Are You Having a Midlife Awakening?

Midlife awakening sounds so dramatic doesn't it? You spend half your life trying to find meaning and what is your true life’s purpose. What if your life’s purpose is just to be happy? It’s so simple isn’t it?

Now all you have to figure out is how to be happy. Piece of cake, right?

Have you ever met cancer survivors who say that getting cancer was a blessing? It’s because that experience forced them to evaluate their life and ask the important questions.

While midlife brings a host of life experiences that may lead you to ask these very important questions, fortunately you don’t have to get a serious illness or have any kind of traumatic event to gain enlightenment. Awakening happens when you start searching for answers:

• What is the purpose of life?
• What is my purpose?
• What happens when you die?

• You let go and accept “what is” without struggling

• You focus on the positive instead of the negative

• You see the best in others and everything around you

• You feel connected with all that is

• You understand that you control your own happiness and that being happy comes from within

• You are tuned in to your emotions and use them to guide you to feel better

• You feel love, joy, hope, and optimism

• You often feel inspired to take action

• You are open to new ways of looking at the Universe

• You come to understand that there is no death – we are eternal

• You understand that you are both a physical and nonphysical being

You don't need The Dalai Lama, the Pope or Jesus to become enlightened; you just need to love, laugh, and connect with those around you every day.