Six Keys To Manifesting Your Potential

Last week, we began a dis­cus­sion called Who’s Mind­ing Your Poten­tial? You can read that arti­cle here. I bor­rowed an idea from my friend, James Lynch, that you can best mind your own poten­tial by becom­ing your own Chief Poten­tial Offi­cer. This week, we’re going to inves­ti­gate how to best uti­lize this impor­tant asset. 

Now that your CPO has been hired and installed in the cor­ner office, what’s the first order of busi­ness? Don’t you want to ensure that you’re get­ting the biggest bang for your buck? No bloated salary for this chief exec­u­tive, your CPO stands ready to deliver the goods. All that’s nec­es­sary is for you to place your order.

You have at your dis­posal a most pow­er­ful tool. Used cor­rectly, it has the abil­ity to man­i­fest your great­est dreams. Mis­un­der­stood and mis­used, it has the power to keep you on the tread­mill of life, won­der­ing why things never work out the way you want.

Key #1

Your most pow­er­ful tool for man­i­fest­ing what you want is to know and honor the power of your word. Yup, it’s that sim­ple, yet your word used improp­erly can make things very com­pli­cated. So let’s learn how to use it effectively.

Your CPO is just like a short order cook. He or she (or It) is stand­ing there with menu in hand, wait­ing for you to order up exactly what you want. The trick is, you need to be clear that you’re really order­ing up what you want instead of what you don’t want.

Your CPO is so ready to deliver, when your con­scious­ness hears the word “want”, the order goes in. What­ever is thought or spo­ken after the word “want” is what gets served up.

So how does this work? If you’re like a lot of peo­ple, you might be much more sure about what you never want to have hap­pen again in your life than you are about what you do want. You might have just ended the rela­tion­ship from h-e-l-l and say to your­self, “I never want that to hap­pen again!” Guess what the CPO hears and orders? “Want that to hap­pen again!” Guess what hap­pens? That again!

Have you ever felt like you’ve recy­cled the same bad rela­tion­ship over and over again only each time with a dif­fer­ent face? Well, now you know why. The CPO has been fol­low­ing orders. If your focus is on what you don’t want, you’re going to get more of it. The prin­ci­ple behind this:

Key #2

We always get more of what we’re focused on.

Accord­ing to Web­ster, poten­tial is defined as “the inher­ent capac­ity for com­ing into being.” Think of it as the form­less state that pre­cedes form. All that is now form once existed in its form­less state as pure poten­tial with the capac­ity for becom­ing anything.

What deter­mines how poten­tial will be drawn into and shaped as form? Before you can man­i­fest any­thing in your life, you must first have it in your con­scious­ness as a thought-form. But here’s where it starts to get tricky.

Some of what we man­i­fest comes from con­scious thought, but much of it comes from what’s going on in the sub­con­scious mind, as thought-forms that exist below the level of our con­scious awareness.

If the sub­con­scious mind is filled with con­tent that affirms your lim­i­ta­tions, i.e., thoughts or beliefs that attack your wor­thi­ness, self-confidence and self-worth, lack and lim­i­ta­tion is what will man­i­fest at the con­scious level. And you’ll won­der why you end up not cre­at­ing what you want.

Key #3

Con­scious­ness Aligns With Itself

There is a prin­ci­ple in man­i­fes­ta­tion that says, “Con­scious­ness aligns with itself.” Thoughts take form in lan­guage and we speak our real­ity into exis­tence. Thoughts like, “I hate my body” become words like “I’m so fat, who could ever love some­one like me?” become the real­ity of being alone and feel­ing unloved.

Our thoughts and beliefs are not inher­ent truths but they became so as we affirm them. We think and then we speak and our thoughts and words take form and cre­ate our reality.

This is where your CPO comes in. Its job is to be the keeper at the gate to the por­tal of your poten­tial. When you start to go down the road of lack and lim­i­ta­tion, your CPO’s job is to notify you where your mind is going so you can wake up and choose con­sciously whether or not you want to con­tinue down this road.

Some­times, our beliefs about lack and lim­i­ta­tion are so strong, they can chal­lenge even the most vig­i­lant CPO. It’s role is to remind you that thoughts of lack and lim­i­ta­tion are not in align­ment with your true nature. This is an error in think­ing which requires an inter­ven­tion and a cor­rec­tion. Your CPO is also your Chief Cor­rec­tional Offi­cer, by the way. But some­times it has to oper­ate over some very “noisy” old beliefs still rat­tling around in your consciousness.

Key #4

Align With Your High­est Potential

Poten­tial itself, is not defined by lim­i­ta­tion, in fact the exact oppo­site is true. Poten­tial by def­i­n­i­tion, is unlim­ited. To align then, with your unlim­ited nature, to bring your con­scious aware­ness to that form­less state where all things are pos­si­ble, brings you into attune­ment with the state of pure Being, exist­ing beyond form.

This is the realm Wayne Dyer refers to in his book, The Power of Inten­tion, as a “field” char­ac­ter­ized by the qual­i­ties of kind­ness, cre­ativ­ity, love, respon­si­bil­ity, abun­dance, inti­macy and con­nec­tiv­ity. Align­ing your­self with the ener­getic qual­i­ties of this field, says Dyer, gives you access to cre­at­ing your life from this place.

Try this experiment:

1) Close your eyes, take a few slow, deep breaths and set­tle into the silence.

2) Visu­al­ize your CPO. Notice if you see it as pure energy or if it has human-like qualities.

3) Con­nect your energy and aware­ness to this guardian at the por­tal. Allow your­self to merge with it, until there is only one energy.

4) Feel this energy flow­ing through­out your body. Stay here for awhile and enjoy this space.

5) When you’re ready, declare what you want as a truth that is already so. Speak in present-tense, as in “The abun­dance of the uni­verse is flow­ing through me.” Or, “I am blessed with abun­dance and pros­per­ity in all affairs of my life.” Or “I enjoy per­fect health. I am healthy and strong.” “I am cre­at­ing love and inti­macy.” You get the idea …

Key #5

Cul­ti­vate an atti­tude of gratitude

With your eyes still closed, express grat­i­tude for your dec­la­ra­tion as a state that is already ful­filled. Giv­ing thanks for the bless­ings that are yet to come is a key to attract­ing more.

Key #6

Declare it accomplished.

Your CPO is on your team to sup­port you in con­sciously align­ing your thoughts and words with that of your great­est and high­est poten­tial. Speak your word, not as in ask­ing, but as fait accom­pli, for at some level it already is.

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Mean­while, I’m wish­ing you many bless­ings along the path.

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