There is a wider intention behind your life — your personal feeling of purpose.

See your life choices without fear to know your purpose.

article from ‘you have a place/purpose’ series — a.i. image collectively created by human artists.

In this life, you have chosen a path. You have chosen to attract certain flavors of experience. You have chosen to be something. And, for each of us, the basis of that ‘something’ is a human being.

To be human is to be a highly limited form of consciousness by containing the breadth of our perception (by limiting our consciousness through the use of selective unconsciousness). We choose to experience this because those limits create a highly focused form of consciousness that yields intense, expansive, revealing experiences.

Focusing your attention may heighten your awareness of what you are focused on, but it achieves this by limiting its span. To focus your attention is to limit it through the exclusion of all that is deemed to be extraneous. It is important to see the limitation/exclusion alongside the benefits of being focused to understand how there is always balance. There is power in focusing, just as there is power in having an extremely wide breadth of perception.

Focusing is not more powerful than not focusing. Being unfocused is not more powerful than being focused.

There is no positive or negative in it. There is no hierarchy in it; just the choice of how you wish to experience reality. The meeting of your heart/instinct/intention and your experience of the present moment determines whether you tighten or loosen your focus … your aperture of perception

Your choices are not predetermined.
Your choices are intentional.
Your choices are full of your intention.
Your intention is revealed by your choices.
Your choices express your desire.
Your choices reflect your nature.
Your choices paint a picture of you.

Your life is not predetermined, but there is an intention behind it. Fueling you. Driving you. Unfolding you. Creating you. Speaking to you. Revealing you.

You are ‘the creator’ within your living creation … within your creation of life. You are the life that you — the creator — are creating. You are that which creates the wider intention behind your life — the dream in your heart. To know the dream in your heart is to recognize the wider pattern that connects the events (and their associated transformative feelings) of your life that have played out over your time-space journey. It is to see a pattern within your diverse human experiences. This is the pattern/path/shape that perceptually emerges when you view your life without fear or attachment … when you no longer fear how you may perceive yourself. As long as fearfully refuse to acknowledge yourself as the creator/chooser of your experience, you cannot see the pattern that connects because you will only be seeing half the picture (the positive events you accept you chose to experience).

While it is certainly not true for everyone, our lives are more predefined than we like to think. We fear the idea of our futures being predetermined even when we are told we are the ones who chose the definition/shape of that predetermination. This is a contrary position as we repeatedly demonstrate that we appreciate (and often mentally and emotionally benefit from) having a routine. This is a good example of how fear can polarize our thoughts and feelings, making them seem as if they are different (or even opposing) aspects.

Mentally we want to know our futures are not set. We mentally fear being predetermined. We mentally crave freedom.
Emotionally, we want to know what’s coming around the corner. We fear the uncontrolled emotions of facing the unknown. We crave the safety of unknown.
Without fear, our thoughts and feelings operate as a unified translator/expresser of reality.

It is strange how we hate suffering and yet crave freedom because lives that are left wide open are far more challenging than lives that are relatively predetermined. Open lives are what happens when explorers of consciousness — perhaps one such as yourself — choose to potentially discover/translate into being/reveal new challenges. When it comes to being human, after you have tasted the core experiences/journeys, the potential for fresh experiences increases when we birth into less definition, not more.

However, with that said, that is not what is happening currently for those who most resonate with these ideas (people who have lived many human lives). We have done that. We have wrung the laundry dry. The territory has been mapped. The limitation … the forgetting … the collective unconsciousness has been explored, and we are now coming out from that stage of the journey. We have explored predetermined lives. We have explored undetermined free lives. We have explored personal spiritual awakening from every conceivable angle. And now…

We are ready/wanting to experience the collective awakening of the planet. This is to begin our return.

This is not some state of achievement or graduation. It is more the case of a traveler who has visited somewhere so many times that it holds nothing new for them. It is a reflection of time spent somewhere, not about what was achieved there. Spiritual wisdom in human form is not a reward for effort. It is a sign that you are getting ancient (in terms of the duration of human lives you’ve lived).

In saying this, I do not wish to paint an idea of a conscious choice where we have collectively decided we have exhausted the experience and, therefore, it is time to move to return. This is not like deciding you are done with a hobby. Spiritual awakening is the logical completion of having mapped the territory. Although there are infinite shades/harmonics within this reality, and it can potentially unfold forever, the size of the territory is known, and we have covered it. We can zoom in further for more detail, but there is no more land to discover.

As one door closes, another opens. As one circle completes, a new one begins. There is no choice. It is the mechanics of reality.

You have made big choices for this life. You made these choices at the level of reality I draw/channel my writing from (commonly called spirit or the non-physical). Our minds want to imagine this in literal ways, but even though these choices are highly impactful, there is nothing literal/definite within them.

We were each a sculptor, imagining the shape we wanted to create. We did not imagine each hammer swing hitting the chisel that would render that shape into physical reality.
We were each a painter, imagining the image we wanted to create, not each brush stroke that would render that image onto the canvas.
Your intention is a melody of emotion, not a sheet of music. You are the movement, not the steps. You are the emotion of a song, not the lyrics.
We choose the energies we are attracted to, not a list of people’s names and addresses.

The revealing of the path of relativity that unfolds is your foundation for the transformation of this world through the delivery of yourself into it.

You will walk the path/carve the shape you have intended.
You will feel the feelings you have intended.
You can walk this path at any speed. You can rest when you want. You can run when you want.
You can take as many detours as you want. Go sightseeing whenever you please.
You can take as many lifetimes as necessary to experience everything you want to experience in the fulfillment of your intention … in the walking of your path.

This is what intention looks like. It is this desire to feel and experience, and you manifest that intention by focusing on it. However, while you are free to focus elsewhere, there is a natural inclination toward the intended route. The route/shape is encoded in your heart (your center of feeling). Your heart contains the route. The encoding is a pattern of associations for attraction and repulsion. This creates your personal flow within the wider collective flow, carving your shape.

You are programmed to be attracted to that which reflects your intention.
You are programmed to be repulsed by that which denies your intention.
You were attracted to the shape that has become your self.

To follow your heart and go with the flow is to let go of the oars of your boat and align with the natural unfolding of your intention. This is to move quickly in the central flow of the river that is your consciousness. To go sightseeing is to use your oars to take a detour. However, when you’re done, you don’t need to row back to your intention, you just stop rowing and let your natural state of attraction bring you back to the central flow.

Your intention/shape is naturally asserted through your presence in reality.

Your intention for this life is not linked to the time stream. It is flexible. It is a path of intention to move through different areas of experience and collect that experience as a form of relativity. The path you have traced through your life has led you to the state of relativity/relative perception that currently exists within you. This is how your body embodies your past.

Even the events in your past that you are most uncomfortable with strengthen you in how they expand the relativity of your experience and, thereby, your perception of that experience. Everywhere you have been has been with purpose because, even though you did not predetermine where you would go, you determined the feeling of the kind of places you would feel drawn to visit.

Nothing in your past is there to make you regret it. Nothing—except a person blinded by fear—requires your regret. Everything is a valuable/valid aspect of your uniqueness. Everything is present in the final translation. There is nothing extraneous … nothing that requires you to discard it.

Your life is the revealing of your uniqueness.

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