Inspiration
Finding your Soul Purpose
with David Straus
Shifting our perspective is the key element to going from a contracted state into a more expansive state of consciousness. Becoming aware of when we feel fear is the first step to actually changing it. Think about that, you must be AWARE before you can be aware to make a change.
Knowing that we are in fear and what situations make us feel this way we start observing and therefore we already get into a little bit more expansion.
Watch the full video to hear what exercise I do with clients to get them more aware about when they feel fear so that they can make a shift.
We have all heard the term "the law of attraction" but many of us think its an intellectual pursuit but it's not. It's about the FEELING. You must feel as if that which you want is already done. Share your thoughts on this perspective in the caption people!
#soulspurpose #manifesting #lawofattraction
It is from our love we remember ourselves, and we recognize ourselves in others. Even as we view others as someone not of us from a place of love, we can see how they are a reflection of us, a reflection of something deep inside even if that depth is not something we are aware of or were aware of a moment before we discover it. We can only find and discover these aspects of self from love.
Wisdom is our ability to become deeply self-aware. There is no period at the end of awareness. There is no end to what we can see, what we can know, and how deeply inspired we can feel. When we learn to expand our awareness, we perceive ourselves, our life, and others through a new lens. Not because they're different, but because we are different.
How will you expand your awareness?
#awareness #davidStraus #perspective #wisdom
Experiencing the Oneness of your true Self is all inclusive, and yet this all inclusivity is rather paradoxical. One’s true Self knows no separation, and this essence itself is free of ego. Even without an ego, it is still a container for ego to meet the individualized experiences of personality, illusive separation, and the vivacity of sensory wonders this life offers. And so the ego is surely a part of the whole, playing its role as the veil of forgetfulness upon entering this game of operating and animating body vehicles until its desire to know and return to one’s Self turns inward. This is a process of remembering, over and over again, whilst embracing the presence of this personality software program installed in one’s consciousness. Surely every component that one can be aware of is ultimately a part of the All.
Share with me your thoughts on this concept in the comments below.
We all have different approaches to deal with situations that make us feel contradicted inside. And although we all react to hard situations in life, staying in that place of contradiction doesn’t serve us long term…
So when we have tools to help us come out of that contraction, it serves us because it lifts us into a new vibration. For one person, it might be focusing on the breath for a while and calming down. For some, it might be working with the Soul Purpose Statement. For others, it might be thinking about people we love. So there is not just one way of getting back to the place of expansion in your body. There are many ways.
Watch the full video to hear all my suggestions and more tools you can use. Share with me in the comments which tool you usually turn to!
We create what we want in the world by connecting the feeling of what we want with our intellectual capacity to envision what we want. Essentially we need to embody it fully.
Not just as a heart exercise nor solely as an intellectual exercise. We need to both create feeling and vision and integrate the two. This is how we create everything. Usually we do this without intention without realizing it. We end up at a grocery store in a new friendship in a different work environment all of this is created in the same way.
What if we understood fully how we create and with intention found the feeling we wanted and married it to the vision we desire.
Drop a ❤️ if this resonates with you!
Not everyone has to fail in order to succeed.
It is different for every person, and that is absolutely okay.
Sometimes when we see people who are successful, we forget that they also had to go through a journey and we start judging them.
This comes from a place of contraction and is a great opportunity for us to remind ourselves that first of all everyone has their own path and the way it unfolds and then also to check in with us to really question, am I in an expanded state right now? Or do I only see what is equal to my contracted state right now? Because we can only have information come in that is equal to how we feel.
So when we can catch ourselves in a moment of judgement and remember to go into expansion we might be more receptive to see the bigger/ fuller picture of the journey that person went through that we’re judging in this moment.
Nevertheless, failure and tripping on our way is totally normal and we can learn and grow from it. When we can remember to see these lessons from and for a state that expands us rather than contracts us.
What were your biggest challenges and how did you overcome it? Share it with me! 💯
We create stories 100% of the time. Some of the stories serve us and other stories don’t. Some stories feel real to us like “those aren’t stories that’s real” snd other stories feel like we just made it up. The thing is we have the ability to rewrite any story we’ve created. We have the ability to rewrite the stories created for us or about us.
The process of rewriting a story can be difficult because first we need to be aware of our stories. Aware of those things said to us or about us as we grow up. Those things we believe about ourselves that we create more stories from and mold our reality around. When we understand and are aware of this we have the ability to rewrite our stories. Create new ones. Mold and manifest the life we desire through the stories we choose rather than the stories we may not choose. This is more simply said then done until a moment when a deep awareness may come to us allowing what was once difficult to become easy, as easy as our breath, as easy as simply remembering who we truly are and why we are here.
We're always in charge of our life.
We're on this journey here to remember that we are the creators of our lives. And we often forget that. This gets us into a state of victim consciousness because we think that things are happening to us. But when we step into the knowing and understanding that we create our reality we can then actually take more action towards creating what we want. And we always do.
We always do it, by feeling what it feels like if a future thing we want or don't want appears in our life. And then it shows up.
So when we start using that knowing and feeling to shift and constantly remember ourselves what we want to create, then we actually start embodying that future before it is there.
But by feeling it on an authentic level in our bodies, as if we already accomplished it, then it will come to us. The thing we want will meet us.
What do you remember you created by stepping into the feeling first?
I began to help people identify their soul purpose (different than your vocation or a purpose statement) back in 2011 – 10 years ago.
What I love about the process is that everyone I have worked with around the world in this process can identify a Soul Purpose that creates more expansion, more inspiration, more awareness, more self reflection, within themselves and for themselves. AND it is important to remember that feeling of expansion, awareness, self reflection is available to us having NOTHING to do with the Soul Purpose statement.
Ones Soul Purpose is just a tool a tool you can have in your toolbox of tools that help you grow, that help you feel more expansive, that essentially just remind all of us of who we are and what our passion is and why we are here.
There are many different tools we can use to trigger us into that feeling. This is but one. If you're interested in learning more about this one, watch or listen to the podcast with @antonwisbiski
@antonwisbiski happens to be an amazing interviewer because he listens with his heart and knows how to get curious. Thank you, Anton.
Links are on my bio for full episode 🙏🏻
When we connect to our truest self then we don’t feel separate. ✨
We can still disagree with each other but from a place of an open and expanded heart where we’re able to truly critically think, discuss and debate, rather than just pointing fingers and trying to be right or wrong.
If we do that one person at a time, meaning you remember for yourself, and I for myself, we change our society one person at a time.
Share your thoughts with me in the comment section below! 👇🏻
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Such sight, while translated quickly by the muscle in our head, originates deep inside the muscle in our chest.
I value all that and it’s because of our ability to use our brain to process and communicate in our own unique way that we can engage and transform our surroundings. But true vision, true insight, come from deep within.
It comes from our ability to see what others cannot see. It comes from the veil in front of us disappearing. That only happens when we are feeling inspired, expanded, and full of our heart.
From there we are moved to create what only each one of us can create from our true uniqueness.
We can hear the heart's still, small voice saying, "All is well. Relax, surrender, breathe, trust." At those moments, our brains and hearts may be flooded with oxytocin, commonly referred to as the "love" or "social bonding" hormone, according to the Heartmath Institute.
Then, like a lotus flower, both the brain and heart can blossom and come into coherence. We can surrender and, in so doing, make higher choices for ourselves and for others from a place of love and compassion.
Does connection to the heart space resonate? Share with me in the comments.
I would never use the words above when someone is in a state of contraction for any. That would not be loving to the person who is in a state of contraction. When we feel stress for financial reasons or health related reasons or any reason the last thing we want to hear is a concept about how we receive what we are equal to receiving. Instead we must always meet people where their listening is and from there take them on a journey of discovery allowing them to remember their own truth.
I want to provide training wheels in a way so that you’re not in fight or flight, so that you could go from a place of contraction to a place of expansion. When I remind you how this is done, i'm merely reminding my self as well.
How does this concept of receiving what we are ready for resonate with you? Share it in the comments below.
Some people have done a lot of work around the concept of purpose. They inquire into who they are and why they are here, incarnated into this life. Still, they may think of it as a reflection of what one does in the world – a reflection of their job, title, and vocation. But purpose goes far beyond a profession. The truth is, our purpose is a soul print. A life with a deep understanding of purpose is a life lived in flow.
When I get asked about who I am or what I do, I say that I am a father. Because when I get present to my sons, to my love for them, then I just expand. And I get so full of love for them that I want to deliver that love to everyone I meet. The depth to which I love my children is the only reminder I need as to why I am here, to what my purpose is. So then I am in the flow state delivering and acting on love in every area of my life.
What about you? Do you have people in your life that get you present to love? Is it your children? For some people, it could be their partners, colleagues, friends, parents, cousins, or pets. Who are you? What is your soul print?
Tag someone that you love today!
The Eyes of God – A Poem
As a gift sung by an angel on my shoulder,
For our sons and daughters that they should not forget:
The eye’s of God do not see edges.
Despite what many different things in religious texts
or what other books might say.
The very eyes of God do not see edges.
There are not ends of the pages,
there are not periods at the ends of the sentence.
Songs don’t end in the essence of heaven
in the essence of God, notes string into one another.
That many times as it concerns the essence of humanity
individuals are simply trying to complete the work –
to finish the book –
to get it right.
The eyes of God hold a much softer vision then most would talk about.
There are many many different books of love yet to be written.
The love is increasing itself and the fear is transforming itself.
The more and more individuals write the books about love
and they procrastinate about writing the books about fear –
the more the books about fear won’t ever need to be printed.
They won’t need to be.
It is up to us to dissolve our own edges.
We have created a false standard for ourselves,
one that is based on our interpretation of the divine that judges –
rather than a divine that simply loves.
It is here we see conflict in all forms and at every level.
It is within the sudden drive to discover the edge
and fight to attain it
rather than the breath of the song
and the composure of the very note which we utter in our hearts.
Our very essence strives to surrender but our mind and our ego protects us by re-creating one edge after another.
It is re-created because we understand our love for ourselves to be protective rather than the love for each other which can only exist in pure acceptance.
We must all listen to the notes floating around us, waiting to be heard.
For the sake of all the love yet to be written, I beg you,
find your own path to assemble your own notes
with your own song
and share it in your own breath,
with your own kiss,
inside your own wonderment.
And I beg you,
to always remind me, to do the same.
Share your thoughts on this poem in the caption! I would love to hear what you think and feel from these words ❤️
The funny thing is, it feels good for us to go into contraction. Otherwise, we wouldn’t do it all so often or come back to it so easily. Intriguing, right? When we are triggered by a circumstance or situation, it is more work to look for an expansiveness so that we actually can approach whatever lies right in front of us from a new, expanded point of view.
When we get aware that the easy way is to go into contraction, this awareness might help us realize we’re just doing something that feels right to do, but isn’t. And it doesn’t get us further. It's common in our society that we think we can solve issues from a contracted state, but we actually can’t. Not to our highest good, and the highest good of everyone involved.
So why do we seek expansion? To find a better, more flowing, and more aligned way.
To deal with what they throw at us in this moment of life, we train our physiology and brains to find actual new methods and creative ways of solving what we have to face. It is an ongoing process in life, and we’re able to direct the course of it at any time.
How does this resonate today? Share with me in the comments below!
Follow my breath as you would follow a stream through the mountain trails. I will take you to the moment you have always desired, and show you how to surrender into a feeling that will bring you all the love you search for. (Excerpt from a poem)
Everything you seek is already inside yourself. We each have Divinity inside. And we each have our own unique soul expression to share and gift to give the world. But turning within is a beautiful journey in and of itself, without a specific goal or destination in mind.
Yes, it is lovely to get outside and explore nature. But what about the nature of the Self? Sit for a moment. Five minutes will do. Then, surrender to the breath, following it inside. There you will discover a sense of wonder and peace as if you were looking at the grandest waterfall or most pristine mountain trail.
Consider turning within today. Consider discovering the wonder and possibility inside.
The heart is considered the domain of love for a reason. It is a naturally soft and vulnerable place inside our chest, in a state of natural surrender at all times. But, it is our brain that resists and fights for control and separation to keep ourselves "safe."
Our brains can go into fight or flight, and it is the brain that sends the signals to our hands to grab on to something, like a spear. This is an essential evolutionary function that kept us from being eaten by saber tooth tigers and is still a necessary part of our survival, but one that must be managed. Can we evolve into dropping the defenses and working our reactions to create more love, peace, and harmony in the world?
When we settle in, even for a moment, we can connect to our heart space. We can hear the heart's still, small voice saying, "All is well. Relax. Surrender. Breathe. Trust." At those moments, our brains and hearts may be flooded with oxytocin, commonly referred to as the "love" or "social bonding" hormone, according to the Heartmath Institute.
Then, like a lotus flower, both the brain and the heart can blossom and come into coherence. We can surrender and, in so doing, make higher choices for ourselves and for others from a place of love and compassion.
Share this with a loved one today!
If we acknowledge that this is just the way it works, there are some people that start to understand, “Oh, this is the way it works. How can I be more aware of how I create my reality?” And when we're on that path, there's no end to that path. It keeps going and going.
If you ever meet somebody that claims to have figured it out, be careful. There are people in the spiritual world who have judgment around what they do versus what other people do. They might tell you that they have figured it out, or know how it goes, sometimes by claiming to be more aware than other people. What I'm trying to point out is that there's always more to become and more to become aware of.
Once we have any type of judgment in where we are versus where somebody else is, we're actually getting more separation from the very thing that we want to attain.
Share with me in the comments how this resonates, and share with someone who could benefit from this message today!
Becoming so aware of who we each are, understanding what triggers us, what makes us feel a certain way, and then understanding what the tools are that will allow us to shift that feeling in our body is a lifelong conversation.
To make choices with intention that move us to accomplish our wildest dreams needs for us to become so aware and accountable to how we’re feeling. Because that's how big dreams get accomplished. That's how you start a company. That's how you build a community. And that's what true leadership is. That's where true leadership comes from. That's how you're successful in any area of your life. Whether it be as a scientist, as an artist, or as a business person. It doesn't matter. It's all coming from the same place.❤️
I often forget to allow my inner child to play unabashedly.
It’s funny, the times I allow my inner child to show up often deal with my fear around something. Those are exactly the wrong times. Those are the times I want my mature self to let my inner child know that he is safe. I want my inner child to just play and remind me how fun life can be.
Tag someone that would want to be reminded of this. How do you let your inner child come out? 🤪👩🎤🧑🎤👧👦
We're all going to forget that we create each moment of each moment in our lives. I teach this and I forget it all the time. And by the way, that's why I love teaching. Because when I remind you, I'm simply reminding myself.
So when we forget and we go into something that is from the past rather than the present moment — we might go into fear, then go into contraction, and create that next moment from that fear, from that contraction. That's okay. You know why? Because now there's a new present moment and we can change it then. And if we forget, we can change it the next moment, and the next moment. There's always a moment for us to make a different choice.
But we have to remember it's a choice that we get to make. If we don't remember it's a choice, then we're a victim to the moment instead of in control of the moment.
Share in the comments below if this resonates.
