In the movie Limitless we learn that if we can get the right pill we can become limitless.
Society believes a pill can cure everything.
However, if we look at it closely, we see that the pill is a thing of limitation. There is an “I can’t” attached to being limitless. “I can’t be limitless unless I can get that pill. Without the pill I am the limited being I have always thought I am.”
And there’s the rub---Thought.
Just as we think, “If I can only find that pill, I can be limitless,” we could just as easily pursue the thought, “I am limitless right now. “
I am limitless, thinking I am not limitless. What if we let go of the thought, “I am not limitless?”
What if we held in our mind consistently and persistently, “I am limitless, I am a being with no limitation, I am unlimited?”
Now, very predictably, comes the ego/mind argument. It could be ringing in your mind right now. It goes something like this. “How ridiculous. You are limited. It’s ridiculous to think you are limitless.” And it goes something like this, “You’re limited and you know it. It’s a lie to tell yourself that you are limitless.“
In the book from the 70’s, “Illusions, the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah,” the author, Richard Bach, said, “Argue for your limitations and sure enough they’re yours.”
Consider this possibility: “Our mind is only creative. We create that which we hold in mind,” as Lester Levenson said. Those or similar words have been said in many variations by many people over time. The thought that, “What you hold in mind is what you get in your life,” is the Law of Attraction. That thought is the basis of “The Secret.” Obviously, it is not a secret, it’s just something that we don’t look at and therefore that we don’t see.
Most people believe the world and all the events that come to them in their life are happenstance, circumstances that happen by chance. They believe “the world” happens to them. A lot of people like to argue vigorously when any thought comes their way that they are not used to, that takes them in a direction they had not planned to go. Frankly, it frightens many people to think their world is their own creation.
Were we to look closely and sincerely, we would see that our mind is only creative, that we have created what we have held in our mind. We have created the thoughts that we have consistently and persistently held in our mind. And one of the main thoughts we have held onto is that we are limited. We are this limited body, this limited mind, this limited personality, this "apparency" of a limited set of circumstances we find ourselves in.
And some of us will argue for our limitations. If pushed, some of us may even become almost violent in our argument for our limitations and our denial of our limitlessness.
However, what if we just as persistently and just as consistently hold the thought in our mind that we are limitless? That we have no limitations. That we are unlimited---limitless--- beings saying we are not. What if we argued for that set of thoughts?
We’ve been very good about creating this life we have. In fact, it’s an exact copy of what we have thought and felt. We just have never looked at it that way.
Why wouldn’t we be just as good, just as successful and just as perfect creating the life, the dream, we now prefer? The answer is, we would be, if we just did it. If we only held in mind thoughts and feelings of what we would like to have, of the life we prefer to have, as if it were ours right now, we would have that life. The proof is easy. The proof is this life that we have already created unknowingly, unconsciously.
Is it possible for everything to change overnight? Of course, it could. It depends on our willpower. However, for most of us, we have been practicing being limited for so long, and arguing for our limitations for so long, if could take some time to turn it all around.
We begin by using our mind to undo our mind. We begin by replacing the thought of being limited---all those thoughts that say, “I can’t” with the thought that, “I am limitless and I can on any subject.”
How long have your practiced limitation, thoughts and convictions of limitation? It could take some time to switch it around by holding in your mind the thought that you are limitless, thoughts of “I can,” "I know how." It takes desire and determination. It takes wanting something different than this life of perceived limitation. It takes watching your thoughts constantly, turning those thoughts around and substituting the thought, “I am limitless.”
It takes using the same mind that you used to convince yourself of your limitation to convince yourself of your limitlessness. Try it. Reverse thoughts of , “I can’t” and say, “I can.”
Richard Bach might say, “Argue for your limitlessness, and sure enough, it’s yours.”
