Let’s start from the beginning. Who are you? What do you desire? Where do you want to go? What is your life purpose? Simple questions yet do we know the answers? Well… we can clearly provide an educated response but how true and authentic is it? To what degree is this an answer that, rather than to your needs, responds to other people’s wants and demands?

Have you ever even thought about this strange idea, that instead of living YOUR LIFE, you have been living the “life of others” repeating, and diligently following the storyline that you have not even attempted to make into your own narrative? A storyline that you adapted from others without questioning its application to yourself… And how well does it really serve you?

When I said let’s start from the beginning I meant awareness. Awareness is the knowledge and understanding that something is happening or exists. When it comes to us, we certainly know we exist as beings. Most often than not however, our actual knowledge and understanding of who we are and what we desire is less than ideal. In fact, many of us live without asking any of those existential questions. But if we do not ask them we will never know the answers and without the answers we live an unconscious life. We live on an auto pilot according to the rules and beliefs that we adapted as children in the process of  growing up and education. We live off of those storylines that we got from our parents and other authority figures, storylines that we keep repeating to ourselves not even knowing that many of them disempower us and create blockages that keep us trapped. Many of those storylines are fear driven with the very fear that is not even ours. We do not own it, we inherited it. It is a paradox that we are unaware of until we decide to raise our awareness and create our own narrative.

Awareness is everything…

Without awareness you cannot make a choice, and cannot change anything. It is the starting point of all change and conscious life. It is a state in which we define what is. We identify our beliefs, all the tools we have to navigate the life, all the stories, programs and models we have been fed. In the state of awareness we can clearly see what we got. What package, program, model we have been living. Seeing that for the fist time is a pretty powerful moment. Realizing that most of that we adapted without a single question is simply scary. Yet it is the drill for all humans.

Luckily for us we do have access to our life’s blueprint. It requires some time, patience and work, but we do have the ability to figure out what we are made of. This is why awareness is the key. Only from there we can create, change, revise, introduce everything and anything that we wish to have. We can literally create the life we want when we step into the filed of knowledge and understanding. If I were to use a metaphor I would invite you to imagine a picture of an old house that you finally acknowledged needs to be remodeled. You walked through each little room and space in it, and estimated and decided what needs to go, what can stay, and what must come in, so you can have a comfortable and a happy life in it. Knowing that will for sure inspire an action. And so, you will go out there in search of tools, materials and a team of people that will be helpful if not necessary to proceed with the remodel. Couple of months later, you will be able to enter through the door of your newly redesigned house and enjoy its beauty, serenity and comfort.

So as you see, it is a process. And so is connecting and working with all that exists within the realm of your awareness. You cannot build or remodel a house overnight, not if you want to see long lasting effects. Same rule applies to redesigning yourself. And it is a hard work. It does come however with an enormous amount of satisfaction and a feeling of progress. After all, when you work with your awareness, you work with yourself. You discover who you are and what your desires and life purpose are. When you make decisions they are all about you. In the process, you are the house and you are being redesigned in a conscious and empowering manner. Your tools are questions. You use them to dig the truth out of your Soul. The outer layers are sometimes hard to drill through and require most work and effort. But once you get through them, the lake of awareness will welcome you. You will get to wander in amazement and learn. You will meet your own Self. You will get clarity that will shock you in the best of ways. And you will never want to give up this place again to someone else’s narrative because now, you will begin to write your own story. This story will be born out of your potential. It will be aligend to your own life purpose. It will also give you all the tools you will need to execute it in the perfect way. You will be you, you will know what you want and you will live your life purpose.

You can start by answering those several questions. Take a journal and write your answers down. Writing is the best way to go as it is a creative process which brings a lot of information onto a surface of a piece of paper. I call it a thought download because aside from the question that is specific, the answer simply flows out of you and takes its own direction. Do not overthink it. Just write.

• Who do I think I am?
• What have I learned about myself from my mother, my father, another authority figure?
• What limiting beliefs about myself do I hold?
• What do my limiting beliefs cost me?
• How different would my life be if I did not have those limiting beliefs?
• What qualities do you admire in other people?
• What qualities would you like to be known for?
• What do you do or tolerate in your life that demeans you divineness?