From Discontent to Follow Your Bliss!
Posted on November 11, 2012 by Michael Casteel, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
If you want to live your most meaningful and juicy life you must follow your bliss! Don’t ignore your soul’s call, say YES, follow your bliss."
Follow Your Bliss? If you want to live your most meaningful and juicy life you must follow your bliss! Don’t ignore your soul’s call, welcome divine discontent and respond with a bold YES! This will lead you to find your “inner muse” and to “follow your bliss.”
YES, do say yes to the evolutionary impulse inside you of souls urge to grow. This may sound a little airy – fairy to you but hang with me. It will make more sense to you within a few short paragraphs and you’ll be one step closer to finding and following your bliss.
The people who seek me out and become a SOULutions client typically don’t ask: " Can you help me find and follow my bliss?" They want a practical solution to one of three problems they are facing:
1. Relationship dissatisfaction
2. Work dissatisfaction
3. A yearning for “something more,” a more juicy and meaningful life to wake up and come home to.
I help my clients produce effective and positive life changing results in all three of these areas. Yet, over half of my clients fall into the third category of feeling that something is just missing from their life, that there must be something more, something more meaningful, authentic and creative that gets their juices flowing. These are the Follow your bliss seekers, whether they realize it yet or not.
These clients are often successful professionals, perhaps like you, who have followed a solid path of education, career, self improvement, marriage, children…, all with the promise of one day arriving – being happy and fulfilled. Yet, in spite of the success, you simply aren’t feeling the joy and life satisfaction any longer that you hoped you would. Can you relate to ever feeling this way? Do you know anyone else who might be struggling with this mid-life encounter now? If so, I can help!
My greatest passion and life-calling is helping people like you who are experiencing divine discontent to find the joy and deep satisfaction that is missing by helping you to find what I call your “inner muse” and “follow your bliss,”as the late Joseph Campbell so wise and passionately recommended.
Your inner muse is a form of self expression unique to you that leads to you making a meaningful and often creative contribution. It’s what you’re here to do! I like to say: It is exactly what your soul is craving and world is needing! It’s the solution (aka: a SOULution) to the divine discontent you are currently experiencing. But don’t wait too long!
A PIVOTAL MOMENT!
The way you respond to divine discontent will determine if you become AWAKE to the Truth that will set you free and lead to the life of joyful and meaningful contribution that I mentioned above or go back to sleep by continuing to pursue the same familiar ego strategies that got you where you are now-successful yet unfulfilled…. and certainly no deep and abiding experience of following your bliss going on!
Interestingly, many of my clients who are in the first two categories of seeking solutions around their work or marriage are now disparate for immediate help because their relationship or work is now in serious danger. They are in their predicament precisely because they felt divine discontent and rejected it by electing to continue relying on their old strategies of attempting to get more of what they don’t any longer really want in the first place.
Their refusal to listen to the spiritual call of their soul to grow beyond their ego identification often results in a more ambitious pursuit that got them where they are but won’t take them to where they want and need to go.
This often leaves them feeling empty, disenchanted, angry or numb. They are emotionally and spiritually unavailable to those closest to them and lack the motivation to pursue their dreams. Now, they are in crises.
In classic shamanism, the individual is chosen by the spirits, often with no warning, and is not allowed to refuse the “gift”, or they will suffer illness, and/or insanity, and/or death. Classic Shamanism is nearly always accompanied by a traumatic death-and-rebirth experience, after which the personality is radically changed.
It’s a natural part of the maturation cycle that is not to be avoided, to grow from dependent to independent to interdependent. As children and teenagers we were dependent on our parents and teachers with the goal being to learn what is needed to “fit in” and become a successful, independent and contributing member of society. In the independent stage the focus is largely on the pursuit of success and achievement, and this is well and fine…until it’s not any longer. In the interdependent stage of life the focus now becomes on finding meaning and feeling whole… to find your inner muse and follow your bliss! This about discovering who you are ,what you are made of and what you want, beyond the conditioning that helped more or less successfully navigate the first two stages of your life. Yet you are at the beginning of a new stage now. Make sense?
So, when you or someone you know is experiencing divine discontent, know that this is Spirit’s call to grow beyond the limitations of the ego-self and engage in the soulwork necessary to grow into a new level of being and finally become the authentic YOU were born to grow to BE. It’s time to find and follow your bliss.
So, what is your inner muse? What creative and meaningful path will you follow….or create…that is your bliss? If finding the answers to these questions feels important to you contact me today to set up a free 30 minute consultation and we’ll look at these questions together. At the end of your mini session you’ll be one step closer to finding and following your bliss.
Good Bliss You!
Michael