Finding your true life purpose is the key to deep fulfilment, authenticity, and spiritual embodiment. It’s not simply about setting goals or pursuing a passion, but about aligning with the deeper essence of your true self, which is absolutely required for effective self-actualisation. By aligning with your true self, you can uncover your highest potential and spiritual lessons, both of which are integral to your true life purpose.
Living your true life purpose is about coming off autopilot, expressing who you truly are, and finding deeper meaning and growth through this. Once you align with your true purpose, distractions lose their appeal, and settling for superficial living becomes unthinkable. We are all here for a deeper spiritual reason, and as we awaken to it and respond to its call, we heal, grow, and shine our light—helping transform the world in the process.
In this post, which is a companion to my post Finding Your True Self, I’ll guide you through the process of discovering and embodying your true life purpose.
What is Your True Life Purpose?
Your true life purpose is the unique way your true self seeks to unfold in the world. It’s not something you create arbitrarily, nor is it confined to a career path. It’s probably not what your parents expected of you, and it certainly shouldn’t be a distraction from boredom. Your true life purpose is an inner truth and calling to be realised and embodied.
As you deepen your connection with your true self, your purpose reveals itself naturally, allowing your unique gifts, capacities, and inner calling to find expression. It also involves mastering life lessons, leading to spiritual growth as you heal and transform, aligning your personality more fully with your true self.
Many people resist exploring their true life purpose because it demands transformation and stepping beyond the familiar. Society, too, tends to prioritise conformity over authenticity, making it easy to lose sight of your deeper calling. However, once you realise and embrace it, living your purpose becomes effortless—it’s the natural state where being and doing are in harmony. Your true light will shine out and become a blessing to this world. Your actions, rooted in the spiritual values of your true self, will be acts of service because your true self is connected to all of life.
Discovering and living your true life purpose is like placing all the jigsaw pieces of your life together and coming home—it brings a deep sense of wholeness and integration, not only within yourself, but also in your relationship with life itself. Why? Because your true spiritual self is inherently connected with all things, and expressing its values naturally honours your connection with all life.
How to Find Your True Life Purpose
1. Reconnect with Your True Self
Your true life purpose is an extension of your true self, so finding this purpose begins with finding your true self. If you don’t know who you are, how can you know why you’re here? Start by deepening your self-awareness. Read my post Finding Your True Self to understand this essential foundation step and practise aligning with your true self. As you align with your true self through regular practice and mindful attention, your true life purpose will gradually reveal itself and naturally unfold as you start honouring your authentic needs and values.
2. Follow Your Elevated States and Inner Calling
Deep joy and passion, combined with feeling deeply aligned, energised, alive, and at peace are powerful indicators of living your true life purpose. I call them elevated states. You naturally experience them when you align with and embody your true self. Pay attention to these moments and explore how to deepen them.
For example, if you experience these states while caring for animals, this will indicate that caring for animals may be part of your true life purpose, and that you have a gift in this area to be developed.
The sense of an unstoppable inner calling that fires up your joy and passion and gives you chills is an indicator of your true life purpose and can show that you’ve already established a channel of communication with your true self. Develop the communication with your true self further with self-inquiry and meditation.
3. Identify Your Authentic Values
Your true life purpose is rooted in your authentic values. As you build a closer relationship with your true self and a commitment to authenticity, you’ll start to become more aware of these authentic values. They are the values of your true self.
One way to elicit these authentic values is to connect with your true self and write down the things you feel are most important for being authentic and aligned with your true self. Draw up a list of values from these and reflect on how they can be expressed in your daily life. This process will guide your setting of goals for living your true life purpose.
For example, if wisdom is one of your authentic values, consider how you can embody or share it—through writing, teaching, guiding, helping, or leading. If peace is another authentic value, how can your wisdom be used to create or sustain peace? Experiment with this until you feel a strong sense of alignment through the blending of your authentic values.
Examples of authentic values include:
- Wisdom
- Compassion
- Wholeness
- Peace
- Love
- Healing
- Communication
- Truth
- Creativity
- Empowerment
- Transformation
- Community
- Freedom
- Beauty
- Joy
- Harmony
- Spirituality
- Leadership
- Support
- Health
- Wellbeing
Living your True Life Purpose
1. Set Authentic Life Goals
Your true life purpose unfolds through conscious intention and aligned action. Create a list or vision board of things that embody your authentic values and your sense of your true life purpose. These will become your authentic life goals. List or represent them in order of how strongly and deeply they inspire you and connect you with your true self. At this stage, don’t worry about the exact form of the goals on your list—they may even be idealistic at first, but that is normal as you have not yet explored the multiplicity of their expressions through practical experience. You can modify them over time. The finer details of your true life purpose will emerge through the combination of self-inquiry and the feedback of practical experience.
Initially, it’s important to be clear but not too specific in the setting of your goals so you don’t limit the opportunities for the universe to respond to your intentions. With clear intentions, and through more and more feedback and experience, you’ll gradually get more detail of how your true life purpose can unfold, and then your goals can be refined and become more specific. Practise mindfulness to help keep the distortions and reactivity of the ego at bay—fears, playing small, and other illusions have no place in actualising the magnificence of your true self.
Once you have your authentic goals listed, break them down into smaller, actionable steps with a timeline. Each step should have a clear outcome to track your progress.
2. Take Aligned Action
Take aligned action to implement the steps to completing your authentic goals and fulfilling your true life purpose, and support yourself with a strategy that guides and empowers you. In particular, be ready to clear sabotaging patterns and overcome apathy and action paralysis. Engage in activities that allow you to embody your purpose. Volunteer, take a course, start a project—immerse yourself in experiences that resonate with your true self and help you complete your authentic goals.
Trust the unfolding process. Think big and allow the world to respond to your intentions and actions, refining your understanding of your true life purpose through real-life feedback. Continue building the connection with your true self in meditation to receive ongoing inner guidance and confirmation. If setbacks arise, stay in your light and don’t lose heart as you’re simply refining your journey.
3. Embody your True Life Purpose through Presence
Living your true life purpose isn’t just about what you do—it’s about how you are. It’s an ongoing process of embodiment, of being fully present in your actions and expressing your authenticity in each moment. When you are truly aligned, your presence alone becomes an offering to the world.
Mindfulness and spiritual embodiment will support this process. Your mission is to work with your true self to ground your spiritual light into form. To deepen the spiritual practice, check out my post on activating your light body.
Supporting you to Find and Live your True Life Purpose
If you’re ready to explore this journey more deeply or want support in overcoming challenges around your true life purpose, book a personalised Guidance Call with me. Together, we’ll uncover and clarify your purpose, creating a clear path forward with the empowerment you need.
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