your normal, real, everyday perception -- say it's me, talking to you -- or your reading this article...
• The Light-Blue Waves represent "other voices" -- let's say they are your spirit guides or your higher self...
• The White Circle represents the beam of your conscious awareness when you listen -- what you're paying attention to

Or you could picture this as a car radio tuner:

• The big White Wave is the station you're hearing loud and clear...
• The Light-Blue waves are the other voices -- other stations -- that are potentially in your range, if you just tune them in...
• The White Circle is the dial you can adjust to pick up other stations...

You know how when you're looking for something on the radio, you can set your dial between two stations, and actually hear both of them, overlapping? There may be a little noise, or static, one may be clearer and stronger than the other, but you can hear more than one station at the same time. If you tune the dial up or down, to bring in one more clearly, you lose the other. But when you're sitting on one "station" you have no idea what's coming in on another station right next to it -- even though the other stations are there. If you tune in too tight -- if you focus or concentrate the beam of your perception too much -- you end up with a smaller, narrower awareness, like this:

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Fig 2 -- Over-focused Listening

Focusing and concentrating with only your Thinking Mind does the opposite of picking up More -- your goal is to listen bigger -- if you try to isolate or pinpoint or laser-focus your awareness, without knowing exactly where the best "spot" is, you end up narrowing the light beam of your clairaudient intuition. You could point this narrow listening at three different places, and hit silence, noise, or a smaller section of what you're already getting.

Here's what narrow spots of clairaudient listening look like -- these are limited expectations -- what you think you're supposed to be going for:

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Fig 3 -- Little Listening, All Over the Place

This lesson or instruction is channeled information from someone else's spirit guides. I did a Reading for a woman a few months ago who had powerful natural psychic ability. She asked me to ask her guides how she could improve or develop her clairaudience -- what could she do to hear them better.

What I'm trying to describe here is what they explained to me. It's very difficult translating and relaying clairvoyant and clairaudient information -- I'm not sure how well I'm pulling it off.

The sitter for that reading wrote back:

"I know that I am clairaudient -- I know that I hear my guides -- but I'm not always clear what they're saying, unless [certain moods, circumstances, or conditions apply]..."

Your Thinking Mind is the "culprit" in limiting your clairaudience, clairvoyance, and intuition. Look at your word choice: "I am clairaudient... BUT I am not always clear... UNLESS..." You are negating your ability and attaching expectations as well as conditions. You are identifying limitations.

"Okay. I can accept this. Do you know when you are unaware of an aspect about yourself that suddenly comes through to you in your field of perception, it is often very difficult to see and understand. That is where I am at. I don't totally comprehend what you are saying, but I can feel that it is spot on. I think I need to just re-read it several times till it starts to sink in. What you're suggesting is that I completely change the way I have been my whole life. (Not that I don't agree with you, I do!) This is no small task. I am just not sure where to start in this mess of me. Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated."

Again, let's say your intuitive abilities are a flashlight.

You know how you can twist a flashlight to focus the beam into a tighter brighter smaller spot, or twist it the other way and it expands the circle of illumination with a looser, fuzzier pool of light?

Okay -- don't think "I need to change" as in "I need a new flash light." You don't even need to turn it on -- it's ON, it works. What your guides are telling you about expanding and developing your intuitive abilities is this:

The limitations you experience are because that beam is too tightly focused. Don't change it. There's nothing wrong with it. Just ALLOW it to become bigger, fuzzier, expansive -- allow your definition of what is intuitive information to become looser, more relaxed.

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The Goal for Hearing More: Fig 4 -- Psychic Intuition doesn't begin as anything precise

Yes, listening clairaudiently will be fuzzier -- it's not a laser beam -- it's not about precision -- you will see more and learn how to hear more and discern more in your psychic channel by letting it get bigger, softer.

Note how you're catching more by doing the opposite of focusing or concentrating. With a big, broad, sloppy, relaxed intuition you're more likely to pick up a bunch of "stuff" at the same time.

THEN, you can start isolating within that -- tightening up and tuning in and spotlighting a smaller area within the bigger source -- then you know where to shine that focused beam -- like this:

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Fig 5 -- Begin to focus after you find the right area to focus in

Your guides are suggesting you change, but not as you expect. They're not saying you can't, you don't, or you've got it all wrong. They're just telling you to back away from that tiny spot of expectation and view the intuitive information from "higher up" with a larger focal point. Let the light you're shining grow to illuminate more by twisting it the other way -- looser.

Do you see? Does that clarify? It's not a reprimand, they're just telling you "Here, honey, do it like this -- SEE? There you go... Look at how much more is there now..."

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Manifesting More - Celebrating Abundance

Put your To Do Lists away for a moment -- today's the day to work on your Ta-Dah List! August 1st is Lammas Day, also called Lughnassadh (pronounced loo-NAH-sah). It is the Festival of the First Fruits; the first of the 3 harvests; start of the harvest season; it's all about celebrating the bounty in our lives.

For more scholarly information about the origin of the name, check out Druid Journal's Word of The Day.

You spend so much time and energy on your To Do list -- that running list of what you have yet to accomplish, what you still lack, what you need, what you wish. Always in the future, always somewhere else...

Before you tackle anymore "I need to..." take a few moments to give yourself credit for some "Look what I've done!"

Did you start something really big this year? Or did you experience some simple joys?

Did you:

• make a baby?
• adopt a pet?
• go back to school?
• launch a business?
• start your own blog?
• land a new job?
• ask for a raise?
• find a new home?
• create something -- anything?
• plant some tomatoes?
• make a new friend?
• start a new exercise program?
• sign up for a class you've always wanted to take?
• teach someone to tie her shoes?
• read a wonderful book and then passed it on?
• go somewhere you've never been before?

What fear have you moved toward?

• What action have you taken?
• Who have you encouraged?
• Whom have you loved?

Thought-forming - 3 Simple Secrets for Manifesting More:

• Gratitude: The first secret of manifesting more abundance is to acknowledge what you already have. When you focus on what you lack, what you have yet to accomplish, you create a feeling of need or scarcity. A sure-fire antidote for feeling that you're lacking something is to identify where it is, where you do have it.
• Emotion: The second secret of manifesting more of what you want in your world is to engage the emotion of its presence in the present. How does it feel to get a paycheck? How does it feel to receive blessings, acknowledgment of your hard work? How does it feel to accept a compliment?
• Casting: The third secret of manifesting is to write it down and share it. Thoughts are things -- words are the wands; the way by which we handle ideas. Attaching a word to an idea or desire acts as a beacon for more of that energy to locate itself and find you; words are the fishing lines with which you reel in your Universal catch.

Put it out there! Share your thoughts with the world. Tell it to someone you trust. Send an email to a friend. If you have a blog, publish a post about it. Or leave a comment on a blog you like.

Love is a verb. No one can ever love your life -- and all that you find in it -- more than you. What do you love about your life right now?

The longer you make your Ta Dah! list, the more you will manifest, the more you will become. Yes, like you, I too am eager to get back to my To Do list -- but before you go, at least engage me in the "short-cut" version of this exercise.

Leave a comment and share just one thing you've started this year.

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