Editor’s Note: The following article is edited and adapted from original writings by Ruth Altschuler and further interviews by Jann Garitty.

Overview: True Purpose Coaching

True Purpose Coaching is a sequential guided journey through which the client learns to connect with and listen to higher guidance. It is a process of inquiry in which the flowers can also play a key role.

The True Purpose Coaching process involves asking key questions and sifting through the resulting responses. Questions such as the following are asked in progressive steps of self-discovery:
What is my unique essence?
What is the blessing and the transformation that I bring to the world?
What mission am I a part of?
Do I have a message that I brought to share with the world?

The format is easy to utilize independently and can also be incorporated with Voice Dialogue. As different aspects of the Self are revealed, a dialogue can ensue.

The True Purpose healing steps of Essence, Blessing, Mission and Message will be illustrated in the following case about Irene.

Initiating Irene’s Journey:
A Formula to Integrate Earth & Spirit

Photos by Ruth Altschuler, except Green Rose by Richard Katz

The design of Irene’s archetypal formula was intentional: to bring her Higher Self into alignment with her physical presence on Earth and to achieve certainty about her mission as an artist.

Mountain Angelica helped Irene feel the presence of Angelic forces that would assist her attunement to higher levels of her purpose. Mountain Forget-Me-Not allowed her to reclaim and reconnect with the spiritual guidance that informed her original intention for life on earth. The Green flowers facilitated grounding into the Earth and her body. The use of Green Bells of Ireland was intended to help her embody the consciousness of Nature and plants for her artistic expressions and Green Rose aligned her heart with the larger body of the Earth. Blue Flag Iris was the constellating force of her Soul in the center, helping her integrate these polarities of Earth and Spirit in her artistic mission.

Step One: Irene Identifies Her Unique Essence

On the first night of using the flower essences, as Irene was going to sleep, she vividly felt the presence of an Angelic being very close to her, a non-gender being, who appeared in the presence of a blue-green turquoise color. Irene realized that this angelic presence is always close to her and helps her to receive messages from sacred sources. Irene clearly felt she was being shown the color of her ESSENCE .

This art piece titled The Path of Flowers was created shortly after our work began. It gradually evolved into harmonious imagery during a three-week period.

Since she was a young child, Irene has liked to draw, and it was the blue-green turquoise colored crayon she always finished first. Her Angel Friend showed her how this color is related to those who are bringers of Peace, Calm and Tranquility. As she connected with this presence, much more information flowed through, now with more clarity. She named the presence Green Akasha, and felt it was part of a larger Soul Group. She identified its connection to an earlier Buddhist symbol, the Green Double Vajra. It became clear that these were transformative, healing and peace-imparting emanations.

Irene was feeling more interconnected and empowered. Many synchronicities occurred—messages were reaching her through meetings, events and signals more than ever before. Her clairsentience had clearly been enhanced. She was being given understanding and information on a subtler level. It was in a continuum related to her usual creative life, but now more present and embodied. She felt her ESSENCE as an emanation of the blue green turquoise color of Peace, Love and Harmony.

Step Two: Blessing – Irene Remembers and Reclaims Her Healing Gifts

A very important aspect of our fourfold Purpose is our Blessing. It conveys the unique impact and transformative energy we are meant to bring to the world. Irene was shown by her Angel that her Blessing is one of healing through her hands and heart. It is a joyful presence that also flows through her art. She felt called to revisit a multitude of childhood drawings and found a special one she drew when she was just five years old. It clearly shows her inter-dimensional connection with Angelic forces, even holding flowers close to her heart.

Irene was shown how her BLESSING expresses itself in daily life, as she tends to her mother or listens to a friend or acquaintance who is troubled. Through her heart and hands this soothing and pacifying healing is offered, easing wounds that can be both physical and emotional. This healing also flows through all of her crafts, including cooking, and her art. For the past 7 to 8 years, in a striking way, Irene had been continuously drawing flowers from gardens, orchards and wild nature. She was shown how she emanates ease, lightness and joy through her presence and how this healing brings forth the beauty of plants and nature.

Realizing these blessings was humbling, but it was also confirming and highly motivating. Throughout her life, Irene had always felt strongly called to express herself through her art. But approaching her art as a career was bound up with much reluctance. Irene never wanted to be motivated by ego or vanity. She yearned to share with a wider public but was aware of an inner hesitation that stopped her from acting in the world. All of this was about to change, as you will read in the conclusion.

Step Three: Mission – Imparting Peace and Truth Through Art

In this step, one realizes that the individual soul reality is also related to a larger mission within humanity. This may also mean awakening to a particular Group Soul Purpose as well.

This piece called The Power of Magnolias came through her strong attraction to the Magnolia flowers during our time working together.

In parallel, she had been working on this piece that she called The Perfume , all through the duration of our journey, completing it when we ended the True Purpose Coaching process.

It became clear to Irene in this stage that she wanted her MISSION to be a healing impulse for human suffering. She made the intention that her art offered to the wider world would help ease resentment, anger, pain and disharmony. This brought her in touch again with her ESSENCE color of light blue-green. She felt the power of the Green Rose working within her as she realized that the Portuguese word Verde for this beautiful turquoise hue is connected to the Portuguese word Verdade for Truth. Her mission in life is truly a Green Truth —bringing the beauty of Earth so it speaks as powerful truth and inspiration for others.

Step Four: Message — The Way Is Opened for Irene to Give Her Art to Ever-Wider Circles

Irene was shown that her MESSAGE has the widest impact through her art when it ensouls people's homes and public places. People tell her how they feel joy in the presence of her art, and how their homes now feel as though they have Soul. For quite some time, she had felt strongly called to have her works displayed where more people could see them, but she repeatedly found herself blocked when attempting to move toward this goal. By the end of our process, Irene had gained the strength of Soul purpose and attracted new opportunities for her MESSAGE . She met a gallery owner aligned with her values. This gallery owner invited her to place her art pieces in a larger exhibit for a museum in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she lives. Now her art is included in an international online show for art galleries with a worldwide reach.

Before the pandemic shutdowns, Irene’s works were shown as part of another museum exhibit, while elements of her art were also applied to the external walls of that building. As the pandemic lockdown came, people have been healed and inspired by the colors and messages emanating from her art. Truly she has achieved her MISSION and MESSAGE to bring her healing impulse of art to humanity.

A large panel of her work—this one a healing celebration of sexual diversity—was also commissioned to be displayed inside the Metro/underground station, .

A year after Irene had completed her True Purpose process, she confirmed that her Core Self was strong; there was no longer hesitation in bringing forth her work. She knows that her motivation emanates from something larger than her individual desires. She knows she is here in service and feels great ease in sharing in diverse ways in order to heal and inspire people's lives. Her art is sold through international galleries online and yet another online gallery . You can follow her on Instagram and watch her art blessing more and more individuals and public places around the world.

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