If this doesn't describe your day, then try simple method below to reveal your true talent. Once you identify your unique expression, you will be motivated to experience it virtually everyday. You will have a deep burning desire to feed your soul and share it with world. When you comprehend your purpose, engage it regularly. Perhaps Albert Einstein said it best, "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

Your true, unique talent originates deep within your soul. Your heart is your direct connection to your soul. Therefore, speaking and listening to your heart will surface your true talent. Some people even say it's reason you were put on this Earth. To experience your true nature with no boundaries and no embarrassment. To express your soul like no one else can. And to enrich other people's lives.

Why talk about death at time of year when people are most focused on eternal life? What better time! Isn't this season of rebirth best time to celebrate a wake for dead things in our life-the beliefs and patterns that no longer serve us?

This month of December we endure shortest, darkest day of year-the day with least light shining on our lives. And it is also month of return of light-as days get longer and brighter, and life-giving sun shines stronger each day. It's a great time to die to old limitations and outmoded ways of thinking.

Death is Not What We Think It Is

The word used for "death" in Aramaic tongue-the language of Jesus and Bible-literally translated means "not here, present elsewhere." In most ancient and native cultures, border between life and death is highly permeable. This natural transition is not feared, but rather welcomed as an opportunity to liberate oneself from endless unconscious cycles of repeating patterns.

Death-the inevitable ending of each life event-is actually something that we experience in every moment of our lives. Transitions from life-to-life, as well as from moment-to-moment, are opportunities to renew our lives with fresh, authentic passion, excitement and vitality. In facing truth of death directly, we have opportunity to come fully into life. "Die to moment!" counsels St. John of Cross.

Death is a Sacred Rite of Passage

Death is actually only a loaded word for "transition" and an emotionally charged label for a very natural, safe "rite of passage." Our current Western society has lost touch with value of preparing people for this basic reality of life: constant change, continual transition from one form to another. Until modern era, sacred rites of passage have been important to health of human societies for thousands of years, enabling individuals to negotiate their life transitions with purpose, ease and meaning.

Is it time to re-embrace fact that we are constantly dying and recreating ourselves? If so, we could help each other to master our transitions between careers, relationships, marriage and divorce. Together we could move with grace through grief and loss, addictions, and illness. We could teach ourselves and our children to celebrate coming of age, menopause, midlife crisis, aging and spiritual awakening. Our reward would be a more harmonious journey on this planet.

"Make Death Your Ally"

With this motto indigenous shamans advise us to make inevitable demise of each moment-and of each life-a source of power and a well of motivation to live more vibrantly and fully in each moment. "Dying" is our friend when we allow it to remind us to let go of expectations of how "things have always been." " Death" is our ally when we let it remind us to open again and again to choosing innocence-that is, choosing to be innocent, free, of past and preconceptions of who we are. Being innocent means living fully in each new moment-leaving past behind.

"I Feel Like I'm Dying!"

Some common feelings people experience when moving through life changes and personal growth are emotions of impending death, or of wanting to die. Tribal people recognize these feelings as signals that soul is integrating more fully into body, threatening beliefs of personality and who it thinks "I am."