Bloom
Health & Wellness
By Tiffany H. Taft, Ph.D.
A healthy energetic countenance from the inside out. Our most important work in this lifetime may not be our job. It's a conviction within your soul, recognizable if you allow it to shine.
Sometimes it takes most of our lives to discover our life's work, even though we may have been doing it our whole lives without necessarily realizing it. Our life's work is not always what we do to make money, although we often think it should be, and sometimes this way of thinking prevents us from seeing clearly what it is. It may be the work of having children, caring for your parents, or volunteering in your favorite organization and giving the gift of time. The way we know our life's work is by how we feel when we are doing it.
When we are doing our life's work, we feel a sense of ease and alignment. This doesn't mean that the work is always easy, and it doesn't mean that it's the only work we must do; it just means that there is a conviction deep inside us that tells us we are in tune with our innermost self. When we are engaged in our life's work, our bodies feel more alive, because our energy is devoted to a cause that, in turn, feeds us. We may be tired after engaging in our life's work, but we are almost never depleted. We feel grounded in the world, knowing that we belong here and have something important to offer. It is divinely aligned, and you are able to live from the overflow.
When we are deeply unhappy, depressed, or subject to one illness after another, this may be due to a sense of disconnection from our life's work. At times like these, finding the work we are meant to do is an essential act of healing. Most of us remember a time when we felt fully engaged in some act of work, service, or creativity, and it is here that we may rediscover the work we are meant to do now. If this is no longer your why or you can’t even connect to the sentiment of this message, maybe it is time to re-evaluate your WHY. When we find them, we owe it to ourselves to nurture and protect them, because while they may or may not be our livelihood, they are the keys to our wellbeing.
Tiffany H. Taft, Ph.D., is an Integrative Health and Wellness Therapist focused on the science and well-being of the Mind, Body, and Spirit. You may contact her directly via email: info@sacredsoulwellness.org or via her website: https://www.sacredsoulwellness.org. You may also follow her on social media @sacredsoulwellness on Instagram and @drtiffanytaft1 on Facebook
