Sharing your gift is a right.
Life has given each of us a unique talent that, when truly useful, transforms the physical world into one of pure light.
I often speak with patients, students, friends, acquaintances and there is a surprisingly high percentage of them who simply cannot imagine what their gift is. This is not necessarily your career path, but rather some passion within you that is eagerly wanting to be expressed. Many women look for this gift as if it were some hidden mystery. In many cases it is something that is so obvious that it is overlooked.
What were your hobbies and interests when you were a child?
When I was little I loved dance, drawing, writing, music and silence. Both as a child and as a teenager I liked to be alone and hum music that I invented, as well as dance to it; Later, as a teenager, he wrote stories and poetry, which he turned into short songs or performances. I didn’t know then that later creativity would be a very important part of my life.
A friend of mine loved interviewing people and recording them at school when she was 7; Now he is a journalist.
If you can’t remember how you spent your free time, ask your parents or siblings. When we were girls there was nothing that stopped us from expressing our true nature. These childhood passions are definitely part of the gift we have to offer the world.
You don’t know what you are capable of doing, or who you are in your fullest sense or what powers are hidden within you. They all exist within the void of your potentiality, a place that is unseen, tasteless and touchless. How to bring those powers to light? Well, follow what attracts you, your passion. Attractive activity drags you into existence, just as it drags the stars into existence.
What happened to that childhood dream of learning to play the harp? Our rational mind nags us to think, “Sure, that’s great, but who’s going to pay the rent? Or some unpleasant voice tells us in a brusque tone: “And what else? You’re 51 years old.” Have you gone crazy?” Our mind convinces us that if we cannot reach the level of a professional paid harpist in a very few years we should give up on the idea altogether. What we cannot gauge, however, is how playing music with a harp might heal something deep within us, allowing us to lead a more satisfying life.
Whatever you want to do, or dream of being able to do, start it… audacity contains genius, power and magic. Ask yourself: What did you play as a child? Do any of these “games” still touch your most sensitive part? Could they constitute your gift to contribute to the world? If you do not use your gifts they can atrophy.
There are women who remain unable to share their gift because their continued suffering blocks their ability. They say that first they have to put their own lives in order. Be that as it may, it seems that some suffer from pure habit. They have based (consciously or unconsciously) their own identity on the role of victim. Sometimes there are compensations for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to really shine. We don’t have to take responsibility for the world when we spend all our time in emotional pain. Many of these women have long since healed their wounds, they simply have not redefined themselves. Since they are still stuck in an old, obsolete identity.
We need to stop identifying with our problems and be able to see beyond the curtain of suffering because then we will realize that there are others with problems greater than ours.
By helping we will help ourselves.
Rosa Puerto
