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POSITIVE POSSIBILITIES
POSITIVE POSSIBILITIES
SAY YES
To Your Highest Purpose
“The goal in life is God realization. Strive for That!”
Amma also reminds us
that the most valuable asset we have is time, which
we too often squander.
Keeping focused on the
purpose of our life is paramount, especially as we
move through our day
and encounter seemingly
small things that become
large obstacles and that
take us off path.
The
wonderful
thing
about free will is when we
say yes to our highest purpose, we give life to our
deepest joy. In so doing,
life unfolds with gracefilled support that we otherwise would not have
seen – or even thought
possible. We feel more energized. We want to get
up in the morning and engage with life. We feel enthusiastic and have more
patience for even the
smaller, seemingly mundane things, because we
see them as a part of the
greater whole.
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hen we think of achieving, we may quickly visualize something outside ourselves that
we need to get to make us happy. But this perspective leads us swiftly to unhappiness, as we work endlessly towards an often elusive goal. We may meet our goals and feel
happy for sometime. Then an event takes places that shatters our source of happiness, and
once again, we are left listless and unfulfilled. To live this way would be to feel like a hamster
running along its wheel, never making progress or getting anywhere.
When we wish to make changes in our life and reach certain goals, it is important to build
mindful effort upon the understanding of what happiness is. If we see happiness as an
event, a person or an achievement that is external to us, we live our lives missing the joys of
the moment in exchange for the hope for joy in a distant future.
My spiritual teacher, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, lovingly known as Amma or the Hugging Saint, reminds us of the true purpose of our lives and what we can achieve. She says,
The
deeper
blessing
about following our joy
and saying “yes!” to our
highest purpose is that we
feel great, and everyone,
everywhere wins. We are
all connected. By choosing to follow our true joy,
we partake in a total shift
in the energy patterns of
which we are a part. We
create ripples in the fabric
of life, and start a wave
towards the positive possibilities of being.
As you learn to say “yes!”
to your highest purpose,
you become more discerning and focused.
Since you want to spend
time on the things you
love, you can quickly
make decisions as to
how you best spend your
time. You see that the
person with whom you
could potentially get entangled on the phone for
hours is not where you are
meant to be, so you politely bow out. You know
that their needs will be
better helped by someone else, and you don’t
get wrapped up in guilt
or scarcity thinking. You
know that getting entangled in situations that
make you less than you
are and pull you off path,
are a lose-lose dynamic.
They would be like jumping into deep water to
save a drowning person.
When you stay on path
and keep focused on
your goal, you stand on
solid ground. In this way,
you can be of far greater service to yourself and
to others. From that solid
footing, you can extend a
helping hand to those in
need from a place of relaxed and confident joy.
As you go about your life,
get clear about your goal
and choose to spend
your time wisely. Say
“Yes!” to your highest purpose to realize the divine
in this moment. When you
bring your fullest self into
the now and free your
self from limiting beliefs
and hindering habits, you
embody deepest joy and
inspire others to do the
same.
For more on how to live
your highest purpose,
please enjoy my meditation The Goal of Life is
God Realization on page
22 of this issue.
Parvati Devi is the editor-in-chief of Parvati Magazine. In addition to
being an internationally acclaimed Canadian singer, songwriter, producer
and performer, she is a yoga teacher and holistic educator. Having
studied yoga and meditation since 1987, Parvati developed her own
yoga teaching style called YEMTM Yoga as Energy Medicine. Her music
brings forward a conscious energy into the pop mainstream. Her book
“Confessions of a Former Yoga Junkie” is a road map to a revolutionary life
makeover for sincere spiritual seekers.
For more information on Parvati, please visit www.parvati.tv.