Exercises for Finding Purpose

Here you will find a selection of self-reflection and meditation exercises you can do by yourself that are effective in increasing self-awareness and understanding yourself deep down. Often all the answers are already there in our heads, we just need to focus.

Accident Or On Purpose?
Thea Westra has been listening to some audio tapes by Robert G. Allen and worked on one of his recommended exercises. It's very effective if you really spend the time e.g. an hour or more and focus well in completing it, plus even repeat it a few times to gain yet greater clarity.

Act As If Your Life Were Perfect
Most of the time we live so far away from our ideal life that we even don’t notice. We either accept without complaining and live a life of silent desperation, or we don’t accept and fight against our own misery. Both ways lead us to exhaustion and fatigue. This article proposes very powerful ways to discover your ideal life and to start living it.

How to discover your life purpose in about 20 minutes
Steve Pavlina describes an exercise you can do to discover your purpose.

 If you had only one wish
A simple yet powerful exercise you can practice daily.

 Meditation Exercise
Great visualization exercise to help you to achieve specific goals by Niquenya D. Fulbright.

 Your Mission Makes Itself Known Through Your Passions
Ineke Van Lint shares how to discover your unique mission by looking at different clues.

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