spiritual-giftsRediscovering your spiritual gifts and true talents is a daily developmental process.  You don’t just jump up one morning and know what your spiritual gifts and true talents are without the practice of asserting purpose and intentions or purposed intentions.  We have often stated at Blue Lotus Living that we should create consciously in other words, the creation process should be deliberate creation. 

Deliberate creation does require that we understand that rediscovering our gifts and talents is something we must be committed to.  It requires the discipline of wholeheartedly doing our spiritual work daily:  This spiritual work includes:

 (1)   Meditation:  We meditate daily for the purpose of increasing our awareness and to live from higher consciousness.  Through meditation, we can hear from the voice of our soul without any words being spoken at all.  The voice of our soul communicates to us in ways that seems like impressions which are from that all-knowing place within us that we call “The Oracle Within.”  This all-knowing place reveals to us ways in which we can rediscover and use our spiritual gifts and talents.

(2)   Prayer:  Prayer allows us to tap into the field of infinite possibilities with our desire, faith, and belief.  It is through our prayers that we open our hearts to infinite possibilities and wonderful synchronicities begin to happen.

(3)   Affirmations:  Affirmations are your voice reaching into the cosmic order of the universe and affirming who you really are and what you truly desire.  Your spiritual gifts and talents are not only affirmed through affirmations, but multiplied and energized.  Affirmations work well with prayer and visualization in the manifestation and creation process.  The fusion of affirmations, prayer, and visualization is called Affirmative Prayer or Scientific Prayer.  Affirmative Prayer and Scientific prayer are very powerful spiritual tools for those on the path of enlightenment.

(4)   Visualization:  Visualization is imaging or creating vivid images of what you truly desire with your third eye or mind’s eye.  Your spiritual gifts and talents will expand and grow with the daily practice of visualization.  Not only will they expand and grow but your spiritual gifts and talents will have the power to spread inspiration—that’s right, you will inspire others to inspire other people.  This is what makes inspiration absolutely contagious. 

(5)   Journaling:  Yes, write it down and make it plain.  There is something magical, yet mystical that happens when we write things down.  To affirm our spiritual gifts and bring these gifts into our awareness, we can start by writing down our abilities and skills.  Remember there is nothing that is too simple or too small.  Even if we have great organizing skills, this alone can be evidence of a spiritual gift.  Hmm?  Perhaps you are gifted in bring divine peace and order to an environment or situation?  As chaotic as things can get in our society at times, who couldn’t benefit from peace and order?

These daily practices will then create impulses that when aroused through your discipline creates a vision.  Your vision, when expounded upon, becomes your vision of purpose in life.  You will not discover what your spiritual gifts and true talents are without spending time developing and honing in on your vision of purpose in life.   This is the beginning of realization or self-realization.  In self-realization you begin to use your power to create your reality while in partnership with our loving and abundant universe.  Building your partnership with our loving abundant universe as you create your reality is called co-creation.

Realization is the key to knowing what your spiritual gifts and talents are.  As co-creators, realization is our breakthrough in all things.

Yes, spiritual gifts and true talents must be “realized” just like everything else in our lives.  And what do we mean by “realized.”  In the process of realization, we recover and rediscover what is true and authentic for our own soul development.  Yes, we are literally in a joyous recovery as we grow on the path of enlightenment and rediscover who we really are. In this recovery and rediscovery, there is a great deal of “re-cognition” that must take place in our soul development and this includes our spiritual gifts and talents. 

“Re-cognition” is really a three-step process for those of us on the path of enlightenment as we “realize” our gifts and talents.  Our re-cognition process is three-step:

(1)    Re-cognition is giving a token of acknowledgement or gratitude for what you have.  In other words, you may not know what your spiritual gifts and talents may be, but you can give acknowledgment and show gratitude for those abilities you do know about.  And the best way to show gratitude and to acknowledge these gifts is by using them.

(2)    Re-cognition is also identification based on pass knowledge.  We are re-cognizing our spiritual gifts and true talents because we are re-discovering what has already been within us and used by us before through some soul experience.  Accordingly, to identify our spiritual gifts and talents, we must spend time in prayer and meditation.  We must also spend time affirming those abilities we do have.  If we do not affirm those abilities we do recognize, then how are we to connect with the energy necessary to identify our gifts and talents.  In other words, you may discover that you give good advice.  It may seem like a simple ability, but it may be significant.  By utilizing and affirming this ability, you may discover you have the spiritual gift of insight, communicating divine wisdom, and discernment.  That’s not a minute thing.  Ask anyone.  Helping to bring someone out of a state of confusion into a state of awareness is powerful. 

(3)    And that brings us to…Re-cognition is also validating the existence and power of a thing.  Sometimes we don’t validate our own gifts and talents because we don’t believe it’s worth anything.  We have to see our spiritual gifts and talents as valuable.  In fact, we have to see our creativity (The Creative Spirit moving through us) as being more valuable than the money in our pocket. 

With these “re-cognition” steps, continual meditation, and prayer, we will rediscover our gifts and talents.  So, how do we use our spiritual gifts and talents each and every day even when we have yet to know what they truly are?

We use our gifts and talents each day by asking a simple question:  “How can I best serve humanity today?”  Then we affirm, that “In some way with some opportunity or resource presented to me today, I will serve humanity in a way that will promote well-being in my life and the lives of others.” 

A heart that has been convinced and has visualized the opportunity to serve humanity in some way that day will actualize this intention.  That’s right, you can use your spiritual gifts and talents each and every day by affirming your commitment to serve others and by visualizing an opportunity to spread well-being. 

Remember, an intention visualized with purpose, becomes a purposed intention and a purposed intention is a powerful intention.  It may sound like a riddle of sorts, but it is truth.  It is truth because if you are really committed to using your spiritual gifts and talents each and everyday, it is not something you have “try to figure” out or something you have to use force and might to accomplish.  Using your spiritual gifts and talents daily is accomplished by your powerful intentions or purposed intentions. 

Yes, through your powerful intentions, the cosmic order of the universe will bring into your reality opportunities, people, things, and resources in wonderful synchronicities to assist you.  That’s the beauty of co-creation because as we co-create our reality with a loving and abundant universe, the ALL-Mighty through Spirit will draw to you by way of the Law of Attraction all you need to use your gifts and talents daily.  All you need is the courage to execute. 

Now, where does this courage to execute come from?   It comes from your WILL and the daily spiritual work we discussed a few moments ago.  Daily spiritual work such as meditating, visualizing, affirming, and praying empowers you as a Willing Vessel. Once you have decided to become a Willing Vessel and have been empowered as a Willing Vessel, the well of your being ignites all those dormant spiritual gifts, talents, skills, and abilities to use for ever-increasing good or well-being. 

A fine example of this was something that happened to me shortly after college.  After college, I had written several poems that were published by various publishing companies and in various anthologies.  I was very happy about the results.  Then one day, I sat down to write a poem and instead, I was drawing a picture.  Now I hadn’t sketched anything before in my life (other than a few stickmen and stickwomen), but these pictures were quite vivid.

A cousin of mine, Aquilla Miller who is a cartoonist, saw my drawings and thought they were great.  I submitted a drawing to a publication and received a significant check for the rights to buy the drawing.  I was once again very happy with the results.  

Later, I began writing what I didn’t know at the time were personal development articles.  I was paid quite handsomely by several small publications for exclusive rights to these articles.  And yes, once more, I was very happy with the results.  My aunt read some of my articles and asked me to speak at one of her women’s groups.  After attending the group, my friend Marcy asked me to speak at her prayer group meetings. 

It was through these small speeches and articles that I developed a love for personal development and reignited my abilities for public speaking.  That’s truly the way that it works.  We have to be available for good and good will show up every time thanks to The ALL-Loving and ALL-Mighty Creator. 

Your spiritual gifts and talents can be used everyday; you just have to pledge and commit to using them.  There are infinite possibilities and infinite opportunities available to you right now.  You just have to open your heart and mind to them. 

Affirming and using your spiritual gifts and talents is the key to being successful, experiencing financial freedom, living in purpose, and enjoying life again.  So my advice is…Open your heart. Open your mind.  Step out on faith.  And let the Creative Spirit move you.

 

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