Your Gifts

What gifts do I have is an almost universal question, and I have been asked it over my whole lifetime of sharing this work. Everybody wants to know what their gifts are, or how to make stronger the ones they already know about.

What a gift is

In very simple terms, a gift is receiving information or energy from a source that is not available to others, and also being able to send out information or energy that is not available to others.

When I say not available to others, I mean the people around you who come to you because of that gift. Some of them will have gifts of their own. I have kept the definition simple so the idea is clear.

The source of the information or energy is what defines the gift. We then give it a label. Medium, psychic, healer, clairvoyant, empath, shaman, mystic, and the list goes on far too long for me to write it all out. The Clairs page goes through the ways information arrives, through seeing, hearing, feeling and smelling what is not in the room.

The labels are useful for talking about it. Whatever label you relate to, the path underneath is the same. That path is still unique to you, your life and what you chose to do with this life.

Why nearly everybody has them

Your home is the spirit world. You chose to come here for learning and adventure and many other reasons.

You still have a connection to that world, even if it is limited. That means you are connected to your higher self, and that means you have a connection to all of the higher abilities. It is a matter of remembering and getting back in touch with your higher self. The Spirit and the Higher Self page explains what I mean by that.

So if you think you have no gifts, it is far more likely you have not remembered them yet.

You agreed to learn them

You made an agreement when you came into this life that you would learn your gifts.

In fact you are unblocking memory of things you already know. The learning only triggers that memory to come to the surface.

You will always be your best teacher. You will always be your best student.

That said, sometimes we need to seek knowledge from others to help the process along. Asking for help is part of it. Keep your own authority while you do.

Every one of you is different

Every one of you will have different abilities and different potentials. Some you know about and some are still unknown to you.

When I teach, I pay attention to two things: what I sense in the person, and what their own inner voice is calling for. Sometimes they are the same thing and sometimes they are not. I tailor what I teach to each person, along with some common ground for everyone.

I also treat everyone as a beginner, even when I know that is not true. The basics will always be the thing that strengthens your abilities. To this day I still practise my basics several times a day.

How to find yours

Any real development of your gifts has two halves. One is discovering yourself. The other is discovering the world around you.

Going inward is about learning who you are. Knowing yourself through and through, and feeling complete within yourself, wherever you are up to.

The next basic step is getting in touch with the energy body within you. That is the spirit being that chose to come into this physical body, and when you tune in to it, it is a very physical experience. The Body Energy page is where to start that.

Then comes learning how all of this relates to you and to the world around you, and learning the skills that help you tune in. That applies whether you are psychic, a medium, clairvoyant, an empath or any one of a thousand other labels.

The path I am describing is a very general one. You can take a thousand side roads and still end up at the same place.

Give yourself a goal

When I ask people what they want from their spiritual growth, I usually hear something like "to learn more about my abilities" or "to help other people". Those are lovely intentions. They are vague, and vague intentions lead to a long stretch of random learning and a feeling of getting nowhere.

If you do not know what your options are, make it your goal to find out. If you do not know how to find out, make it your goal to find a source that can teach you. The universe always answers when you sincerely ask for direction, and in my experience it is almost always within a few days to a week.

You might discover that one of your options is healing. That does not make it your only option. It means it is one of the abilities you have a natural gift for. So you ask for a source to learn about it, and your thirst for it will carry you. Either you go deeper down that road, or a bigger picture opens up that interests you more.

Write your goals down. Carry them with you. Read them in the morning, during the day and before sleep. That keeps you pointed at what you need, and it shows you early when the goal needs adjusting.

It pays to be mad

A very common thing I hear from people opening up is a feeling that something must be wrong with them. That they must be unhinged, or mad, or not right in the head, or so different from everyone else that it cannot be healthy. Some even talk of depression or another mental illness.

That feeling of being wrong is pretty normal. Our society teaches us that we have to conform to fit in, and being gifted falls outside that square. It can change how you see yourself next to everybody else.

It is ok to be different. It is ok to have abilities. It is also ok to not be ok, and if what you are feeling is heavy, please see your doctor as well.

I know a little about feeling different. My earliest memories include visions and a sense of things I later found out was unusual. I learned early to keep what I saw to myself, and I was nearly thirty before I understood my first vision. At school I never quite fitted into any group. Later I spent thousands of dollars on courses, coaches and books looking for the missing piece, until it all clicked into place and I found I had the answer all along. I just did not know I knew it.

Why it matters

You have been drawn to this now for a reason. Even if you cannot see it yet, you have gifts and abilities that will become essential in the years to come. For yourself, for those around you, and for people who will come into your life later.

Be gentle with yourself as they wake up. The Early Pitfall page explains the one thing most beginners run into, and how to get past it. The Your Abilities area is where each gift gets its own page, starting with the Monkey Mind page.

All I can do is help you remember what you already know.

If you would like this read against your own chart, my readings are here.