What’s the Magic Key to Unlock Your Potential?

YOU! You have the key.  The hard part is figuring out where the lock is. In addition, do you have what it takes to really look inside? If you do then you’ll tap into your full potential.

It’s about discovering and then discarding the beliefs that are not serving you and replacing them with ones that align with your true nature. It’s critical in order to change your results.

You need to take responsibility for your beliefs. That’s easier said than done because there are some that are so deep seated you may not even realize they’re holding you back. Identifying them is hard. Often you need to actively question them or have an outsider bring them to your attention. It means accepting personal responsibility for those beliefs as well as what caused them. Every choice and consequence, every thought, feeling or emotion you’ve experienced, the actions you’ve taken, every story you’ve told about yourself, others and life events. This includes the negative thoughts and feelings associated with those beliefs. All the above is the accumulations of your current life.

It’s the thought that’s sets everything in motion. Each thought, negative and positive shapes your beliefs about yourself others and what’s happening around you. The thoughts eventually become beliefs that manifest in your words and actions which then become your results. For example you may have grown up with parents who said things like, “Money doesn’t grow on tress”, We can’t afford that, or Get a good education, work hard and you’ll get ahead in life”.

All those statements will lead the receiver believing that money is hard to come by and you have to work hard to get it. I still struggle with this myself but I’m working on it.  Obviously that’s not true because look at all the celebrities who work just a few months a year and rake in millions of dollars. To top it off, some of them really aren’t that talented.

Work on changing your thoughts to produce positive beliefs that you really want to accomplish. You have and deserve to win the lottery just as much as anyone else. Believe you can. Now take action and go purchase a ticket. Ka..ching!

Offended? Get Over it

The experience of being offended isn’t occurring in the other person. It’s happening in you. The other person merely expressed their viewpoint. It is you who are taking offense. They are just being who they are.

All you can do is make the person aware of how you feel and hopefully the person would be more sensitive to your feelings. However, you can NEVER change someone else. When you realize how hard it is to change a habit in yourself (lose weight/stop smoking etc) what makes you think changing someone else would work?

Instead of working on changing another’s viewpoint, your time would be more wisely spent exploring what makes you so sensitive to another person’s viewpoint. Aren’t you secure in your own stance? Why should the opinion of someone else even matter to you? Have you ever run across someone who really could give a rip about what anyone thinks? I have and I must admit I’m a bit envious that they’re so oblivious to anyone else’s opinion. It’s actually refreshing.

There have been times when former co-workers and colleagues didn’t agree with me and for a brief moment it bothered me, but I didn’t dwell on it. Why should I? I know that the closest people in my life will still love me anyway even if they don’t agree with me. Therefore, anyone else’s opinion really doesn’t matter.

If you’re offended about something then you’ve just given your power away. You’re essentially allowing this other person’s opinion and comments to affect you and you have control over your emotions. I hate to say it but it basically means you’re not confident and secure about your stance on the issue at hand. It becomes easier to shift the blame and hence your power to another then to take responsibility for your own emotions.

If more people knew that that’s what they were doing they wouldn’t do it. They’d take a stand and control their reaction.  No one really has the power to offend anyone else. The soft spot is inside the receiver. The beliefs you hold are expressed in the stories you tell yourself. You don’t have to remain a victim of your stories.

Does this make sense?

Get Yourself in for an Alignment

Just like your vehicle periodically needs to an alignment, so do you.  What is this alignment?  It’s getting yourself in sync with your divine self.

Your conscious mind is likely in charge of what you should or shouldn’t do or be.  However, to align with yourself you have to listen to your higher self. Why? It’s always the right thing to do FOR YOU. You can fight it as much as you like but in the end you won’t achieve happiness until you align with your higher self, your divine self.

When you’re feeling out of sorts with yourself or things just aren’t going the way you had hoped, it typically means you’re out of alignment with your divine self.  Let’s be clear about “going the way you want” kind of attitude.  Take notice if it’s something you’re ego wants or what your higher self craves.  This is important.  No matter how hard you want it, satisfying the ego will not get you into alignment. 

“The relationship between you and your Source is the most significant relationship of all and unless this relationship is understood, all other relationships cannot be fully understood”.

 

How will you know when you’re in alignment with your higher self?  Basically if it feels right, it is.  Your emotions are the prime indicator of how well you are connecting with you higher self.  Negative emotions and thought patterns take you away from Divine Source while positive emotions bring you closer.

Here is what Abraham (Esther and Jerry Hicks) has to say about connecting with your Divine Self.

 

“You came as physical extensions of Source Energy, understanding that you would explore contrast, causing expansion not only for you but for All-That-Is.  And you knew that, at all times, even while you were reaching into uncharted territories, the Guidance from within would not waver, but would remain a constant signal of Well-Being that you could reach toward and find at all times.  You knew that under all conditions, you could find your way back to the resources of your Source by “feeling” your way – by understanding that the relationship between you and You is not one of separateness but one of alignment and resonance…. When you master the Art of Allowing your consistent alignment with the Source within you –every other relationship will be beneficial and pleasurable”.

 

The Art of Allowing has to do with accepting what is happening to you without attaching negative emotions to it.  It means concentrating on the positive aspects of the change or challenge versus the negative.  For example, you lose your job.  It would be far better to focus your energy on pursuing a career you really want and cherishing the additional time you get to spend with your family then to focus on how bad you were treated or money woes.

You can check out more about the Law of Attraction by reading the many books that Esther and Jerry Hicks have published.

I See You – Do You Really?

I love that line from Avatar, “I see you” because it goes far deeper than just the surface level of seeing.  It means I see you for what is your true spiritual self.  How much better the world would be if everyone would see the true intention of others.

The teenager wouldn’t be so upset at his parents when he gets denied access to the car because the parent’s true intention is to teach him that safety comes first over the cell phone or being cool while driving.  They do this out of love.  They do it because they want him to be safe. 

To “see” someone as it refers to here is to see someone for who-they-really-are.  That would mean not seeing race, color, sex or creed etc but seeing the person’s true identity as white light of pure love, their essence.  That’s deep.

The problem is that often times people will get caught up in the surface stuff like not believing that a woman can be a good boxer or that a guy can be sensitive and still be a man.  There have been far too many stereotypes, assumptions, and social stigma that have pigeonholed people into being and doing things they truly don’t’ want to do nor are comfortable being.  Why, for the sake of fitting into a predetermined pattern that has been developed for years, maybe even centuries.  Why were they developed and why do they continue?  My best guess is two-fold.  One is that it’s become tradition and the other is that some people just can’t handle things being different.  They are comfortable with the status quo.

However, when you put pressure on people to conform to your standards you’re messing with their Free Will, the will be to who-they-are.  Perhaps you may not like who they truly are but then perhaps they never really knew who-they-are.  You don’t have to like it or accept. It is what it is. That’s Free Will. Of course it goes the other way too.  You do have Free Will to be who-you-are but are putting pressure on yourself to conform to others standards. Hmm…

Your challenge is to see someone for who-they-are.  It could be the person in the wheelchair, a person of a different race, creed, or sex than you.  Look past the surface and see the essence that glows within.