Living the Song Your Soul Sings, By Anisa Aven
9/03

Christmas day following my high school graduation, I was mischievously eager to announce that I was moving to California. After waiting patiently for the perfect moment, I announced, "I have been accepted into the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. I am moving to California to become a professional actress." I braced myself for the inevitable, whirly confrontation. However, I was not prepared for this: “Congratulations! We always knew you'd be moving to California one day." I was dumbfounded! "What? What do you mean you always knew? Why didn't anyone tell me?”

It seemed that everyone but me had accepted and expected my life purpose to include living in California and pursuing an acting career. I simply didn't have the confidence to listen to that little voice inside my heart that everyone else seemed to hear so clearly. All I heard was, "What if I don't make it? What if I'm not pretty enough? What if I fail?”

The words we speak and the thoughts we entertain are either the air that fans or the water that extinguishes the flames of our dreams. Choose wisely and you can create a more conscious, deliberate life; a life in harmony with the song that your soul sings - a life in harmony with your life's purpose.

Our life purpose is always calling us. It's that little whisper we hear when we have an important decision to make. It's that little intuitive inkling that says "yes" when others around us are saying "no." It's that loud emptiness that we feel when we know we've made a decision for all the wrong reasons. Our life purpose is unfolding and guiding us whether we realize it or not and if we listen more intentionally we can hear the song that our soul is singing, calling us, guiding us, encouraging us to courageously and boldly accept the call.

My acceptance into the Academy was not a coincidence but was carefully orchestrated by the Divine. Every event in our lives will ALWAYS be the logical culmination of all that we have desired, dwelled upon and thought about prior to the event.

If you have ever thought to yourself, “I feel like something's missing. I'm supposed to be doing something different with my life”, then you've felt the inner burning sensation that flames over and over in your mind, “What am I supposed to be doing with my life?!”

There is something more, and fortunately, you can intentionally fan the flames by being willing to accept that you are already on the path; by being willing to ask for guidance, and by being willing to listen, act, and trust the process.

When I set out for California, I was certain I would be a famous actress. Then it happened. My theatre history teacher dropped the bomb, “you’re not pretty enough to be a lead actress and you get a C in my class.” I thought surely she’s wrong! Then, the next bomb was dropped when I was cast in my first film: “we’ve changed the script and you have to take off your clothes”, and I couldn’t do it.

Five years, six apartments, two fiancées, 4 jobs, and two businesses later, I realized that I didn't want to act.

"Yikes! Now what? Why did I come here if I wasn't supposed to be an actress? This was all wrong. I was on the wrong path this entire time.” I thought.

I now know that acting school was precisely what I required to create the confidence that supports my current speaking, writing and life-coaching career. It was even Divine Intervention that inspired my history teacher to speak her mind, and Divine Intervention that rewrote the script on my one “big break”!

I had no way of knowing that my "calling" was to come later and that first I had to educate and prepare myself. I am so very thankful now. The process and the path were perfect regardless of whether I was able to see it at the time.

You too are already living your life purpose. All that you’ve learned, experienced, and know is already in alignment with your path and purpose. Those hard-knocks that you’ve endured?… Part of your life’s purpose—that special talent that you have? … Part of your life’s path—that passion that explodes whenever you talk about that certain subject? … Part of what you were born to do.

Living the song that our soul sings means harmonizing with our natural inheritance of abundance and peacefully flowing with the exquisite orchestration of life. As we choose to live consciously, boldly, willingly, and courageously - we not only uplift ourselves but we also inspire others to find their path and purpose as well. A world filled with on purpose beings is a world of joy; a world of peace; a world of harmony and prosperity. Listen to the call and help our planet manifest its final victory song - the song of a billion souls singing in harmony with the world's path and purpose.

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- Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD, MSW, CCH, CRT