
For most of us working sucks which I think is why work is a four letter word. Have you ever really thought about why you work and what role it plays in your life? Most of us work because we think we have to, to pay the bills or really to survive. We might have a job that we can’t stand or we might even have a job that we like or no job but when whatever we do becomes work it takes on a quality of struggle. If we work for ourselves doing what we love often it becomes work when we struggle to make ends meet. Our society is built on work and struggle, the idea that you have to sacrifice much of who you are to survive. Right behind the struggle is lack, the belief/feeling that we are incomplete or lacking something that we must seek externally whether it is money, love or fulfillment.
This mentality is conditioned into us right from the beginning. Children are taught about the different kinds of jobs in society, especially the most accepted ones and they begin to be groomed and educated to fit one of these ready made roles (policeman, fireman, lawyer, doctor, bus driver not to mention husband, wife, lover and friend). They are also taught the importance of money and what is necessary to get it. One’s education gets more and more specialized into the career path they have chosen as they get older and progress through the educational system. When you finally emerge from the educational system you go out and look for a job, basically a role that you have been properly prepared to fill. If you don’t find a job well you are in trouble because you won’t be able to make it unless you have wealthy parents or a partner to support you. This produces a constant underlying fear regarding survival, if we cease to find what we think we need “out there” our very survival is threatened. This is especially exaggerated in tough economic times like these.
This way of life urgently needs to change and that is exactly what I’m seeing because people are stopping and questioning whether all this struggle, pain and fear are really necessary. They are asking the question, is there another way, can I be prosperous and successful without sacrificing my truth and passion? These questions open up the possibility for change and create cracks in the established paradigm. I encourage everyone I work with to question their beliefs on work and prosperity and look at where those beliefs came from and whether they are serving and ultimately necessary.
What if there was another way? What if we could shed the concept of work and the process of struggling to survive? What if we no longer needed to participate in the limiting roles that society prescribes for us, not needing them any longer to define our identity? That is all quite possible and what many people are waking up to right now. To do this requires a bold step, it requires courage and it requires faith. It involves turning your perspective around 180 degrees and starting from within.
Do you experience yourself as a whole complete person just as you are? If not this is where lack begins, if you are incomplete within, you will always be struggling to find what you need “out there”. However if you sit down right now and allow yourself to be fully present you may just find that in this moment there is a sense of completeness right under the surface. This completeness is life itself, your deepest self, your true nature and it is lacking nothing because it contains limitless potential.
Through a regular practice of getting in touch with this deeper part of yourself whether through meditation or some other means you can create an entirely different life. A life that begins right now lacking nothing where there is no need for struggle. From this place passion flows freely and we can get in touch with what we are here to do, our life’s work or purpose. There is nothing to figure out or be confused about because at this level there is clarity if we can still the noisy mind and allow that clarity to emerge. Living from this place requires faith however because this clarity only exists in the moment and cannot be used to create security in the future. Security comes from following this inner clarity right now and trusting that if we continue to do that everything will be just as it needs to be. Living from this place also requires great courage and commitment because following our heart requires us to look at our conditioned beliefs and patterns of lack and face the fear and pain of challenging them.
When we begin to live from the heart life becomes less about struggle and more about flow. Less about needing to know the future and more about fully knowing and engaging right now. Pursuing our passion allows us to be fulfilled and living in a way that is congruent at all levels and so we are as effective and successful as we can possibility be putting our natural inclinations and talents to full use. This is an awakened life and it is our birthright, we just need to take that bold step and follow our heart path.







