Alan Seale - Soul Mission, Life Vision: Recognize Your True Gifts and Make Your Mark in the World

This book creates a joyful and effortless system that blends mind, body and spirit to create a comprehensive life. The exercises throughout the book are thought-provoking and will open the reader up to become more intentional and tuned-in to living their lives. Soul Mission, Life Vision is a must-read for people who are ready to enjoy the journey of their lives!

Terri Levine, Master Certified Coach and author of the

international best-seller, Work Yourself Happy and Coaching

for an Extraordinary Life

Soul Mission, Life Vision is infused with the loving authority and humility of one who clearly knows his own mission and has the rare gift of being able to guide others in manifesting their soul intentions. Alan Seale has woven together three golden threads: the seasoned teacher's awareness of the questions, challenges and promises of seekers; the mystic's intuition and ability to channel Spirit; and thirdly, the scholar's penetrating understanding of ancient wisdoms. Be prepared to read with underliners and journals close at hand. I will certainly be recommending this book to clients, students and friends.

Gloria D. Karpinski, author of Barefoot on Holy Ground and

Where Two Worlds Touch

A comprehensive, in-depth guide for life alignment, this book will be of great value to many. Alan Seale continues to make thoughtful and heartfelt contributions to the emerging New Age.

Rick Jarow, author of Creating the Work You Love

First published in 2003 by

Red Wheel/Weiser,LLC

With offices at:

500 Third Street, Suite 230

San Francisco, CA 94107

www.redwheelweiser.com

Copyright 2003 Alan Seale

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. Reviewers may quote brief passages.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Seale, Alan

Soul mission, life vision : recognize your true gifts and make your mark in the world / Alan Seale.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 1-59003-013-3

1. Spiritual life. I. Title.

BF624.S43 2003

291.44DC21

2002152833

Typeset in Aldus

Printed in Canada

TCP

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8 7 6 5 4 3 2

To JP, with much love.

THIS BOOK WAS A GIFT from Spirit. My relationship with Spirit as mentor, guide, and support grew each day I wrote. I am profoundly grateful for this opportunity, and offer my gratitude and love to Spirit for this extraordinary year of creation and birth, promise and fulfillment.

I also want to thank all of you who participated in Paradigm Shifting and Soul Mission Life Vision classes over the last year. Your willingness to share your journeys, celebrate your victories, and face your challenges, offered deeper understanding of the process of identifying mission, creating vision, and manifesting dreams.

Many thanks also to those of you for your time, energy, and love in reading all or parts of this manuscript, and for offering invaluable feedback: Beth Barrett, Sandra Bilotto, Dr. Kathleen Calabrese, Sue Evans, Shari Garrett, Dr. Michael Heggerty, Daniel Karslake, Gerry LeBeau, Rev. Joel Rosow, Rev. Dr. James M. Seale, Mary Dudley Seale, Dr. Arlene Shrut, and Devin Wilson.

Tremendous admiration and thanks to the whole team at Red Wheelespecially Jan Johnson, Robyn Heisey, Jill Rogers, and Chris Wold. Your support and belief in this project is a marvelous gift.

And finally, my deepest thanks to Johnathon Pape for your constant love and support. Thank you for endless hours of working through every page with me, and your commitment to helping me find just the right words. We made the journey of this book togethera journey that fed and sustained us both. The journey continues, and the gifts continue to unfold.

THIS IS A BOOK about youa journey into Self and into the world. It is about your dreams and aspirations, your daily life, your future, your relationships, your thoughts, your beliefs, your intentions, your priorities, your wisdom, your spirituality, and, ultimately, your freedom. It contains ancient and timeless tools, support systems that can launch and sustain your process of self-discovery and life creation in the 21st century. It propels you forward on your personal spiritual path and empowers you to recognize and fulfill your soul's mission here on Earth. In short, this book is the owner's manual you never received when you entered this world, offering both the theory and the practice that can lead you to getting the most out of your lifephysically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

This book opens a passageway to the soul so that you may know its truth and mission. From the truth of your soul, you can recognize and examine the paradigms or belief systems by which you define and create your life, and then make the necessary shifts in those beliefs to allow the soul to accomplish its mission. At that point, you release yourself from the ties that bind you to limiting beliefs and behaviors so that you can dream without restriction. Recognizing your true gifts and the ways you wish to share those gifts, you then see clearly your role in the world, the path toward making your mark and establishing your legacy.

Within this larger journey into Self and the world, there are many smaller journeys and opportunities. First, there is the opportunity to learn about choice and decision. Our formal education process does not teach us a method for making choices and decisions. As a result, we tend to be forced into decisions by circumstance rather than by our own initiative. With this book, you will learn to make choices out of desire and personal plan, rather than out of circumstantial necessity. Choice can be proactive rather than reactive.

This book will help you understand more clearly that action without clear intention, decision, and aligned thought ultimately produces less than full-potential results. Intention is a key factor in the manifestation process. Aligned thought means that your inner desires and outer actions are in harmony with one another, and that they are both in alignment with the larger, universal flow of life.

Conscious awareness is expanding rapidly in our culture. More and more people are realizing that they must fit their life into their spirituality rather than trying to fit their spirituality into their life. Your life is your spiritual journeyrecognizing the flow of Love in your life. I speak of Love with a capital L as the creating and sustaining force of the universe. You might also call it God or Spirit or Universal Mind. Kahlil Gibran said in The Prophet, All work is empty save when there is love... [for] work is love made visible. I rephrase that statement so that it says, All life is empty save when there is Love, for life is Love made visible. It is a conscious choice to live in the constant flow of Love. What is important is that you find your way into that flow and live every moment within it.