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Continually
fighting against your gifts may bring about a louder knock at your door that
you won't welcome. We often have a tendency to fight against
using our natural gifts. Many stories of success start with an individual who
is ignoring the call of his or her inborn abilities. There are many possible
reasons for this resistance, from fear that the calling will be too difficult
to a disbelief in the very work one is being asked to do. We may feel too
small, too distracted by other people’s ideas about what we should do, or too
uninformed. Whatever the case, the resistance to actualizing ourselves has
very concrete consequences, and many of us have been called out of hiding by
an illness or a twist of fate that unequivocally dismantled our resistance.
In other words, the universe knocks, and if we don’t answer, it knocks
louder. For example, if you are meant to be a
healer and are trying to be a lawyer, you may have trouble getting or keeping
a job. This doesn’t mean that you can’t still be a lawyer, but perhaps
integrating your gifts into your work is what is calling you. On the other
hand, you may simply feel an underlying anxiety that you are not on the right
path. Pay attention to this feeling, and ask for guidance from the universe,
being open to all its communications, from subtle internal yearnings to
powerful dreams. As you begin to risk opening the door to your natural gifts,
your life situation may shift in a powerful way. However, you may find that
small steps in the right direction, such as taking a class or setting aside
one night a week to paint or write is enough for now. The first step on the journey to our
calling in life is to listen to our internal voice and respond to the
universe knocking at the door. As we do, the symptoms and anxieties that have
haunted us will fade into the background, replaced by opportunities, both big
and small, to open the door to what we are truly here to do. |
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