Isness vs Rebirth (Part 2): DAY 11

Isness vs Rebirth (Part 2): DAY 11

The Desteni of Living – Utmost Potential (Part 9)

The Principle of Realising and Living my Utmost Potential

In this post and posts to come, I am discussing what ‘Realising and Living my Utmost Potential’ practically means – through showing how I have (and still do) live and realise this Principle.

STEP 1: Recognizing my own Potential (Self Forgiveness)

In the next post, I will continue with sharing a way through this Controlling Fear, through the barriers of protection / defence mechanisms keeping Human Consciousness in an stuckness / isness of being ‘I am what I am’ – with this point a contributory factor to why and how it is that we intrinsically have not changed within / throughout the history of human civilization; and why our minds, our lives and the world as a whole keep on cycling through the same perpetual consequence generation after generation.

When I started walking process, I started with the most ‘obvious’ things in my Mind and relationship with others that were undeniably compromising me and my life in general. Like, for example the point of ‘taking things personally’ – this was an obvious point that I could clearly see in my Mind and relationship with others was affecting me, my behaviour, the experience of myself and decisions I would make when it comes to other people and how I experience / behave towards them.

So, what is suggested within your process – to break through the controlling fear of your Consciousness keeping you in an “isness self acceptance” is to simply have a look at your own mind and relationship with others / things in your life that you can clearly see is compromising your experience. For example: seeing that you emotionally react to the same person in the same instance over and over and over again, seeing that you have difficulty waking up in the mornings – having a tendency to wake up with emotion, seeing that you judge yourself constantly throughout the day, seeing how you fear the future, seeing how memories of the past still haunt you when they come up within you to which you emotionally react…so, identify one such point within yourself and start working with it / on it with the tools of writing, forgiveness and practical living application as walked in the DIP Lite (Free Course) and DIP Pro Course.

Herein, with taking one point and seeing for yourself how you can change – this moment gives you the OPPORTUNITY, a ‘break through’ opportunity to be able to take on and walk through the other parts of yourself in your Mind / your life in general to walk into and as a process of change.

When I started with taking that first step of walking self-forgiveness and changing myself in moments, an interesting thing developed within me: I was becoming curious as to how I would change with investigating, understanding and opening up all the other things within myself and my life…and so my process of change, of becoming and realising my utmost potential started. Because, I realised that: I initially interpreted the process of change to be like a “180 degrees flip”, you know – where it was like all of me was on one side of an A4 paper and change would be when you flip that piece of paper around completely and I would become so changed I would not recognize myself at all…when this is not how this process of change happens…

This process of change happens more as a birthing process through which a ‘changed self EMERGE’; so it’s more like an ‘emergence’ of self than a complete ‘flip’ that happens. For example, you can look at it as: standing on one side of a waterfall, in the cave of the Mind – always only ever seeing the inside of the cave / the mind as it exists, always only looking into the waterfall as the milieu of thoughts and emotions your consciousness generate…so, process is more like parts of you, walking a process through the waterfall, understanding the thoughts and emotions, the ‘self’ it creates in the cave of the mind / consciousness and out into the other side into the seeing / realising of your utmost potential. As you walk through the waterfall, the process of understanding the thoughts/emotions and the extent to which they define / affect behaviour and one’s experience – you simultaneously start transforming / changing and in this process your awareness EXPANDS into and as the ‘great outdoors’, the multi-dimensions of the mind and this reality - SEEING MORE as YOU become MORE within yourself in/as your transforming, birthing and expansion process.

For example: when I was taking things personally, I believed that ‘it’s who/how/what I am’ – because my thoughts and emotions would automatically, immediately come up and I would react to another person’s words / behaviour…never KNOWING that I can actually change the experience of myself. So, here – a part of me was in the cave of the mind, this part defined as ‘taking things personally’; so as long as I accept/allow a part of me to exist as ‘taking things personally’ – whenever a person would speak with me/behave towards me a certain way and that resonates towards me, my mind: the potential for me to take things personally will always exist, because I accept/allow a part of me as ‘taking things personally to exist’…therefore becoming predictable in the sense of in similar situations / with similar people speaking / behaving in particular ways – to react in taking them personally.

So, the process is thus to change / transform this part of myself of ‘taking things personally’ into rather ‘seeing the words / behaviour through the eyes of the person, considering them’. This is the process of walking through the waterfall, out of the cave – as a part of you would then transform from always accepting/allowing to take things personally, to now standing in the shoes of another. So then, every time people speak / behave in certain ways and that resonates towards self – instead of the ‘taking things personally’ part of myself stepping forth, what now stands is ‘standing in the shoes another’ and instead support them rather than react to them.

The actual process through the waterfall is understanding the thoughts and emotions creating the ‘taking things personally’ part of myself, where they come from, why they exist, why I accepted them – to forgive and let go of the thoughts / reactions and instead make a decision to stand, be stable and change myself in the moment and how I respond in the moment. Herein, self EXPANDS – because previously: I was limited to only seeing my own thoughts / emotions in such moments – now, with moving beyond them, remaining stable and placing myself in the shoes of another – I SEE more, UNDERSTAND more about myself and others, because with taking that step back and out of my own mind, I now learn more about another – why they do / say what they do in moments, that it more defines them than it ever defined me, for example. So, it’s fascinating how much you LEARN about yourself as these parts of you EMERGE from the cave of the Mind through the waterfall of change into a self expansion within oneself, one’s relationship with others.

So, this process is not a change as in a ‘flip’ change, but a change as in how you transform, birth ‘dormant potentials’ within yourself and so EXPAND yourself to being / becoming so much more than the accepted and allowed limitations the controlling fear of consciousness impose on one, keeping one in the darkness of the mind to not see / realise and in fact live the potential within self that’s been suppressed. You just need to take that step to move THROUGH and BEYOND your thoughts and emotions and realise that there is a part, an awareness within yourself that can direct and change your thoughts and emotions for the betterment of you, your experience and your relationship with others.

So, again – I suggest, for those who are ‘sceptic’ – take a self honest moment with yourself, identify difficult / challenging things in your mind pertaining to thoughts, memories and emotions that have become a repetitive cycle you can see is compromising your experience, body / relationship with another and see what change emerge, how you transform yourself – showing yourself how change is a birthing process and how you can expand yourself with UNDERSTANDING how the mind, thoughts and emotions work with the ability to direct them and change them.

In the next post I will continue with some practical examples of how exactly one’s awareness expand as you walk the process of self transformation, change and eventual birthing – the process of realising one’s potential and eventually living one’s utmost potential…

Do It. Be it. Live it.

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 Do It. Be it. Live it.  

We have a tendency to look at ourselves and our lives and dwell on the things and experiences and aspects that we ‘lack’ or generally ‘suck at doing’, and especially experience this when we compare such parts to/towards others and we get/have a direct-reflection of what we are and have become and accept and allow ourselves to be, live and do: A direct-reflection that we cannot deny seeing, which only perpetuates such accepted and allowed deficiencies/inadequacies in ourselves and our lives.

 Like, for instance – lack of discipline, postponement, no drive, no motivation, experiencing projects/tasks/applications as obligations/burdens, no passion; constantly mirroring ourselves through others and finding/noticing how we exist as such habits/patterns.

Some simply ‘give into their fate’ and submerge themselves into the wanderings of the mind where we fantasize about ‘how we could be’ as we use examples as people within our world and superimpose ourselves onto their discipline, drive, motivation, direction, passion, precision, specificity and dream of how we would be if we were to be ‘like them’ while at the same time wallowing in our own despair of a self and a life that is seemingly ‘unchangeable’ and the best that we can do is ‘fantasize change’.

Others try and equalize or better themselves in such aspects they find ‘lack’ / ‘non-existence’ / ‘inadequacies’ / ‘insecurities’ and then life becomes a constant competition chasing after the ‘becoming’ of  discipline, drive, motivation, direction, passion, precision, specificity – which turns out like a race, and one’s days end with exhaustion and frustration or pride and supremacy when one achieved or failed within one’s game of attempting-to/trying to ‘better self’.  Or others try and equalize or better themselves and actually succeed – but then that which was attained – becomes the total definition of the being and that is all that they become/live-out/become good at, while some personality-parts / aspects of discipline, drive, motivation, direction, passion, precision, specificity ‘evolve’ other aspects of themselves/their world/relationship experience neglect / ignorance because the total focus-point / attention of the person was channelled to/towards the ‘becoming’ of / as discipline, drive, motivation, direction, passion, precision, specificity.

Furthermore, within that – everyone has different definitions of, for example what it means to be disciplined, to have drive, to be motivated, to express passion, to work with meticulous precision etc. and together with that definition there is a particular “experience” attached to it, as an energy. In this, the actual-living of/as the words discipline, drive, motivation, direction, passion, precision, specificity becomes lost, because an idea/perception/belief is created/generated of such aspects/expressions/attributes/traits within the context of energy and pictures and then the ‘chase / becoming’ of it – either through, in and as fantasies or reality becomes about the “experience” of the words and not the actual LIVING, BEING and  DOING of/as the words as Self.

For example, we see / notice someone being exceptionally disciplined in/as their actions through work/tasks/projects and then compare all aspects our experience of ourselves in relation to discipline through observing them only within that one context. Then we ‘judge ourselves / pity ourselves and manipulate ourselves’ into thinking/believing/perceiving we’re not ‘disciplined’ – but, just because that person is disciplined within the ‘work environment’ does not mean ‘who they are’ is disciplined as a living-action/expression of themselves within/as all aspects of themselves, their world and relationships to/as everything and everyone equal and one. Being ‘disciplined’ within the ‘work environment only’ is not in fact actual, real living-discipline within the context of equality and oneness, such ‘discipline’ from the other beings’ context may be due to various other factors/points/experiences forcing the person to who, how and what they are in the work-environment – from family, to money, to obligation etc.

Therefore within process, we emphasize the point of not accepting and allowing self to compare self to others – because the tendency of the mind in relation to comparison, is to take one aspect of one person in one context and superimpose that on the totality of self and then think/believe self is ‘inadequate / inefficient / lacking’ in/as ALL aspects of self.  Like for example, taking that one aspect of discipline, of that one person within the one context of the work environment and comparing all contexts of discipline within self to that ONE event only and then judge/condemn self to the definition of being ‘undisciplined’.

And furthermore, the very point of comparison is not ‘valid’ as everything in our world in relation to words has become definitions of energy and pictures ‘personalized’ within human beings’ mind consciousness system and so each person has a different reason/starting-point/agenda for acting/behaving/living in particular-specific ways.

Then we try and ‘become disciplined’ and force / push / enforce discipline – in only one or few aspects of ourselves and our lives which most of the times turns out into postponements, exhaustion, judgements etc. as we try and be/become something that only exist as a ‘idea’ we created in our own mind as a picture/energy and/or others simply fantasize and further perpetuate their self-victimized, self-pity, self-manipulation state/experience of thinking/believing what they are now is all they will be every be.

Therefore, the MISS-TAKE that is being made here, is trying to be something/someone else other than actually doing, being and living it as SELF.

So, here’s an opportunity to TAKE AGAIN and re-look and reconsider what we accept and allow within the context of comparison and competition in relation to points/parts/aspects/attributes/habits/patterns within/as which we experience ourselves as inadequate/inferior/lacking/inefficient.

Changing self is a DOING, it’s an action. There is no energy, no picture, no outcome attached to it – one do, live and be. Like, for instance with Discipline – being Disciplined take a simple action of DOING, arranging, organizing and structuring oneself and one’s world in all aspects that require direction/attention/completion and asserting self to actually get in there, participate in reality and DO it. Through/from DOING, one start living as the word as discipline as it becomes parts of self’s daily application through actually completing / paying attention to and directing what is required to be done in all aspects of ourselves, our world and others. Within/as doing and standing-as the living-expression of/as the word one in fact become the word as self ‘naturally’ – one is HERE as the word, doing, living and being – the completion of/as self as the living-word as discipline in all aspects of self, self’s world and relationships.

Discipline then becomes/is a doing, living/being AS SELF – it’s not defined/attached to an idea/picture/energy/person/chase; but permeate and infiltrate all aspects of self, self’s world and others as self.

And this goes for all and everything else within one’s world/reality – with regards to drive, motivation, direction, passion, precision, specificity: if you simply DO it, and apply yourself in doing to LIVE it you BECOME/ARE it, Here as self as Being as natural expression of/as ‘who self is’ that stand equal and one in all facets/parts and aspects of self, self’s world and others.

So, whenever you TRY and be/become something you’ve noticed within another and find yourself chasing after it in exhaustion or dreaming about it in your fantasies while wallowing and drowning yourself in your own inadequacies/lack/inefficiencies: know that you’re playing the game of comparison in your own mind and trying to become an IDEA – instead of simply DOING, LIVING and BEING it as self, here.

So, assist and support self to develop self into and as the LIVING WORD, through the practical application of taking a word and simply doing, living and being – and applying it within all contexts of oneself, one’s world and relationships; not limit and diminish self to attempting-to/trying to fulfil one idea/ideal only.

Take the word and do, live and be it within oneself, one’s world and relationships – sit with yourself, write it out – how would you apply as do, live and be the word as self within one’s world/reality to manifest the word as self in equality and oneness.

Like, for example with discipline – see where/with who/when one tend to be undisciplined – what actions of doing can be applied, with constancy and consistency to assist/support self in developing self into/as the living and so the being of/as the word as self and then walk the word in ALL contexts as self until self is satisfied. In this, one develop self as the word – not trying/attempting to chase after a idea in one’s mind that one compared from another as a picture/energy and so self assist/support self to in fact EXPAND within self and self’s world and not limit/diminish self to/as one picture/energy/idea of/as a word within the context of ego/mind.

What would be cool to do, is for example first do write-our for yourself – write-out all the points/parts within you/your world/relationships where, for example you experience yourself to be undisciplined so that you can have a concrete/practical visual-direct presentation of yourself right in front of you.

From there, you take all the points individually and do a write-up of how to practically in living-action of doing – assist/support you to be disciplined, disciplined which is simply the doing, living and being of constancy an consistency in getting things done , directing and completing what is required/needed within a practical, physical context.

Then, from there – you actually DO it, for /as self and so through application – find, develop and ‘play’ with ways/methods of doing that works until you find a satisfactory expression of physical living that works as self.

Obviously remember it will be a process, and will require patience – because you’re in the process of developing/changing and expanding ‘who you are’ as a living word, actually assisting and supporting self to LIVE and at the same time releasing the enslavement to/as one idea/perception/belief of a word within the context of a picture/memory/energy.

Set yourself free from comparison, postponement and wasting time within fantasies/dreams – take a breath, take a word and assist/support self to be/become the living word – through actual DOING, as practical physical application here in reality – taking it breath by breath, action by action as self walk the process of changing self.

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Sunette

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