RECLAIM YOUR DIVINE SPARK

I’ve seen professionals sacrifice everything for their careers, spending countless hours at work, focusing on providing wealth for their families, but not really being present or engaged. It’s the American Way, right? I’ve known so many professionals who have achieved so-called success. They’ve earned the degrees, climbed the corporate ladders, made the money, obtained the spouse, and bought the house in the gated community complete with swimming pool and tennis court. They produced 1.5 children, and parked two matching Land Rovers. They’ve achieved the appropriate magnitude of social status. They have all that money can buy.

Even after all that, they realize they’re just not happy. 

They may be unhappy because they’ve put deep, emotionally-connected, intimate relationships on hold. Their unhappiness may involve many relationships with people who were only drawn to their social or financial status. They may be unhappy because they’ve spent so much time on acquisition and preparing for retirement that they haven’t invested in their relationship with themselves, in the moment, as they are. They certainly haven’t been investing in spiritual pursuits. Maybe they’ve joined a church in response to social pressure or in search of more meaning, but they just don’t feel alive there, or any closer to anything spiritual.

More and more they are asking themselves “What is the point?”

At this stage, they may agonize that time has been lost, that they can’t recover what slipped away while they were focused on everything but their own sanctity and self-awareness. They may interpret their lack of sound priorities as an indicator of their own failure and foolishness, and go in search of a guru or guide to teach them how to live. They may think they have to go to India or the Amazon to reconnect with the divine, or that they need some special group or holy community to help them find themselves again. They may dive in, study deeply with a spiritual coach, join a church, or find some new dogma that promises to help them find meaning and purpose, all the while not realizing that all they really need to do is to connect with the divine spark inside them. 

This was my journey too.

I thought there was an established path to happily-ever-after. I obtained the degrees. I got married. I had a child. I started a couple businesses. I bought a big house on a lake. I even went to church every Sunday and joined the PTA. What I realized was that nothing was going to have true meaning, nothing was going to be long lasting, until I connected to the divine within. 

I had to remember the divine spark that I was born with, and I had to remember what my true calling was. I had to learn to clearly receive and boldly act upon my divine, inner guidance.  

Each step that I took, the purpose got louder, and I answered the call. The result was exhilarating! People showed up. Amazing, supernatural things started happening. I began to feel aligned, held, but I had to genuinely put myself out there. The first step was reaching out for guidance. We’re not meant to do this alone. Even though the divine spark you find on your journey will be unique, I hope that in helping you reclaim it, you will find the same peace, satisfaction, joy, and abundance that is your birthright.