Your Body Has a Purpose

How the heck have you been???!

It’s been a minute!  

I am so excited to share with you about what I’m up to.  I’ve recently founded a company called Ori Ara.  In the Yoruba traditions there is an understanding that you are born with a body, a spirit and a purpose.  Ori is your purpose and Ara is your body.  So, Ori Ara is the understanding that your body is a part of the equation for fulfilling your purpose.  We have to honor our body.

I founded Ori Ara to help women reconnect with their body and live their purpose.  We are here for the woman who has my heart….The woman who I know very well because I was her….. the woman who is out there killing it, but not sure how to prioritize herself, or maybe she does a little bit but is still disconnected from herself, her body.  We support women in developing a deep and intimate relationship with their body through nutrition, exercise and mindset.   We start by making 1 thing clear.  You are a soul with a body and your purpose for having that body is for your expansion.  

Instead we put a lot of energy into NOT caring for our body and our number one reason hovers around being too busy.  Whether it is because of kids or work, we put the majority of our energy into achievements outside of ourselves.  We put it into activities we think are our purpose.  So, I think it is also important that we re-frame our purpose. Because it is not an achievement.  Believe it or not everyone shares the same purpose.  Crazy right?  We have people paying Coaches big bucks to help them find their purpose. Well let me crush that thought.  We all share the same purpose and I can tell you what it is right now….That purpose is expansion.  That is everyone’s purpose here in life from the moment you are born.  Our spirit comes here in human form to expand.

And because we are confusing our purpose with achievements, confusing our purpose with opportunities, we are missing out on the quality of life that we want.  We want to do well in our career and believe it is our purpose because of the passion we have for the mission behind it.  We want to be a doctor to save lives, a politician to make change, an executive to drive business outcomes or maybe an entrepreneur to create generational wealth.  

You've got a mission and passion for what we love to do….so it can feel like that is our purpose.  And in doing so we are also choosing to take on a lifestyle.  We are choosing  to adopt certain qualities that come along with that type of lifestyle. In many careers that includes sacrificing self for early mornings, long hours, sleepless nights, a stressful work environment (even remote) and ultimately sacrificing our wellbeing.  We don't question, or challenge it very much.  We go in knowing that it is an expectation of us. Because everything that we have been taught about success is hard work.  And yes, success does require a degree of focused attention and intention, but it’s a matter of where you place it.  I am here to help you redirect that same energy away from all the outside things you invest it in and redirect it back to yourself.  

So, starting with the reason we have a body.   The basis of that understanding is that we are spirits that just so happen to have a body, not bodies that just so happen to have a spirit. We are souls that are having a human experience.   This body is our home.  This body is our purpose for coming here.  Experiencing this incarnation is for our expansion.  Our soul gets an opportunity to develop through the human experience.  However, the spirit within can only expand to the greatness of the vessel it is being carried in.  So, YOU are the conduit to your expansion.  

There are a lot of women out there killing it right now, doing amazing things, but they are running on empty. And their spirit is still expressing itself magnificently through that stress, through the ache and discomfort.  Now imagine that soul getting an opportunity to express itself through its best self.  How much greater of a quality of life?  Not just in terms of success and productivity, but also in terms of relationships with people because of how you have given to yourself first.  

Imagine if your relationships were based on true caring for self.  Because you can only care and love people to the depth and degree that you care and love yourself.  YOU are the framework for everything that you do.  For everything that you express, you are the framework for it.  So imagine the quality of life and how it changes when you have invested in yourself first.  When you have demonstrated physically and energetically that you value yourself.

So you are fulfilling your purpose by being here in this body, NOT the way you make money. .  Your spirit wants to be as expansive as possible THROUGH your body that is chosen, to achieve greatness.  Your soul is expansive and expressive, but it is limited to the physical form that it is put in.  And That same expansiveness lives in everything around us, but it is limited to the physical form of what it has been incarnated into...whether it is a tree, a cat, a cockroach or an eagle.  Whatever it is, the spirit is expanding to the fullest it can be in that physical form.  And humans are the only ones who intentionally limit its own physical form.  So, the expression in us that wants to come out, is doing so.  You cannot dull expansion.  Expression is expression. Source is source.  It’s going to be big no matter what.  It is fully filling out and bursting at the seams of anything it is inside.  You just have to consider what it is inside.  

When you are proud of yourself for all of your hard work and everything you’ve accomplished … sitting back in appreciation because you’ve got the job/business.  You’ve got the title.  You get to take trips.  You like your car.  You’ve got money in the bank.  Hanging with the girls at brunch, it’s extra guac, shots and champagne all the way around.  You’ve got the designer whatever, but you’re probably got great style and will keep it cute and get some low-key stuff too off of amazon or Zara.  You love shopping for Home Goods and never leave Target under $200, no matter how hard you try…..but the point is you can get what you want.   You feel like you’re doing good.  And you are.  I don’t doubt that you are.  But that greatness that you love that you are so proud of and have worked so hard for, that greatness is still proportional to the capabilities of the physical form that it is put in.  It is not your intellect.  It’s not because you studied really really hard.  Yes, you did that, but that is not ALL that is responsible for your success.  It’s not because you’ve worked twice as hard as everyone else.  Yes, that has contributed to it...but it is not those things.  It is the greatness in you, matching the greatest expression your body is allowing it.  Isn’t that wild?

So, imagine if you were healthy. Imagine if everything in your body was humming, there were good vibrations buzzing in your body, and everything felt good.  And everything moved easily.  Imagine feeling liberated by your body.  Imagine no aches or pains.  No stomach aches, no stress or tension.  No irritability or sudden anger.  No headaches or migraines.  Imagine not even thinking twice about what to wear because you have no choice but to show up as a beautiful light, no matter what you wear because your beauty comes from within.  Imagine the fullness of expression that can come through that physical form that is nurtured.  It’s possible.  

And that is why being healthy is important.  That is why we drink our water.  That is why we eat our fruits and vegetables.  That is why we restore ourselves through sleep.  That is why we exercise to show appreciation for the body that we’ve chosen.  Because we chose our form whether we believe that or not.  You wanted YOU!  You chose you.  THAT is why we do healthy things.  Because we are showing appreciation.  And our goal is our fullest expansion.  That is our purpose.  Our career, our family, our friends, networks, athleticism, our volunteer work, desire to travel...whatever it is you do, whatever you dedicate time and energy towards is an OPPORTUNITY for expansion.  It is not your purpose.  Your purpose is expansion.  These are just vehicles for expansion.  Think of them as a chance to practice. You want to perform well in these opportunities for your expansion, because expansion is your purpose.

So, we have to get our body back into the equation.  It is a multiplier.  It is that factor that makes YOU exponential.  We are doing ourselves a huge disservice, by not including our body in our equation for success.  We include education, experiences, certain companies or institutions in this formula we use to achieve success, but we need to add ourselves and our body back in.  

The passion that you hear when I speak about wellness is because this became clear to me and it changed what being healthy meant.  It changed what having a body meant and why it was important to be healthy.  It has nothing to do with flat abs and a phat ass.  That is a nice super awesome consequence or side effect sometimes of being healthy.  Because you can look like that and still not be healthy.  You can look like that and these days  it may not even be real.  The look is not really what you are after.  Your soul is looking for expansion through you.  It is not here to be confined in your body.  It is here to expand through your body  And we are  not just completely ignoring, but actually damaging it.   We have acted like our body doesn’t matter.  As if it is of no consequence, to the quality of our life.  At least not enough consequence to properly take the time to understand it, intentionally communicate with it and treat it well and care for it. Well, I am here to remind you that it IS the reason you are alive.  Both spiritually and literally.  Beyond the need to have a physical body to be alive.   The only reason you are alive is because your spirit wants to be in your body.  You are what it’s asking for.  It chose you and your body to expand through.  Give it a dope experience!  Give it space.  Clean it up.  Let it come through.  That’s how you become the light.  

Let the light come through.  I like to imagine the body in clear glass form with a light shining inside.  But the glass has so much junk and smog and funk inside...so, when you see it, our body looks all grey and hazy.  But the light is in there and shining as bright as it’s supposed to shine.  It can't be dulled.  The light itself cannot be dulled.  It will continue to shine bright.  It’s just the outside perception.  Looking at your glass body from the outside, the light is super dim.  It can only be seen as bright as it can be past the foggy, murky layers inside your body.  The goal is to clear out that dirt and smog. So, that the light that has been shining bright the entire time can be seen as bright as it truly is.  When we do a diet or exercise program, it’s like we take a cloth and rub out the dirt on one small part of our glass body and the rest of the glass is still all dirty.  And because we get great feedback about that little bit of light coming through we think we are good. But 90% of the glass is still dirty and eventually over time, because it was not addressed that clean spot gets residual dirt from the rest of the body and that spot gets dirty again.  So, cleaning the entire body is the key.

That is how you are the light.  And that light shines on everything...EVERYTHING.  You don’t have to pick one or two things to excel in.   You don't have to limit yourself to being just a great mother, or partner or business woman.  When you are fulfilling your purpose, ALL of your opportunities and achievements are being met by the light.  They are bathing in the sunlight that is you.  So your family life, your romantic life, finances, your mental health….everything is being touched by the light at once. That light inside of you is bright enough to shine on everything.  So that everything you touch is golden.  You don't have to choose one or the other.  You can choose expansion and fulfill your purpose and let everything else naturally fall into place.  Give that expression, give that expansion a quality vessel and physical form.  It chose you...let's be grateful for that.  Clean it up.  

Let it be as expressive and expansive as, not humanly possibly...lets go beyond that.  Humanity is too small.  We can go beyond humanly possible.  We can be spiritually possible, in human form.  And it will make you look super human because you are.  We are superhuman. We are the perfect blend of supernatural and human.  You are super human and you are supposed to be.  We all are.  That’s not the exception, that is the norm.   It’s just a matter of how much we weigh ourselves down.  God isn’t that good?  Did you catch that?  We are all supernatural.  

We are superhumans floating just above the ground….and we are bumping into trees, running into buildings, and living in smog and, barely off the ground…..dang some of us are actually still stuck on the ground.  But we are meant to soar, as the super humans that we are.  But it literally requires lighterning ourselves up, physically, mentally, energetically.  Spiritually clean house, physically clean house.  Treat your body as the superhuman that it is.  And watch what flows through and out of you.  You literally feel free, like you are flying. You feel amazing as you watch your superhuman powers improve every area of your life.  

You’ve never felt that way before, I'm willing to bet.  That sounds amazing, I'm sure you are thinking.  Almost too good to be true. But it’s not.  It’s a completely different way of life.  A completely different commitment to self.  But that is the formula.  You add your body back into the equation and Supernatural is the answer. That is the output.  I don’t know what else to say.  That's how that works.  It’s not guesswork.  We just need to add our body back to the equation. Crazy right.  “That’s all I need to do?  I just need to throw my body into the equation and I can be supernatural, super human?”

Yes and you already are.  You are doing amazing!  We are doing amazing.  I am proud of you.  Everyone.  All of us.  I feel so proud to be a black woman right now.  Looking around at my sisters and seeing what is happening and knowing that I am a part of and contributing to this dopeness right now.  You are doing amazing.  You are making the ancestors proud.  You are their wildest dreams.  So, don't overlook the opportunity to clean up, to take care of and release negative physical, mental and emotional energy, so your body can soar like it is supposed to. You’d be in awe and amazed at what you have  access to see and do now as you let your soul soar through your body.

And that’s a nice way of looking at it isn’t it?   The light being inside is in one way. Another way of looking at it is the fact that we are floating already.  We are all superhuman beings and we are all flying around, but as our natural energy lifts with taking proper care of ourselves we rise.  We see things differently. It feels different.  It’s not as smoggy.  The air is literally different up here, we think clearer.  You feel better, lighter, freer.  It feels amazing to be that free. This light is shining on all of us everyday.  How much you feel it depends on how low or high a frequency you are flying on.  Many of us have unknowingly been flying on these low vibrations.  We are consumed with work, a need to numb with food, alcohol, tv, social media, sex, relationships, shopping and a general apathy towards our body.  When we clean it up, we float effortlessly to a higher vibration that feels better.  You are lifting out of the filth of the environment and everything looks and feels different.  You are living your purpose.  Mmmm….That’s what ori ara is about.  That’s using your body to live your purpose.  

On the one hand this probably sounds wild because your body, your purpose hasn’t been spoken about, like this before.  On the other hand it has sparked something in you.  It is speaking to a place and is generating a feeling in your body that might be hard to describe.  But that’s what truth does.  It’s hard to articulate sometimes, but you FEEL it.  And that feeling is your soul nudging you.  It’s like yeah...this is what we’ve been waiting for.

And I’ll end with this…..Besides needing to redefine our purpose, we have a real problem in America.  There aren’t enough women in positions of Executive leadership or successful entrepreneurs, to begin with.  So, it is even rarer to see one who is killing it AND successfully managing their health.  Most are stressed out, unhealthy and uncomfortable in their own skin.  We need more role models.  We need you.  So, I am inviting you to share in an experience of having the freedom that comes with career and physical success.  To join a community of successful high powered, expansive women who are connected by being their best self.   Ori Ara will reacquaint you with your body.  The body you chose to live in for your purpose of expansion.  It’s not about adding a workout or diet to your to-do list.  It’s about reclaiming the energy you are giving away.  We show you how to focus that same energy on yourself and allow your greatness to take care of the rest.