Don’t like your job? Transform it using the magic of purpose.

The results of a remarkable experiment demonstrate the power you hold to completely transform your job. The experiment is believed to have taken place during the Great Depression when many were unemployed, destitute, and purposeless.

As I understand the experiment, the U.S. Army employed two groups of previously unemployed men. The first group was taken out into the desert to dig holes. They worked very hard all day in the scorching sun, and every day was the same: Go to a new location in the desert, dig holes, and return exhausted.

Amazingly, and in spite of the back-breaking work in the desert heat, the more they dug, the happier they got. They had a purpose even though they didn’t know why they were digging the holes.

The second group of men had a different job. Every day they would go to a different location in the desert to fill holes. They didn’t know about the first group of men. All they knew about their job was that they were being paid to fill holes. Like the first group, they labored all day in the hot desert. This went on day after day. At the end of each day they were exhausted but satisfied. Lo and behold, they became happier too.

This hole digging and hole filling went on for some time and both groups of men had become significantly happier than before they started their work: They were productive and had found a purpose. Now watch carefully what happened next, because the experiment wasn’t over…

One day the foreman of each group went to the men to tell them about the other group of men and what they did. When the men realized there was no real purpose to the jobs they were doing, they were devastated. Their purpose was destroyed. None-the-less, the experiment continued. For every single man without exception, the hole digging and hole filling was sheer misery. Both groups of men were extremely unhappy. Even though the pay and the work was exactly the same as it was before, they were miserable. Nothing had changed, except their sense of purpose was absent.

This experiment reveals a great insight. If we can find genuine purpose we can gain tremendous job satisfaction. But any type of purpose won’t do. You have to know how to create the right kind of purpose. Let’s see how…

Purpose is determined in two ways. Sometimes a purpose is seemingly delivered to us by others, like our bosses. As employees we typically adopt the purpose our company needs. Those who are self-employed adopt the purpose of their clients. The second way purpose is determined is that you look beyond the immediate task to see its higher, more noble meaning. So rather than simply accepting your assigned tasks and adopting the task as your purpose, introduce an extra step of finding the higher purpose in your task. You’ll still do the same task in the same way physically, but now you’ll add the magic of a higher purpose.

Here are some examples. Say you’re a locksmith and your task is to install a lock on someone’s front door. If you only adopt the purpose of installing a lock successfully, you might be happy or miserable; gratified, or not, by your work. Instead, of accepting the lock installation as your purpose, look for the real significance of your task. Your purpose isn’t really to install a lock, is it? That’s just the task. Your purpose is to protect a family from criminals. You are a protector. Someone who saves people from violence, burglary, and even murder.

Or perhaps you work in an office and must prepare a report for your boss. If all you see in the task is that you must create a report, you won’t have much fun. Ask yourself, “What’s the higher purpose of this report?” Maybe your company is a pharmaceutical company and the report will permit your boss to ensure that new drug research is funded. That humble reporting task is about to save a lives. What if it were your child’s life, or your spouse’s life, or your parent’s life. As you begin pulling the data together for your report, keep your higher purpose in mind. Treat every detail as if one person would die if you got it wrong. Make it your highest work. Five years from now, compare the difference between these two outcomes. The research funding was approved and your parent’s life was saved. Or, your non-recognition of the higher purpose led to sloppiness that lost the funding and you caused your own child’s death.

Or, maybe you work in a factory packaging food. You feel your job is monotonous. Would it be so monotonous if you mentally followed the food you’re packaging? Imagine it leaving the plant in a truck, arriving at a market, getting purchased, and then getting cooked and eaten by a family. Maybe that food is part of the only meal they’ll get that day. Or maybe it’s for your family a week from now. Your purpose isn’t really to put food in a package…is it? Isn’t the higher purpose to take away the pain of hunger? You are giving the kindness of pain relief to another. Never mind what your co-workers or society thinks of your job. Every morsel of food you treat with care and protect from spoiling is a noble, if not sacred act of kindness. It is a gift.

Purpose is something you choose to apply to the tasks you do. You can be hero, a person of nobility, or a savior, even in tasks that others consider humble. One way of finding a higher purpose in your tasks is to think altruistically. For example, picking fruit may seem like hard physical labor. Yet if you treat each piece of fruit as a gift from nature (or God) that is going to remove someone’s hunger, the act of picking fruit becomes an almost holy task, an act of removing hunger. Likewise, mopping the floor or washing clothes can be transformed from a chore to a gift of cleanliness for your family, the same family you care for dearly. The true value of each task gives us purpose, a reason for caring about the quality of the outcome.

If you are a spiritual person, higher purpose may be readily discovered according to your beliefs. Take purposeful action according to your faith. Your actions become a form of worship or communion in perfect alignment with your ideals and the Universe. Ask yourself how you can best help others. By thinking in terms of the good you can do, and reinforcing that to yourself as you work, your purpose brings peacefulness, good will, and satisfaction.

Without such purpose, all you have are miserable, lowly, repetitive, unrewarding tasks. With purpose, you lead a high and noble life that is filled with meaning and purpose and value. Remember how miserable the men in the desert became without purpose? Had each one adopted the personal purpose of communing with the land, the soil, and nature, and had they taken interest in the rocks and things within the soil, they would have enjoyed every strike of the shovel. You can do the same with your job

Copyright 2005 by Julian Kalmar.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.  ~ Thomas Carlyle

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My copy of Webster’s Dictionary defines faith as “firm belief in something for which there is no proof”. Although a certain degree of proof is available in elementary particle physics that we do indeed, create our own reality, I for one, can’t be bothered to learn all that (even if I were convinced I could).

When we have the intention to create a certain reality, experience, or manifestation in our lives through the power of our thoughts, some form of faith is required. We may have faith in the assistance of a Higher Power, our personal will or the Universe in general. Where this faith is clearest and strongest is where the higher quality manifestations can appear.

What happens though, if faith in ourselves, in who we believe ourselves to be, is shaken? Before we can have faith in anything else, we must have faith that we exist in a particular state, or as a specific identity. Similar to, “I think, therefore I am”, there is a basic belief foundation which must be present in order to establish additional beliefs on top of it. If you don’t believe you think, can you believe that you are, using this example?

Let’s look at some other examples of this:

“I’m a good person, therefore I should receive Divine assistance.”
“I have a powerful mind, therefore my will can perform miracles.”
“I live in a Universe of Order, therefore order manifests for me.”
These are each worthy principles, which many metaphysicians employ in their subjective practices. What happens though, if the foundation principle gets rocked by life? There are certain types of life crisis points which can shake the sturdiest of us.

For instance:

“I’m a good person”…but I swindled my sister out of her share of the inheritance.
“I have a powerful mind”…but the shock of losing my child has caused a breakdown.
“I live in a Universe of Order”…but my neighbor was shot in a fit of road rage.
These are examples of how life can test the beliefs which we live by, and if we ourselves feel that we’ve failed the test, our ability to consciously manifest is crippled. If our world fails the test, we can become embittered and withdrawn. If we wish to continue practicing as metaphysicians, we must heal this foundation of our belief system.

In my experience as a therapist, I’ve found that the basic beliefs which keep us functioning, that keep us from crawling into a corner and waiting for life to be over, are most often accurate. They weaken though, because of certain interpretations which cannot withstand crisis. These interpretations are “add-ons” to the belief, which we may mistakenly interpret as the belief itself.

Here’s how this works:

The belief, “I’m a good person” is true and valid for you up to the point where the interpretation becomes the (unvoiced) belief that, “I never do anything hurtful to another”. The mind can run with this, adding on additional assumptions and correlations such as “Good people are perfect”, or “I must be a Saint”. Violation of these concepts becomes unforgiveable. However, the original belief, “I am a good person”, allows for personhood and humanity, warts and all. A human person has the opportunity to make amends, correct mistakes and move on. Someone who believes they are perfect or a Saint doesn’t have this option, and therefore crumbles in the face of reality, until they can face their humanness.

The belief that, “I have a powerful mind” is a personal favorite of mine for therapeutic purposes. This is because the opportunities for growth are so great after the false assumptions fall away. An inherent weakness that can follow this belief, is an (again, unvoiced) attitude of “There is no state higher than Mind”. This fallacy is exposed when the heart is broken. “A powerful mind” is still valid. It is not, however, the end all, be all of existence. That same mind can open itself to the possibilities inherent in the power of the heart, making room for vulnerability, surrender, and true peace of mind.

“I live in a Universe of Order” can be very spooky when upset for a metaphysician. When chaos reigns, manifestation can zoom out of control. Nightmares can become reality and “poltergeist” activity can occur. Yes, a Universe of Order is a practical assumption, however when limited to our definition of order, instability can take place. It then becomes necessary to look at a bigger picture of what order consists of. When our neighbor becomes a victim of “random” violence, there are obviously factors at work which we’re ignorant of. Is our neighbor one who exercises such paranoid caution that his fear attracts violence? Did his family need to learn lessons of self-sufficiency? Just the understanding that we don’t know all these answers can be comforting. Hindsight, viewing the outcomes of specific events from the perspective of time, can enable us to see this greater picture.

As we utilize the techniques of reality manifestation, our faith in ourselves and in our perception of how life works, is generally strengthened. An interesting side effect to this is that we grow, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. It’s unavoidable. As we grow, we encounter situations which provide an additional maturing factor to our experience. The issue is, whether these maturing elements will make us or break us.

Most people who have been on a spiritual path for a period of time are familiar with the phenomenon of friends and aquaintances turning away from alternative philosophies and jumping into fundamentalist Christianity or other heavily authoritative religions. This is a common occurrence when one becomes frightened of power, especially our own.

Most maturation experiences of any kind, involve teaching us a greater degree of self-sufficiency. When elevated to the plane of self-sufficiency in creating our realities, the responsibility can seem too great. In my experience, frequently the assumption of frightening responsibility is an illusion. As long as we’re doing time on planet Earth, we must accept that we don’t know all of the answers, and will occasionally be caught by surprise. This doesn’t invalidate the power and ability that we do have, and evidently were created with. As we enter more fully into grownup-hood in any arena of life, we discover that mistakes can be made, and assumptions can be challenged. This discovery doesn’t need to stop the process of growing up, it needs only to refine it.

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As he was dying, the Buddha said, “Be a lamp unto yourself.” I think he was challenging us to become aware of our spiritual essence, to read ourselves by our own light, to follow the path that resonates with our own hearts and minds right here, right now.

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As we recognize our own unique light, we can choose to shine it on the people and places that need illuminating. For the good of the world, as well as our own personal good, it’s vital that we tip over the proverbial bushel and become aware of the beautiful and distinctive light that we have been given to share.

Settle yourself into a comfortable place and position and allow your breath to deepen naturally. With each breath, any tension that you are feeling begins to wane, drifting lazily and effortlessly out of your body as you exhale. The more you relax, the more you sink into the darkness behind your eyelids – a safe, embracing, womblike darkness wrapping around you like a soft comforter.

Stay here, safe and warm in the velvety darkness, as long as you like. At the right time for you, notice in the distance, a small pinpoint of light. Gently and leisurely move toward the faint glow. Coming closer, you see that the light is emanating from an exquisite lamp resting atop a lamp stand. If you don’t like the lamp that you see, allow it to fade and be replaced by one that feels right for you. Realizing that the lamp is a symbol of your unique inner light brought forth by your wise subconscious, ask it to share its wisdom with you.

By the light of many lamps, much can be illuminated.

I am my own best light.

I share my love and light.

~  Author Unknown but appreciated

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Just rekindle the inner flame within you and you fill you will be illuminated with a more enlightened life  ..

Confidence, or course, shouldn’t be confused with cockiness.  Confidence is not just a positive personality trait, in today’s competitive job market it’s absolutely a requirement.  Knowing you are as important as your colleagues is incredibly important not just on a conscious level, but subconsciously as well.  Being assertive, rather than passive, will help you get what you want.  There’s no reason to consider yourself inferior to others, so it’s time to stop feeling that way deep down.

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H ere we are creating sacred rooms for people to create, heal and improve themselves. These rooms are inspired by the channel from the Group: The Sacred Room towards an energy healing

The Eight Sacred Rooms in a vibrational energy healing

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These Eight Sacred Rooms vibrational energy healing  have been set in order for most effective use. Use them any way you like or allow us to suggest the following:.

1. State your creation in the first room carefully. Be careful what you ask for. . . you will receive it. Then revisit the room the next day and see if it feels complete. If it is not complete, reword the creation and post it again. Take as long as you need until it feels right, posting no more than once in a day. When you feel complete with your statement, move to the next room.

2. Follow this order with each room until you complete all eight. In each room find something to say about your creation. If the room topic and suggestions do not seem to apply to your situation, simply post that in the room and return the next day and read it again. If it feels complete the next day when you return, then move to the next room. Understand when writing that you are not writing for others. This is between you and the Universe.

3. Please use common sense and Remember that the idea is to create a safe space for all to heal themselves.

4. Improving your life can be set into motion in as little as eight days, however this is not a race. We only ask that you remember one point. Enjoying the journey is more important than reaching the destination. Enjoy the ride!

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I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound. On exam, it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound.

While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry.

The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife. I inquired as to her health.

He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was a victim of Alzheimer’s Disease.

As we talked, I asked if she would be upset if he was a bit late. He replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not recognized him in five years now.

I was surprised, and asked him, ‘And you still go every morning,even though she doesn’t know who you are?’

He smiled as he patted my hand and said,
‘She doesn’t know me, but I still know who she is.’
I had to hold back tears as he left, I had goose bumps on my arm, and thought,
‘That is the kind of love I want in my life.’

True love is neither physical, nor romantic.
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With all the jokes and fun that are in e-mails, sometimes there is one that comes along that has an important message. This one I thought I could share with you.

The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have.

I hope you share this with someone you care about. I just did.

‘Life isn’t about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.

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Go through it with a touch a passion and start living the correct way…

1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead.

   Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow.

   Do not walk beside me for the path is narrow.

   In fact, just sod off and leave me alone.

2. Sex is like air. It’s not important unless you aren’t getting any.     

                                                       
3. No one is listening until you fart.     

                                                                       
4. Always remember you’re unique. Just like everyone else. 

5. Never test the depth of the water with both feet. 

                                                                           
6. If you think nobody cares whether you’re alive or dead, try missing a  couple of mortgage payments.  

7. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.  That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.  

8. If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.  

9. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.  

10. If you lend someone £20 and never see that person again, it was probably well worth it.  

11. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.  

12. Some days you are the bug; some days you are the wind screen.  

13. Don’t worry; it only seems kinky the first time.  

14. Good judgment comes from bad experience, and most of that comes from bad judgment.  

15. A closed mouth gathers no foot.  

16. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.  

17. Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your lips are moving.  

18. Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.  

19. We are born naked, wet and hungry, and get slapped on our ass…Then things just get worse.  

20. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

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