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The oldest traditions on the planet
and our most ancient
texts tell us, that each one of us is intricately interconnected to
everyone
and everything in the universal web of life. This intrinsic knowledge
of our
potential and our place in the world is carried deep within us, and yet
most of
us feel separate from this knowing.
Quantum
science has even been able to prove this interconnectedness. Scientists
now
know that when you take anything in
the physical universe and break it down to its smallest particle, its source, that what you find is space
–nothingness, and that this nothingness actually has
intelligence. It is this
intelligence (consciousness), that
then directs particles to form into the physical matter that manifests
as the
world we experience around us. Some call this intelligence God,
Creator,
Spirit, the Universe, or simply- life. This means that the same life
force that
is inside you and me, is also inside of everyone and everything. We are
never
disconnected from this source, however, many people today feel
powerless, alone
and separate. Why is this?
We
are handed a set of beliefs by our family, friends, culture, society,
educational systems, and religions, that say this is who you are as a
human
being, and this is the world you live in. Unfortunately, most of these
beliefs
tell us about a world that is built around lack, competition, fear,
survival,
and separation from our source. We are taught that everything we want
in life
is outside of ourselves and our focus must be on acquiring what we want
from
these external sources in order to succeed in life and fullfill
ourselves. This
often leads to a loss of personal power, and we begin to learn another
notion
of power which is our ability to develop power that allows us to
control the
outside world so that it comes to us, and then we can get our needs met.
When
we do this though, we set ourselves up to lose a piece of ourselves
everyday to
judgements, expectations, approval, relationships, work, money, food,
alcohol,
sex, and the list goes on. It is easy to get a sense of how a person
growing up
in this world begins to feel disconnected to the knowing that they are
magnificent, unbounded, unlimited, unrepeatable, and full of
possibility.
Any
time you experience the following, you are experiencing limitation, and
you are
living by rules and beliefs that are designed to keep you from knowing
your
full potential..
- You feel separate from others, from
your environment, from yourself and
from God – from your source.
- You feel separate from the things
you want in life; money, love, fame,
success, acceptance, power, purpose, clarity, connection, God. You
think that
they are outside of yourself, so you look for them in people, things,
experiences, not knowing that they have no real
capacity to give you what it is you really want.
- You think that the world is here to
serve you.
- You believe that there is only so
much to go around, so you have to
compete to get what you want, before someone else gets it
- You actualise through competing
with others, evaluating your success in
life on the basis of how much you have, what it’s worth, and
the image it gives
you.
- You never have enough; you are
always wanting more to fill up the hole
in your soul.
- You always need to be right.
Saint
Francis of Assissi said: “What you
are
looking for is what’s looking”.
When
you turn your gaze inward and become aware of the world behind your
eyes, you
will cultivate the art if self awareness and self reflection. You will
discover
that you have the ability to make conscious contact with the source of
all life
through your thinking and through your emotions. You will acquire the
tools for
living, realise the quality of your thinking creates the quality of
your life
experiences and that your emotions are the magnet that draws these
experiences
to you. You will also begin to identify the places inside of you that
are
wanting to be made whole by looking outside of yourself to external
sources. Then
when you look even deeper, you will discover the silent witness. The
consciousness that is directing all of life to form into the patterns
and
experiences that are simple a physical manifestation of your beliefs
about the
world you are living in. The consciousness that is the source that
connects you
to the universal web of life, to everyone and everything.
Potential
on its own is neutral. It’s what you do with what you have
that allows
potential to be expressed and actualised. Your ability to do this is
determined
by what you believe is possible for
you, and wether or not your thinking is grounded in love or fear, and
separation or connection to your source.
Lani
Neilson
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