{"id":1132,"date":"2018-11-01T11:54:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T11:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebodymatters.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2021-12-08T13:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T13:46:55","slug":"the-meaning-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebodymatters.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-meaning-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Chi-Change-hypnotherapy-around-regardless\/dp\/1782793518\">\u2018The chi of change\u2019<\/a>, hypnotherapist Peter Field points out that we do not \u2018find\u2019 the meaning of life, we choose or assign a meaning. The meaning of life then, is absolutely person-centred and can be whatever we choose it to be. The same goes for our life\u2019s purpose \u2013 we can decide upon it, based on our own values and what is precious to us.<\/p>\n<p>As Field says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe point is that we get to decide our purpose and create our personal vision. When these are authentic and based on our genuine inmost feelings and desires, we will hold to our life\u2019s purpose through thick and thin, even when life experiences challenge us. It is we who choose who we will be and what we are going to do with our all too brief time on Earth\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an episode of the TV series Millennium which ran from 1996 to 1999, a young man suggests that choosing one\u2019s life-purpose is very straight-forward and can be done by means of a simple thought experiment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cImagine, for one second, you could drop in on a past life. What would you like to find yourself doing there? What would charm you? Make you proud? Ask yourself that. And the question what to do in this life becomes so simple it\u2019s terrifying. Just to do that thing that would charm you. It would make you say: yes, it\u2019s the real me. Do that, and you\u2019re alive.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">To arrange a free 30-minute consultation to discuss how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebodymatters.co.uk\/services\/brainworking-recursive-therapy.html\">BWRT\u00ae<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebodymatters.co.uk\/services\/hypnotherapy.html\">hypnotherapy<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebodymatters.co.uk\/telephone-online-counselling.html\">counselling<\/a> can help you to change your life for the better, contact Jonathan at The Body Matters on 01702 714968.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his book \u2018The chi of change\u2019, hypnotherapist Peter Field points out that we do not \u2018find\u2019 the meaning of life, we choose a meaning.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn-primary m-posts-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebodymatters.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-meaning-of-life\/\" title=\"Read more\">Read more <em class=\"iconfont-logo-arrow\"><\/em><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,46,281,28,218,34],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hypnotherapy","tag-depression","tag-hypnosis","tag-life","tag-stress","tag-stress-management","tag-treatments"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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