3 Keys to Thriving: Purpose, Prosperity & Ease

By Julia Mikk, a featured speaker in the Breathwork Summit
 

In my practice with my clients, I help them thrive living their bigger purpose, and I define thriving in a simple way: living their soul purpose in a way that aligns with prosperity, and having ease doing what they love.

Purpose. Prosperity. Ease.

It is my experience that most people come to me having figured out one or two of these things. Sometimes they are very successful and don’t need to work hard any longer, but have no soul purpose.

Other times, purpose and ease flow gracefully, but they are living far from the prosperity they would like.

No matter what the combination and the factors that may have caused it, the result is the same: a knowing that their life is not as full and as bright as it could be.

Before I go any further, let me define what I mean by purpose, prosperity, and ease.

Soul Purpose is doing what you love — the most meaningful thing you do in life. A soul purpose allows you to jump out of bed excitedly in the morning because love and passion fuel your motivation. This can range from motherhood to starting your fourth multimillion dollar business, or writing music to environmental advocacy. Everyone’s path is uniquely theirs, and a big part of it is learning to connect to yourself, trust yourself, and follow your innermost joy to what you really want.

Prosperity is a simple one: the financial abundance (and other material resources) that support you in feeling completely taken care of. Your soul is free to express itself because the body has all it will ever need.

Ease is getting off of our Sisyphean path of pushing a rock up a hill only to have it tumble back down, and then starting the process all over again — for eternity. When we find ease, instead of pushing, working hard, struggling, we attune to a higher intelligence that shows us shortcuts to what we want. I call this deep wisdom Inner Guidance.

When I work with my clients, I have them answer 5 simple questions to see if they’re thriving:

1. Do you feel completely comfortable in your physical body? Do you have pain or suffering? Or, do you have a sense of freedom and well-being? Being comfortable in the body and being relatively pain-free, shows me a client who has enough rest and self-care to take care of themselves. It also shows me a mindset of ease.
2. Do you live on your terms or are you stuck in someone else’s schedule? Do you have a career that allows you to be authentically in your own flow each day? When you need a day to rejuvenate or recalibrate, can you? Or when you’re called to listen to a deeper voice from the soul, is there room to do so? This freedom allows flowing from the wisdom of your Inner Guidance, not pushing from the head.
3. Do you absolutely LOVE what you do for a living? Does it bring you joy and fill you with inspiration? Does it feel like an honor because you know the impact you are creating?
4. Do you have enough money? Can you follow a deeper calling from one day to the next? Or have you become stuck in a job that once promised something but now seems more of a burden? True financial freedom means having your needs met, bills paid AND joy followed (vacations, health-care, massages, mountain climbing... whatever it is that makes you come alive).
5. Do you let yourself receive support? Hint: those who are always inclined to answer, “I’m fine” when asked how they are doing can never thrive. There is a direct correlation between accepting support and success, both personal and financial. Visionary leaders do not refuse to accept help and they don’t refuse to ask for it — they must, because otherwise they can’t fully actualize their purpose or create the better world they are here to create.

If my clients have prosperity, purpose, and ease, there is still the matter of bringing them together so they can support one another. There are three pieces that can help you do this.

1. You need to know that you completely deserve joy and well-being. You must be willing to give it to yourself and to accept it from others. This is not easy for many of us, and some “inner work” may be necessary for this first, vital step.

For some, this means prioritizing your own well-being more. Stop saying “yes” when you actually feel a NO. For others, it might mean to stop making other people’s needs more important than yours.

If you are reading this article, you are most likely a spiritual, heart-centered human who cares about others (a lot). However, people like this are the very people who tend to leave their own needs behind. As a result they end up disconnected from themselves, exhausted, not doing what they love, and sometimes far from the financial prosperity they know would make their lives much easier.

Tip: Starting today, be curious about the little nudges and desires you have to move in a certain way in your life. Start with simple things. When you want to drink water, get up and pour yourself a glass of water. If you need rest, pause what you are doing and give yourself some rest. If you want to laugh and make a joke, allow yourself to do so. If you want to take a long scenic route home, go for it. And let yourself enjoy it.

This practice starts training your nervous system and neurochemistry in following your inner guidance, one step at the time. Plus, it trains you to believe you deserve what feels good to you. It opens you to receive it.

2. Take one step beyond talk therapy. Talk therapy is wonderful and can really help us to let go of unhealthy stories we hold about ourselves and our world. But we need to work deeper than that. The body (and nervous system) needs to be included in any inner work, so that somatically-held trauma and hurt can be processed and released.

Part of thriving is living more from your heart and intuition, which is another way to say living more from your body rather than from your head.

As a somatic therapist and founder of Breath of Love Process, I have seen thousands of times how somatic therapies create an immediate and profound change in a way that just “talking about your problems” can’t. I highly recommend experiencing it for yourself.

3. Let yourself receive support and guidance from those who have created a life of purpose, prosperity, and ease for themselves. There is no need to work hard trying to reinvent the wheel. This is why the very best coaches have coaches of their own, and the very best therapists do their own therapeutic work.

We cannot see our own blindspots — we need a mirror, someone who can reflect back to us what is unseen. This requires humility and courage, because we must be humble enough to admit when we need help, and courageous enough to face what we find.

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This article is designed to help you begin to thrive in your own life. If we lived in a world where everyone was thriving, the world would look very differently than it does now. We can’t fix the world’s problems if we leave ourselves broken. That is how we would only continue the cycle of dysfunction, inside ourselves, inside our families, and inside our world.

Keep an eye out for excuses that might prevent you from beginning this journey in earnest. Excuses that keep you where you are today and, in so doing, ensure that tomorrow will be very much the same.

Thriving is not something for the elite few, for the privileged alone. Thriving is our birthright, and it begins here.

Julia Mikk, born in Estonia and now living in Boulder, Colorado, is an internationally renowned healer, teacher and bestselling author. She is the founder of Breath of Lovemovement with certified Breath of Love Practitioners in many countries.

Julia’s experiences instantly change people’s lives. Her clients come from all over the world to experience the shamanic Breath of Love process, receive a deep emotional and physical healing, and embody courage to live their soul purpose.

Julia brought Breath of Love to life thanks to many powerful awakenings she had with her spiritual teachers. Some of the most important ones being Gangaji, Dan Brule, Binnie A. Dansby and a Peruvian shamanic lineage. Yet, many of the greatest lessons and awakenings came thanks to her own personal journey which wasn’t always easy. She got a chance to move through the times of deep depression, dark nights of the soul, anorexia, and bulimia — that’s where she learned more than ever before about the power of self-love, oneness, and the true meaning of healing.

Now, Julia masterfully weaves her realizations of non-duality, breathwork, shamanic studies, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, and psychotherapy into her Breath of Love sessions. She helps people experience a powerful liberation from past karmic knots, and clear out the old patterns that are manifesting as lack, worry, fear, or health issues.

“It is about coming back home to who we really are, and being able to experience deep love and ease in every moment,” she says.

During the last 12 years she has taught Breath of Love to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.

Many people have said that it’s like no other breathwork style out there. It is very powerful, incredibly efficient, and quick in its ability to break through stagnant patterns. Yet, even though the work comes with a powerful force of light, it also offers an astounding depth of Divine Feminine gentleness and nourishment.

This is one of the main things Julia emphasizes: “Deep letting go and healing do not have to be a struggle. The idea of a struggle itself is an old belief that can be totally released from our reality. It is time to have our life be filled with peace, abundance, and love.”

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