Essentia: The Key to Understanding Your Purpose, Identity, and Who You’re Becoming
How to Integrate Your Past and Unlock the Person You’re Capable of Becoming
**NOTE… This article draws from my original ideas, research, lived experience, and writing style. I use AI tools to support editing, structuring, and refinement, but every framework, story, and concept here begins with me and is shaped by my hands-on oversight. —Jade
Most people spend their life trying to fix their habits, strengthen their mindset, or outrun their wounds.
But the real story of a human being—the deep, quiet, honest story—lives underneath all of that.
It lives in the through-line that connects every chapter of your life.
The thread that runs through your pain, your gifts, your patterns, your mistakes, your victories, your desires, your instincts, your imagination.
That thread has a name.
Essentia.
And until you understand your Essentia, your past feels scattered, your present feels reactive, and your future feels foggy.
When you do understand it, your life reorganizes itself around clarity, choice, direction, and coherence.
This is the missing link in most personal development…
and it’s the foundation of Next Level Human.
The Big Idea
Essentia is not your personality.
Not your passion.
Not your meaning.
Not your purpose.
It is the creative core from which all of those emerge.
Put simply:
Essentia is your essential nature, merged with your earned wisdom, guided by your creative choice toward purpose.
It is the integrated expression of who you’ve been, who you are, and who you’re capable of becoming.
Your purpose potential… the raw material of your evolution.
Not fixed.
Not fated.
Not predetermined.
Evolving.
Essentia is the place where your history becomes fuel, not baggage…
where your pain becomes information…
where your lessons become power…
and where your future becomes a conscious act of creation.
The Breakdown
Essentia Isn’t Purpose, It Precedes Purpose
Purpose is a choice.
Essentia is the evolution that makes that choice possible.
Purpose is directional.
Essentia is foundational.
Purpose is what you will do.
Essentia is the integrated force that makes you able to do it.
Purpose is an outward expression.
Essentia is the inner architecture.
Most people chase purpose before they’ve understood their Essentia…
and that’s why they stay stuck in loops.
Passion and Meaning Are Pieces of You, Not the Whole of You
Passion is what excites you.
Meaning is what impacts you.
Purpose is what you choose to give.
Essentia contains all three but transcends them.
It is the creative essence out of which passion deepens, meaning matures, and purpose takes shape.
When the Past Controls the Future
One of the most powerful ideas comes from the kind of images Angus Fletcher writes about in Primal Intelligence.
Picture this:
Your past is a tangled web of unresolved lines—wounds, rejections, failures, hurts, fears, embarrassments… all converging into the present.
Those tangled lines collapse into one narrow, fear-shaped future.
A single trajectory.
Predictable.
Confining.
Instinct-driven.
M.U.D.-driven.
Pain-driven.
When the past remains unintegrated, the future becomes a straightjacket.
There is no purpose potential… only pattern repetition.
A life shaped by ghosts pretending to be guidance.
When the Past Integrates Into Essentia
Now imagine the same tangled past, but this time everything merges into one coherent line—
your pain, lessons, strengths, gifts, and wisdom woven together into a unified storyline.
From that integrated past, the future doesn’t collapse inward.
It branches outward.
Not infinitely.
Not chaotically.
Just a handful of powerful, aligned trajectories…
your purpose potentials.
These are futures shaped by Essentia… where your past becomes fuel, not fate…
coherence, not chaos… direction, not distortion.
Integrated past → coherent present → illuminated, creative. potential options for the future.
This is how Essentia reveals the things only you could create, embody, or contribute.
Once the past is integrated, something else becomes possible.
Instead of a tangle of old storylines collapsing into one inevitable direction,
the present moment becomes a launch point.
A single, coherent line moves forward… and then branches.
Not endlessly,
not chaotically,
but into a small handful of meaningful, purpose-aligned futures.
This is what it looks like when Essentia is in charge.
Your past isn’t erased; it’s organized.
Your wounds don’t vanish; they become architecture.
And the future stops being a narrow corridor shaped by fear…
it becomes a set of real possibilities shaped by coherence.
How Next Level Human Helps You Activate Essentia
This is the core of the NLH work:
Clearing the MUD.
Rewriting the story.
Rewiring the emotion.
Retraining the nervous system.
Illuminating Essentia.
This is not mindset coaching.
Not think-positive reframes.
Not bypassing.
Not “manifestation” as wishful thinking.
It is identity evolution.
We use:
DEEP (Depth Enhanced Emotional Processing)
BEEP (Breath Enhanced Emotional Processing)
M.U.D. clearing
identity architecture
pattern recognition
trauma-informed integration
the 6 POWERS
the Human Game
These tools take the tangled past of the first diagram…
and merge it into the integrated storyline of the second.
We help you rewrite wounds, rewire emotional imprints, retrain your nervous system, reclaim agency, integrate lessons, shift identity, choose purpose, and activate Essentia.
When your Essentia is illuminated, you stop living from fear-based instinct…
and start living from creative, evolving identity.
A Personal Example (Your Story, Distilled)
You weren’t built to be a singer.
You didn’t have the training, the background, the physical tools.
But you did have:
A strong, imaginative mind.
A body wired for athleticism.
Resilience from childhood volatility.
Thick skin from being bullied.
Sensitivity sharpened by unpredictability.
A loner’s independence.
A renegade’s willingness to go where you were told not to.
A mind that integrated ideas others didn’t.
A distrust that kept you seeking truth.
A stubborn belief in love.
A drive to understand emotions you didn’t trust.
A wound that made you want to heal wounds.
That is Essentia.
Your creative core.
Your essential nature, shaped by experience.
It led you to train the body, study metabolism, explore psychology, reject convention, write, teach, heal, create, evolve.
Eventually it revealed your purpose potential:
Healer → Author → Teacher → Educator.
Not prewritten.
Chosen.
Created.
Emerged through integration.
Essentia pointed the way.
Purpose was the decision that followed.
Essentia Is the North Star of an Evolving Spirit
If purpose is chosen love,
Essentia is the creative essence that gives that love direction.
You are not here to “find your purpose.”
You are here to become the person capable of generating it.
Essentia is the thread that runs through your entire human story—
past, present, future—
realized, integrated, and channeled.
It grows through conflict,
learns through loss,
evolves through challenge,
and transforms through choice.
Your task in this life is to expand your Essentia
and contribute to the evolution of the Source Field
as an extension of it.
Essentia is the mechanism of that evolution.
Practical Takeaway
If you want to understand your purpose,
start with your Essentia.
Ask:
What shaped me?
What am I naturally drawn to?
What have I suffered through?
What strengths did that create?
What do I understand deeply?
What repeats?
What do I choose to make of all of it?
Essentia is the integration of those answers.
Once you see it,
the rest of your life starts to make sense.
Closing Thought
You are not a random set of experiences.
You are not a scattered set of traits.
You are not a collection of wounds and wants.
You are a pattern in evolution.
A story learning to speak.
A spirit learning to shape itself through choice.
Essentia is that process—
the emergence of coherence from chaos,
meaning from experience,
and purpose from integration.
Your Essentia is already alive in you.
It’s waiting for you to see it…
so you can finally become who only you can be.
Another great piece, Jade! Reading this, I couldn't help but be reminded of Ken Wilbur's idea of "transcend and include." The idea that we don't forget or "let go" of our past, rather we include and transcend it into our present and future. The past is never not a part of us, rather we bring it forward with wisdom, understanding, and meaning that is useful.
Wild how a concept can make your whole past click into place. Essentia feels like the bridge between who we were and who we’re actually becoming.<3