What is reality really? And is its potential truly infinite in what we could experience?
As humans, it’s quite easy to find ourselves in limits. Limits of what we believe we can do, achieve, feel, and think.
Yet, there exists a subset of people that believe in the infinite potentiality of humans, meaning the belief that we are limitless.
But how do we explore this concept when seemingly positioned in bodies and realities that feel limited? What exactly is real if not for what our senses perceive?
What are we missing, if anything at all?
I find these questions to be the very ones that have baffled philosophers since the beginning. Perhaps just the ones that haven’t had a glimpse of potentiality outside of our daily assumptions.
But that’s the thing; as real as living is, so is it not.
Wait… what is the question?
If our realities are defined and confounded to the thoughts, feelings, and things we focus on (or put our energy toward), then what really is the definition of reality if these very things can change limitlessly?
Take the dream world for instance, a place where anything can happen — even a reflection of your current reality.
Or take manifestation and the laws of assumption and attraction; these are universal laws that operate on the subtle frequencies of your unique reality, meaning in alignment with your thoughts, feelings, or assumptions, which are frequencies.
And with these frequencies, you can attract the things that align with them.
But they also insinuate a shift away from things that are no longer aligned or were misaligned from the start.
This is followed by the idea of moving obstacles out of the way so the things that were always meant be in your life can eagerly flow in.
This in and of itself, I argue, says two things:
- That you can align with an infinite amount of things or frequencies
- Even with pre-determinism (fate), in the gaze of infinite potentiality, the chain of occurrences meant for you can be malleable or broken. (Or maybe, our fates were always meant to be filled with infinite potential, not boxed into what we believed to be reality.)
An answer to the question
So with this understanding, if we are infinite beings with the power to shift and change thoughts, feelings, and desires — which we can have an infinite amount of — and if these thoughts, feelings, and desires are actively creating and re-creating our realities as they shift, then we find that we are indeed infinite beings with infinite potentials.
The only limit is what you believe, and what you believe can be felt in the thoughts, feelings, senses, desires, etc.
These very facets of ourselves then shape our active reality. And with a shift in these facets, our reality shifts with it.
I say this often, but if you’ve lived your life one way, then what’s stopping you from living your life another way?
You might give me a few excuses (or to you reasons) as to why your life can’t change as if choice is not an option for you.
But as I stare at you, listening to the endless reasons you propose, you realize that the only thing stopping you is you.
Aha! These self-help gurus aren’t all wrong, are they? With so many jumping on the bandwagon of “you’re responsible for your reality,” well, they’re not entirely wrong.
What we create vs. what’s created for us
Our realities stem from two sides: the one thrown at us and the one created from within us.
The one thrown at us is hard to shake, but stoicism teaches us that we can’t control what is out of our control, only what is in our control. And that usually just means our inner worlds — thoughts, beliefs, reactions, actions, etc.
Imagine if we were taught that our innate form, the one we were birthed with, came with infinite potential. What would happen if we all believed in a reality that could actively be molded and mended at our individual and collective will?
Perhaps advancement beyond our present understanding of potential. In fact, I guarantee this.
But for now, we start by learning what it means to experience infinite potentiality in our own lives.
So I urge you to challenge what you believe to be real and true and possible within your current reality with your thoughts, feelings, and desires.
There is another step to this formula, however. Action.
Once you’ve realized your abilities and potentialities, what are you willing to do next?
Here’s one practice you can do
If you find yourself always assuming that things will go badly for you or never work out, what type of reaction do you experience when you assume the opposite of that?
That things will go well for you, that they will work out?
Take note of your feelings and what eventually happened.
Did it work out for you or no? Did you feel differently? If so, what was the feeling? Doubt? Fear? Curiosity? Confidence? Hope? Write it all out.
Play around with this practice and see what awakens within you. As you take note each time you practice this, return to your notes to see if you can notice a pattern.
Take time with this practice while you consider all the ways you could think, feel, be, and do, infinitely.
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