How to Let Go of What's Holding You Back — A Message from Your Limitless Self

in #inspiration7 years ago (edited)

Pssst. Hey! It's me! Your Limitless Self! Before you read this post and inevitably change your life for the better, I was wondering if you could do me a favor. Take your arms, wrap them around your body, and give yourself a big hug! ...This has nothing to do with the post below. I just wanted you to feel how loved you are (first hand!) in case it sometimes gets lost in translation!


Do you ever get the feeling that you're holding yourself back? Maybe you don't even know if you're doing it, you just sense that somehow you could be getting more out of life?

I think we all feel that way sometimes. So I went ahead and asked your Limitless Self some questions to see what hidden wisdom you have inside you, waiting to be shared with the rest of us!

You'll find my simple questions in the bold headings below. Everything else you'll read is the genius ranting of your Limitless Self!


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Limitless Self, what am I doing that's unwittingly holding me back?

Holding you back from what? When you're not ready, you're not ready. The fact that you want things that haven't come is a good thing. Otherwise you would spend your time being fed when you're not hungry, going to bed when you're not tired, and manifesting things you have no use for.

Then what can I do to accelerate my progress forward?

Love yourself.

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Every time you can't get yourself to do something you know is good for you, it's because a part of you is on strike. You've been treating yourself like an employee instead of the beautiful being that you are. A soul so powerful that you are manifest on this Earth, in this moment!

Do you know how powerful the now is? And how you're an incredible and inseparable part of it? You want to accelerate forward because you don't know all that you have access to right now!

If you could see without separation, you would create without limitation!

Each line you draw between yourself and your desires is a line you later have to cross! Every story about why you can't have what you want ties those lines into little knots restricting your range of motion!

But each knot is alive. You don't have to cut or untie them, you can command them. Command! Not condemn!

You exercised your freedom to create them. They are a testament to your greatness, not your limitation. Own that greatness!

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Every struggle is an indicator of your power to both create the resistance and to overcome it. Do you overcome struggle with struggle? No! You transcend it with realization.

Foreplay is not in opposition to sex, it's the precursor. And that's what every obstacle between you and your desire is as well. A precursor, priming the pump for the more you'll find increasingly hard to resist.

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You don't need to overcome foreplay to have sex, you simply give into your desire to ravage what's in front of you!

And if what's in front of you isn't something you want to ravage, then MOVE!

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Take your mind and your thoughts and your actions and point them somewhere else.

But don't bring your goals with you! Your goals are what led you here. And if here isn't where you want to be then you need something new to take you somewhere different.

If you're not experiencing success, focus on breaking patterns, not making plans. Plans will continue the circular experience of the past. Broken patterns will ensure a fresh future.

How do I know which patterns to break?

Start right there. Break the pattern of uncertainty. If you don't know, then you don't need to know. When life happens, you'll know where it's guiding you — so long as you're listening instead of sticking to past plans.

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Let continuity reign in the areas of your life you're content with. And embrace chaos in the areas where you desire change.

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Chaos sounds incredibly scary to me right now.

Then disrupt.

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Think of your life as a regime that is in power and will do everything it can to remain in power. If you resist too loudly the consequences will be unpleasant. But if you disrupt. If you find ways to make the old ways obsolete. If you challenge old thoughts and beliefs. If you stop taking things for granted and treating assumptions like gospel. You will create space. And what will you do with that space?

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Breathe. You will breathe fresh life into the parts of you that feel pinched off.

So it's really that simple?

  • Disrupt
  • Create Space
  • Embrace Chaos

Armed with this triad of tools, there's not an obstacle in the world you can't burn to the ground.

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Disruption saps the wood of water, space provides the oxygen, and chaos lights the flame!

But you don't need to burn your life to the ground. You just want a big enough fire to get you to start valuing your life more than the structures you've built around it.



Thanks for reading!

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This is the second part of a series of posts on Becoming Your Limitless Self. Full series linked below!


Becoming Your Limitless Self Series

  1. A Conversation with Your Limitless Self
  2. How to Let Go of What's Holding You Back
  3. Writing and How to Get Out of Your Own Way

If there's any other topics you'd like me to cover, feel free to suggest them! I really want to turn this series into a vehicle that helps all of us expand into more on all the topics that are important to us.

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Wow, a wealth of wisdom here. This is a phenomenal piece! Here's my favorite parts...

Foreplay is not in opposition to sex, it's the precursor. And that's what every obstacle between you and your desire is as well. A precursor, priming the pump for the more you'll find increasingly hard to resist.

Think of your life as a regime that is in power and will do everything it can to remain in power. If you resist too loudly the consequences will be unpleasant. But if you disrupt. If you find ways to make the old ways obsolete. If you challenge old thoughts and beliefs. If you stop taking things for granted and treating assumptions like gospel. You will create space.

Disruption saps the wood of water, space provides the oxygen, and chaos lights the flame!

Explanations and analogies were SO on point. Resteemed!

Thanks a lot, man! I was really on fire when I was flowing that!

And thanks a lot for quoting the parts you resonated with. Not only does it help me know what resonates, but it also gets me to reread those parts and bask in the wisdom once more!

Appreciate you a ton!!!

I´ve heard before that our mind is the limit for our physical limit, that is why sometimes you read about people surpassing those limits in adrenaline moments. I believe it is the same with everything in life, our mind is the only thing holding us back. This was a great article my friend, congratulations on being featured by @ocd.

Thanks! Good point with those adrenaline stories. It's insane how much we can accomplish when we have the right focus. Sounds like we're on the same page when it comes to human potential. Hope we keep finding ways to unlock more and more of ours!

Beautiful man, reading this gives me a good start of the day. (am in Sweden where it is morning)
More please! =)

Thanks for sharing that. Truly. I've been working on my next article (on a different topic) for the last two days, and it's proving to be rather difficult. Maybe I should just let our limitless selves write the articles from now on, since those always flow effortlessly!

Haha! Well, our limitless selves already have all the answers so they do not need any articles i guess...
maybe better to stay as a person with problems then ;)

Haha, I am finding it delightfully helpful to be both! To live the problems that are holding me back and then watch my limitless self shine a light on how to let go of them! I'll tag you in the article I wrote once I finish it and post it! Thanks for inspiring me this morning (It was morning in Wisconsin when I first read your comment!)

You are totally right, will be a pleasure to follow you! =)

Amazing post, thank you! I myself am on the path of redesigning my life right now and found some similarities in your perspective on this, since I am currently disrupting so many areas in my life in order to make room for something new, that is more aligned with my desires :)

So awesome to hear! You comment inspired me to check out some of your post, to see all the wonderful ways you were disrupting. Good luck with the traveling and the fear-facing and the meditating! It sounds like you're on quite the adventure!!!

Thank you! It has been quite a ride this year and the adventure is still beginning in January with our departure into the unknown :)

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