Hello friends,
Here is a great article from David Cameron Gikandi. Hope you find it empowering too!
All Limitations Are Perceived Horizons
~ by David Cameron Gikandi
http://SecretsOfSelfImprovement.com
Not so long ago, people thought the world was flat. They looked out
into the horizon, and it appeared to them that the earth ended
somewhere far out there, and at the end of the earth, one could
possibly fall off the edge and die. Therefore, people did not dare to
reach the horizon, for fear of falling off the end of the earth. So
they stayed where they were.
Their perception that the world was flat, that it had an edge (the
horizon), kept them from exploring far away from where they were born.
It was a limitation that appeared real to them. However, this
limitation was not real at all - it was an error in perception.
The horizon is not an edge, it is not an end.
In fact, you can never reach the horizon because it keeps moving
farther away from you the closer you get to it. The horizon is an
apparent end, yet it is grounded in infinity (you can never reach it).
All of your limitations are horizons. All of them bar none. No exception.
Even the Self has no limits, although it "appears" to be encompassed by
a limited body. In fact, is the Self a reality, or simply an awareness
of feeling? The Buddha argued that the Self is a feeling that gets
mistaken for an identity (that which is 'having' the feeling). Anyways,
that is another topic altogether.
Let us get back to limitations...
Any limit that you think you have, whether it is financial, biological,
emotional, or whatever, is a horizon. For example, you may have the
belief that you cannot afford something, and so you forever deny
yourself that thing; you never buy it. That is believing in the
horizon. You believe you have limited funds and if you spent them on
that thing, you would suffer and die or whatever.
However, if you went ahead and purchased it, you would find that you
can indeed afford it, and because you have now created a new gap in
your money, you would quickly fill that gap with even more money (so
long as you don't believe you are limited). This is the difference
between those who have scarcity (poverty) consciousness or beliefs, and
those who believe in abundance.
So what is the solution to limitations?
It comes in two steps:
Step 1: Replace your perspective. As long as you think the world is
flat and the horizon marks the edge of the world beyond which you will
fall off, all other thoughts and actions will be in error. So you must
train yourself to see the world a new way, to know that the horizon is
an illusion. If you skip this step and jump straight into step two, you
may burn your fingers because you cannot act as if you have abundance
as long as you believe in scarcity. Your beliefs always become
manifest. Thought is more powerful than action in creation.
Step 2: Act in line with abundance. In the above example, we saw that
one who believes in abundance knows that the "limited" amount of money
in their pocket is transitional, it is a river that flows and is hence
not truly limited. But the one who believes in scarcity is convinced
that they have a true limit and hence they don't dare cross is. So what
does it mean to act in line with abundance? It means that you will be
going beyond the horizon. You will march to it and keep moving, knowing
that the horizon will never be reached. Know that all resources are
cyclic in nature, so that the more you spend the more you earn, and the
more you earn the more you spend. Keep that river flowing. Don't erect
a dam or try to hold it. Keep it flowing. Open both hands wide, the
hand that receives and the hand that gives. The faster your rate of
exchange (giving and receiving) the better.
Horizons are a mindset. Poverty is a mindset. Wealth is a mindset.
Happiness is a mindset. Depression is a mindset. Health is a mindset.
Dis-ease is a mindset. It is all a mindset, with its accompanying emotions.
The secret is that the mind is limitless, so you truly have no limits
except those that you have accepted as real. It is all just a horizon,
and no matter how much you chase the horizon, you will never fall off
the end of the earth. So chase it!
David Cameron Gikandi is the author of wealth and self development
books such as A Happy Pocket Full of Money, showing many how to create
the lives of their dreams and beyond. Download fr..ee trial eBooks and
software, plus free email courses from...
http://SecretsOfSelfImprovement.com
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