Living in Integrity: A Personal Life Lesson
When we know, but don’t know that we know.
Hello friends!
This week I’d like to invite you to consider your purpose. I’m not talking about who you are or what you do for a living, but how you operate in life. How you do whatever you choose to do in life
Read on with me…
~Suzanne
I knew from a young age I was meant to be a teacher. I didn’t really consider being a school teacher in a classroom, but a teacher of some sort. From the time I was in high school tutoring elementary students, teaching just felt comfortable to me.
Over the years, I’ve studied a variety of subjects including energy work, herbal remedies, tai chi and qi gong, and most recently human design. Mostly this was for my own curiosity or improvement, but after learning to a certain level, I also felt called to teach these same skills, and so I did. I became certified in each of these areas as well as coaching in order to become more competent as a teacher.
But, not one of these callings was my purpose. Being a tai chi and qi gong instructor was not my calling. Nor was teaching herbal remedies nor giving reiki attunements to energy healing students.
When I began studying Human Design, rather than studying a subject or skill, I soon realized I was studying myself. I wasn’t just learning about the chart and the open and defined centers or the gates and channels, I was learning about how I fit into a much bigger picture.
My purpose isn’t to teach other people skills I’ve learned, but to teach myself how to love myself enough to be an example for others to love themselves.
At first I thought I was looking to find my purpose (or, more accurately, confirm what I knew to be my purpose - teaching- and how that was supposed to play out in my life). It wasn’t until just recently when I delved into Quantum Human Design that the realization hit. My purpose isn’t to teach other people skills I’ve learned, but to teach myself how to love myself enough to be an example for others to love themselves.
When that realization hit, I knew in my gut and in my heart it was true.
All of the classes taught, the books and blogs written… it was all to help others get in touch with and find themselves so they could learn how they fit into this big crazy puzzle.
For much of my life, I’ve tried to better myself, hence all the self-improvement courses and career moves. I needed to become better because, in whatever context, I wasn’t good enough. I wasn’t pretty enough or smart enough. I didn’t have the right “drive” to succeed or the right circumstances to find my purpose, let alone live it.
When we accept and love who we are and what we are, whatever path we choose will be the right one.
My “purpose” was (is) to learn to love myself, appreciate my strengths, recognize my challenges, and show others how to do that as well. It’s not a skill so much as a mindset or state of being, an acceptance. When we accept and love who we are and what we are, whatever path we choose will be the right one because we will choose it from a place of authenticity. When we take off the masks of who are “supposed to be” and live “as we are”, we begin living in integrity with ourselves. We also learn how we operate in the big picture. After all, personal development isn’t about who or what you are, but how you operate at your highest frequency.
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