What Makes You Unique

Personal expansion is about making connections and here is a topic that people often come back to when they are “finding themselves”. Looking backwards or forwards may bring you closer to the truth but not always closer to what makes you unique.

Personal expansion is about making connections and here is a topic that people often come back to when they are “finding themselves”. Looking backwards or forwards may bring you closer to the truth but not always closer to yourself.

I was told and was very lucky to believe that I was special, talented and unique. I heard this over and over and the message felt true. I don’t remember what I thought that it meant but I know that 30 years later I was still trying to figure out how to feel this on the inside. I wonder what I am identifying with, what I feel connected to and what is me.

I have spent many hours looking at pictures of my younger self and asking people what I was like hoping that this would give me a clue into who I am. Even though I learned a lot about what others thought of me I never felt satisfied with the answers I received. These stories told me about my life but not about me and they just kept me wanting more.

Do you ever wonder what is special about you? Is it your talents, your creativity, your skills? Is it your virtues or character traits that make you unique? Is it what you know or have learned or even skills you have developed?

Talents, stories, and what you have learned are aspects that you identify with externally. You can get mixed up with identifying too much with yourself at one moment or another. You can try to pin down who you are as being one single thing, something or someone that you will become. What is really inside that you can bring out?

Understanding your uniqueness is knowing yourself. Try on how it feels to see that all persons are born whole. Everyone is born with every potential and all capabilities alive. You are ready to take on the opportunities that arrive before you. This is when you see who someone truly is. When you can see this about yourself you can appreciate who you are.

Knowing yourself helps you choose how you live. It can help you explore talents and create. It can help you follow interests and become energized by new opportunities. It can help you grow and tryout new virtues because you are not limited by moments in time but you are the one changing and expanding your experiences. You are the only one moving through life the way you have so you are unique, you have your own perspective and only you can share that with the world.

I invite you to get close to the you that is complete and ever expanding. Take every opportunity to know that you are born with everything that you need to navigate this world and then enjoy just being this. It is not anything that you identify with that shows who you are but the way you move through life that is your uniqueness. As you are inspired you will be living from the inside out.

For now you can leave your comments about living inside out or about your own uniqueness on the contact page, soon the website will have the capability to receive comments on this page.

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