(Stillness in the Storm Editor) Spiritually gifted people sounds like there are those who have it and those that don’t. But this isn’t the case. Spiritual gifts are not given to us for nothing, we’re not born with them in an active state. We have to develop them. Spiritual gifts are our personality potentials, they come alive inside us when we’re in certain situations and we choose, of our own free will, to step forward and grow.
For example, maybe you’ve always thought of yourself as someone who hates kids. You just can’t stand them. But one day, you see a child being taken by a strange woman. She just doesn’t feel right and you have this flash of thought appear in your mind, you feel the drive to go do something. You stop the woman and ask if everything is OK. But it clearly isn’t. You almost instantly get a feeling that she’s trying to get away with something awful. You ask her where she is going and if this is her child. She immediately panics and runs away, leaving the child standing next to you. You ask the child who they are and they say they’re lost and looking for their mother. You help the child and mother reunite and everyone goes home happy. After this experience, you have the “gift” of courage and bravery. You’ve reached for and grasped for personal growth and it manifested accordingly. Now you’re a bit braver and more compassionate. You even have a soft spot for children.
What happened?
In the preceding example, spiritual rewards (new ways of seeing the world and acting in it) were generated through willing choice. That’s the way things work. You reach up and the universe reaches down to meet you.
Great spiritual works and thinkers from history assert that the rewards of spirit only come to those who reach for them.
My life experience agrees with this axiom. The more I reach for and grasp opportunities in my life, the more I grow and gain new skills.
So when reading the following, don’t assume that these people have some magical quality that makes them inherently better than you. Or, if the attribute discussed seems negative, don’t assume you aren’t sensitive too just because you don’t have the same experience. I would argue, the following are things to consider, perspectives that help us reflect on ourselves.
Recognize that you have these powers inside you too. The challenge is to do the inner work to develop them through life experience, often by embracing seemingly hard circumstances and carrying on with good cheer anyway.
Life has a lot to offer if we’re willing to take what is presented to us. Sometimes, we don’t want what’s on the menu. But the better we can accept what’s in front of us, the more empowered we’ll be in the future to co-create a more ideal set of options later.
– Justin
by Gerald Sinclair, December 15th, 2018
While we all have things that make us special, there are some of us with gifts that go far beyond those of most. These gifts are often quite easily spotted in others but when it comes to looking for them in ourselves, we fall short.
If you’re wondering whether you have a gift, chances are asking those around you is the best place to start. They should be able to point you in the right direction to begin looking. That being said, if you are not comfortable doing that you could look for the following signs.
Spiritual gifts could be anything from the ability to comfort others to actually being able to talk to the dead or anything in-between. They come in all shapes and sizes and each one is given for a specific reason. The universe always sets us up in the ways we need to be, if you’re gifted in this way eventually you will realize it.
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9 Things That Usually Affect Spiritually Gifted People:
1. They are strongly affected by the energies of their surroundings.
Gifted people are not able to avoid the energies before them. While other people are able to ignore them gifted people cannot for the most part help but take them all in. The energy of a room can have drastic effects on a gifted person.
2. They can usually sense changes in nature.
Gifted people usually can tell when the weather is about to change. It could be clear out and this person would still know somehow that it was about to start raining. They are able to predict the weather much more accurately than most others and tend to do so far sooner than the weatherman does. If they say something is about to happen, you should listen to their intuition it is much stronger than yours.
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3. Their nightmares and dreams are so real they feel more like memories.
Gifted people tend to have quite vivid nightmares and dreams because they are much more than just nightmares and dreams. You see, when we are sleeping the veil is thin and things from the other side can make communication through our mind’s eye. Those who are no more tend to speak to gifted people during their sleep more often than you might think.
4. They are often always surrounded by strangers.
Gifted people are often always surrounded by other people. Those who need to be fixed or saved are drawn to the gifted individual. While the gifted person needs to know when to cut ties, often it is something that they struggle with. People are always wanting to get something from this kind of person and it can be quite draining.
5. They are always being approached by animals.
Gifted people are always being approached by animals. Animals are drawn to them because they can smell the kindness and sense the warm aura. Gifted people are usually overwhelmingly positive and blessed with deeply empathetic personas.
6. Their emotions reflect in their surroundings.
Spiritually gifted people typically surround themselves with reflections of their true emotions. When they’re down in the dumps things will seem quite gloomy and when they’re happy it will be the opposite. You can usually tell what kind of mood they’re in just by looking at them.
7. The witching hour tends to give them a lot of trouble.
Gifted people are always waking in the middle of the night. Even when they’ve been up all day or have gone to bed late they still always seem to wake during the witching hour. This is a sign that they are far more in tune with the universe than they might think they are. How often do you wake up in the middle of the night?
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8. They become overwhelmed quite easily.
Gifted people are always letting themselves become overwhelmed. They tend to take on more of the energies of others than they should and it sets them up for a lot of heartache and stress. This is something that those who are aware of their gifts can work through but without awareness figuring out how to hold yourself back in this kind of situation is next to impossible.
9. They cannot handle being out of bounds.
Gifted people are not the kinds of people who do well out of bounds. They stick to what they know and do very little exploring. While most think the opposite of gifted people, remaining within their bounds still gives them plenty of room for opportunity. They know their own limits.
If these things apply to you, then maybe it is time for you to do some soul-searching to figure things out for yourself. An awakening might be in order and could reveal far more to you than you could imagine. You are on your way to bigger and better things.
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I really appreciate your comments about this article Justin. Good encouragement for those who are doubting their situation or their abilities!
Glad it resonated. We’re all endowed with special gifts waiting to be opened.