How do you know you can’t fly? How do you know you can’t breathe under water? For many of these elementary survival questions, the answer originally stemmed from simple trial and error, from observation of these experiments with the physical world.
The next evolutionary form of information came from direct experimentation mixed with explanation. Do what your parents tell you because you want to survive. But then you still touch the red hot stove…maybe you will believe them from now on.
With the advent of the written (or pictorial) language, information now comes also from being written on a page (or wall). But how do you know that what is written is the truth? Merely because the writing says so? How do you really know what is and what isn’t? Do you test it yourself? Or do you rely on what others have said? Is it like when your parents said not to touch the stove? Maybe you should believe what’s written. But often there are contradictory things written, which one should you follow?
Do you go through life listening more to what others have told you or have written down for you to do, to feel, to think, than you do your own intuition?
Has this helped you, your ego, your body, get to a “successful” place?
Has this helped or hurt in understanding your purpose on earth? Have you shut down your intuition in favor of advice from other sources?
Have you picked up any self-limiting beliefs along the way based on this advice? How do you know what your limitations are?
For some, limitations are merely self-induced thoughts stemming from irrational fears.
But for many, they are rational cautions.
I can’t touch the stove because it will burn my hand. Well, you COULD touch the stove. It will simply hurt.
This pain, be it is physical, mental, or emotional is what stops us. We are drawn by our own self-preservation to limit our actions based on this fear.
But this limitation and fear is often merely a construct of the mind.
Do you think and talk in terms of limitations or constraints? Or do you talk about possibilities or achieving greatness, be it realistic or improbable?
For it first takes the belief that one can create greatness to bring it about. Getting there requires overcoming limitations, and that is one of the most difficult things to do.
To overcome limitations means to commit. It is the act of committing fully that yields the greatest resistance internally (by your fear) and externally (by society), but also brings about the greatest potential outcome.
When one commits completely, he or she does not focus on the limitations or what isn’t, but on the accomplishments made and what is.
No matter how many failures to overcome, success stems from perseverance.
When you authentically acknowledge and accept your intuition–your own experience without the limitations placed on you by society or your fears–when you push through the obstacles that you’ll inevitably encounter, you will begin to truly wake up, to live.
From this stems the realization that you are interconnected with everything else. That frame of mind (at the very least a thought exercise), leads to such things as the chaos theory, aka the Butterfly Effect.
And when you start to look for explanations in science about this, you might just find it.