Fate and Destiny have one thing in common; you make them both up.
I am a curious person and when I learn or hear about something, I wonder about its origins,
about its truth and how it applies to my life. On my journey of self-discovery, the concept of fate
and destiny has come up a lot and through my natural inquisition I have come to understand the
truth of fate and destiny as an expression of the human condition and human potential.
In one sense fate is something that happens to us, or rather, this is how we experience it. It is
the bad luck, the road blocks, the limitations and the roller coaster of life. Fate is the pattern that
drives your life, originating from your wounding in childhood. Fate gets named when you find
yourself time and time again in the same experience, no matter how different the city, person or
circumstances may be. Often we are bewildered by and victim to these recurring events and
conditions. This repetitive pattern makes us feel trapped by our fate, and we quietly surrender to
it as all-that’s-possible, abandoning our will and our hearts in the process.
Simply put fate is our unconscious beliefs played out by characteristics behaviors that we
experience as the only way to be and survive in the world. A hidden agenda fulfilled by our
assumption that we are separate and broken and require certain conditions to be viable. An
invisible road map we follow unwittingly, fulfilling what we made up to be true about ourselves,
others and the world in those formative years.
Destiny is an entirely different beast. Destiny, though often formatted to fit different belief
systems, is your soul’s inherent tension to create what it loves and why it chose to be embodied.
If you’ve lived long enough and have paid any amount of attention, you’ll have noticed that there
are things that you’d really love to create or experience but, due to our conditioning, we give
these dreams very little runway, either reformat them to something more practical or acceptable
to ‘others’
, deem them unrealistic, put them off until it’s a better time; the list goes on.
Destiny is an expression of our inherent power and connection to source energy. As science
has proven now, energy cannot be created or destroyed. The energy that animates your form
(and makes up your body and the world we live in) is the same energy that created the
universe. Your soul is a universally unique expression of the creative energy that makes up
everything, and it’s come to have an embodied experience on earth for a reason.
Living your destiny is simple yet profound. It’s being the soul version of you. It’s expressing the
inherent freedom you have and what brings you actual fulfillment and satisfaction in your life.
Your destiny is the things that you love, for their own sake. The creation and experience of them
brings you joy in the moments you are being them, and that energy cascades through your
whole life.
We often only have a connection to the whispers of our hearts, our destiny. It gets so buried
beneath our survival that it can take quite an excavation to remember who we are and what we
love. Embodying your soul creates your destiny and heals you along the way. There are actuallyno barriers to you creating your destiny other than remembering and connecting to your inherent
wholeness and listening to the language of your soul – your intuition, and following it.
Both your fate and your destiny reside within you. It’s your choice which one you create in your
life. When you gain awareness of how you limit yourself, you gain the ability to choose
something different. When you remember who you are in your heart, you create the opportunity
to create your destiny and live a fulfilled, joyful, connected life. Both of these aspects of your
humanness are created by you and are your choice. Which will you choose?
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