If you had a really good friend who had a really bad habit that lowered their energy, made them sick, created problems in their relationships and sabotaged their careers… what would you do to help them?
What could you do?
(The answer is in my book! Discover Your Purpose: How to use the Life Purpose Profiles To Unlock Your Hidden Potential and Live the Life You Were Meant to Live)
You could, send them to see your favorite therapist? Doctor? Healer? Coach? Chiropractor? Nutritionist? Naturapath? Have them listen to Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, and Tony Robbins every day? Meditate? Become a Black Belt? Punch a punching bag? Scream in the car? Take a vacation in a warm place? Spend time with their family? Spend time playing with friends? Read the great spiritual texts?
And what if that friend was you?
And what if you, like me you had tried all of the above but they still didn’t change the underlying habitual problem?
By the time I was in my late 30’s I had to face that I had a terrible habit. A habit that was hardly noticeable to the outside world but left me in a quiet state of desperation whenever I really slowed down enough to feel it. I knew it as there but I had no idea what it was.
It was just a feeling like no matter what I did, no matter how successful I was in my work, my family and my health, it was not enough and didn’t fulfill me. I always felt like there was something missing.
I used to wake up every morning with an undercurrent of anxiety about the day and then at night went to bed feeling like I should have done better.
Maybe you have this habitual way of using your energy too?
It wasn’t until I did the craziest thing I had ever done, I went to a 4 year Energy Medicine School, that I learn about the source of my bad habit, and the source of how to heal it.
(Find out what I learned in my new book, Discover Your Purpose and if you want to work one on one with me to transform your life, click here to join the upcoming Tropical Intensive)
So what was this horrible habit that I had to face that I had been living with for close to 30 years?
The horrible habit was… drum roll please… trying to be the person I was supposed to be in my mind, not the one I really was in my body!
“Wait!” you say. That can’t be the worst habit?!!! Trying to be the person you think you should be? Isn’t that the American way, strive to be your best? “
Yes, that is the American way, and it is an epidemic causing more pain, illness and life problems than smoking or eating fast food has ever caused.
Why? Trying to be who I was supposed be, not who I really am, means that I was lying to everyone in my life causing chronic relationship problems. And I was lying to myself which meant that every day in every way I was using my daily allotment of energy and life force the wrong way in my body causing chronic illness and anxiety.
Most people spend more energy trying to be seen as smarter than they are, more successful than they are, more loving than they are, more together than they are, more on purpose in their lives than they are, tougher than they are, a better leader than they are, and on and on. I was doing all of them.
Any of these resonate with you?
Other people try to play smaller than they are, weaker than they are, more broken than they are, more helpless than they are.
(How powerful are you really, click here to buy Discover Your Purpose and find out, or click here to work with me in January at my tropical intensive.)
You may also say, “what difference does it make, trying to better yourself or playing small is a victimless crime. You are the only one who suffers.”
Is not living to your highest potential really a victimless crime?
The truth is, not sharing your true gifts hurts everyone in your life, your children, spouse, family, friends co-workers, the planet, and you.
That is why I wrote Discover Your Purpose, to help everyone see that the path to living your deepest purpose and mission is not as hard as we make it.
That is why I started the Rhys Thomas Institute of Energy Medicine to give you the direct experience of what living your purpose really is! And why I created a 4 day Tropical Intensive so people want get a powerful foundation to do this work right now can work with me one on one get a fast track to total transformation.
After using these energy medicine techniques in my life for years, I now am living my dream rather and dreaming. I am certainly not perfect but I am no longer a machine striving to be something that I am not. And I feel moments of my personal greatness every day.
Take the time this holiday season to do a little reading in Discover Your Purpose or join me on blab or at one of my upcoming programs to learn how to take back your power from you own habit of hiding your greatness!
Make a new year’s resolution to discover your true purpose and share your greatness in a way that everyone gets a gift from you all year, the real you.