By: Janice

Janice — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 19:39:15 +0000

Choosing Meaningful Activities : A Spiritual Perspective
People have been conditioned by society to believe that if we find a meaningful activity in the outside world that fulfils our basic needs, and has meaningful goals, often doing things that make others happy, amongst other things it will inevitably make us happy.
From a spiritual point of view, the first meaningful thing a person needs to do prior to choosing a specific activity is for you to feel happy within yourself. As you can never know what truly makes other people happy or how they will think or react to what you do, you cannot “do things for other people” with a guaranteed positive outcome for them. All you can guarantee is your own feelings if you are deliberately aware of how you are directing your thoughts and feelings about what you are doing.
It is only from a place of feeling good that everything else will then fall into place, including finding activities that feel good. Aligning yourself from within first is what determines the quality of your experiences. Each person is responsible for themselves as to what quality of experience they will have. No-one can “make another happy” and sustain the effort.
We have been led to believe that finding an activity that suits you will make you happy. However, we now know that the opposite is actually true. We know this idea works in opposition to the Laws of the Universe, specifically the Law of Attraction. You can only get what you want from a place of feeling it first and aligning with it, even before it manifests in reality.
When a person however does not know what activity to choose, how can they get to the point of finding an activity nonetheless that they will enjoy?
If you do not know what to choose as there is nothing that you really feel particularly attracted to or are passionate about, “going general” can sometimes help. You can ask yourself the following questions:
Where am I now regarding how I feel with my life?
If you feel dissatisfied and empty, bored or clueless, take time to firstly acknowledge your “present point of being.” Don’t judge it. Just accept it. You are where you are.
Then ask yourself if you want to feel better. If you do, then ask yourself what the next baby step is you can take to feel slightly better, even if it merely is acknowledging that you want to feel better.
You can say to yourself: “I want to feel the best I can…..it’d be wonderful feeling better……”
“It would really be nice if I could find something I enjoy doing….”
Go general: i.e. ask yourself general questions:
Where would I enjoy being as I do this activity or work – inside or outside? With people, or do I prefer working or being on my own? Do I want a job/do an activity that is serious or is fun? Do I want to stay in one place or would I like to move around? Would I like to travel? Etc.
By asking general questions, you will possibly get some clarity or direction about what kind of general environments and conditions feel good and suit you or resonate with you.
Use your imagination and dream about feeling good. The most important thing before you even will be able to find a specific activity that will make you happy, is for you to feel happy. You can only find a happy activity if you yourself are first in a place of happiness.
The Law of Attraction brings us things that we are vibrationally aligned with. This means that like attracts like, so if we feel lost, we will only attract more of feeling lost to us, and it will be impossible to find anything of significance to make us feel better.
The idea then, is not that the activity is important, but that we take care of how we feel in general, and feeling good is the way to go.
Ultimately, what you do is not of primary importance. Whether your goals are simple or lofty, easy or difficult, require talents and abilities, will change worlds or simply maintain worlds, all these are really not of significance where you as an individual are concerned. How you feel about anything you choose to do is what determines your happiness rather than what you will achieve for the world.

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