Many of us are discontented with our work and / or our lifestyle, but few of us can identify what it is we really want. Fewer still have the courage to make the changes necessary to find happiness and fulfillment.

Although most of us live with comforts only kings enjoyed hundreds of years ago, statistics show that increasingly more people experience disillusionment and depression. We might have money and material security, but we lack a sense of meaning in our professional and social lives.

I, for one, experienced such a crisis at the age of twenty-four. I had worked for two years as a chemical engineer in a large industrial chemical plant. I had everything society had convinced me I needed to be happy, but I was completely miserable.

I decided to find a more meaningful occupation. This is not to say that such a job could not be meaningful to someone else. This profession obviously offers much to society and is interesting and fulfilling for many. It simply was not what I personally had come to do on this earth. What may be the perfect role for one person may be boring and meaningless for another.
Each of us has incarnated to play a specific role in this theater of life. When we find our special role and play it with all our heart, we experience contentment and happiness.

We all know within exactly what we have incarnated to do. Many are actually involved with their life purpose. Some however do not feel that sense of fulfillment and satisfaction with what they are doing. If you are one of those, then this chapter is for you.

As in other forms of employment of EFT, our premise is that our true nature is harmony, wisdom and love and that the only reason we are not experiencing those is because of the emotional static which caused by the disturbed energy fields. Once those are collapsed, then we will know clearly what we want to do and methodically manifest all necessary changes in our lives.

A. Questions For Connecting with Our Inner Voice

Before we move on to discuss possible obstacles and how to employ EFT on them, you might want to benefit from this questionnaire which will help you connect more clearly to your own inner ideals and interests.

The following questions may help us find our life purpose.

1. When I was a child the things (activities, hobbies, interests, and ideals) which were most important to me at various ages were:
a. Before 9 years old b. between 9 and 12
c. 13 to 15 d. 15 to 18 e. 19 to 21 f. 21 to 25

2. If I were told that I would die in 5 years, and that I would be healthy and active until that moment, I would live my life in the following way:
a. Family
b. Work
c. Personal time
d. Social life
e. Spiritual life

3. If I had to give three messages to the people of the world which for me were the most important guidelines for them to live by they would be?

4. If I had three wishes from a genie, who could give me special powers, what powers would I ask for:
a. If they were for myself?
b. If they were to be used to help others?

5. If your children asked you why we live, why we are on this planet, what is the purpose of life, what their goals should be in this life, how would you answer them?

6. What are your talents, and abilities, which come naturally to you, which are inherent in your personality?

7. In which situations have you felt the greatest satisfaction, fulfillment or sense of comfort with yourself and the world around you?

8. What kinds of activities or situations bring you the greatest joy?

9. What is it that you think you are best equipped to offer to your fellow man?

10. What talents, abilities or character traits would you like to develop further at this point in your life?

11. Imagine that you are an instrument of a higher universal power (consciousness) which is governing all activities on the earth, seeking to manifest its latent potential in physical reality, through all beings as physical instruments of its expression. What could be the roles, which you (as one of those physical instruments) have incarnated to play in the cosmic drama?

12. Describe here exactly how you would like your life to be, if there were no limitations whatsoever. Remember to describe all aspects of your life: physical, mental, social, professional, family, personal, spiritual, etc.

Study your answers to these questions for greater clarity concerning what your highest ideals and most important interests are.

B. Steps and changes for a Happier Life

Having discovered at least to some degree what is important to us, we then need to make a list of actions and changes, which we believe will bring our lives in closer alignment with our highest ideals and goals.

What would be the changes or actions you would like to make so as to be more in accord with your ideals, true interests and life purpose?
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The next step is to recognize and remove any obstacles to knowing and having the courage to live our lives according to our ideals.