One day after Oprah moved to Montecito, a mile away from me, one of her closest friends, Dr. Maya Angelou, called me because she had misdialed Oprah. When "Maya Angel" appeared on my caller ID I knew I was in the Zone! During our conversation, she offered this inspiration for my weekly television show: "Never ever give up!"

This extraordinary message combined two powerful truths of the spiritual path. When you're in the Zone you’re in the flow and miracles often happen. However, don’t assume that you will effortlessly go with the flow. Whether in a magical moment of success or a difficult period of challenge, remember that both unconscious complacency and negative thinking will block success. It can help to remember the adage about “overnight success” that it usually arrives after 20 years of hard work and commitment.

Whether you’re most excited about reaching goals for your love life, career, or personal evolution toward inner peace, these spiritual abilities move us forward. With focus, intention, and practice you can learn each by expanding your creative brain. According to Psychology Today, the human brain is constantly changing. This “neuroplasticity” allows us to decide how to improve our abilities.

“Neuroplasticity is the brain’s capacity to continue growing and evolving in response to life experiences. Plasticity is the capacity to be shaped, molded, or altered; neuroplasticity, then, is the ability of the brain to adapt or change over time, by creating new neurons and building new networks. It means that it is possible to change dysfunctional patterns of thinking and behaving and to develop new mindsets, new memories, new skills, and new abilities.”

Here are 7 magical abilities that tell you when you're on the spiritual path

When any of these occur, you’re on the right path as they are like mile markers on the road to your most magical life.

1. The power of manifestation

“Manifesting” was the cause of Dr. Angelou’s call to me because I had been thinking about her a great deal and had just finished her remarkable memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. When we learn to focus on something with one-pointed intention and practice this skill, we can create remarkable shifts in our day-to-day experience so that people or things just appear.

I have manifested specific people I was eager to meet including 4 movie stars, 3 billionaires, a Prime Minister, and a world-renowned guru who bilocated to see me when his physical body was hundreds of miles away. I didn’t believe in bilocation until evidence, as explored in a study from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Journal, was produced that convinced me and this experience was a huge confirmation I was truly on the Spiritual Path because I had longed to meet him.

2. Life force and boundless energy

This is entirely different from nervous energy. It is also the opposite of the “Energizer Bunny” who is unconsciously racing around being busy, busy, busy. With spiritual energy, you are lit from within, and you are often glowing.

Research through George Washington University Medical Center suggests the activation of your chakras, the divine energy centers in your body, and above your head that connect you to The Divine cause of this glorious state. Powerful people will be drawn to you, they will literally seek you out to bask in your glow.

3. Personal magnetism

This is most apparent when you meet a film star or music idol. They have a unique ability to “turn it on” to captivate an audience of millions. Ben Affleck and I were on the same plane between his J.Lo relationships and as I walked to Baggage Claim he noticed me before I saw him, and he turned his magnetism “on”.

I felt a pleasant disturbance in the quantum field as if there were an electric current some distance from me. As soon as I looked up, there he was, staring at me with a riveting wry smile as his magnet created a mild tractor beam. However, he wasn’t on my to-do list, so I turned my magnetism off, fast, and walked on.

If you’re a performer this is a key skill to develop. If you are highly ambitious in your career, you need to learn this as it’s essential in leadership. For couples seeking lifelong monogamy, practice this until you are a powerful magnet for your partner, and then be sure to turn it off for everyone else.

4. Messages in your dreams may be from the Divine

When you get ready for bed, focus on a question you have or a decision you need to make for a new job, home, or relationship. Instead of the daytime Pros and Cons List, this practice will utilize your spiritual and visionary brain.

Place a pad and a ballpoint pen next to you in bed. If you follow a religious or spiritual path, address the highest energy that you can and ask the following:

• “Please send me the answer to ……… while I’m sleeping”

• “Please let me remember your answer when I awaken.”

• “Please let me write down your answer as soon as I awaken so I don’t forget it.”

At first, you may feel too sleepy to awaken and write down the message. After regretting all I had missed I finally created a new habit of taking notes from Higher Intelligence.

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Susan Allan is a Life Coach whose Evolution Revolution® Trainings and Heartspace® and Divorce Forum® Solutions offer proven tools to solve complicated problems, experience joy, and happiness, and let go of suffering.