WORDS / TIM ROBERTS

Here’s a realisation that can radically shift the way you relate to your life, your work and the world: In order to create the external life you want, you must truly create the internal life you need. It’s simple to state yet bold and demanding to live; but, if you have the courage to commit to this, your life will change and you will feel alive.

You may have been taught to over-focus on the external aspects of life — career, finances, security, promotion, reputation, conformity — at the expense of your inner vitality, zest, creativity, meaning, sensuality, generosity and what might be called your “heart-fire” or life force. This distortion of human expression leads to what some Indigenous traditions term “soul loss”: feeling dispirited, or a vague sense of pervasive emptiness. “Soul” here relates to your unique essence, the deeper, unique you, and is not meant in a religious context.

Soul loss is at epic proportions in our society. You will know people who appear conventionally successful, but this masks meaninglessness, sadness, confusion and a sense of lingering alienation. You might be in this situation yourself. So many people are desperate to rekindle their aliveness but don’t know how. Many of us have everything to live with, but little to live for.

YOU ARE RICH

Have you ever noticed the exquisite timing of some of the coincidences in your life?

Like many people, I had grown stale and had lost vitality. One morning, I was sitting on