What is your gift?

Just as there are no two identical people, the gifts we bring here are not the same either. Because of that there is no point in comparing yourself with anyone else – it gives nothing at all, it only scatters your attention and diminishes the person, because they no longer value who they are in their original way. And most importantly, the world does not receive the gift that this person came here to bring. That is the worst thing that can happen. Everyone’s soul and mission are unique, so everyone has their own place and meaning. Even when it is hard to put into words “what the purpose of your life is”, it is always there.

So, to bring the question to the centre: what is your gift? Now watch yourself, what begins to happen when such words are used. Layers begin to peel, because the gift you are here to embody may not be something immediately understandable. It is possible that you have never thought about it. But even if you have, today you are someone else than in some other window of time. So, what is the gift that you bring into the world today?

You may discover that it is not so easy to answer, but a faint sense begins to appear. If you read or listen further, I suggest the answer is far from clear to you yet.

Now that you have considered for a moment that your existence in itself is already unique and comes with a gift for the world, but you do not yet know or cannot put into words what it is, let us travel on. I give you the courage to be really honest with yourself – what is it that is natural to you? What are you good at? Or is there something you enjoy?

Just remember that it may be exactly that very small aspect of you that you even forget to notice, because it is too natural for you, yet of great value to others.

Take curiosity with you and travel the landscapes of your own soul. Forget that other people exist – only you and your gift. Yes, it can also be something you have struggled and sweated over the most, trained for or had to surpass yourself in – exactly the thing that brings you to the edge of tenderness, because the effort has been truly great for your soul.

Perhaps it is connected with your voice, with expressing yourself, or with the very thing you most love to do but do not dare to show to others. Some hobby you keep secret, some part of you that you keep quiet about because in your own eyes it is not good enough. Go deeper still. What is your gift? If it trembles before you for a moment but you push it away because you fear that someone else does a similar thing better or is more skilled – forget that thought.

You do it in your own way, in a manner that belongs to you, and with a unique energy that no one else has.

Breathe for a moment. Consider whether the thought “I am a gift – regardless of whether I know exactly what kind – but I trust that it is in me and I will find it” could simply stay in you a little.

Perhaps it seems that the value of a gift depends on its size, or on how expensive a label can be attached to it. But a true gift is also a sincere smile, the reading of a poem, or being present with your whole devotion.

A gift does not have to be something useful.

So, if this gift had to be unwrapped in this present moment, what is it?

If it is still hard to reveal your gift to yourself, then recall – what is it that has touched you the most? What do you truly value in life?

Perhaps the gift is in who you are, in the experiences life has filled you with, or in the energy you radiate into your life.

And finally – let go of this question completely and trust that at some moment the answer will come to you.

And then you will understand why it was necessary to awaken this question in yourself.

I wish you an honest, sincere and loving journey to the gift of your own soul.