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Inside all of us is the desire to be something. That something is the air you breathe… it’s your inner self. You may be wondering… I don’t even know what my natural talent is? Well hopefully this post will help you out.
I often hear people saying things like, “I don’t know what to do”. The question should be better phrased as: I don’t know what I am. The reality is for most of us we have never be trained to access our spiritual faculties because of the over-educated minds we receive from ages 5 and up. Our ability to create, be human and do other things is largely taught out of us through a variety of means. One of the side effects of this is that we only ever reason through things rather than knowing things. So what’s the difference?
Reasoning through…
Reasoning is really analysis. It’s looking at something by thinking about it from different related (or possibly) non-related points of view. I think we over hype and over rate the mind in western society to the extent that we have given it the status of a God. Your mind is what I like to call a perceptual framing device that makes stories for you to believe in (another post for another day!). We all make sense of things and through our experience of the world… build perceptions of it. These perceptions are not static… they are evolving as we evolve and grow. However, you never change. The real you… the essence of you never changes. You have certain traits, abilities (latent or otherwise) that you have never developed. If you know yourself… then you will know what you can do and what you can’t do.
Unfortunately for me I am only coming to understand and accept myself now. I am realising my traits, what I was made to do and what I can’t do. I know me better everyday. That sounds pretty stupid… right? However, I meet people all the time who have no idea what they are like and what they are capable of. Plenty of people never surface their natural talents. We spend too much time reasoning and working through the day and never listening to the inside where we really are. The mind is not to be trusted!
Knowing…
I am not talking only of intuition here. I am speaking of a sense of knowledge… knowing something without knowing how you know it. I can imagine people saying… Luke has lost it. But it’s like this: there is head knowledge (reasoning) and there is heart knowledge (knowing). You shouldn’t have to figure out who you are… but we do. Why? Perceptions in our mind of what we think we are. You however, were created by God for a purpose… and only you can find out what that is… it’s in you. It’s unconscious information sure enough… but it’s there. Here’s the frustrating thing I am learning at the moment. It always seems to come at time when you don’t want it to!
So what can I do?
The first thing you can do is make the commitment to find yourself. Here’s the newsflash: you are already there you don’t have to go far! What comes next is incredibly difficult and here is where I usually have people yelling at me: society is not a reflection of you. If people say you should be doing something… chances are it’s a hint. However, it could be another perception to map on top of existing ones that you need to work through. Pay attention to these things.
Secondly, once you are determined to find the answer begin thinking about what you can do all day long without ever getting tired or sick of it. Now, take that activity and ask yourself this question: what is it about this activity that makes me so interested? Why do I love it so much? Why do I want to do it all the time and why do I never get sick of it?
The last thing you can do is like the first two but is somewhat more practical. Write down what you find. Start a catalogue of your activities and work out what you do that gives you joy. If you find nothing then ask yourself why? Still no answer… then ask why not? Remember… you already know the answer. That’s the thing… it’s in there. It may not want to come out right now… but it’s in there! To surface your natural talent you need to be aware of it. Awareness of these things comes from paying attention, collecting information and reflecting on it. If you are deliberately not looking for it then it won’t come out… start paying attention and after a while you will notice little things about yourself that you already knew … but were too scared to notice!
This limited space prohibits me from going into detail about other things I have learned when it comes to finding one’s natural talent. As a parting shot however, let me leave you with two more thoughts. If you could do anything at all… what would it look like? Secondly, why would you do that? Why? The answer you are looking for is in you. It may take others to point it out or find it… but you should know when you see it. Be courageous. Make a commitment to find it today.
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