Imagining Potential vs. Living Potential (Part 2): DAY 9

Imagining Potential vs. Living Potential (Part 2): DAY 9

The Desteni of Living – Utmost Potential (Part 7)

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 we will continue expanding on this point of how to practically assist and support yourself in such a way that you ensure you don’t shift yourself into a future projection that you imagine in your Mind and forget to walk your process in real time, in this real world – where your process of self potential is a birthing process walked moment by moment.

A tendency I have found within my personal process – is to fight against my ‘current real self’ that reality exposed. My ‘current real self’ being that which reflected back to me in my thoughts and emotional reactions whenever I would speak to people or interact with them. ‘Reality’ exists in the moments when you are with people – either speaking, simply interacting and especially when you are alone with yourself.

I found that one of the greatest single interferences within my real time process (real time process being where I am in moments speaking / interacting with other people) – were ideas / opinions I would hold about myself; where such ideas / opinions would more often than not be contradictory to my visible behaviour in my outside world.

In relation to ‘taking things personally’ for example – I had this idea / belief about myself of ‘liking people’, when the fact of the matter was that I ‘only liked people whom like me’. So, my statement was more coming from only those in my world I had good relations with – yet the truth in my behaviour when it came to meeting people was that I was shy, nervous and afraid – because what would come up first within myself was self judgment, comparison, competition, inferiority and a whole lot of other things reflected in my thoughts and emotions. So, as part of your process – have a look at any ‘absolute statements’ you have about yourself, like for example: I had this idea / belief about myself of being ‘attentive’. Yet, when looking at my behaviour and living in reality and what reality exposed – I often forgot things, didn’t consider others in moments, didn’t take full responsibility for things. The fact of the matter was that I was only ‘attentive’ when it suited my personal interests and/or when I had a hidden agenda in mind in relation to other people.

How this relates to the point of imagining potential vs. living potential is as follows:

A practical suggestion I have that I applied for myself when I realised how my ‘Imagined Potential’ was interfering with me walking my process in reality of becoming and so eventually living my ‘Utmost Potential’ is to practically utilize my Imagined Potential as a REFERENCE for what I want to personally achieve for myself. So, I had to within myself align my starting point within and as the following words: “I see, realise and understand that I am not yet the potential I can foresee I am able to live. I endeavour to in every moment I speak / interact with people – apply the tools of forgiveness and self-change as every moment of application and change is a stepping stone of me becoming and so eventually living my potential of change I envisioned”. So, what is essentially needed is an ‘acceptance’ of: “Okay, this is who and how I am right now – it will be a process to change, with this process of changing manifesting in every moment I in fact, in reality, in a real time moment apply myself and change”.

As I mentioned within the above, we tend to want to believe our own ideas / beliefs about ourselves we hold onto within the Mind – which then makes it very difficult to see the REALITY of ourselves, to FACE the reality of ourselves in moments of participation in reality and also looking at ALL areas and relationships of our lives. So, this is the one adjustment I would suggest doing within your process – whether you’re starting your process or have been walking for quite some time:

Adjustment 1:

Ensure that you don’t hold onto ABSOLUTE ideas / beliefs about yourself that may in fact only pertain to one person, one area or some moments in your life – but practically ask yourself the question “am I living this idea / belief equally within all areas within my life”. Like, for example the “I like people” – to ask yourself “do I really like all people” and/or “I am attentive” – ask yourself “am I really attentive with all people in my life, all the things that I do, all the things I need to remember / tend to?”

Adjustment 2:

Ensure that the potential you envisioned is simply a reference, a motivation, a ‘goal’ to reach – that the envisioned potential does not shift you from walking your process in real time, in real moments of speaking / interacting with people. That your MAIN FOCUS is on your real time reality process…because another interesting dimension I have found is that what I did envision was a mere GLIMPSE of what I would become by putting in the time, effort, process and discipline in real time moment as I walked self-forgiveness and self change.

In the next post, I will continue sharing more detail in terms of how to identify the ABSOLUTE ideas / beliefs you can hold onto that interferes with you seeing/facing the ‘current real you’ in reality, as well why and how it is that your envisioned / imagined potential is but a mere GLIMPSE of what you can potentially be / become with walking self change practically moment by moment, breath by breath.

It’s not the SIZE of the SEED that Counts…: DAY 4

It’s not about the SIZE of the SEED…: DAY 4

The Desteni of Living – Utmost Potential (Part 4)

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)

Obviously this MOMENT where you step back, access your potential/being/awareness, assess the thoughts and emotions and then CHANGE – the CHANGE PROCESS, is a process in itself as well…and this I will continue with in the next post, together with a practical example of moments during the early years of my process that were significant when I started accessing my potential, my me and started growing as the seed of potential, of awareness…eventually into and as LIFE.

One afternoon, a friend of mine’s 4-year-old asked me to watch a movie with him – The Lorax. As I was watching the movie I could immediately relate two specific dimensions walked within the movie to what we’re walking here in relation to the seed of self-potential; when you become / realise yourself as the seed of potential when you show yourself how you can change. In this post, I will share these two dimensions and how they relate to the seed of self-potential and do suggest watching the movie.

"It's not about what it is. It's about what it can become."

In the movie, there is an interaction between two characters – where the one is holding a seed and the other states “It’s not about what it is. It’s about what it can become”. Essentially meaning that it’s not the SIZE of the seed that is of significance…but what that SEED can BECOME…

Having a look at the SEED of self-POTENTIAL we’re in the process of walking here – I find this to be quite relevant, because when you start walking your process you have to walk it MOMENT by MOMENT. You cannot KNOW who (in your beingness/presence) and how (in your thought, word and deed) you’ll become – because this is not a process that is walked with knowledge only, there is a direct-relationship between knowledge and APPLICATION. Meaning: your self-change process starts small, like a small seed – the MOMENTS where you realise that you can stop participation in thoughts/reactions and behaviour patterns and then actually change within yourself and behaviour in that MOMENT…this is where YOU as the SEED start growing.

So, for your self-potential to become REAL, to be LIVED – there has to be a direct-relationship between knowledge and application/living. The knowledge in this process being writing, self forgiveness (which is the practical process to walk, facilitating change from consciousness to awareness) and then the application/living of what you realised about yourself in how you can change that you could see while walking writing and self forgiveness. So, the process, the platform of ACCESSING the SEED and then GROWING as the seed is HERE – all that you need to do is walk / apply it for yourself…

What many will be able to relate to when it comes to this process is: especially in the beginning – where you really only start with the very, very, very small seed – you cannot immediately see / experience yourself changing, because the change happens gradually as you move yourself and change yourself in thought, word and deed. This is the part where the above statement "It's not about what it is. It's about what it can become" is of significance – because the process of change takes time and patience, and in space and time, as you walk change moment by moment – every moment you apply/live the change in real-time: you as the seed start growing, almost unnoticeable until your being/awareness starts breaking through the mind/consciousness, embodies itself into and as the physical and you can noticeably start seeing/experiencing your self-change based on how you change in your living and general experience.  

I, myself – when I started walking this process, there were moments where I wondered whether I was changing…but it often showed in the most unexpected of ways in the most unpredictable of moments, where my self-change NATURALLY came through based on the dedication and discipline to the SMALL MOMENTS I applied/lived self forgiveness and changed myself in thought, word and deed.

In the next post I will continue with the second dimension that opened up while watching The Lorax movie and then bring all the knowledge and information I shared thus far into practical living examples for you to be able to more practically comprehend how and why this process of change takes time, patience and discipline. Because, if you look at a seed – a seed starts GROWING from WITHIN…it doesn’t ‘look to the future’ in terms of ‘thinking about’ what it’s going to become, nor does it ‘look to the future’ and think about the process it has to walk to reach its utmost potential. This is what we often do within our Minds…we project to the future, look at the process ahead…instead of realising that self-growth of self-potential and the becoming/living of our utmost potential is a process walked from within, moment to moment into and as the without.

The SEED of Self Potential: DAY 3

The SEED of Self Potential: DAY 3

The Desteni of Living – Utmost Potential (Part 3)

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 Self Forgiveness and Self Commitment Statements – showing how the FIRST INSTANCE of realising that POTENTIAL EXISTS…is where you SHOW YOURSELF you can change, this being the first SEED of SELF POTENTIAL that becomes planted and with being nourished…you will flower / grow into and as your utmost potential…

The first moment I was introduced to my potential…and here I emphasize MY potential, which is something that only I could have shown, seen and so proven to myself: was when I started applying self forgiveness, stopping participation in my thoughts and emotions that I could assess was compromising the experience of myself and so the words I spoke and the actions I lived. There is a ‘shift’ within yourself that happens when you start walking process: even though you have been CONSCIOUS of your thoughts and emotions, how they come through into your words and behaviour – (CONSCIOUS, meaning – you KNOW you think/feel and speak/act what you think / feel, but are not always considerate / AWARE of how exactly the thoughts and emotions affect you, the body and others in your life) – so, this ‘shift’ that happens is where you in a way STEP BACK for a moment and LOOK at your thoughts / emotion for A MOMENT before you participate in them, become them and then speak / act as them.

This ‘shift’ I speak of is that moment where your being connects with its own ‘Awareness’, because our being is merged into the Mind/Consciousness – when you ‘step back’ for a moment, by taking a breath and then LOOK at the thoughts / emotions…this is where you for that moment ‘access’ your being-awareness being able to look at your Mind/Consciousness – the ‘systematized’ version of yourself and ask yourself: “is this who / what I want to be in this moment?”

So, obviously – to be able to ‘see’ thoughts and emotions, you have to walk through a process of getting to know your own mind, the systematized version of yourself and you have to get to know / be able to distinguish / define the various emotions and feelings created by the Mind/Consciousness. This is what DIP Lite and DIP Pro assist and support with: supporting you to understand what thoughts are, how to see them and to understand what emotions and feelings are, how to use your body as a cross-reference for when you experience an emotion / feeling and support yourself to define the ‘energy’.

So, with me walking a process – way in the beginning when I was 19 / 20 years old, learning to see thoughts and define emotions / feelings while at the same time walking writing, forgiveness and corrective application: this is where I for myself could see MY potential – so, I started seeing and realising my potential, through walking this process of self-change.

It was quite profound for me, seeing and realising this – especially when I didn’t even KNOW or couldn’t at ALL SEE that such potential for change exists and more importantly: that I could do it for me. This process of self change is something that ‘belongs to you’, because only you do it with you – you with walking this process realise how alone you really are within yourself, with your own Mind and everything that’s going on in there; yet with the SUPPORT of OTHERS – through writing, speaking and sharing, you in the aloneness also have the momentary bridges you can cross in the relationships you foster with those around you to support you when / as it’s needed.

This SEED of POTENTIAL – that MOMENT when you stop participation in a thought, for a MOMENT BREATHE before you act or speak in emotions / feelings…this MOMENT as SEED really becomes planted within you, by yourself, as yourself as you yourself become this SEED, this POTENTIAL that slowly but surely emerge as you, the more you realise you can DECIDE, you can CHANGE in a moment. Obviously this MOMENT where you step back, access your potential/being/awareness, assess the thoughts and emotions and then CHANGE – the CHANGE PROCESS, is a process in itself as well…and this I will continue with in the next post, together with a practical example of moments during the early years of my process that were significant when I started accessing my potential, my me and started growing as the seed of potential, of awareness…eventually into and as LIFE.

Lastly to understand: the PROCESS to walk is the same for everyONE – the process of KNOW THYSELF, which is to get to know your Mind and through getting to know the Mind, you get to know your REAL self with walking the process of writing, forgiveness and corrective application into and as self CHANGE; however: you will as an INDIVIDUAL, as your BEING that is YOU – discover your unique EXPRESSION through how your BEING RISE as it grows, develops and emerge the more you with self awareness change…how your being rise from within the depths of your Mind that’s suppressed it reach through and come into creation / manifestation in and as your living through and as the physical.