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Continually fighting against your gifts may bring about a louder knock at your door that you won't welcome. As human beings 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 the words, the universe knocks, and if we don't answer it knocks
louder. For example, if you are meant to be a psychic or a medium, and you aren't
using that gift, you may get headaches. 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, doing
the right thing. 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 voices and respond to the knocking universe 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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