Your Work in the World

The most important aspect of work as it relates to your health is that it aligns with your spirit.

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The Only Thing That Matters

Is this a Need?

It is not WHAT you do that defines the effect of work on your health—it is whether you NEED to be there or not.

For most, this is a complicated concept. How can working in a toxic environment, whether that toxicity is physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual, be the best for your health?

If it is your destiny to be a boxer, work in a coal mine, nurse at the state hospital, or kill pigs at a slaughterhouse in Kansas—if, and this is a big if, that work aligns with your highest good—it is guaranteed it will do the least harm to your evolutionary wellbeing.

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How Do We Know?

By Paying Attention

How do we know if our work aligns with spirit? Ideally, you have evolved to the point where you just know. Unfortunately, for most, this is not the case. When we are ruled by fears, desires, and beliefs about the self and its limits, obtaining a clear sense of what work aligns with spirit can be difficult, if not impossible.

So if you are not yet at the point where you can get clear information, pay attention to your body:

Are you happy with your work? Although you do not like working long hours or dealing with unruly situations, do you feel fulfilled? Then you are probably in the right place.

Do you approach each workday with dread? Do you literally feel the life being sucked out of you? Probably, this is NOT where you need to be.

Finding the right work is not difficult. It does require paying attention to what your body and heart say. It also means listening, with significant skepticism, to the suggestions and rationalizations of the mind.

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No Judgment

The only bad work is work that does not align with your best possible self

THE ONE TRUE GOD has no judgments about what you do for work: Firejumper, Navy seal, pro wrestler, concubine, housewife, CEO, farmer, fry cook, sous chef, beggar, or gigolo. If your work is where you need to be, regardless of its difficulty, it will only support you at the deepest levels of your health and wellbeing.

When speaking to people who are aligned with their work—whether by conscious choice or by chance (ha ha)—there is deep peace in their work, regardless of the chaos that it might entail. Ask an emergency room nurse or doctor, short order cook, or Navy seal: at the center of the maelstrom of their work, there is calm within.

If this is not what your work does for you, then get out immediately.

If you are in resentment, dissatisfied, or feel trapped with your work, you need to extricate yourself as soon as possible. If you feel fear, boredom, or are overwhelmed, I guarantee you are not in the work that best supports your growth as a human being, and you are doing severe damage to your health.

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Things Change

I have to move again?

At one time, the work you were doing was perfect for you. You and the rest of the world flourished. However, as you grow and evolve, there may come a time when you need to change your work.

The universe is constantly communicating with you, and it is vital to pay attention. When it is time for you to change your work, these communications may be subtle at first: a passing thought, an attraction to another position, a moment of reflection where the idea that an alternative work might be more satisfying.

Pay attention—because creation, in its infinite wisdom, will continue to give you messages that will grow louder and louder until they can no longer be ignored.

Let me tell you about Astara.

The Story of Astara

What happens when perfect work becomes a trap? When alignment turns to addiction? This is not a cautionary tale about exotic dancers—it’s a lesson about every one of us who has ever stayed too long in work that once served us but no longer does.

Astara was a dancer. She was also involved in powerful spiritual work, exploring her own beliefs and society’s beliefs and boundaries, the purpose of which was to transcend those beliefs.

Astara was a great dancer. Yes, she was beautiful, and yes, she could dance, but what made her exceptional was her love. During her set, she made it a point that each patron would fall under her gaze, and in that instance, an Arc of Love was created—an expression of the divine love of THE ONE TRUE GOD.

When a human being experiences the Arc of divine love, their experience of it is filtered through their highest level of understanding of love. In the case of most of her customers, sex was the highest form of love they had ever experienced. Astara would gift her patrons with this exquisite love, and for those brief moments, it was the best sex they had ever had.

This was a real money maker.

Astara would go to this work she loved, and she would process her beliefs as she experienced the archetypes of the masculine and feminine energies in their most raw states. Her own beliefs about self-worth, being desirable, or being attractive were dissolved by the intensity of the adoration, desire, jealousies, and material rewards she received from her interactions with the men and women who would come to see her dance.

Throughout most of her time as a dancer, she was spared the darkness that often accompanies such work. However, after a year or so, Astara had learned the lessons she needed. What had been a lack of confidence and beliefs about her appearance, personal power, and sexuality had been transcended and, unfortunately—as is natural in such processes—replaced with arrogance, entitlement, and hubris.

What had been a perfect alignment of spirit and work for her to evolve was no longer needed. It was time for Astara to find new work.

Unfortunately, as do most of us, she had difficulty letting go, having become addicted to the adoration, the easy money, and the power. She was no longer aligned with this type of work, and Spirit, in its most gentle way, began to teach her that it was time to move on. Negative interactions with customers, illness, and making far less money became the norm, but Astara persisted.

It was only after she was tragically assaulted and robbed that she realized that it was time to move on.

THE LESSON

The lesson of Astara is one we all need to take to heart.

When we persist in work that is no longer aligned with our true nature, THE ONE TRUE GOD will inform you—first gently, then more vigorously, and if you are really entrenched in a place you should not be, with catastrophe.

Pay attention! Let go of the trappings: the money, the status, and the sense of worth. Find the courage to ask the question: Is this really where I need to be? If it is not, do NOT hesitate. The sooner you move on to the next level of your work in this world, the better you and this world will be.

One Final Note

If you are clear that the work you are doing is what is needed for the highest good of all, and you hate it, then you need to do the work to transcend the beliefs that are interfering with your alignment with that work.

The work is not the problem—it is the beliefs you have about the work that causes the pain. When you transcend those beliefs and find peace in this work you hate so much, you may find that this is no longer the work that is needed. Lesson learned.

It is not what you do—it is the understanding that, at this point in your life, this work absolutely aligns with the will of the creator. You are in the flow. This alignment guarantees the healthiest life possible.