Do we have a life purpose ? Something we were born to do ?

A hypnotherapist I know why I have a great deal of respect for said just this to me.

I note that there appear to be some NLP coaches who suggest the same.

Is there something in this or a load of ......

What's the general view ?

What is your view?

Do you believe you have a life purpose?

What's the purpose of wanting to know the views of others?

What do you hope to have accomplished by having obtained answers to the question you have posed?

Regards,

I think your life can have a purpose if you want it to.

Do we come born with one, that's our purpose by default? Well, I don't know. But I think if we were, it'd be just what the instinctual drivers are: survive, procreate, bring up the young and then (admittedly not an instinctual driver, but a fact of life au naturel) become food for something with big teeth. Fortunately, we beat that last bit.

I don't think it would be something philosophical, like "I want to do great things for the world". I think you develop those kinds of life goals as you learn and grow.

Cheers

Read Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl... and then discover your purpose for yourself.

Venus

matthew_harrison wrote:

Do we have a life purpose ? Something we were born to do ?

A hypnotherapist I know why I have a great deal of respect for said just this to me.

A hypnotherapist you know says that there is a life purpose?

Can you ask him for me how he knows this please?

Thanks.

John

Failure is not the inability to succeed, failure is giving up the attempt

matthew_harrison wrote:

Do we have a life purpose ? Something we were born to do ?

A hypnotherapist I know why I have a great deal of respect for said just this to me.

I note that there appear to be some NLP coaches who suggest the same.

Is there something in this or a load of ......

What's the general view ?

You were born into this life to live it as you see fit according to your free will. Your purpose is whatever you choose it to be is it not? Only you can answer your own question.

If this is not the case, then what else could it be?

Dave

matthew_harrison wrote:

Do we have a life purpose ? Something we were born to do ?

I think there is. I also think we can't be permitted to know what it is, or we'll mess it up.

Reading Why Me, Why This, Why Now?: A Guide to Answering Life's Toughest Questions by Robin Norwood was a life-changer for me.

I believe there is a life purpose too. Some people hit on their purpose early in life and are able to live their passion easily. Others take a while to find it, and still others go through life seeking their purpose (even if they wouldn't describe their feelings of being lost in those terms) and that's where NLP can be a massive help.

Perhaps some people are good at asking questions of themselves and finding good answers. Maybe others benefit from the questions being posed by others, and being opened up to the 'right' answers for them and the choices they can make that lead to greater freedom and living their purpose.

Just to be clear, are you saying we are 'given' a life purpose (by something) and we have to discover what it is?

Cheers

Not sure that it's 'given' by anything/something Stephen - that's the big chunk question in this discussion.

I am sure we all do have a purpose that comes from somewhere within.

I'm happy with the metaphor that a life purpose exists.

In general, I prefer to frame things such as purpose, love, happiness, etc, as things you are empowered to create for yourself rather than something you 'have to find'.

Framing such things as entities that are found rather than created, in my opinion, is more likely to create therapy clients than discharge them.

It's one of the key idea-shifts I've picked up from Micheal Neill's work.

Cheers

I like that. It clarifies my 'somewhere within' - and I agree that we're working to discharge people not keep them.

Off to re-read some Michael Neill :-)

Steve_W wrote:

Just to be clear, are you saying we are 'given' a life purpose (by something) and we have to discover what it is?

In the reincarnation model with which I'm familiar, we choose our purpose before we are born. We then choose the circumstances of our birth so that we are likely to achieve it. We discover how well we did after we die, and we adjust our aim for the next go-round.

Michael_DeBusk wrote:

In the reincarnation model with which I'm familiar, we choose our purpose before we are born. We then choose the circumstances of our birth so that we are likely to achieve it. We discover how well we did after we die, and we adjust our aim for the next go-round.

If the collective aim synthesising the will of these separate metaphysical entities doing all the choosing is ultimate destruction of ourselves and the earth, we're doing a bang-up job.

Mario_Basler wrote:

If the collective aim synthesising the will of these separate metaphysical entities doing all the choosing is ultimate destruction of ourselves and the earth, we're doing a bang-up job.

What you see depends on what you focus on.

I like generalizing the old camper's credo: Leave this world better than it was when you came into it.

May everyone depart your presence with a smile.