“We don’t get what we ask for, we get what we believe.  What we believe about ourselves shows up in our energy, it’s how we walk into a room, how we communicate through body language.  It’s whether we sit up straight or hide out in the back of a meeting.  At times my own energy has been saying I’m cool with the bare minimum, don’t give me more.  Without knowing it I stunted my growth because I was scared to be magnificent and doubtful that I was.  There’s still more I can do, other ways for me to grow.  It’s ok to own a desire for more,” Alicia Keys. This is a perfect follow up to yesterday’s piece about self-limitation.  Energy is a very real thing and where intention goes, energy flows.  So if we are stuck on a path, telling ourselves that there is no way forward, that is the energy we attract and we will limit the possibilities we see.  Belief in self is an energy we can’t hide from the universe no matter what we say verbally.  Truthfully, what we believe is an energy we can’t hide from the universe no matter what we say.

The universe knows where we are at energetically all the time.  There are certain things we can’t hide with a smile—we all know that.  The universe is like that but to a higher degree.  It knows if we really believe in our abilities or if we are just giving lip service to them.  I think that we are all terrified of what we can do at times.  It’s natural because we are so used to the physical world and the beliefs engrained in us from birth that we truly think there are limits in everything we do.  We are taught that we are judged and we are taught TO judge early on, no longer out of physical survival but out of social survival.  We’ve equated the social aspect to life or death and called that normal.  But if we can get beyond that and trust where that power comes from, to know that we are all designed to expand this world, then we start to change our beliefs because we’ve changed the vantage point.  We change the entire game if enough of us learn how to tap into this.

Limits are a game of the mind.  Growth is infinite in the soul.  We are meant to climb as high as we can, to help others attain that as well, and to spread as much light as we can.  We are limitless and infinite.  Sometimes it just takes a while for the physical to catch up.  Managing energy isn’t about control, it’s about tapping in, opening doors to new possibilities when we see them.  Managing energy is about perspective and keeping focused on the bigger picture, our small part in it, and what we do with it.  That choice is always ours—we can recognize a gift and never open it, or we can relish it and use it to create something even bigger.  The point is simply this: there is always more out there than we can see from where we currently are.  There is more inside of us than we are willing to share at times because it can be scary to show that type of vulnerability.  If our intention is to get to our highest capacity, then we learn to look beyond what we can see and step fully into who we are.  Let go of the limits we impose upon ourselves and embrace the possibilities.