Discovering Your Gifts

An inspiring and empowering meditation to help you uncover your gifts and share them with others. Lou offers a practical way to understand what the qualities of your gifts are and how they tranlate out in the world. You'll leave this practice with new insight and understanding to move forward in your journey.

Transcript

Hello and welcome.

Today I want to talk about this concept of the gift.

You'll hear me often talking about finding your gifts,

We need your gifts,

You have a gift.

I see gift as your unique genius,

That thing that only you can give to this world.

Today's meditation is to practice with the qualities of a gift.

And to do that first I want to explain the qualities of a gift through using gift as an acronym.

G stands for gratitude.

And that means your gift,

You are so grateful for the opportunity to give it.

It is a joy and you would never want that joy taken from you.

It's truly a gift that keeps on giving.

So we stay in gratitude for having it,

For experiencing it,

Even if we don't know what that is yet.

I is for inspiration,

Meaning the gift is in spirit.

It comes to us,

It is a gift to us as much as we make it a gift to others.

And some people call this inspiration the muse,

Some god who delivers some spark of intuitive knowledge.

It comes to us,

It's otherworldly and it will be working through us so that we can naturally inspire others who are yearning for their gift.

F stands for freedom,

Meaning that the gift will free you from your small sense of self.

It will offer freedom of expression and freedom of living as you will be aligned solely with what the world needs of you.

And guess what?

The world will support you in doing that.

It is also something which you'd happily give away for free,

For it is the joy that it brings you that is the greatest reward.

And lastly,

T stands for transformation.

It transforms,

It enlightens you.

And by doing that,

It offers transformation to the world as a collective.

If all of us were grateful and inspired and freely living our gifts,

This world would transform away from the hatred,

The war,

The unconscious depletion of our resources.

If we were all living aligned with our hearts,

It would be a transformation.

And so let's move through this practice that embodies all of these qualities.

Go ahead and close down your eyes.

Come into your body and right away take a few smooth breaths in,

Filling up space and letting each breath out,

Relax and further connect you to your chair,

To your cushion.

And we're going to use the first quality to continue to ground ourselves.

So that is gratitude,

First quality of a gift.

So take a moment and find gratitude for being here,

For doing this work,

For watering the desires that are hidden in your heart.

Gratitude for your wholehearted intention.

It's something to feel grateful for because the world needs it.

Feel that thanks,

Send that thanks.

Now let's imagine yourself offering your gift,

Living a life that is so aligned with who you are.

I'd like to envision yourself doing that even if you don't know what it is.

See a version of you that is connected with the gift.

And as you see yourself giving it,

Find gratitude for the ability to do so.

How beautiful it is that you get to live this life,

This fully aligned and inspired life.

Great thanks for that.

And then moving into inspiration.

Your gift is shown through this world,

However it comes from somewhere else.

It's just been waiting for the perfect vessel to bring this gift to life.

You are that perfect vessel.

Your gift is waiting to be born once you open up and are able to receive it.

So take a moment here and see if you can open yourself to receive guidance.

Maybe even feel your chest open up towards the sky a little bit.

And I'd like you to connect wherever you get guidance from.

That could be a god,

A muse,

A great being,

A saint.

Feel your heart open towards the sky.

Ask to be blessed with inspiration.

Ask to be blessed with guidance.

Maybe you ask to allow the gift to come through.

And the gift will come.

Because the inspiration will also be a blessing to others.

Maybe thinking about all the people you will bless with this gift.

And then moving to freedom.

To embody freedom,

I'd like you to imagine in your mind's eye that you are sitting in a wide open field.

Feel yourself sitting there and breathe in the expanse of this scene.

Can you see the possibilities that are around in all directions?

This wide open field.

Sky is bright and blue.

And as you breathe,

Imagine your body start to float up off the ground into the sky.

Allow this to further embody the sense of freedom.

And go ahead and allow yourself to travel,

To grow,

To feel the expansive quality.

Your gift will offer this to you because you will be freeing others as well.

Imagine traveling through space.

Sensing that you are no longer tied down to what you thought you had to do to your small sense of self.

And you are free,

That you are in your limitless and unbounded potential.

And as you float,

Imagine that you are pouring and sharing your gifts with all the people below you on the ground.

Maybe you symbolize your gift as a figurine or a flower and you're sharing this with all those people that you're going to touch.

Freely offering this gift to the world.

Not needing anything in return.

Because again,

It is its own reward.

So continue in that expanse.

And now lastly,

Transformation from your sky.

Imagine that you move into outer space and you're looking down on the whole of earth.

It's here that transformation is taking place.

That your world will transform because you are living your gifts.

Look down at the earth and imagine what a transformed world would look like.

The health,

The happiness,

The joy,

The love,

The connection.

Feel yourself radiating that energy from the cosmos,

Your inner cosmos,

Where the inspiration strikes onto this world that you're looking down below.

Imagine as each breath you take,

It's almost as if you are creating a transformed world because you are transforming yourself.

Imagine that when you feel ready,

Begin to come down from space,

Down back to the earth,

Coming back into your room,

Into your body right here,

Right now.

And go ahead and open your eyes.

I hope that was supportive for you and I deeply,

Deeply hope that you continue to explore and I will do what I can to continue to help you to uncover your gifts.

Much love to you,

Much guidance and hopefully get to connect soon.

Namaste.

Reviews

Beautiful meditation and rings so true with my experience.

I really appreciate this exploration and framing of what our gifts are.

While brief, this meditation really struck a cord with me and helped me to feel more confident about my beginning to use my gifts.

This was wonderful not only to be reminded of the gifts that I possess but to channel them and then be able to share them.

You sound unrehearsed and it feels as if you’re speaking from your heart. I just shared this with a friend and we did the meditation together. 🙏 thank you

Thank you for sharing your gift this morning. I am grateful. 🙏

Great visualization practice and enjoyed his guidance.

Lovely meditation. Love the acronym.
Thank you . Namaste 🙏

That was terrific, Lou! I’m taking an glass art class today, so this couldn’t come at a better time! I have been conflicted for several years on finding my artistic niche. Metal or glass or both?!? Lol It’s not a bad problem or addiction to have, but it’s frustrating and I’m all over the place with my silly dilemma. This helped to open my heart & soul this morning for guidance on my path of getting my art out into the world one day! Thank you kindly! 🌞

I can feel this emotional release come through me going through this meditation. I have a new way of looking at gift and it’s so powerful. Thank you, Lou for this perspective!

This was so helpful to me I can’t even believe it! Loved every second of it. Thank you so much, I am definitely going to approach today with a very different outlook. Amazing meditation!!

Amazing. Thank you for sharing your GIFT. Love this meditation.

Incredible as usual! Thank you! Namaste🙏🏻💝

Love Lou’s meditations. ♥️🙏🏼

Thank you 🙏🏾 2/2/21

thank you. i know my gift but seem to face obstacles in achieving goals.

Amazing, Thank you!

This was expansive. To truly connect with awe, inspiring potential. Thank you. Once again you nailed it.

That was awesome, thank you! Will take some notes about the GIFT now...

Lovely. Thank you so much!