Do That Which Is its Own Reward

When making a decision: what job to take, what study to pursue, which exercise to do etc, do the thing that in doing it, is its own reward.

In work, what do you love doing, that makes you feel good when you do it, that you’d do without payment? What would you love to study, love to delve into, regardless of the qualification at the end? Which exercise would you do, just because it makes you feel free, makes you laugh, makes your body tingle, despite the health benefits that go along with it?

Doing that which is its own reward, is the signal from our deepest wisdom that this action is the one that gets us to our destination with the most joy, grace and ease. Now there could be several reasons for this…

Firstly, it could be a mechanism to show us the difference between what our ego wants (payment, glory, reward etc) and what our heart wants (love, freedom, limitlessness etc) not that payment, glory and rewards are bad things of course; it’s just good to have the whole picture when making decisions.

Secondly, it could be the God Force’s way of moving us in the soul direction that we cannot see at our earthly level. For instance, if you’ve asked for perfect health and you go through a period of just wanting to turn on music and dance because it makes you want to cry (in a good way!), it could well be that moving your body in this way helps heal an organ that is out-of-whack. It could well be one of those Universal Mechanisms where doing what you love serves a higher purpose, whether you’re aware of it or not!

Same with our hopes and dreams and not knowing quite how to get to them: Doing the activities that are rewards in themselves could well be the message from our spirit-self that this leads us down the path to our desires. By doing what we love regardless of any secondary benefits, our spirit-self is able to bring to us the people and opportunities we need, that we would not necessarily come into contact with otherwise.

Perhaps there are many reasons why this works. All I know is that it is one of those Universal Mechanisms: when we do that which is its own reward, we don’t NEED anything else. Yet everything else comes to us, by doing just that.