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    Karma, Destiny and Your Career: A New Age Guide to Finding Your Work and Loving Your Life
    Karma, Destiny and Your Career: A New Age Guide to Finding Your Work and Loving Your Life
    Karma, Destiny and Your Career: A New Age Guide to Finding Your Work and Loving Your Life
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    Karma, Destiny and Your Career: A New Age Guide to Finding Your Work and Loving Your Life

    By Nanette V. Hucknall

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    Unlike other career books, this one proposes that your vocation can be part of a spiritual journey that will lead you to on-the-job professional and personal growth. Hucknall provides easy-to-use visualization techniques designed to help you get in touchwith your Higher Self, which knows what your evolving soul needs to be doing in this lifetime. Also explored are the karmic affects of free will, and why you may have feelings of aversion or inadequacy toward your true vocation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateJan 15, 1999
    ISBN9781609257149
    Karma, Destiny and Your Career: A New Age Guide to Finding Your Work and Loving Your Life

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      This is the first vocational book that I have read concerning karma. Interesting infusion of practical advise with spiritual elements. Visualization tools are given to ponder why one's career compass might be off and how the karmic wheel has been spun. The author gives pointers on how to produce better results over time. Worth a look-see if you get bored of perusing other more conventional approaches to career assistance.

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    Karma, Destiny and Your Career - Nanette V. Hucknall

    Introduction

    This book is for you if you are dedicated to the pursuit of your personal goals; if you are concerned about your spiritual growth and how your work can help that growth; or even if you are seeking a deeper understanding of evolution itself. If you already know your life's work but are having problems fulfilling it, there are practical planning and visualization methods to help you work through the difficulties. If you are already working in your chosen field and are experiencing obstacles in achieving success, this book will provide a better understanding of the causes of the obstructions. It will also help you bring goals into focus in your daily life and establish the sound practices that can bring success.

    Such success is achieved through working with the transpersonal or higher Self.¹ This Self is the part of the individual that is connected to and in contact with the higher forces of nature. It contains the wisdom of humanity. Within It is the source of the higher knowledge that relates to the cosmic realms. The higher Self is within each and every person, but few are aware of this part of themselves. This Self is above, and unaffected by, the flow of the mind-stream or by bodily conditions; and the personal conscious self should be considered merely as its reflection, its ‘projection’ in the field of the personality.²

    To grow spiritually a person must awaken this part and bring it into his or her consciousness on a regular basis. The Self perceives evolutionary patterns and understands what each individual needs to accomplish to help spiritual growth.

    To know the Self is to begin to know your own spirit. This book works with the higher Self by suggesting exercises that will help you awaken and contact it. Through regularly working with the higher Self there will come a deeper awareness of who you are, as well as a better understanding of those around you. The higher Self is you, and all your accomplishments are contained within it.

    The higher Self represents a personification of wisdom and is often seen by the individual as an archetypal Wise Being. This figure is generally masculine to both men and women, though it can also appear as feminine. Seeing It personified helps the individual relate to the Self more closely. It is also possible to not see a Being, per se, but to instead see a symbol, or light, or feel energy. In all cases the ultimate goal is to integrate the higher Self into the consciousness so you are working with It at all times.

    Throughout this book, the words vocation and life's work signify broader meanings than their normal usage. In several ways these words connote what in the East is called dharma. Dharma has a variety of interpretations in Buddhism and Hinduism. It represents the way we live our lives spiritually and ethically, as well as the way in which we develop on our evolutionary paths.

    One of the many meanings of dharma refers to the work a person chooses to do in a given lifetime. This work relates to the individual's evolving soul, which incarnates lifetime after lifetime and carries with it, in each subsequent life, all the experiences it has gone through in previous lives—both negative and positive.

    The work one selects is very important, as it always helps the soul go onward to another level of maturity. Everyone has to live lifetimes in such fields as the arts, sciences, philosophies, etc., to achieve the experience needed for spiritual balance. For example, if you have lived many lives in the arts, developing right-brain attributes, such as intuition and imagination, then you would need to have a few lives in the arena of the logical, left-brain sciences to bring balance.

    The purpose of the evolutionary path is for the soul (or individuality) to achieve synthesis with the higher energies and bring itself to the place of total assimilation into the highest world.³ The soul then will no longer need to return to Earth, but can continue its evolution in a higher realm.

    In the ancient teachings, dharma denotes the entire evolutionary path, including the performance and accomplishment of work. It also signifies religion, natural law, universal order, truth, knowledge, morality and duty. I refer to a Hindu definition in which dharma signifies duties and obligations. In the Bhagavadgītā much emphasis is placed on the need to follow or fulfill one's dharma (social duty or role). "The universe is sustained dharma. Ideally each person works out his social career according to the dictates of his own nature (svadharma) as this is itself a product of past experience. Dharma, karman (action or work), and samsara (rebirth) belong together: action carried over innumerable lives must be informed by a sensitivity to the obligations one has in virtue of one's interdependence with others."⁴

    Because dharma includes the hidden influences, both spiritual and psychological, it relates in a much deeper way to what I mean when defining life's work or vocation. Therefore, as you read this book, be aware that vocation or life's work means the specific work you will be doing, but the work also relates to your spiritual and psychological growth, as well as to your relationships with others.

    This book speaks openly about reincarnation and karma. Both terms come from Eastern ideology. For those of you whose culture disclaims the possibility of recurring lifetimes on an ascending evolutionary path, you can translate these terms as impressions, coming from what Jung called the collective unconscious. These impressions can affect your finding and fulfilling your true vocation. It would, therefore, be advisable to substitute unconscious when the book talks about recalling the past (lifetimes).

    1 The word Self is always capitalized to differentiate it from the personal self. Whenever the word Self is written, it refers to the higher Self.

    2 Roberto Assagioli, M. D., Psychosynthesis (New York & London: Penguin Books, 1976), p. 19.

    3 Considered the highest state of spiritual bliss—in Buddhism, it is called Nirvana; in Agni Yoga, the Fiery World; in the Kabbala, the Atziluthic or archetypal world; in Christianity, heaven.

    4. Bhagavadgītā. from The Encyclopedia of Religion (New York and London: Macmillan and Free Press, 1987), vol. 2, p. 126.

    1

    USING THE HIGHER SELF

    TO FIND YOUR WORK

    If you believe you know or have been doing your life's work¹ and would like to learn more about the best way to accomplish it, then you can begin this book with chapter 2. I would suggest, though, that you devote some extra time to this chapter in order to be certain the work you are doing is truly your vocation and not something you chose because of outside influences. If you selected a particular profession for the wrong reasons—to placate a parent, for example, or for ego gratification—this work may not be your true vocation. The exercises in this chapter will tell you directly if you have, indeed, made the right choice.

    For those of you who have thought about life and what it holds for you, but have not decided how you want to spend the rest of your lives, it is important to take as much time as needed to work with these exercises. Maybe you made a decision based on what seemed appealing at the time. Too often the young are misinformed about the kinds of work available and waste years in professions that are boring and unstimulating.

    People can have problems discovering their true vocations for various reasons—including ignorance, lack of education in a particular field, and emotional difficulties. For example, people who have problems with self-acceptance would have difficulty pursuing any vocation that required leadership and responsibility. So it is necessary to look into the inner self to discover the true life's work. Emotional blocks may exist with roots in this life, or a past life, or both. These blocks can keep people from discovering their true vocation. Working with the exercises in this book should indicate any deep-seated blocks that need to be understood. The following case illustrates this.

    Isabel was a 19-year-old woman who came to me for help to discover her life's work. She was in college, majoring in English, but was totally confused about what she wanted to do. Working with her brought up interesting images: wild horses running, a fire burning, a camera, an airplane, but nothing happened when she worked with these images. Finally her higher Self showed her a map of South America. Exploring further, she saw an image of herself in the jungle writing a book she thought was perhaps about botany or the ecological system.

    We did an imagery session during which Isabel imagined going through a typical day in South America. At the end of the exercise she placed the whole experience in her heart² and felt immediately that something was wrong. It just didn't feel like the right work. We went through a few more imagery sessions, changing the work and adding to it, to find out if something was missing, but each scenario failed to find a response in her heart. Isabel was getting very frustrated and self-critical. Why wasn't she getting it?

    In one scene she saw herself in a jeep, chasing a herd of animals on a plain. It didn't develop into anything else, but at the time it didn't seem right to me that it was in South America. I had Isabel go back and relive the scene, and while she was experiencing it, I asked her where she was. She suddenly turned white and started to shake with fear, crying, No, no, I can't go back there, I can't go back to Africa. Isabel then saw herself as a black man running through the jungle being chased by white men. Her feeling was she was captured and horribly killed by them. This past life experience was completely blocking her from seeing her vocation. Her work was to be in Africa, but the terror of being there again was keeping her from seeing what it was.

    Taking some of the images she'd already experienced and placing them in Africa revealed to her that her vocation was to return there and work on the animal preserves. The camera she'd seen earlier indicated that she would keep a photographic record of her work, and the plane would be her means of transportation. When she played this scenario out and placed the experience in her heart, she felt a burst of joy and knew it was right.

    Her higher Self, by first showing her images of South America, helped her work through the fears that had blocked her from seeing Africa. Now Isabel is in college majoring in zoology.

    When we feel we have successfully accomplished our life's work in a given lifetime, we die with a sense of completion which helps our souls to continue onward along the evolutionary path. If we feel we have failed in our life's work—whether that be true or not—karmically,³ we need to return to do the work again, not because of what it means in the material world but because of what it means to our evolving souls.⁴ At this time on the planet, many people have experienced many different kinds of work in various fields, such as the arts, sciences, politics, etc., This is important for the growth of each soul—to experience all these areas of knowledge, but with a sense of achievement. This does not mean that it's necessary to achieve fame but simply that our souls must feel they have done the best work possible, whether as mail clerks or senators.

    Remember, the soul needs to follow its evolutionary course. Any sense of failure will inhibit it and cause a feeling that it cannot succeed, no matter what happens. If we die with these feelings, our souls will be impressed with this sense of failure. This

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