Very Honest Q&A
What does it feel like walking this soul path so far?
Is it hard walking on your soul path? Challenging?, Loneliness?
Honestly, walking on this path has never been easy for me.
It’s an up-and-down. Contraction and Expansion along the way like every human experience will be.
But what keeps me going is it fuels my heart, it fuels my soul. And the feeling of aliveness it brings. Feeling the life in a fuller potency version. (before it was half-in, half-out, numbing some parts of me)
On this journey, things have never been straightforward like what I learnt from my traditional career path at all.
I honestly feel lonely at times as I watch my old life begin to drift away from me. Farther and Father away from my horizon.
When I look around, everything that I used to be familiar with is completely changing.
And I barely see someone who is on a similar path as me.
Although there are few people there, it still makes me feel lonely and uncomfortable sometimes because I was so wired to fit in and to belong since I first opened up my eyes to see this world.
The fear of rejection and abandonment creeps in from time to time as well.
Feel that discomfort of not being able to answer exactly what I’m doing.
It was so ingrained.
So, it is very normal that at times I doubt myself when I’m walking on this path. And want to retract myself back into the comfort, things that I used to be familiar with. all the things that I’ve known before walking this path.
But once I began to walk there, my soul certainly signalled me back to the uncomfortableness. To sit with it. To feel it all. To feel the uncomfortableness. To feel the loneliness surge from forging my own unique path that I barely see anyone in my circle/environment walk.
Apart from feeling this uncomfortableness and the extreme uncertainty that my soul path brought me, there are many other feelings I get to feel as well. I get to feel more freedom. Feel like being set free. Feel the aliveness of life way more than before. Feel younger. Have more energy with life. Have a child-like curiosity. Imagine new possibilities about life. Waking up with new creative ideas. Often find myself can’t contain excitement about my new writings that I just received the energy. Have more time to pay attention to my body. Heal my body. More time to reconnect with Mother Earth, nature, and the sacred all around me which otherwise I wouldn’t have time to immerse myself in. Fell in love with my life as I started designing everything from the ground to be in alignment with my heart and my soul. ❤️
Does walking on a soul path mean quitting your current job?
No, it isn’t necessarily the case. What I believe is just to do anything from your heart and your soul. And to answer the call of your soul. Taking the baby steps bit by bit every day even if it doesn’t make sense at all in your mind. If your career is very true to your soul, then it’s all good.
Suddenly quitting your job is obviously not a choice for the majority of people. I myself as well. Initially, it was not my choice at all to just quit the whole career and take a career break. I used to try to work and earn some income, but eventually, it was not what my soul scheduled to do. And after 6 months in Edinburgh, my human self was left no choice, but to surrender to my soul and her schedule to go deeper than before. In my case, I was lucky to have my husband and family support me emotionally and financially at this time. I also use my own savings as well. At this point, I don’t mind seeing it gradually depleting that much now somehow.
So, I truly understand this point. But, what I want you to know is to make your soul path a priority. The first priority. You can find a way to gradually leap away from the path that is not truly yours bit by bit. Some people I know just find another source of income (maybe doing an Airbnb) to sustain themselves for a while. Some people talked to their company to take on part-time jobs instead of full-time in order to invest more time in their soul path. Some people adjust their existing career to be something that they feel more ok with. Paul Millerd talked about how he, as an ex-business consultant in the world’s leading consulting company, created a course teaching consulting skills to people for a while in his latest book “Good Work”.
So, Prioritize acting on your soul’s calling. Don’t just keep them on the shelves waiting for something to magically happen. It can be the case that the magical happens as well. I saw that before. But for me, I believe we can take things into our own hands (assisting the universe) in building up the right energy, and the right momentum to draw a new more aligned timeline into your life. Acting on those soul callings is the momentum builder.
As always, sending love and peace to you all.
Good luck with your path!
P.S. I’ll probably do the second part if you have more questions.
