Today's podcast episode is about finding the treasures for your purpose in the shadows.

What Time Tells You About Your Purpose

Time, according to Dr. Helmenstine, "is not something we can see, touch, or taste, but we can measure its passage" (Helmenstine, 2019), and because it's a unit of measurement between one event to another, why does time fly when we're having fun?

Dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain, influences our perception of time. Scientific research discovered increases in dopamine when engaged in enjoyable activities and decreases in dopamine when engaged in non-enjoyable activities (Saplakoglu, 2019). So basically, when you're having fun, your brain gets more dopamine, which makes time feel like it's going faster than it is.

This is important to highlight because if we're going to spend the majority of our lives doing things, then the things we do should be enjoyable to us. Our perception of time gives us a BIG insight into what we find enjoyable or boring. Adding onto this, living our purpose (whatever that is) should be enjoyable to us and distort our sense of time because we're getting a dopamine release by doing it.

What are you spending your time on and why?

If you find that you're spending your time doing things you don't enjoy, why?

Are you living your life or are you living someone else's?

Your limitation is your shadow.

Your Limitation Is Your Shadow

We all have a shadow.

Shadows aren't necessarily a bad thing, they're more like aspects of ourselves we've ignored or repressed.

Jung emphasized that acknowledging our shadows is important because when we acknowledge and integrate our shadows can we remember the truth of who we truly are. Jung believed that by reconnecting to the positive side of our shadow, we'll become whole (Academy Of Ideas, 2023).

The wholeness concept Jung theorized is necessary for owning yourself so you can be the BIG ONE you know you were destined to be and fulfill your life's purpose.

The Cultural Shadow Stifling Your Life's Purpose

In today's podcast episode, Hemma talked about her experiences working in the nightclub industry, the expectations placed on women, and the psychological consequences they had on their sense of self.

Cultural expectations create shadows when not met and keep us mind-controlled if we continue giving our power to them. Acknowledging cultural shadows allows each of us to see the outer world for what it is and regain our sovereignty.

Most people conform and that's their choice, BUT if your choice is to be a BIG ONE and live your BIG purpose, at some point you have to look at the shadows like we did, see where you've been mind-controlled and unstifle yourself so you can do what you came here to do.

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