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Finding my way home

The way out is inward

By Karen DoonanPublished 4 years ago 5 min read

We are heavily conditioned to follow a path that the generations before us have walked and we are told that if we just "try harder" we will successfully navigate this path. But what happens if we find out that the path that has been walked for successive generations is one that is not for us? What do we do when we discover that the generations before us simply walked a well trodden path because it was there already?

We can do one of two things when this is revealed to us, we can attempt to walk in the footsteps of those who went before us or we can step off the path. The latter is what we are asked to do at this time in our human life experience. I have experienced a lot of things that those around me especially family simply do not understand because they have chosen to remain on the well trodden path. Many experiences are to levels that defy the "rules" that the well trodden path demands.

I grew up in a town in the North of Scotland and followed these rules always aware that at some point there was a different calling. I could hear it faintly, softly calling to me, but the well trodden path that generations have walked is loud, it is often deafening and it seeks to have itself heard and validated by those who defend it.

We are entering a time within the human life experience where we are called to our life purpose and many are finding that the path they have walked no longer resonates with them. They find that trying to follow in the footsteps of the generations before them simply has them walking in circles, the frustration that this creates is intense and leads to a sense of "failure" that in TRUTH is simply a calling to a different path.

I found my path upon the death of my mother. I had by that point in my life already lost my father when I was a young teen. That was the first time I heard the whisper of that other path. The whispering got louder as I attempted to follow the footsteps of the generations before me. So I tried, I got educated, I settled down and I had a family, all the while feeling at odds with what I was walking and understanding that there was an alternative.

It is grief that directs the footsteps on the path well trodden. We can see this in the waking world repeatedly, parents who have not lived up to the standards placed upon them by their parents pass on the baton to their own children and these children then attempt to do what the previous generation simply could not do. This is the repetition that humanity are stuck within and from which many are now waking up from. If there is one thing that I can testify to it is following the deep heart space, for the answer to our question lie deep within our heart, not within our human mind.

The death of my remaining parent spurred me on to find out more about health and healing. I began to study alternative therapies and to understand how the human physical vessel is affected by emotional distress. It helped me understand how we can become our own worst enemies, trying to fit into shoes that are not ours, trying to walk on paths that do not resonate with us and trying to fulfil that which is not ours to fulfil.

It was not however until I walked beyond the edges of where the generations before me ever walked that the light began to shine on a path that was always there, I simply could not see it because of the tears that I held in my own eyes. In this our human physical form we are blinded by the separation and trauma that we often endure in said physical form. Always the path that I have walked has seen me open doors that have led to deeper and more intense understanding and always at a physical level. If it not our path then it cannot validate itself to us no matter what we try to tell ourselves.

I have walked where many fear to tread and always in the deep heart space. I have had those who were called to the healing of the generations cross my path repeatedly, the stories always the same, the expectations always the same and the need to resolve the internal conflict this creates rising within them.

I have seen the patterns that grief makes within the human physical vessel and I have helped many to not only see the patterns but dissolve them. The ingredient we need for this walk is LOVE, it is always LOVE. Not the slushy kind that the movies try to have us accept but an intense LOVE born from the deep heart space. To see a mother healing her grief over the loss of a child not born alive, a parent rejoicing at the birth of a child that was longed for but could not be reached due to intense levels of grief already held. Many and varied are those who have crossed the path that I walk and always the same message is given to me " we lose nothing but the pain when we accept the LOVE that is available to all of us through our deep heart space".

Miracles are that which remains unseen to those who hold on to the well worn pathways believing that if they simply keep walking blindly along them that something will change. We are asked at this time in human evolution to accept vast changes and it is within these changes that we find who we are. We are called to who we are by our deep heart space, if we answer that call then we are gifted the miracles that those around us deny.

I can testify to this repeatedly for I have been blessed to walk with those who simply needed to turn off the well trodden path they were placed upon when they entered this realm. It is now time to change our perception of who we are by surrendering to TRUTH and in doing so accepting that we came here to walk the hidden path, the path that we require to walk to heal the generations before us in order that the circular motion of this human life experience is dissolved fully.

It is in the still silence of our heart that we find that which we are looking for, the external world will try to have you go looking for it externally but the key is always within us. We were born at this time to effect change, said change begins within us, it is from this that all begins to shift and alter, the key to the door that we need to unlock is within us.

When you ask a question of your life how do you answer it in order to change it? the answer is always LOVE, when you answer your questions with LOVE then LOVE shows up, always.

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