By Rhys Thomas
What if you could buy a ticket to the life you’ve always wanted to live, the one you know you were born to live?
Like most people, you’d probably step right up. But the truth is you don’t need a ticket for something that is already within you just waiting to be discovered. What you need is to get clear on what your purpose in life is. Then the road ahead is easy. It spreads out before you, and suddenly you have the energy to accomplish all that you desire.
The life you were born to live….
So how do you figure that out? Well, you can’t figure out your purpose. Instead, the path to that deeper self-knowledge is through tuning into and then trusting your feelings, an experience of resonating rather than reasoning.
The key is you realizing that who you are is your purpose. You think your purpose is something outside yourself that you will eventually catch up with and then get to live. Sorry, but your purpose isn’t out there.
And that’s the good news.
Discovering your purpose is a matter of feeling what it is, not doing what it is. Trying on different careers endlessly, jumping from one job to another, hoping one of them will be “it,” is exhausting and defeating. Or maybe you’ve been stuck in a work situation or relationship that has never been the right one for you, but you tolerate it and suffer silently because it’s what you are “supposed to” be doing.
But when you learn to feel your unique calling that has never left you since the day you were born, all that shifts. You have the power to close the gap between what you feel is your purpose and what you actually do in your life to express that purpose.
The 5 Soul Qualities
From my decades of experience practicing martial arts and energy medicine, as well as studying and applying the work of revolutionary thinkers Alexander Lowen and Wilhelm Reich, I’ve learned that each of us has a unique quality that can be felt energetically, and that quality connects you to your deepest purpose in life.
There are five universal human qualities embodied in each of us, visible as distinct physical types and representing unique soul qualities. These five qualities make up five “soul profiles” of people who are born to live a life of creating, feeling, caretaking, leading, or achieving. All five are equally essential in the world, and when you discover which one you are, you will make sense of your life. How you choose to express the qualities unique to each type is yours to discover.
Which one do you feel yourself resonating with? Are you a creator, bringing forth the future through you brilliant ideas; or a feeler, tuning into subtle levels of human emotion and love; or a supporter, being the loyal one who holds any system together; or a leader, destined to inspire the masses; or an achiever, responsible for seeing the bigger picture and getting the job done?
These are the five kinds of people in the world, and each of us is a combination of the qualities represented. But only one of the qualities describes your primary purpose in life. You will resonate most deeply with one of these—the creator, the feeler, the supporter, the achiever, or the leader—because you were designed to live and feel your best in the energetic field that is characteristic of one of those states. Once you reconnect with this dynamic quality of who you are, and fully embrace it in your life, your purpose is naturally expressed, first in yourself and then in the world.
When you are aligned with your unique soul profile, living on purpose soon becomes second nature. When your purpose is integrated at that deeper level, you can have the life you’ve always wanted, including success in your career, fulfillment in your relationships, and the energy and well-being to fully enjoy your life. You know what to do, and you never have to figure it out.
It starts with feeling your purpose from the center of your being and having the courage to express your unique quality. Are you called to create through your ideas, to feel from your heart, to support the team, to lead the masses, to achieve the greatest mission? Only you know why you are here, and that is linked to who you are. The place to look for your purpose is where your purpose has always been—inside you.
To know your soul’s purpose is to embark on the journey of a lifetime. Along the way, you will find your unique place in the universe and come to live as a whole person, the person you were born to be.
