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7 Ways to Know “Who Am I?”
Adapted from Life After Death, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2006).
Here are seven ways to help you define who you are.
1. What is your story?
Your story is more than just a list of the events in your life. It is about your self-image, how you see yourself, what shaped your mind, which memories imprinted themselves on you. Taken altogether, your story tells you where you are in the cycle of life.
2. What are your expectations?
Expectations are seeds. Once planted, they manifest into those things we gain from life, or lose. When you become aware of your own expectations, you discover the unspoken limits you have set on yourself. There is a huge difference between those who expect great things and those who don’t.
3. What is your purpose?
This is the meaning you are trying to find. Purpose runs deeper than the superficial things we hope to get, which mostly center on money, possessions, status, and comfort. If you know your purpose, you know the deeper project to which your life is dedicated.
4. What is your destination?
This is about fulfillment. Human goals are endless; they unfold, not like a road that has an end but like a river that flows to join the sea, merging with ever larger possibilities. If you know your destination, you can envision your highest fulfillment.
5. What is your path?
Having identified your purpose and your destination, there must be a way to get there. “Path” has been adopted as a spiritual term, but in fact everyone, spiritual or not, follows certain ways to get where they want to go.
6. Who are your adversaries?
Forward motion is never without obstacles. On your path you will find yourself blocked. At times the adversary is external, but if you examine yourself deeply, you will find it is always internal as well.
7. Who are your allies?
We all bring others with us on our journey. Just as your adversaries did, you may identify these allies as external, but they only reflect your own inner strength, just as an opponent reflects your inner vulnerability.
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add your comment »One way of looking at it. We need something to do daily, to keep us busy. What there is to do. Then there is your purpose in life. Something that really inspires you. It could your job (artist, teacher, writer, or it could be something separate. Your volunteer job. Also it could be just working on who you be everyday. Who we be energetically can be our biggest gift to the world.
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At any time we can decide who we are, who we are not or who we want to be. At any time we can change the script of our life using these 7 points. Who we are right now is a direct result of what we have done in the past. Who we would like to be can start right now. Rewrite the script and change your life. Blessings all. www.GrassdancerEssences.com - Healing Energy from Nature
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Maybe I am too content, I don't care to know who I am, I go with the flow and don't worry!
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I work hard to focus on the positives, the light, the uplifting. I work hard to ignore the negatives, the dark, that which pulls you down. When I am not working so hard I am filled with joy and gratitude, just being in the moment. How difficult it has been to get to such simplicity. How rich to reach, stretch and also breathe in the now, breathe out the then.
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Yes. I go along with what you say also. To focus on the here and now as Lynne said is so true, and I see that much more now after losing a 20yr old in our family last year to cancer. Live for today and savour every moment, but, it is still good to have a path to follow because without one I find I tend to drift too much. So I need a path to follow, something to set my sights on, something to aim for to bring more purpose to my life. So this year I'm sorting myself out and 'going for it' just as my young nephew did. He made the most of his life doing what he loved. He followed his path.
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I agree with these 7 signs, but would like to add that right now, I am living, yesterday is history, tomorrow will come, to constantly plan and look ahead, we lose the love of living, the joy the wonderment. Of course we need paths to inspire to, but along the way, experience "being alive"
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I agree with these 7 signs, but would like to add that right now, I am living, yesterday is history, tomorrow will come, to constantly plan and look ahead, we lose the love of living, the joy the wonderment. Of course we need paths to inspire to, but along the way, experience "being alive"
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As a shaman, I heal at the level of story--where does it not serve you? Yet as a journeyer on the path, ultimately the greatest healing is in dropping the story, and finding the STORY out there, wanting to live through your life. You, only better. So I also add, what level of the story are you (am I) playing at? Hugs to All, Robin www.BeWhoYouAre.com
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Thank you Deepak, this is so true in every aspect of your simplified explanation.
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