Discover Purpose: Embracing Your Hero’s Journey

Welcome back,

It is so good to connect with you again today.

In today's episode,

I will be taking you on an inner journey,

Where you can embrace your own hero's journey and find the gift that's held for you in your life's lessons and experience problems,

So you can shine your light in the world and inspire others.

If you're new here and would like to get the most out of this,

I invite you to listen to the three previous episodes first,

Before diving into this journey.

By doing so,

You can become aware of what your coping strategies might be and how they impact your everyday life and business.

Joseph Campbell explored the hero's journey through mythologies and stories,

Deconstructing and comparing religious and history.

He discovered that most,

If not all,

Hero's journeys have a particular pattern they go through to come back to a place within where the hero or heroine can shine their light in the world and inspire others to create a better life.

Each problem and life lesson holds a gift in itself when we are open to it.

If you look at the definition of the word problem,

You will see that in Latin,

It is described as a task that is proposed.

Exploring this idea rather than looking at a problem as a burden that has been brought up on us feels so much softer.

It is more open and holds a gift for us if we are willing to take it on,

Transform it and make lemonade out of the lemons life has provided for us.

Similar is true for our coping strategies and saboteurs.

Looking at them in a way that they have come here to support us in times when we needed them to survive or to cope with a certain situation and that they never wanted to do us any harm,

Helps us to make peace with them.

It might soften the impact they hold on us.

Yet making peace alone doesn't shift the perception of life and how our lives unfold.

Our developed coping strategies still play out in our lives as they believe that we still need them,

Even though the incident which brought them into our lives lies way back in the past.

Being aware of this,

Making peace with them,

And committing ourselves to catch them before they come out to play,

Helps us to ripen the fruits of our hero's journey,

So we can shine brightly with the gifts and lessons we have harvested through our lifetimes.

Moreover,

By being all of us,

We can inspire others and have the positive impact we came here for in this life as it ripples out from our overflow,

Making the world a better place.

I invite you on an inner journey today to connect with your own hero,

So you can start to rewire your story and what is happening in your life,

So it becomes a gift that helps you shine,

Inspire and encourage others that need to see you shine.

If you have experienced complex trauma in your life and have not yet come to a resolution within your experience where you feel safe or worked with a professional,

Please stop this audio and revisit it when you have worked through them and are ready to embrace your own hero's journey fully.

Chances are that you are more in your head than in your body at the moment.

Let's change this.

I invite you to get comfortable and take a few nice deep breaths.

Close your eyes if it's comfortable for you to do so,

Or have a soft and diffused vision so you can focus within.

Notice how you feel when your chest expands as you inhale,

And how you feel when your body contracts as you exhale.

Notice the temperature of the air as you inhale,

And the temperature of the air as you exhale.

On your next deep breath in,

Notice what parts of your body expand with micro movements,

Just staying present in the moment,

Observing the sensations and movements of your body,

So your mind gets the opportunity to calm down.

Now your awareness has the chance to drop more and more into your body and into your heart space.

Let's stay here for a moment longer.

Maybe put one of your hands onto your chest and connect even deeper to your heart space and notice your heartbeat.

Continue to notice the micro movements of your body through the natural rhythm of your breath.

Imagine or envision a beautiful white light beam starting to surround you and lifting you up from the ground.

As it lifts you up further and further into the sky,

Just notice and observe how this feels to you.

You drift further up into the sky till you arrive at the all-knowing center of the universe.

As you float calmly in the center of the universe,

Observing the stillness around you,

I invite you to look down at Mother Earth and notice how far away you are seemingly big problems from the past and the present are.

It might be even hard to connect to them and to even imagine how much space they have taken up in your life up to this point.

Ask the all-knowing center of the universe to show you your own hero's journey.

As you do,

Notice a beautiful golden thread starting to stretch out in front of you and taking you through the timeline of your experiences while presenting you with the gift of each experience and problem has carried for you.

This beautiful golden thread keeps you safe,

Moving through your timeline with ease and stopping for a moment at each phase of your life that holds a gift for you so your energy body is ready to take it on and your experiences get rewired into something that is serving you by seeing the experiences through the distance of time and space.

They are no longer as big as they seemed at the time you experienced them.

Shifting the perspective and holding these experiences as lessons or gifts that are ready to be brought forward into the here and now.

Be assured the gifts are coming forward and you will become fully aware of them when you are ready for them.

There is no need to know everything now at this point and moment.

Trust that when the time is right they will reveal themselves to you.

Continue to observe and notice how this golden thread takes you deeper and deeper on your journey.

Till you arrive back at this point and moment in time,

Stay there for a moment longer.

Notice and observe what has become present for you before you slowly start to notice the room around you and you within again.

Take a few more nice and deep breaths.

Wiggle your toes and your fingers and flutter your eyelids open when you are ready.

Observe and notice how your body feels now.

Observe for a moment if you have already been able to find the gifts in your experiences.

Maybe you have been able to see them clearly already.

That would be wonderful.

Sometimes it takes a little while for this beautiful energetic journey to catch up with us and for the awareness to drop in fully.

Just be patient.

I invite you to spend some more time and reflect over the next few days on the gifts your life experiences hold and how this can inspire others.

Return or play with the thought of what it means for you to embody your heroes or your heroine's journey and how this impacts positively on the world around you and you within.

Our consciousness moves in a spiral.

And that's a good thing.

Revisiting things over time and looking at them from new perspectives as we go deeper enables us to drop more into our being and releases more of the fragments that no longer serve us.

With this in mind,

I invite you to revisit this and the other podcast episodes as often as you feel called to align,

Envision,

Release and soften into more of you.

You are worth it and deserving to live your best life.

Because when we connect to our own hero's journey,

It can bring things up for us.

So please make sure to be gentle to yourself and get support if you need it.

One of the things that I personally find very helpful is to support our vagal nerve tone,

To be more balanced so the experience we have in life settles and softens.

This way we are much more likely to take on a new experience in a deeper,

More fulfilling way.

If you feel called to support your vagal tone and come more into rest and regulation,

I invite you to check out the link in the description and access your simple and powerful fight or flight vagus nerve reset exercise as well as the sound bath recording.

I like to leave you with a short and sweet quote from Joseph Campbell again.

Follow your bliss.

It will make your hero's journey infuse with much more ease and lightness.

In the next episode,

We will be exploring how to create success and fulfillment on our terms.

Make sure to join me if this is something that speaks to you.

Wishing you success and ease on your hero's journey.