“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth with save you.  If you do not bring forth what is in you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you,”  This is a beautiful reminder that we are here for a reason and that we need to fulfill our purpose.  Without purpose, we suffer and we search and we wander looking for meaning.  When we tap into our gifts and we learn to hone them and share them, we see life in a new way.  New neural connections form in our brains whenever we learn to do something new, similar to how we form new connections with people when we meet.  We aren’t meant to have the same programming and function the exact same way.  We are meant to be creative and learn new ways of doing things and to share them with people.  In terms of saving and destroying, I know that seems a bit much, but it is the truth.    

Think about how we feel when we are doing something we enjoy.  Now think about how we feel when we are doing something creative and aligned with that joy.  We get in that zone, time slips away, and we feel a sense of accomplishment that invigorates us.  When we stifle those instincts, we feel tired, angry, useless, and sad.  Mental health issues in this country are some of the highest in the world.  Some people are clinically depressed in that there are chemical or even structural issues with the brain that cause difficulty managing and regulating emotions.  But there is another group of people who feel a similar level of depression and that comes from lack of fulfillment and a lack of proper outlet/expression of energy.  Energy is meant to move and if we hold it stagnant, all sorts of things happen in our body and our mind.  Quite literally, not doing what we are meant to do breaks us down.

Take the science out of it for a moment and trust the gut.  Do we feel happy doing what we do?  If the answer is no then we need to consider another path.  Believing that we aren’t meant to be happy is in itself a disease.  The ability to believe others over ourselves is a societal illness as well.  Humans had great instincts.  We literally fought predators and survived at one point.  We harnessed elements and worked with nature.  We survived.  None of that would have happened if we didn’t know how to follow our guts.  As the world evolved we lost touch with that level of instinct and no longer feel secure in identifying what we need to survive.  We’ve mastered the physical part, now we need to master the mental/emotional part.  Take the time to listen to what you know.  Take the time to feel and also learn to develop context because emotion can be misleading.  We have to see the truth in order to progress.  The first step is knowing that what is calling us is meant for us and we are meant to bring that out.  Don’t hide our gifts.  Develop and share them.