by Dr Rachel Hall, Holistic Dentist, Kenmore, Australia
I’ve been working on being more gentle and nurturing towards myself, taking life slower and being kinder with my self talk and actions for some years now.
When I first began to be more in tune with me and my body I recognised that I had a continuous underlying nervous tension and anxiety running like an undercurrent in my body. When I contemplated and felt into this anxiety I realised I had spent most of my life from being a teenager (and possibly even younger) in a state of angst, wondering what on earth I was here for, what was the purpose to life and more deeply and importantly, what was MY purpose.
By the age of 34 the need to find MY purpose became all consuming. I found myself almost constantly questioning – “what’s my purpose, what is it that I am here to do, what’s my calling?” “Is this all there is – eat, sleep, work and repeat ad infinitum?” Surely there had to be more.
As 35 approached my need to find my purpose, my calling, intensified; what was the part I was to play in the grand scheme of life? I searched in vain and almost quit my profession so I could try something new – healer, teacher, counsellor, coach?
But this is where the problem lies. When we consider our purpose to be something external, we may never find it. When we attach purpose to a goal, activity or a vocation, we are likely setting ourselves up for failure or disappointment.
And this is exactly what I believed until 9 years ago when I started to apply the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom (via Universal Medicine) to my life.
Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.
That’s IT!
Of course you can have passion for life and the things that you do. But they are just that, things you enjoy doing. They are essential to the quality of your life, but not to your inner quality.
Purpose does not hinge on your getting that job, a pay rise, meeting the right partner, having kids or not, being liked or having loads of friends on Facebook. Purpose is something else entirely….
What if your purpose is very different than what you’ve been taught to believe?
What if your purpose is to build an everlasting relationship with yourself, to fall deeply in love with the precious you?
What if your purpose is to deeply care for yourself and gently heal and by doing so, become a role model for others to do the same?
What if your purpose is to release all shame and feelings of unworthiness and find your vulnerability and fragility?
What if your purpose is to teach yourself that there is no such thing as perfection… and that your never ending pursuit of it is destroying your life and your relationships?
What if your purpose is to elevate your energy and that of the world around you?
What if your purpose is to develop an everlasting faith in yourself, to remember your Divinity and treat yourself accordingly?
What if your purpose is to take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others?
Take a moment to consider the possibility that your purpose is about finding yourself.
Consider that your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling and everything to do with how you treat yourself and your inner quality.
I’ve met brilliant and successful people whose lives appear incredible from the outside but who are a mess on the inside; full of bitterness, meanness, sadness or self-loathing etc.
Imagine what we could accomplish if we moved from loathing to love, if we knew that no matter how important our mission, our inner purpose matters even more.
People are like plants, we all lean towards the light.
You are the light. Your inner purpose is to connect with that light and become the love that you naturally are.
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
Simply love this short and true statement, ‘People are like plants, we all lean towards the light.’
This is so gorgeous, and true, ‘Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.’
“You are the light. Your inner purpose is to connect with that light and become the love that you naturally are.” Beautiful to become aware that our purpose in life is to draw back the curtains and let the light shine out.
I absolutely love the idea of the start of discovering my purpose is to fall madly and deeply in love with myself. From there I can see we feel the magnificence of where we are from.
Even the most “successful” person is lost if they are disconnected from their innate loving essence.
So many people recognise the ill of the world and see a purpose in improving and bettering the world by bringing out products and services of some sorts, but the biggest and the best product that can truly change the world is us, and how we are and how we live in the world.
How we live in the world, how we are, our quality of energy, living who we truly are in full, all has an impact on the world.
Absolutely Rachel, purpose sets a new foundation for our lives. Before True purpose we find that we need Love as a foundation, and what a big step it is to move from loathing to Love, but it is possible if we take these steps in a way that allows us to discard our old patterns that have held us to a way of living that has never Truly served our bodies. So with dedication to heal, and listening to the feelings that our bodies are willing to share, so that what is required to eliminate ill-ways starts as we take small steps into our known self-loving ways that support our evolution.
Purpose is about re-connecting with our inner essence and sharing that with the world – I love the simplicity of this and how once we commit to exploring this, we start to build a solid foundation that we can then reflect to the world in whatever ways are true to us, with the certainty that if we are open, our path will become clear.
What are we going to reflect to the world, ‘What if your purpose is to deeply care for yourself and gently heal and by doing so, become a role model for others to do the same?’
I so relate Rachel, we have a way of living that brings us to a point in life where it becomes about living in a way that will deepen or develop our awareness of who we naturally are.
Wow Rachal, what an article. We are so convinced that purpose is to serve humanity on the stage, to do the big deeds and be seen by everyone. Have we considered that there is real purpose in the relationship we build with ourselves, that it’s impossible to hold steady in a world that is designed to constantly pull you out of line if we don’t have a strong relationship with ourselves first and foremost?
Absolutely Viktoria, we have to clean out our own nest first, and eliminate all the crap so we can get on with our True evolution.
“Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.” I love this Rachel. As you say “thats’ it!”
‘Purpose has nothing to do with what you do’ – this is the total opposite of everything that we’ve understood purpose to be about in life – i.e. find and know yourself through your chosen vocation. To turn this around, to understand purpose as being about knowing and loving yourself just for being you, not for anything that you do – this is a totally revelatory take on purpose that takes away all of the pressure and the demands that we place on the world and our jobs, wanting them to show us who we are, to give us something back, instead of making the space to remember that knowing of who we are, and expressing that through our work.
Yes what a turnaround, to know who we are and to take that to life.
Great realisations about purpose Rachael. I find purpose is always there when I really connect with people. This needs me to be connected and loving with myself first, which ripples out naturally into how I feel about people.
And adding to what you have shared Fiona, we then all get that divine reflection, so self-love first and others feel that level of love.
Imagine connecting to that space inside that does not understand what self-worth is because it simply is. It does not take a measure of who or what it is, or even how it is going from what goes on around it. It simply is. That space is within and waits patiently for us to re-connect.
Life can be a real struggle when we make it about drive or motivation, because we are already looking at the final outcome it comes with expectations, yet purpose has no expectation it is a movement that allows us to do whatever is needed to be done without needing know what that is.
So true – ‘purpose has no expectation…’ yet so many go through life wanting to find their ‘true purpose’, when it is all so simple!
What if our purpose is not about us at all, but about aligning to a greater purpose, a greater plan – knowing and understanding that we are a part of something so much greater than ourselves. In that greater purpose, we find that we are taken care of. It has nothing to do with the ‘what’ but everything to do with the quality that we’re in: so there could be just as much purpose in resting and taking care of ourselves, as there is to running a global project. It feels like the way we connect to true purpose – i.e. what’s truly needed – is through our bodies: feeling what to do, when and how to do it. True purpose then is like medicine for the body – it revitalises us and connects us to the world and to one another.
In re-connecting to ourselves and building a true foundation, we are then available for whatever is there to be done as part of the wider plan, getting self out of the way and appreciating what we bring strengthens our links with others and our sense of purpose.
Thank you Bryony, that was absolutely beautiful to read, and it smashes the pictures about what we think purpose is, so we can allow it to be a quality we align to and are obedient to, moment to moment. Nothing outside of us defines the purpose, only the energetic quality does.
Many people can find this challenging, I know I used to, ‘ there could be just as much purpose in resting and taking care of ourselves, as there is to running a global project.’
When we connect to purpose we become aware that every move we make has a greater purpose than just for ourselves which has a significant ripple effect on others.
Yes, what does building a connection with yourself look sound and feel like – without a picture?! eeek!
Finding our purpose becomes an all-consuming obsession because the fear of not finding it can mean we search outside of ourselves with high anxiety. The feeling in our body when we realise that we don’t have to go anywhere but to build a relationship with ourselves, is something that brings a settlement to the body that once felt, cannot be forgotten.
Beautifully expressed Lucy and so true.
‘What if your purpose is to take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others?’ I have experienced that working in health-care without loving care for myself, is a ticket for a burnt out. After many years I am back in health-care taking care for myself based on my self-worth, and there is so much joy to serve and to care for others, I could not have done this without bringing love and care to my precious body. And still I have a lot to learn about the relationship with my body, but there is a foundation which I have built in the last couple of years of understanding and appreciating who I am.
As we connect and learn more from our bodies, old patterns that no longer serve may reveal themselves, ‘I recognised that I had a continuous underlying nervous tension and anxiety running like an undercurrent in my body.’
Beautifully said ‘But this is where the problem lies. When we consider our purpose to be something external, we may never find it.’ I am becoming more and more aware that our purpose is not about doing but about being …. all that we are in every given moment ✨
First I love this sentence which will help a lot: “Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.” The next one I will take to heart is “What if your purpose is to elevate your energy and that of the world around you?” Reading this was what I needed right now, thanks Rachel.
I love this blog, so many gems are shared, ‘Consider that your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling and everything to do with how you treat yourself and your inner quality.’
It is very true Rachel that it is commonly believed that ‘purpose’ means to do something, to achieve, to have a goal in life, yet as you have shared this level of purpose never satisfies or fulfills. If we look deeper within to who we are in essence will find that we are love, and as such our true purpose is to live love in every aspect of our lives. Therefore, our purpose would be to be who we are and stand for the love we are all here to live together.
One part of looking after ourselves is that we can become more effective even though we seemingly work more slowly and steadily, just without the tension and the drive.
I love coming back to this blog, its like sitting next to a cosy log fire that is radiating and filling the space around with so much warmth and love and there is nothing to do but soak it all in.
The question regarding purpose (what is my purpose) is one that is not always asked and much less answered properly. The usual question is more, what would I like to do for a living or what would I like to work on? Two very different questions regarding ourselves, our lives. The first question contains the potential of everything. The second one, directs us to a portion of the everything we choose.
‘What if your purpose is to build an everlasting relationship with yourself, to fall deeply in love with the precious you?’ This feels like true purpose to me as it ask you to go inwards and connect with all the wisdom, awareness and intelligence that we hold within that can guide us through life. Life was never meant to be a struggle.
And yet we find ourselves addicted to the struggle and considering that normal and the ease of connection abnormal…
I am also taking life a lot slower, and in doing so, doing things in a different quality, no more rushing around, and my self talk has also got a lot more loving, though still have to be observant, as frustration (with self) still likes to creep in when I am not looking! And that is not loving.
This is a brilliant blog! I was just pondering on what was my purpose, and how does one connect to purpose, knowing that it is not something outside of oneself. This blog was a timely read, and also a confirmation of how much I am living purpose, without perfection and always still learning.
This blog is a great read on purpose, ‘What if your purpose is to teach yourself that there is no such thing as perfection… and that your never ending pursuit of it is destroying your life and your relationships?’ So true.
I can feel the hollowness of trying to do life without knowing oneself, and how that has left many feeling defeated and lost in life.
Those words really hit home: ‘trying to do life without knowing oneself’, feels a huge struggle, and actually it was, having walked that path for a long time. When the student is ready the teacher appears, and life delivers exactly what you need to change direction, an opportunity to make different choices.
The pictures we carry about purpose, and the incessant questions are debilitating. How refreshing to read your understanding of purpose Rachel and to feel the body expand in the truth.
Yes, I have met many people who live that way but we may still prefer to live that way rather than be responsible and looking after ourselves as that seems to make little difference from that lost and defeated place. Thankfully that is completely wrong.
‘What if your purpose is to deeply care for yourself and gently heal and by doing so, become a role model for others to do the same?’ there are so many in the world who would benefit from living with greater self care and to see people who are already living that makes it easier for all of us to align.
Absolutely Carmel – there is no greater purpose that to reflect the love we are here to live and agreed this is very much needed today.
We think our purpose is to put ourselves out there, by becoming successful, doing great deeds or accomplishments, making a name for ourselves, becoming a mover or shaker in life, any and all of life’s activities, this is living life outside of ourselves, when the opposite is really our true purpose, to connect deep within to the love that we are and tenderly bring this love to ourselves first and foremost and then bring this love out into the world as the divine reflection of who we all truly are.
Beautiful what you share Jill, to make life about love, loving and adoring yourself, is a powerful reflection for others which speaks louder than words.
I also lived with an immense amount of anxiety growing up and for most of my adult life. I was always aware of this and had learnt of ways to manage it, to get relief and to dull or tone it down mostly through food and lifestyle activities. I had settled that this was life, but underneath I could sense that this was not it. Since developing a loving and honouring relationship with my body, inspired by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine modalities I discovered a deeper connection and understanding of who I was. I came to realise this anxiety that had owned me for so long was a result of me not living and expressing who I am, of me not living my light. From this point of awareness my life changed completely, the anxiety no longer owns me as the more I express and live from my connection to my essence, the freer I feel, and the greater the reflection of truth shared.
Amazing Carola. Realising the anxiety was a result of not expressing who you are – so simple and therefore the counter to the anxiety was simply in expression, one movement at a time.
This has Lightened my morning Rachel, and when someone who has a divine purpose enter my life it provides a level of Love and that is what a guiding light is and that light is openly expressed so all can see. True expression comes from everything we do and allows us “ to connect with that light and become the love that you naturally are.”
“People are like plants, we all lean towards the light”. Love this line
Tending to and nurturing our connection to who we are, what is already there within is an important part of our purpose. For there is much in how we live and in the world around us that can stop us from knowing who we are. It is however our choice to maintain and deepen this connection.
Everyone wants to be “successful” but we all have different ideas of what that means. As a society, we really have to reconsider what our idea of success is. What I am hearing from this blog, is that finding true purpose in life, means that no matter what you are doing, you are successful. Purpose is simply knowing that everything you choose counts; every choice is felt and matters.
It is so true Sarah about the word and meaning of ‘success’ and what it means to us a society. So many of us chase success but once attained what are we offered, what is our quality of life, are we truly free? I love what you bring here as when are being ourselves, freely living who we are, we are successful in every way. With this purpose at heart our fulfillment in life a guarantee, regardless of what we do.
I am connecting more to the fact that my purpose is to reflect my true qualities, which are not ‘my’ qualities but qualities we are all a part of. No doing required, just reflecting…
Yes, I agree that true purpose has a simplicity to it.. we just follow what we’re feeling to do next. No need for drive or excitement, just a delicate unfolding of each next step.
When we attach purpose to a goal, activity or a vocation, we are likely setting ourselves up for failure or disappointment.” When we know that our purpose is to reconnect to the Divine love of our true essence and emanate this out to the world the Universe recognises that we are reflecting back our being as a true part of the All.
With the fast pace of this world seeming to get faster every day I am sure that the majority of humanity are living with “a continuous underlying nervous tension and anxiety running like an undercurrent” throughout their bodies; I certainly did for a very long time. And if this tension, and the reason for it being there, is not healed our bodies are being set up to become exhausted and even unwell and it definitely will be a road block in the way to connecting to our true purpose in life.
The word purpose carries a a lot of pictures and beliefs and ideals that we can buy into, what a refreshing take you share here Rachel on the true meaning of purpose and how far we have stepped away from this when we being to search for our purpose outside of ourselves.
It is interesting how we play with words in a way that is not true. Anyone can make up a ‘purpose’, start believing that this is it and be satisfied with it. Yet, the word purpose cannot just cover anything or everything. If it does it means nothing. Purpose is about living in a way that supports you and others deeply and, hence, serves you and others to become who you truly are.
Beautifully said Eduardo for the more purpose we live our every day with, the more we can inspire others to do the same.
I agree with you Rachel. This is a great understanding of purpose and a way of life that has brought a quality and love in everything I now do.
I love what you have shared Rachel, the simplicity of our true purpose here on this earth, to connect to our divine essence of love and from that space of love, shine our light in all that we do that others may know they too have this divine essence of love within them also.
I love this blog and recently I came across a a couple of lines: ‘ When problematic events or incidences occur Simply step up and turn your light up brighter’ As Michael Benhayon reminded me once we are the commanders of light, no less.
I have a plant in my bedroom that is bending over backward into order to reach the light. I never really thought of correlating that to the human experience. It is so true to make that connection and from here it so easy and simple for me to know my purpose, to be the light not be the leaner. hahah
I used to wonder why so many successful people are unhappy and even committ suicide. Could it be that their success is actually built on a foundation of emptiness and that, though a huge monument of success is built, it inevitably caves in because there is no solid foundation to support it? If we believe that success will get us love through recognition we may drive ourselves to achieve until at some point we are either stopped by an illness or disease or we can no longer avoid the pain of the emptiness within and start to allow ourselves to feel it and address the hurts. Once we do this we begin a journey back to ourselves and can reconnect with the love within which is always there underneath the pain. Universal Medicine therapies have supported many people to take responsibility for their choices and change their life.
I love how simple the Ageless Wisdom is. Just be you and the what needs to be made sense of will start to make sense just by its own accord, without the need to search or find.
‘. ..there is no such thing as perfection…’ What a relief to discover that and let go of the ‘never ending pursuit of it’ which was indeed destroying my life and my relationships. Our true purpose is not to tick some box or live up to someone else’s standard but to honour ourselves and allow ourselves to unfold and blossom. By being in love with ourselves we emanate that love and we then reflect to others that there is divinity beyond the mundane.
How different to everything we have been taught at school, at university and other forms of education we receive just from our surroundings, our purpose is already within us and abundant but through the lack of living that quality we are circulating the information which has been supplied to give us the picture of “making the world go round”; but that system is broken and is exhausting us all.
I so wish I had read this when I was a teenager feeling pressured to come up with what to do with my life and having no idea. Here is a way of living I never thought was a possibility.
Clearly I have read this before but today it came to me through clearer eyes. I feel like I read it for the first time and I has blown more cobwebs off! “Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.” Thank you, I am not sure what I have been running away from!
It is a beautiful feeling to find that true purpose lies within by deepening our relationship with ourselves and living in a way that transcends ‘self’ and encompasses everyone.
When I find myself indulging eg. staying at an event or function longer than I feel to I lose my sense of purpose but when I listen to my body and act on it with love I feel purposeful.
Being also a student of the Ageless Wisdom, through the profound work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I can say that my sense of purpose has also undergone a thorough and needed ‘overhaul’…
We live in a world that basically teaches us to strive for more, to be more, climb that mountain, make that million and the rest… and yet we have, to our own detriment, negated to give true value where it is needed most – i.e. in the quality of love that we live, every day, 24/7.
Making love our bottom line and accepting nothing less equates to true purpose for me today. The ‘what is done’ then naturally aligns to how our own particular qualities can most truly express, grandness being able to be known in the most (seemingly) mundane of tasks, to those that appear to hold more sway…
Love as our bottom line, as our foundational quality for everything else.. this is what it comes down to, in the end. There is a simplicity and depth available to us when we commit to truly taking care of ourselves, to establishing a deeply loving and committed relationship with ourselves, that then supports all our other relationships, and our expression through everything that we do.
Beautifully said Rachel. “When we attach purpose to a goal, activity or a vocation, we are likely setting ourselves up for failure or disappointment.” How often has the sought-after goal been set in order to assuage if not completely deny, avoid and/or bury other underlying issues we may harbour?
In the industry in which I’ve worked for most of my life (music and the arts), I’ve seen this all too often. And as you rightly say, even those who reach a form of pinnacle, rarely feel the love and consistency of lived joy of which you speak.
And so it is not only purpose in need of our redefining and reflection, but ‘success’ and what this actually means in terms of the quality of life lived.
For me when I become caught up in my own issues or problems I lose purpose. However, when I connect back to knowing there is more than this it brings back a purpose and commitment to get on with it.
Scratch the surface on many people’s lives and often not all is what the facade on the outside suggests and as you shared in your blog Rachel, they indeed are a ‘mess on the inside’.
That’s it!? I know with-in when I read this I can feel it is true. Equally true is discovering how tricky and complicated the mind wants to make everything it possibly can so the subtly of the simplicity can easily be over looked when not staying connected to myself .
What a delight to read this first thing in the morning – or any time of the day. True purpose connects me to the ‘lightness’ of being that I am and I really love your sharing on the qualities of this. If I’m not choosing these I’m choosing something else, which comes in degrees of heaviness, pulling me down and then others are reflected this. I would never obviously choose to pull another down so true purpose supports me to choose responsibly my actions and thoughts and be light and loving in all ways.
I had a big smile when I read your words “People are like plants, we all lean towards the light” as it conjured up a picture of all of humanity on a lean to varying degrees. There were some really leaning in almost falling over and others with a very small lean while others were trying to stop themselves leaning altogether. In that moment it summed up humanity for me; not everyone wants to know the light, the love, that is available to all, some are ready to and others are simply sitting on the fence just in case something better comes along.
What a gem to read this morning. Isn’t it interesting how young the feeling of searching comes in and how we go on this journey for so many years till we come back to realise we never needed to go anywhere. Some find that moment up a mountain or due to a life changing accident or illness. What a blessing to consider it without the trauma or endless search and to nurture it from young.
I too feel the settlement that is shared here. This article takes away all the should do’s, needs and desires that we get coerced into in every day life and lays bare again our soul.
Thank you Rachel for writing this article. It is a very simple and powerful delivery of true purpose.
Purpose provides the commitment and grace for us to correct and let go of all that we hold onto that is not loving and obstructs our growth and expression of our divinity.
“Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.” Oh yeah!
What if your purpose is just to be and respond to life in each moment. To have no investments or pictures on how you need to be but to just be in the movements that allow yourself to be more free from external pictures, ideals and beliefs.
Thank you for this wonderful thought provoking blog. The world is full of people chasing some success or another, yet we have the behavior of the most successful people as evidence that they are not that settled or fulfilled in life – how we have been seeing purpose is not it.
From reading this blog I can feel that True Purpose is never a strain or pressure but something really beautiful to have in your life.
Our purpose is not a job or what we do, but express who we are. This is something I am taking a little while to learn and live. Once understood however, my need to recognition will no longer be a need.
‘Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World’. Absolute Gold Rachel.
Loved reading this blog today and for me was such a powerful confirmation of all the loving choices I have made in the past few years to care, nurture and nourish myself, and as a result I am feeling very solid in my body. And yes sometimes I do have wobbles, but I also observe how much quicker I can steady myself again. The purpose to my life unfolded as I began to self-love and appreciate myself.
What a gift to yourself and to us to be able to appreciate that about yourself. Appreciating what we offer ourselves by way of support and connection really helps to build a solidness of foundation we can come back to whenever old patterns of self-bashing rear their ugly heads.
When I was about 35 I would have these moments where I would stop what was doing, literally drop what I was doing, stand up and say “I need to be somewhere…” “I have to go now…”, and yet I did not know where to go nor where to be…This was a super challenging time for me as I felt such a strong call to something so old and so familiar, yet I could not quite put my finger on it. What I feel it actually was, was the call to go deeper with my self care, self nurturing, to reconnect with my true purpose in life, to connect with my essence, my Soul. I never really understood this until I finally came across the work of Serge Benhayon and things began to make sense in my life. And today, if and when I get this same feeling of having to be somewhere again, I know it is a sign for me to go deeper within myself, to surrender to another level of purpose.
Rachel I absolutely love reading and re-reading this blog – it is a wonderful, tender and powerful reminder to come back to being super duper gentle with myself, caring, respectful and appreciative and nurturing, and to remember that there is true purpose in this, that purpose does not lie outside of oneself, but lies within. …
I loved coming back to this blog, thank you for sharing the depth of meaning that purpose serves you and all of us …
I loved your blog Rachel. Usually when we think about taking impeccable care of yourself we think it means to be selfish, only for self and excluding others. I know the withdrawing that comes from being selfish, and how it is void of purpose, but what you are describing here is something quite different. Loving yourself so deeply you love everyone equally. Loving yourself so that you learn and grow from your life’s experience, which inspires others to do the same. Loving yourself and living that love, making it the minimum standard and so not accepting abuse with self, with family, with community, with media, or with the world. When all this comes from the love within there is no greater purpose than to live it and expand it.
“Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.”
the more I choose to nurture and love myself, the more purpose there is to my life, the more joy, love and grace in everything I do in my day. To make purpose about what we do in our life is a far cry from it being impulsed from within.
Beautiful Rachel. Understanding true purpose and our whole world shifts … back to its true orientation. There is nothing more joyful than this.
I love this blog, so true. Thank you. Finding real purpose has always been my goal in life, and now I know I’ve got and have always had all the answers I’ve been looking for within 🙂
Thank you Rachel, a very solid reminder of what life is all about, very well presented.
And by bringing deep and tender loving care to ourselves we automatically bring this to everybody else, this is the magic of self-love, as we deepen our relationship with ourself we deepen it with everybody and everything else.
Pretty amazing when the world is set up for you to try and find what you want to do, who you are and what this is all about by looking outside of you. A blog that brings it all simply back and yet we don’t follow this lead. We have in this blog a list of where to look and none of them point anywhere but back to you. In this way we have everything we need, everything we are looking for it is just a question or a choice of whether you/we/I are ready to choose it. We can keep chasing the never end tail or we can stop and take care, take deep care of ourselves and everything that comes with that.
Yes, we have everything we need within this blog. Taking a moment to stop and really take care of ourselves and make this part of our everyday living is true medicine.
Doing what we love is crucial as through that we get to discover who we are. Through the discovery and development on the truth of ourselves, we are deepening the relationship with ourselves. Layer upon layer we take off more protection that has prevented us from shining the truth of who we are, each layer exposed deepens this relationship and this process is to be deeply appreciated and celebrated.
This is just gorgeous Rachel, that purpose has nothing to do with out there but is all about developing a relationship with us and our quality and bring the light we are into everything. So different to all the chasing out there, to know that it’s in us ready and waiting.
I love this Rachel; ‘You are the light. Your inner purpose is to connect with that light and become the love that you naturally are. ‘Connecting to our true selves changes everything, our purpose becomes very clear and simple and no longer is life about chasing success or ‘trying’ to be something because we know everything we ever wanted is already within.
“People are like plants, we all lean towards the light.”
We are so focussed on the dark side of life and put so much energy and focus on the wrongs that we overlook this fact that we all come from light and therefore long to get back to that same source and that there is a natural pull towards it.
Rachel, this is GOLD: “I realised I had spent most of my life from being a teenager (and possibly even younger) in a state of angst, wondering what on earth I was here for, what was the purpose to life and more deeply and importantly, what was MY purpose.” This is key for so many of us…the search for our purpose…And we get fooled into thinking that it is something outside of ourselves…
“Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.” So simple, and so true.
Thank you Rachel for sharing so beautifully, it is simply being who we truly are from our place of Divine love and reflect that to the world nothing about doing but all about the being .
This changes everything about the meaning of life entirely as we have been led to believe. I used to also feel something was missing from life and think that there had to be a purpose to my life, and trying to fill that emptiness with what was outside of me never worked while I was too identified with this ‘me’ person and how she had been living; no way could I think that there was anything inside that was worth reconnecting back to. How wrong was I.
Imagine if we grew up remembering and knowing what our real purpose is. There would not be the lack of doubt, striving and drive to be ‘something’ and achieve for recognition like there is now. Beautiful to read that you re-discovered what your purpose is and how much you would be inspiring others by how you live.
Beautiful Rachel. What if our purpose is to return to the awesome loving beings that we all are at essence and live that in everyday life, and by living that remind everyone else that they are of that same essence.
A beautiful reminder for us all, all of the time. And each and every one of us has a way, a particular quality that can support in reminding others of this…we all play a part, a very important and beautiful part.
Life is really very simple, be you and share this with others. I love how you write that our purpose is not external, our purpose is internal, and by virtue of the care we begin to give ourselves, we begin to be of true service in this world.
I agree Meg, this is such a new approach to life and purpose as we are so trained to achieve and accomplish on the outside that we have lost the value of the preciousness we hold within.
Preciousness is a great way to describe what we have inside us, it’s like the most amazing treasure chest you could ever imagine that we carry around with us every single day but have totally forgotten about.
“Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.” I love this. Having spent so long searching outside myself – for so many things – to return to accepting and loving myself has been transformative – and still is.
Thank you Rachel – so many pearls contained here.
I love the concept of our purpose being to fall deeply in love with ourselves…. We are certainly not taught this at school and yet if we were… what a beautiful world we would live in.
“That’s IT!” Our purpose is to be and live all the love that we already are. No ‘ifs’, no ‘buts’, just love.
Rachel, so much of what you have written are quotes of GOLD – I have extracted one here for today: “Consider that your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling and everything to do with how you treat yourself and your inner quality.” – this is a GOLD (yes I said it again!) – in our society the current trends of self worth are either rock bottom or falsely high – and a large reason for this is because we place our self worth on external sources and reasons. We tend to look outside of ourselves and value ourselves because of the things we DO, and then when the things we do fall apart, then all of a sudden our self worth is shattered. But what if our true self worth is about who we are first, before we do anything at all. If we were to truly feel the depth of who we are then any lack of self or false high self worth could not even exist. Self worth as you have said Rachel, is more about our inner quality and how we treat ourselves – this is so worth hearing, repeating and knowing as infinitum!
‘ Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.’ – I love the simplicity you share about what purpose truly means, no more chasing something outside of ourselves – all the magic lies within us ready to connect to.
Totally deconstructed life’s purpose away from any chore or job, instead giving focus to an innate rediscovery of our inner divinity.
Our outer roles are very important but at the end of the day they are only tools to return to what we left a very long time ago.
So beautifully said Luke – we cannot continue to give the outer such a focus without a consequence of neglecting the inner. But when we nurture the inner then we can bring the fullness to the outer. A win win situation.
Do you know of anything that grows from the outer to the inner? If it is not shown in nature maybe our core is where our future growth lays.
Great point Luke – I don’t think I can think of anything at this point that grows from the outer to the inner! Even in nature we see the inner that grows. For example, within the core of the apple lies the seed for growth – within the seed lies the recipe as well as the ingredients for the next apple tree. The outer might provide things like water and soil to support the growth, but everything that is ever needed for the seed to unfold into a tree is already within the seed itself. What a beautiful way to see about this, for we are no different – everything is already within us just waiting to come out. No need to try or to change or to aspire to anything. Just allowing ourselves to be the seed in all its glory and the tree unfolded.
Thank you so much for expanding that point lovely to read.
I found this line very pertinent – “People are like plants, we all lean towards the light.” It is revealing to consider that when the light is from outside especially when coming from their own inner-light we are often very receptive, yet when asked to bring our own light out from within us, most are highly resistant
I really appreciated reading this today Rachel as I have noticed recent occasions where I have been focusing on external purpose, ticking off lists and getting things done – which at times has felt stressful. I love this reminder that our true purpose is to be who we truly are, to develop a loving relationship with ourselves and with others. With this as a foundation, the external purposes and tasks can automatically flow and occur but without the drive and push that comes when we don’t connect with ourselves first.
Rachel, this is absolute gold. This is something that I too have struggled with my whole life to find meaning and purpose in something. Thinking it was always something other than what I was doing or being was the answer to my problems. Your blog really confirms for me that me being and loving me is all I need to be. Not these ideals and beliefs I thought I needed to be. A big heartfelt Thank you.
“When we consider our purpose to be something external, we may never find it. When we attach purpose to a goal, activity or a vocation, we are likely setting ourselves up for failure or disappointment” – this leads me to ask: How many times in life do we mistake our purpose for the things we DO rather than who we are and the quality that we can bring to the things we DO. I absolutely love this blog – it gets us to ponder on why we are here and asks us to look within and bring forth the truth with such simplicity that it cannot be denied. Thank you Rachel!
‘Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.’ Makes life simple and like you’ve said we all lean towards the light, we cannot escape this fact how hard we try it is not going to work when we are not living our light and love on earth.
I had not considered purpose in this way until I read this blog. Thank you Rachel. This is an absolute game changer.
What a beautiful inspiring and healing understanding of purpose, thank you Rachel for sharing your understanding and wisdom about why we are here.
Thank you Rachel for this beam of light. You have shone a light on the ideals and beliefs I’ve held around ‘purpose’ which I can now see were simply not true. Much needed clarity, bringing it back to finding myself and the love I am. Thank you.
So beautifully written with the love & light that you are. Thank you Rachel.
Absolutely brilliant Rachel, thank you. Trying to find our purpose or what we’re meant to be doing makes it all about self whereas the true purpose of why we are here, which is to connect back to the love that we, are makes it about everyone.
So many gems in this blog Rachel! You have both simplified and broadened my understanding of ‘purpose’ which is the thing that we all need to identify in our lives in order for it to flourish. Of course it is different for everyone in the finer details but nonetheless, in the broader sense it comes back to the same things and that is to develop deep and steady self appreciation and love which can then be reflected out through us to everyone around us and through everything we do. Awesome stuff!
‘You are the light. Your inner purpose is to connect with that light and become the love that you naturally are.’ – Rachel I loved the wisdom shared here and the powerful questions you pose are certainly worth asking.
Those are some very powerful what if questions there Rachel. What if the purpose of our lives was to once again be aware of the fact that we don’t have to go anywhere or overcome any obstacles because we are already at the ‘end’ point. What if there was no end point at all, we are already the all?
Today I read your blog again, and it is the purest love declaration to the inner most I’ve ever read… Thank you for this beauty***.
‘Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.’ Thank you Rachel for summing it up so simply yet so awesomely. I was always jealous of people who had a vocation because it felt like it was easier for them to work out their ‘purpose’ in life and I expended a lot of nervous energy searching outside of myself when all along all that was required was to commit to deepening my relationship with myself and reflecting that out into the world. Connecting to this selfless purpose has felt so grounding and the anxiousness that I lived with constantly has evaporated as I build a body of love.
Thank you Rachel for sharing your revelation on the true purpose of life. This make so much sense and feel so true. And this is so powerful as it reveals that this purpose is available to all, as within us all we are essentially of the same divine love. I have discovered that through beginning to deeply care for myself and choosing to heal my hurts, I am developing a deeper and more loving relationship with myself. And with this I am now living with far more love in my life and I am appreciating more and more the gorgeous light that I am and bring.
I loved the blog Rachel and its exactly what I needed to read at this point in time, as Im at a bit of a crossroad in regard to employment and your blog has given me some clarity.
Thank you Rachel this is so beautifully presented, there is much true purpose behind your words. We have certainly lost our way and, at this point in our evolution, our purpose is most assuredly to rediscover our true purpose, not ‘out there’ but, inside where its always been purposefully waiting for us with a wide open heart and wide open arms.
Thank you Rachel. I too wrestled with the question of ‘what is life really all about?’ which always left me feeling that there had to be something more than I was experiencing but I couldn’t quite find it. Through becoming a student of Universal Medicine and hearing presentations by Serge Benhayon I have been finding answers to my questions that just make sense. I had been searching in the wrong place and the answers are, and always have been, inside me waiting for me to re-connect to who I truly am.
Rachel I can so relate to the ‘continuous underlying nervous tension and anxiety running like an undercurrent in my body’ that you shared. Living like this I have found is totally exhausting for our body. Remembering our divinity and valuing the quality and purpose we bring to all that we do is extremely supportive in reconnecting us back to the truth and the love that we innately all are.
Ps ‘People are like plants, we all lean towards the light. You are the light. Your inner purpose is to connect with that light and become the love that you naturally are.’ This is oh so true – love it Rachel!
Finding purpose in the quality I’m in – that’s it!
Could it be more simple? I love it!
Wow Rachel what you have proposed about purpose is just gorgeous, deeply inspiring and an absolute blessing to all who read this.
Thank you Rachel for taking me deeper into the meaning and purpose of my life. The questions you have posed are loving, nurturing, soulful and support the truth of who we truly are. There feels like a ‘gathering’ in of all the scattered parts of myself that are out there searching for purpose, bringing me back to me and that feels beautiful. it is simple really – we are all here to be who we naturally are.
I love what is written here on what true purpose is. Not about what we do, but who we are and what we can bring to humanity by simply being ourself. Your summing up of this blog “People are like plants, we all lean towards the light. – You are the light. Your inner purpose is to connect to that light and become the love that you naturally are”.
I found this blog just recently, thanks to someone sharing it on Facebook, it is beautiful how messages suddenly appear in the right moment, considering this blog is already two years old!
I appreciate very much what I read here. I am aware we all have been becoming aware that for group work, coming back to purpose is what is needed to put aside the complexities of self…. However this is a different dimension of Purpose.
It made me realize how easily I can fall into the anxiousness, frustration and self-loathing when I become obsessed with my mission and what I should or shouldn´t be doing to serve… however when I do this from my emptyness, and the pesky feeling of I´m never enough it is just taking me further and further away from me.
Even if I finally find my mission, my so-called desired profession, if I do this in disconnection of my true self, my true loving being inside, then its nothing.
I love this bit: “Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.”
And I would then add that once you work on this, it is much easier to know the purpose of any project you work in and bring it back to purpose again. But first YOU, nurturing the loving you.
How I love this line. “Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.” That is one beautiful purpose to have for ourselves and the way we live each and everyday. Thank you Rachel.
A wonderful reminder to not allow the outside to creep in and distract us from our true purpose.
Thank you Rachel, what you speak of here needs to be a fundamental part of our education system, we can then begin to foster true evolution and return to who we truly are.
An amazing blog Rachel; thank you for sharing your pondering and sharing on the subject of purpose. I’m glad you found your purpose without leaving your profession, as I enjoy having you in your beautiful quality support me in looking after my teeth responsibly.
Truly beautiful. The love with which you write, the truth that permeates every word, speaks directly to my heart reminding me that these words are my truth too, they are all of our truth.
Absolutely loving your take on Purpose Rachel, so true and wonderful, your words: “Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World”. This is where the true self-worth is, and not as you say, in anything external like a job, title, salary, profession. This innate worth is never subject to anything or anyone and it cannot ever be completely removed. Self-worth, like purpose, is like a muscle that can be easily and nourishingly exercised into true strength, or left to non-attention and eventual atrophy.
Thank you, Rachel. Absolutely awesome blog. What you present here is a real game changer. For me ‘purpose’ also used to mean something to achieve, to be recognized, an end point; and what you here present feels to be something that keeps unfolding, deepening, like saying ‘Yes’ to a definitive choice that paves a way onwards. Totally inspiring.
So confirming of the fact that our true purpose comes from living the truth of who we are in the world, something I am nurturing and developing more and more each day. Thank you for your insightful words Rachel that support us all to claim the amazingness we are.
This blog is ahead of its time. So much of society is still so enamoured with what can be achieved. TV is full of reality shows espousing the philosophy that our worth is measured by what is on the outside. This is not to say that there is anything wrong with achievement, or success at any level, but the problem starts when we need that success to make ourselves feel complete, rather than coming from the knowing that we are already complete within ourselves first.
Well said Adam, there is no problem with success, but if we need ‘success’ to feel complete, rather than coming from the knowing that we are already complete within ourselves first.
Powerful and clear Rachel you nailed it . . . lets shine like the sun and for me the best thing is that the reflection I get makes me feel absolute joyful.
Rachel this blog is magic and powerful magic at that. Just to fully know that purpose is an inner thing and nothing to do with outside achievements or activities is transformational.
Rachel your comment that “people are all like plants, we lean towards the light”. is truly beautiful. How easily this is seen when gardening and growing small plants. This insight has given me a constant reminder how the whole of nature is speaking to us to return to who we truly are. Lovely!
Sitting here, repose – your blog is mind-blowing. It’s the stillness in my body that reacts with joy and surrender whilst reading your “hypothetical” questions. They hit truth in it’s precious meaning. And they are the answer to the search in all of us – and the exposure of the “living to tick boxes” – life. My body knows when divine truth is expressed – and it just responded: YES!
Beautifully written Rachel. Your simplicity of expression is awesome. I love your wording of taking care of ourselves in order to serve in love and truth. Thank you.
Truly beautiful.
Amazing Rachel. Reading each question was like a deeper and deeper dropping into the love that I (and we) so naturally already are and always have been and cherishing this. No amount of external achievement can give you this. I tried for years too! When we look for our purpose externally, we miss this, we miss out – and so does the world. Thank you for your expression of the power and simplicity of this truth – purspose is ‘ to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World’.
A beautiful and simple expression of our true purpose. Thank you Rachel, I needed a reminder of that right now. I’m learning too that from my connection to my purpose everything in life flows effortlessly.
You have turned what most people think/say about purpose on its head and offered a true reading of the word. I cried reading this blog today. Particularly around letting go of feelings of shame and unworthiness. Very powerful writing and questions you raise here. You speak great truth Rachel Hall.
An awesome reminder that true purpose does not lie outside of us but is all about the quality in which we do what we do. Gorgeous blog and one to read and reread regularly!
Loved to read this blog this morning Rachel, and I can relate to always asking myself what is my purpose, what is it that I am here to ‘do’, so like you, I was linking my purpose to something outside of me…. always searching ‘out there’. I also love the clarity and truth that is present in your writing. I will take this into my day and also this sentence which stood out for me: ‘ Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World’.
If our purpose is to simply reconnect and be aware of how incredible we are at ‘being’, it will save a lot of time and money searching. We move jobs, relationships, house and even countries to find purpose but all the while it is just sitting there waiting to the acknowledged.
Hi Rachel,
You are sharing such a valuable truth here and the strength you share in is palpable.
Rachel what an astonishing blog – reading it has inspired my day. Yes, what if my purpose is to take impeccable care of me so that I may serve others. Nothing to do with externals, no need to try, just love and appreciate me, and just be. Simple but profound wisdom. I’ll be coming back to this blog again!
Undeniable truth you speak, Rachel. Almost every of your questions I can answer with: “yes – and I’m living it.” This is after just 2 years of Universal Medicine. Great stuff!
Loving myself :o)
A new chapter in my book of life.
Thank you Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and all those wonderful ones around, who have been and still are every day such a powerful reflection and inspiration.
I would call what you describe as purpose, like achieving wealth, being famous, having a profession, raising a family as having a drive in life. To fulfill what we think is the right thing to do, be it fulfilling our parents dreams, or a dream we had in our youth. This is a constant drive that in my case led to anxiety, because the drive was not mine. And yes, true purpose was finding myself back and with that the love for myself and for others.
Thanks for your blog, Rachel.
Your purpose was definitely to write such an amazing blog, Rachel! WOW. You reduce it to the simplest thing and it feels so true and relaxing because it takes all away of the attachments we think we have to achieve in life.
Indeed Rachel, “if we knew that no matter how important our mission, our inner purpose matters even more”
The outward search is so embedded in todays world – I too am traversing this path back to myself, in connection the lived windows are pure gold, the space divine, the relationships evolutionary – the life esoterikos.
I adore this blog, it is totally awesome!
Beautifully shared blog Rachal – I had attached purpose to a goal something I had to achieve – I was searching in every nook and cranny waiting for ‘it’ to jump up infront of me to say ‘this is it’ this is what you are looking for. In your words “Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are” beautiful and yes I do lean towards the light.
Great point Rachel that purpose has historically been confused with looking for things to accomplish outside of ourselves rather than nurturing that connection with ourselves within.
Rachel, I had to come back to this blog, each statement of what is true purpose is absolute gold. The question you pose ‘what if we came from love rather than loathing’ is so apt, so obvious and yet many of us live with loathing and consider it normal. It’s not and we ignore the gems we are, the love we are while we see just that, one to dig a little deeper on.
This is so simple but so not how the world on every level operates! It takes much commitment, understanding and self love to look after yourself and do life.
Expressed with lived authority and knowing Rachel, thank you. Your connection to yourself and your purpose is deeply felt. Your blog has powerfully pulled me to connect to the true meaning of purpose. Hugely inspiring. Thank you.
A few ‘what if’s’ that actually ask us who and how we are instead of what have you done, what have you become. The latter is like Rachel said destroying, always on the hunt for something grander than who we naturally are… it’s all there waiting for us
Trying to find our purpose clouds our vision and we do just look outside of ourselves until something stops us and we begin to look inward again. Thanks to Universal Medicine and the teachings of Serge Benhayon I feel I have been set on a different path, one of truth. Thank you Rachel for your timely reminder that self Love is the way.
Thank you for your blog. It reminded me of how obsessed with finding my purpose I used to be before finding Universal Medicine. All the purposes on offer were about things outside myself, career, relationships, being a mum etc. I tried a lot of avenues but I still didn’t feel I had found my purpose in life. Now I know it without a doubt. I understand life so much more deeply. My daily way of living in all the smallest details has purpose. I know I am here to return to the divinity I come from and to the best of my ability share my expression of that divinity with others.
Wow, Rachel. Your blog for the first time has allowed me to feel and let in deeply what purpose truly is and what it was that I have been trying to catch up with until now without success. It came to me at the perfect time and will need pondering now as I feel that I have only grasped the surface of what you share with this amazing blog. Thank you.
I love what you present here Rachel about life being about building love in ourselves then sharing that with the world around us. Focusing on everything we do or don’t do and the constant tension of not knowing feels horrible. But like you say when we tune into the body and focus on the quality of that inner environment life becomes much simpler as I am learning everyday.
So gorgeous Rachel. “You are the light. Your inner purpose is to connect with that light and become the love that you naturally are.” It is that simple and connecting with this purpose is life changing.
Spot on Rachel! That search for purpose outside of ourselves or through our vocation is such a trick, such a distraction and such a delay! I love how you have shared this blog and how you break it down into the simplicity that it is – discovering and nurturing who you truly are and just simply reflecting that to the world. Thank you!
If ever there were questions to ask these would be them. The truth you have powerfully offered here is palpable, thank you Rachel.
I loved reading this Rachel and can feel the solidness of self love and connection in the purpose you are describing . I am going to reflect on this today as I observe how I am in what I am doing.
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Beautiful read Rachel, thank you. I could have written the first half of this myself our story is so similar, for I too, in the run up to being 35, spent a lot of time searching outside of myself for the meaning of life. ‘Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.’ Ah, it was wonderful coming to this realisation, letting go of the constructs I’d allowed to previously dominate me. It’s been life changing.
Wow Dr Rachel Hall I read this at the end of my day and I want to say thank you for re-finding the great light that you are. I love reading your words and it also gave me a clearer understanding of true purpose – so powerful and healing and lovely.
I love how this blog makes it so clear that true purpose is about being who we (naturally) are – not what we do or accomplish.
My gosh Rachel superbly expressed blog. Our purpose is to continue to shine our lights to inspire others to shine theirs too.
“But this is where the problem lies. When we consider our purpose to be something external, we may never find it. When we attach purpose to a goal, activity or a vocation, we are likely setting ourselves up for failure or disappointment.” So true Rachel. Coming back to myself has been the greatest gift – stopping the endless searching outside of me for answers – just growing towards the light!
I really like this blog Rachel. Our first job in the world could be to love ourselves, then we have a second job and that’s what we do. When the second job becomes your first, we can be laced with all the positives and pitfalls of that particular job which become personality creating, and not a true representation of who we actually are.
Wow, I love this article Rachel, it is so common for us to think that it is about finding the right job or living in the right place or having the partner, when as you so wisely write, it is about caring for and nurturing ourselves so that we can then serve others and become role models to others to take care of and love themselves, this is so beautifully written.
For a long time I had no idea what my purpose was here on earth and I searched like crazy. Now I know that I just have to be me, all of me, and reflect this back to the world. Loving myself in full, be that light and live it, and bring that to the world. I am indeed like a plant, growing towards the light. We all are, isn’t that just wonderful!
This is such a beautiful article Rachel, and very timely for me now as I contemplate retraining myself for another line of work. This one is going on the fridge!
Rachel, stunning blog, there is so much here, but most of all that purpose is about us living us, and bringing that to everything, it’s not outside us. I love your line ‘What if your purpose is to build an everlasting relationship with yourself, to fall deeply in love with the precious you?’. Thank you, I needed some reminding today.
Rachel this was such a revelation to read. I have always felt that there must be more to life and that personally I must have a grand purpose to feel complete. I fell for all the same misconceptions about purpose as you did. I suspect many people have also. I feel like taking impeccable care of myself, and leaning away from the darkness towards the light.
I love this blog, the wisdom you shared Rachel is just gorgeous, especially this part –
“People are like plants, we all lean towards the light.
You are the light. Your inner purpose is to connect with that light and become the love that you naturally are.” – how very true.
I love this part too Anna. Very beautifully expressed.
Rachel, this is God’s magic expressed in words. Every word beaming off the page with love and purpose and I felt myself melt more and more, rest deeper and deeper into myself, letting go of trying to be perfect, by simply allowing myself to be. Thank you.
What a beautiful and inspiring article: thank you, Rachel.
Your words: ‘Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.’ That is exquisite.
I also love your final reference to our being like plants and growing toward our light. For many years I had as my personal symbol something I saw on a bitumen road surface one time. There were several cracks in the surface of the road; scanning around for the source of the cracks, I saw a tiny, tender little green shoot of a plant. What we call the ‘phototropic’ interaction between the sun and the plant, or the sun’s magnetic pull on the seed was so strong, as to pull the tiny thing up through the bitumen and for the bitumen to be wrecked in the process. An awesome sight.
It was, and still is, my favourite symbol of where I’m going too!
I used to think that my only purpose in life was to raise a child, then at 42 with no child and a broken relationship, my world crumbled. Now like you Rachel with the support of Universal Medicine I know my purpose is to be me, at work and at home. It is a grand way to live.
Thanks Rachel. Purpose is something I have struggled with as I was always looking outside of myself to find what it is. But when I look inside, I find that purpose is already there, and it just needs to be lived. Thank you for sharing this marvelous story.
Your commitment to purpose is so palpable and supportive Rachel. I can feel your great love and care for yourself and others here. This is such a real and beautiful description of purpose and it makes the path to true purpose very simple and real.
So gorgeous for you to share the truth as you have done here Rachel. It breaks through consciousnesses that shape us from very young when we are taught that we have to find something to do, and are constantly posed the question – what job will you do? Even though this is important to feel into what career or life path will suit you, it cannot be lived in truth without that loving connection with yourself that you speak of here. Great sharing, thank you.
Beautifull Rachel, I can so connect to what you have presented. A different way to be.
Very Inspiring Rachel, there is no true purpose in the things we do if we don’t do it with the purpose to constantly connect to ourself.
Dearest Rachel, this blog is an absolute blessing for all. Thank you for presenting that our purpose is not about what we do but connecting to who we truly are. This line stood out for me “What if your purpose is to teach yourself that there is no such thing as perfection… and that your never ending pursuit of it is destroying your life and your relationships?” I can so relate to having a need to be perfect. It is insidious and has many layers. I am appreciating that I am willing to look at this habit of perfection and to know that it is not truly me. I am finding the more I build a loving and deeply caring relationship with my body the more I can let go of the need to be perfect and give myself permission to just be the real me.
I would have loved to read this when I was fourteen and searching for the purpose of life, but it was well wroth the twenty-five year wait. Life is so enjoyable and worth living when this purpose is known.
I love this line to Debra. I am slowly allowing myself to fall deeply in love with the precious me and gosh it is worth it 🙂
Beautiful Rachel, thank you for this gorgeous reminder this morning.
This is beautiful Rachel. I love “people are like plants, we all lean towards the light”. We cannot resist the magnetic pull, can we? Thank you very much for writing this Rachel.
This is very beautiful Rachel. I spent much of my adult life looking outside of myself for my purpose. I even worked as a life coach helping people look for theirs. It was all a temporary external success that momentarily relieved the tension I felt inside. Your question ‘What if your purpose is to build an everlasting relationship with yourself, to fall deeply in love with the precious you?’ say it all for me. I would never have used those words once and in fact would have scoffed at terms like this. However this is the truth it for me and I now fully embrace this and much more about myself.
I love the way you have expressed through your blog Rachel. If the world saw purpose in this way all the beliefs and ideals and identification would subside.
“Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.” “People are like plants, we all lean towards the light. You are the light. Your inner purpose is to connect with that light and become the love that you naturally are.” Thanks Rachel. Beautifully said. I have learned from your blog.
A lovely and simple distinction you make Rachel that purpose is not what we do – rather it is discovering and nurturing who we truly are. It is so easy to be tempted to look to what we do for our fulfillment, I get tripped up by this again and again. All of the possible definitions of purpose you are proposing are encouraging and anyone of them by themselves is worth considering. Thank you
This makes a lot of sense and takes away the whole idea of searching all corners of the earth for the purpose or meaning of life. There are those who have been there, done that and it has shown that it hasn’t worked. Enter Universal Medicine into my life who have presented that there is something within me far grander and deeper then any exploration or search I do to across the world. Re-directing that search and exploration inwardly removes that feeling of being lost.
Another great blog, Dr Rachel Hall – it makes so much sense. I was hooked on this purpose stuff being something I do for the world and there was no focus on the inside. What you have done is made it so simple here for me and I really get that I no longer have to save the world or do anything other than to be me. I am a lifelong work in progress but I am well on my way thanks to the wisdom and teachings of Universal Medicine, which I have applied because they make sense.
Great Comment Bina Universal Medicine does indeed make so much sense of quite a crazy world.
And yet by being you Bina you are helping to save the world by reflecting a different way for people to be in the world and discover their own purpose.
Hi Rachel, re-reading this one year on, I still find it inspiring. I like that you say ‘Purpose has nothing to do with what you do. Purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are: to know and love yourself and to reflect that love to the World.’ There is so much we try to ‘do’ and yet ‘be-ing’ is everything. How great it is to truly appreciate ourselves for the amazing beings we are instead of beating ourselves up for all the things we have or haven’t done.
So many powerful lines in Rachels blog. This one particularly struck a cord this evening ‘What if your purpose is to build an everlasting relationship with yourself, to fall deeply in love with the precious you?’ Beautiful
Amazing, and how true it is. A much needed reminder. I was introduced to ‘purpose’ in elementary school when I was told to go to college to be something. Imagine if true purpose were taught instead!
This is a super helpful guide that I resonated with deeply. It’s a great relief to not be continuing that seemingly endless search for my purpose in life, and I appreciate the loving reminder.
Wow your expression is divine Rachel. This is true wisdom…More than thank you, it felt like a homecoming reading this and I will print this too.
Awesome Rachel. When I first started reading this, it seemed like you had written about me, it resonated deeply. Thank you for clearly presenting puropse. It is great to read it all listed. Very inspirational writing, and one I shall re-visit.
Beautifull, I love you sentence about the plants “People are like plants, we all lean towards the light. You are the light.” So that makes it is natural for us to “lean” into ourselves, to the inner light!
Dear Rachel, your words are truth. Simple, plain and powerful truth. I felt them deeply Thank you.
Awesome Rachel, thank you. It reminds me of how I yearned for something, anything really to devote myself to and derive purpose and my right to exist from.
By your bringing your light to the world you have helped me be clearer in mine, thank you Rachel 😉
Well said Rachel, that’s it indeed 🙂 What inspired and inspiring writing – love it!
Very inspiring Rachel, thank you. I will also be printing this and keeping it in view!
I loved the grace in your words. It healed me.
Very beautiful and inspiring Rachel, amazing!
Thanks for your helpful post.
That’s IT! Thanks for the reminder Rachael 🙂
Thank you Rachel, reading your blog I realised how much we had changed the word purpose, to look outside ourselves, to go and find ‘our purpose’. All the time we are looking we will never find it.
I, like you, was continually questioning and looking, hoping to find it in a job or a relationship only to be disappointed when it did not fulfil what I was looking for. All along purpose was finding me. I loved your line about perfection, it can destroy, in it’s endless pursuit for something that does not exist.
What an amazing read – undoing all the misconstrued ways we can think purpose is about. When it really is as simple as Rachel describes so eloquently. Thank you Rachel for bringing this for all of us.
Thank you Rachel, this has inspired so many thoughts and responses for me. I am recognising the underlying anxiety you describe and know the frustration of a life without a sense of purpose. I have also adopted various beliefs in my desire to find ease and direction. Until I found Universal Medicine I would have scanned what you have written but perhaps not felt it’s truth.
Now I have been learning to love myself and share my light and I can feel that whatever I do from this foundation of self-love is done in purpose. I can see this is more than enough to create a flow and harmony in my life that confirms the truth of all that you have written.
Thank you dear Rachel. I’m actually printing this blog……and putting it on the fridge. I know this, as you’ve written it, to be true AND still, somedays I need reminding. Today was one of those days.
Rachel, you have captured the truth of purpose with your words. This is one to print off for daily contemplation. Thank you Rachel, this is awesome.
Thank you Rachel, Your blog was fall-off-your(my)-seat-AWESOME! “When we consider our purpose to be something external, we may never find it.” You have redefined the meaning of “purpose”. I agree, I will also be printing this article off for regular contemplation, you just make me melt with every word. I have found my purpose (When all along, I was worried about “What if this is not the right job, what if i was meant to do something extra-ordinary as a job”, when all along, the true purpose, as inspired by Serge Benhayon is extra-ordinary, out-of-this-world important, and life-changing). Purpose also seems to be: to live by the highest form of responsibility.
ariannekasi, I love that, purpose living the highest form of responsibility, and it’s ever evolving as we are.
Ariannekas, I felt this really had a big impact with me too, a real marker to live life by. To live by love is our true purpose
Thank you Rachel. I feel myself in your journey’s beginning, it’s like you’re speaking about me…I am 9 months on from my beginning (or rather..return) and am feeling all of this. So lovely to read what came to you with further steps. I feel your words are meant for me right now… thank you again.
. . .and others can be inspired by your light . . .Thank you, Rachel, for an inspiring piece of writing.