What if the dream world is so limitless that we can't even translate it in our waking state? And the only things we retain from our dreams are correlaries to what we already know? How would we ever unlock our true potential if we're constantly filtering it through our limited potential?
Don't you deserve to know who you'd be if you had no limits? If everything that was holding you back simply melted away?
This conversation aims to circumvent those limiting filters, and shine a light on what lies beneath.
Limitless self, how can I live my life like you do?
It starts with the concept of "my life." When you think of your life, your concept of what that can be is already limited. You need to deconstruct those limits, or find a way to see past them, in order to reach your limitless potential.
How do I know when I'm reaching that potential?
Your limitless self will feel more like an experience than a thought, because you simply do not have the vocabularly to to translate your true potential into something you can grasp. It's like awakening from a dream and trying to put it into worlds. Your dream state is limitless, but the things you retain when recalling that dream are limited to the corralaries that exist in the real world. The true limitlessness you posess remains left behind.
How can I reliably create those limitless experiences?
First you have to melt away or suspend your world view. Why do you want to have the experience in the first place? If it's to accomplish some other objective, then you're intentions behind that objective will actively limit you to thinking within a space where those objectives are important.
So what's important to me differs from what's important to my limitless self?
What you think about the world differs from what your limitless self knows abou the world. Imagine being afraid to send an email because you didn't know how to buy digital stamps. There's no such thing as digital stamps! Relics from outdated concepts cause you to worry about things you don't even need. And you can't move forward if you're using the problems of the past to invent problems of the future.
But the problems of the present are real because I'm not yet living the solutions of the future.
You're arguing for your limitations. Have you ever tried doing something only to look back and realize you were doing it the hard way? Every one of your problems that feels hard or unpleasant is because you're doing it the hard way. I cannot show you an easier way until you recognize that hard is a choice to limit your true potential, not a condition you encounter.
So if hard is a choice, how can I chose to see easy?
Say to yourself, "If it's harder than I want it to be, then I'm wrong." It's that simple.
A stone in the shape of an egg will not yield you an omellete no matter how hard you crack it. But most of life is not so obvious. When you're dealing with your inner dialogue, you're creating the world that you're working in. So you have no way of testing if waht you're thinking is an absolute truth or a conditional truth.
Unless you soften your assumptions you will always be limited by them. Embrace being wrong. It means you can have it both ways. The way that you thought was true, and the limitless possibilities that lie beyond that supposed truth.
Truth is a choice. A baby who hasn't made any choices can be anything. But until you make a choice you are none of those things yet. You need choice to become. So choose a new truth and see what comes of it.
This post inspired a series!
Becoming Your Limitless Self Series
- A Conversation with Your Limitless Self
- How to Let Go of What's Holding You Back
- Writing and How to Get Out of Your Own Way
If there's any other topics you'd like me to cover, feel free to suggest them! I really want to turn this series into a vehicle that helps all of us expand into more on all the topics that are important to us.