I recently got an interesting question from one of my students: “In these transformational times, I am wondering what is the purpose of my life?”
This is a really big question, lighting up doorways your soul is encouraging you to walk through. Typically when I am asked this question the person wants to know what “career” they should be doing because so often in the West we reduce the purpose of our life to a job.
What happens if you drop the “my”? What is the purpose of life? Powerful. You shift the entire cosmic position. Show me what I am capable of understanding and allow me to serve where I am. What kind of guidance would you receive if you ask the question this way? Everything in your life becomes sacred. I believe the purpose of life is to love and that love manifests through acts of service and it is in the service of others that we experience personal transformation.
What is personal transformation? Everything I have learned about personal transformation began as I started my Feng Shui practice because I began to learn the story of us through each class I taught and home and office I Feng Shui. Personal transformation is about what is awakening within you. It’s a whole new part of you coming up for air.
Changing your relationship to personal transformation means awakening to some other way of being. Not simply doing things differently, but becoming a different person, both more aware and more alert in life. Such an individual transformation doesn’t just happen; an immersion of sorts is required, like Covid19 and the shutting down of the entire world, as well as a genuine reflection that allows the possibility of the transformation to rise to the surface. It takes courage to surrender to change — entering the caterpillar’s chrysalis is terrifying as hell, and it’s claustrophobic. Along the same lines, when a phoenix dies and bursts into flames, revealing a new, young phoenix, it’s not being healed — it’s dying. A new phoenix is taking its place. You must be willing to surrender and die in order to be reborn and transformed.
The college professor in me wants to bring up another time that was globally transformational and that was the Axial Age over 2500 years ago, which was fundamentally transformative, creative, and one of the most ingenious stages in human history. Most of the inhabited world experienced the shaping of great intellectual, philosophical, and religious systems. Culture emerged with the ancient Greek philosophers, and great traditions like Hinduism, Buddhism, and Persian Zoroastrianism, which is arguably a precursor to Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. This was a revolution and a monumental transformational time in human thought. And I strongly believe that we are on the verge of another colossal transformational time right now.
Our world seems to be car-off-cliff-style crazy, but I am just so grateful that all of us are going through these transformational times together.
Transformation moments happen in the blink of an eye. Changing your relationship to transformation means awakening to some other way of being. Not just doing things differently.
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2. Use your front door. The front door is critical in feng shui because it is the main portal through which the energy enters your home. Make sure the area is free of clutter, well lit and most of all make sure you use it every day.
3. Balance the five elements. The five elements, earth, wood, fire, water, and metal can be present in your home either physically, symbolically in the shape, or the color. Look closely at the literal and symbolic ways the five elements show up in your home. An imbalance of the elements can mean an imbalance in your emotions. Strike a balance between all five in each room.
5. Surround yourself with gratitude. Count your blessings each day. Remembering the hard times you have survived will help you realize how far you have come. Establish a daily practice of reminding yourself of the gifts, grace, benefits, and good things you enjoy. Your environment influences your experience so make it a grateful one.
Clear out unused toys and items. Before the tree and new gifts are given, take time to go through each room and clear out old, broken, and unused items.