Your Life Purpose: Four Things You Need To Know

One of the most intriguing topics on the spiritual path for me has always been life purposes. To think, this purpose encapsulates your whole reason for being here. Yet, many people do not understand the broad and complex meaning of their life purpose or how we are meant to realize them.

From years of doing intuitive readings, I have not only learned a great deal about life purposes, but I have also how we are live them. This is what I have learned, in a nutshell.

Before you were born, you chose a few goals for this lifetime; These were based on what you have learned in previous lifetimes as well as what you wanted to learn in this life. Combined these make up your life purpose and life lessons. Your life purpose is your main goal and the life lessons are supporting goals to that main goal.

We all have free will, none of us has to stick to the goals we hold on a soul level for this lifetime. Although we will be drawn to them, have people come in to help us with them and other things that lead us in that general direction. Due to our free will we still have to make the choices that lead to us either realizing or not realizing our life purpose.

1. You grow into your life purpose

In the beginning, you may not resonate with your life purpose much. It is something that you are meant to explore, to familiarize yourself with over time. The more you align with your purpose the more it will resonate.

I like to use the example of college or university. When you start your studies, you have a degree in mind, this is like the life purpose. It takes time to learn, you take classes (lessons) and slowly amass enough information to earn your degree. A life purpose is the same, over a lifetime you gather the information through experiences, learning lessons, and hopefully reflecting on all of this, and “graduate” with your life purpose realized.

2. You have your whole life to realize your life purpose

Your life purpose is meant to last your entire life this is why you must grow into it. You cannot expect to get it all down when you are twenty or 30 years old. There is no time limit set for your soul goals in this lifetime.

Not only this but you can experience different parts of your life purpose at different times in your life. If you have the purpose of creativity you may try different fields within the umbrella of creativity at different times of your life. Like being in a band in your twenties and a writer in your forties. Same creativity tree (life purpose), different branches.

3. You are being redirected when you go off course

Naturally, it is important to your soul that you accomplish the goals set out for this lifetime. There is wiggle room with free will and you are meant to learn at your own pace and that might mean taking some detours. There will be help if you stray too far off from the intended course.

Some of that help will be internal, you will feel a nagging sense that you are meant to be doing something else. Additionally, you are attracting experiences to help you align with your life purpose.

4. Your life purpose is not your career

I get asked that question lot, your career should be a part of your life purpose, it is a big part of your life, but it isn't the only part. Your life purpose is meant to be something that touches every area of your life, every day. It shapes your family, love, health, and career, all areas of life.

Examples of Life Purposes

What do you think your life purpose might be? It usually isn’t just one word, when I tap into someone's life purpose I get a title more than a single word. Like Healer of the Light, or Investigator of Truth. The main word is a good start, and it's easier to get a sense of.

I have come across a lot of life purposes in my work, here are five examples. If they resonate one of them might be your life purpose, or it could be one of your life lessons.

Investigator

This purpose is about finding the truth and asking questions. People with this purpose will go about it either by naturally being very inquisitive and curious or they may have to develop the skill over time. Either way, the purpose is about gaining understanding and helping others to do the same.

Sometimes this purpose has a very spiritual element to it, the purpose is to help others find their higher truth to connect with their higher consciousness. This can be a very powerful purpose if used in that way. In any way this purpose is practiced it can uncover a lot and shed light on many things.

Protector

This purpose is about making sure that those people in your life you care for are looked after. In a larger sense, it can mean to protect groups whether it’s animals, children, the environment. Any group that is underprivileged or doesn’t have a voice. Protectors can sometimes be called to protect certain truths or teachings and can have a very esoteric quality to them as a result.

Creativity

This purpose asks you to explore your abilities at great lengths. To know what you are capable of and to learn your skills and follow your passion. This purpose almost always asks you to turn it around and help others to find their creativity. It is a purpose that asks you to share your creativity with the world. Or at least with those that you feel led to.

Way-shower

This purpose has to do with leadership, showing people the way either by example or by teaching. It often has a spiritual bent to it where the purpose is about showing the path and sometimes clearing the path. Many teachers, counselors, readers, life coaches, writers, and speakers have this life purpose.

Healer

This purpose is about tapping into higher consciousness to uplift others through the process of healing. It can be did done in traditional or alternative methods. It does not have to necessarily be physical or hands-on. Healing can be emotional or spiritual. Healers will often give too much of themselves so it’s important for anyone with this life purpose to remember to balance out their own needs with the needs of others.