Wednesday, December 31, 2008

When the buck stops here

There is an obvious sense of comfort about having someone else to blame when things are not going according to plan. If we take the path of total responsibility where we are the top dog so that the buck stops here, then we actually begin to empower ourselves to a whole new level. Nothing happens unless we make a decision. This is probably the most important thing to note. When there is a perception of there being someone else, we ask...and wait. This if the truth was that there is only us...would mean that we would be waiting for quiete some time. Basically until we realised that nothing was actually happening...and so made a decision. So lets see how this works. I make a decision to have a new home experience. One that enables me to have all of the experiences that I desire to have such as friends and family staying over, barbeques and dinner parties, homestay, games room etc. One that has great neighbours, central heating, gas, endless hot water, fruit trees, a garden. One that has huge rooms, an open fireplace, a gourmet kitchen with walk in chiller and pantry. One that has a spa, and excellent internet speed. Now this is where the team comes in. I do not have to list everything down. My team is well able to fill in the gaps, add extas and do a great job at the experience dimension. So my job is simply to decide on as much detail as I desire to in terms of identifying what is really important to me, then I can leave the rest up to them. The key is to differientiate between what is important to me to experience and what is simply a part of the experience. The less limitation I place on an experience the quicker it arrives I am guessing.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

limiting infinite possibilities to maximise my potential

Starting with a clean slate. I will watch carefully every rule I install. I exist in the now surrounded by infinite possibilitities. My potential is limited only by myself. In order for me to experience something from infinite possibilities, I must make a decision, and focus on a point of potential...one of the possibilities. All possibilities fold away into a multi sided octagonal (example) leaving one side facing me. This then becomes my experience. All other possibilities still exist, and the ball can change and turn and present a different side at any time I make it so, but initially it will show the side I have decided, or accepted. My fundamental beliefs/rules start off with the idea of who I am and how I fit into the picture I believe I am experiencing. If I believe I am an insignificant part of the universe, I will not then be allowing myself to control my environment. So lets decide for now, who I am and how I relate to all things. I am the son of God, which means I am a part of the potential that is God. There is no separation between all things. As I behave as the mind of the parts, so I can move the parts toward me that I may experience them. I do not own them, for they are me. There is not God and me as his Son, for this denotes that are two entities. God is all possibilities. I am the awareness of this infinite potential, and the perspective I hold= the view of that part of the multi sided ball. I am still one ball. God is the whole ball, I am the inverted individual perspective. I perceive separateness because of my inverted state allows me the capacity to experience other perspectives. As I relate more to my individual perspective than my true entity of God self, I begin to create an illusion of separateness and in doing so form the ego. This false state of identity creates a sense of individuality that causes me to create self (ego/perspective)serving destructive rules where I engage in competition that reinforces a false perception of separateness. Remembering that there are no rules other than the ones I set. So if I set a rule that says I am separate, and in competition against the "world" then so it is for me. OK, so since we are setting new rules, lets keep clarifying. I am an aware perspective of God Self, that is all possibilities. I as an inverted perspective have free will to make my own choices of what I will experience of God. Whatever choice/decision I make is true for me for the time I hold it to be true. All things I see are God. Ask of God self and that perspective comes. See God self in ALL things. I live in God, not a world. My world is God. I am experiencing God every where, all the time. There cannot be something separate to ask? The act of creating the illusion of something separate results in just that happening for us, as that is the experience we have "ordered". By having something separate, we have to "ask" for things to this separate entity. Since the entity IS actually us what then happens. We stand around waiting and nothing happens. Why, because the only entity that can make anything happen is us. So if we are waiting....then nothing happens. Ok, so where to from here. Action needs to occur. I need to act to have things happen. I need to make decisions. All I need to remember is that I set the rules.

Possibilities and Realities

I have been watching the What the Bleep movie again. Kudos to the makers and participants of the movie, and to the millions who have watched it and caused a demand for more of the same. I have the dvd version and often go back and watch the interviews with my pen and paper handy to take notes. Watched a bit this morning from the last dvd. Here are my thoughts. I have had such a strong sense of reality regarding my potential. My frustration has been that my physical environment has not reflected this. In fact it often reflects the opposite. This is the bain of my life. I spend my life trying to figure out why this difference of reality exists. In the interviews they talk about a sense of reality being the basis of reality. Well I have no doubt at all that my potential feels fair more real to me than what I am experiencing at a physical level. Lets look at a few more ideas from the movie. There is a sea of possibilities. These collapse into a "reality" once we observe it, therefore you could say that like feels like it was "created" by us. Here in lies a dilemma which I can see as a reason why my potential doesn't manifest. In a see of possibilities, all things exist. If I observe there to be different levels of reality, and I allow these different levels to co exist, then I end up compartmentalizing my experiences. I decide that this possibility can exist in this realm but not that realm. I decide that thiss possibility is more real than this one, so this one can manifest here, there other one is left outside the experiencing circle. It is no less real, but it doesn't manifest. It may be more real, but if the rules I apply to it, result in it not being allowed to manifest in my physical perspective, then I will not experience it at a physical level. Lets say that I have decided that my soul exists on a different realm to my physical body. Lets say that I deem that realm to be more real than my physical environment. If my potential is soul related, then it is possible that I will have these potentials occur in that other realm. I will separate the realms out in my mind, and a rule will be created. The universe is full of fundamental rules. All of these rules are negotiatable to each individual. They become "real" to the masses, because the masses adopt all adopt them. If there is an individual who is able to rewrite their own rule book then they will see a totally different Universe. Most of the rules we live by we have "adopted" by default. We have accepted without challenge, someone elses rules. Our acceptance of a rule makes it our own. On this basis what is real, is defined by us through a direct decision or indirectly by acceptance of someone elses decision. God is a term described as Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient. Exists everywhere, all powerful, and all knowing. Sounds to me like a name for a sea of possibilities, only shorter. Assuming this were true, and we being made in the image of God are the observers, then we need to very aware of what we decide is real, because for us it will be. We effectively are the gods of our own experiencing world. Due to the fact that it is infinite potential, the only way we can experience it, is to limit it in some way shape or form. A lot like the correct way to set a goal. You need to make it measurable. So my beliefs which effectively are my fundament rules that I start channelling and limiting potential with become incredibly important. By revisiting my fundamental beliefs, I am reviewing the point at which I begin to limit my total potential, and then I can go from there. If I have limited my potential greatly early, then I am going to feel a huge gap between my true potential and what I am experiencing. This gap is that feeling of "longing" that we have that sets us off on the journey of self discovery to improve our experience of our potential. If many of our beliefs are hand me downs from others who also have very limited perspectives then we start life off trapped in a limited potential and have to develop our way out. I will do a review under a new post.

My Manager and My Team

I talked a little about my concept of a life manager, before. Well I have evolved my understanding a little, and have decided there is a whole team on the job. And now that I am married there is a cohesion of the two teams, where we over lap, so the best of both teams now work together most of the time. So imagine for a second that I go through my day knowing that there is an entire team out there working on getting us the things we desire, at the experience level. On this basis it isn't even a "super manager" trying to do everything....there is a manager...for sure, whose job it is to co ordinate everybody. But suddenly my whole perspective has changed. It is no longer me against the world with a life manager for support. It is me, and a whole team who have the ability to get everything that can ever be desired, and deliver it at no cost. This will change my perspective.

Monday, December 29, 2008

To have a hero or to be a hero

As kids, we all have heroes. It is a totally natural way of evolving. Some of these heroes may well be fictional, but they serve an important purpose of moving a kids belief in themselves. That boost in confidence results in the kid trying things they may not have otherwise have tried. They evolve even quicker when their heros are other tangible entities that they can follow on a daily basis. Sports heros are an example. Here the kid can actively strive on a daily basis to become like their hero. They know that what they seek to master has already been mastered by their hero, so they never give up, and that persistence leads them to success. The interesting thing is that another indication of becoming an adult is that you yourself want to become the hero. You strive to be the hero, and here in is where we run into trouble. Once we lose sight of a hero, we start the journey on our own. It is a lonely path, the way is not lit. We stumble constantly over the obstacles that never cease to unite with our feet, and no matter how often we pick ourselves up from each fall, the darkness never gets lighter, and the obstacles never stop coming. This is the life of Einstein. To fail is to be one step closer to success yes, but 100 failures and a lifetime of darkness is still bad for morale. So here I am now seeking inspiration. I can see that I have tried to be an Einstein for the last 20 years. I have been learning by stumbling rather than evolving as fast as I could in view of the others who have been before me. So now I seek to see what has gone before me. Now I seek to explore the skills, and creative experiences of those that have already succeeded. Now I drink from the fountain of inspiration. To fill my soul with the energy and life that flows from the discoveries of others before me. My hero was always J.C. He inspired me because I saw him as someone like myself who made discoveries here, and worked out the creative process. I do not believe that he came in with the powers he had, but that he got them once he got in here. This led me to be confident that I could do the same. It has not felt like it has been very easy. I do not feel I have succeeded. But I can justify my failure with many things. I do not feel I have lived on a day to day basis seeking to follow in his footsteps. Also there are many things I do not want to do that are the same. Power is the same today as it was back in his day. Those that have power seek to keep it and gain more. They will use whatever is necessary to do this and attempt to remove anything that is threatens their sense of control. I do not seek to advertise a similar power to what J.C had without complete protection. Back then word spread by person. Now days in a multi media environment, there would be no peace, and many threats. This is not what I see as positive. And when I think about it I think only about the positives. It is like dreaming about having a luxury sports car. You dream only of having the car. Not of the powers of darkness out there that would like to have the same car, and are prepared to take yours away from you for free. So too would those that are of the dark side of life seek to have the powers of J.C if you showed them that you had them. If you had the power to protect yourself completely, by being invisible and immortal, and untouchable with some sort of impregnable force field, then the world would demand a hero of you, and expect you to save them, and scorn you when you cannot. This is not a life. So the key is to be clear about my intentions. To look deep at the dimension of experience rather than the illusion of the image alone. A fictional hero is someone who has powers that you yourself may desire, but have no connection or pathway as to how to gain them. A real live hero is someone who has abilities that they have gained themselves, which you can aspire to because you know that through action on your part following the same pathway as your hero before you, you too will be able to gain the same status. So my question to myself is….is J.C a fictional, or nonfiction character in my mind, and if I want to be like him, what exactly do I think that entails? If I am to be like him, I must first know how I see him. In my mind he has conquered his ego. He has mastered his emotions and he is disciplined in his connection to his life manager. These are all obtainable by me now. Where his abilities come into it, thi I have yet to figure out, and perhaps this is evolution of conquering the ego and releasing the soul.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

The value of the correct perspective

It is that time of the year, with Christmas out of the way, and the end of the year fast approaching, that one and all begin to think about goals. I have been a goal setter for years, but am still not convinced that the goal setting method I use is correct despite many courses, and self help books spinning their wares to bring about that all important ingredient in my goal setting that would make the difference. Fact is, I have Ground Hog Day Syndrome. I am still in the same home, driving much the same calibre of car, in the same job, doing the same day to day things. So, somewhere, something has to change, if I am to experience a different outcome. Lets see if I can spot that needed difference now. Usually I set my goals to be the objects of desire I have for the year. New home, new car, new income. This year was going to be no different. There is a much stronger need for a home though this year, as my wife would like to have a home of her own. I am very happy to focus on this. She would also like a new car. An Audi TT to be exact. As for new income...well, we have much in the way of opportunities. I have always had lots of opportunities, but usually they do not work. I think every year for the last 5 years I have gone deeper into debt than any other time in my life. My Metaphysics seems to counter the evolvement of my physical reality. Every time I chase something in the physical plane it runs away. The more I chase it the more expensive it becomes until I finally run out of energy to chase it with. If I keep on chasing it I end up in debt. I think to date my conclusion is this: I need to see that my Universe, is my provider. I can have goals. I need to make sure my goals are clear, measureable, and within my capacity to act in line with having them. I need to create a habit of expectation that they are on their way, and will arrive today? I need to act in every way i can that supports this idea. I think the major flaw in my system todate, has been the waiting and hoping for their arrival. The other part of my flawed system is the time frames I use. Like a player who starts off a game and is casual in focus because there is a whole 3 games to go, and a whole 21 points in this game, so there is no sense of urgency, I think I have done much the same. I have set my goals as goals for the year. Looked at this from a perspective of having a whole year to achieve it. (for my universe to create it, and therefore I have put it on the back burner). This needs to change. Each day needs to have some energy and action added to my goal. An active goal, as if to say this game is won, by this very point in before me now, not the 20th point. What can I do in this very moment that will cause a faster movement of my goal into my experiencing plane? There are two parts to creation. The tempo of an individual, and the value of energy in a context to manifest it. If the idea is had....the context is created. So I can visualize the Home and the new car to be here beside me. Because it already is....the same with the super wealth. This is the potential I can feel around me. My potential is abundant, overflowing and present. The key is in how to manifest it. Up until now I have seen manifest as "create" as if I have nothing, and must create something from this nothing. Now I feel it is different. If i can feel the potential, then I have the idea already. It is right beside me, like my life manager. Is my life manager not real because I cannot see him? Yet the more real I make him the more alive I notice him to be. So it depends on how much I interact with him. Surely then this is the same. The more I interact with my potential the more alive and real it becomes. I can have different potentials in different areas, as long as I focus on these potentials regularly. If I focus on them temporarily or have conflicting focus points, then I will not succeed. So in practical terms. My goal is a new home. The potential already exists. My goal of understanding the creative process is simply understanding what changes an idea from it's potential phase into manifested existance. It exists immediately, but I cannot experience it at a physical level until it's vibration matches the physical level. I can experience it at it's potential level because I can "see" things at this level. Those not in the know call this my imagination. But this is actually like a third eye. It sees what is actually there. It sees my potential. I am untrained at my use of this faculty. Therefore I do not use it correctly getting out of it what is there to be got. I have talked before about this idea of using my imagination in real time. The issue is that there is a stigma connected to my immagination; that it is false, or 'not real'. But what if, it was the use of this that brought the idea from potential to physical. What if I needed to visualize the idea in my now, and appreciate it. This would make the connection between my potential and my physical realm, by using my visualizing of the idea in real time in my current environment, and the appreciation would be the energy seed that would trigger the energy transformation from idea or etheral, to physical. Perhaps it is a case, of me having done one or the other in the past but not the sequence of the above. So in summary: Decide on a goal. Acknowledge that it now exists in my reality. Decide what action i can do right now towards meeting up with it. Visualize my experience of it. Appreciate the context of it. Expect it today.

Friday, December 19, 2008

Micro managing the universe

I had the most amazing discovery today. One of those days where you are like a kid, thinking you are the only person in the world to have discovered what you learnt. I also had an enlightening delivery of comprehension expansion, as to just how exact my physical world is as a mirror to my metaphysical reality, therefore it is the perfect class room. My discovery revolved around the idea that I was actually micro managing my creative Universe. I was doing this because I had was living my life predominantly through the ego/personality. Based on the fact that my personality/ego has no creative ability, and no influence on the universe which is responsive only to soul, and energy, it was therefore trying to do the universe's job of creating. I was. I will take responsibility for this, for I am the one who experiences through my personality, and allows it to dominate my experiences. I have been wondering why I have been unable to be successful again at my trading. Last night I lost another pile of money, which I had used two credit cards to load. I then did it again, thinking I had no room left on my cards, which now amount to about $28,000. I have a personal loan of $25,000 and personal debts of about $6000. To top all this off I so badly want to be able to provide or at the least contribute towards a home for my beautiful wife. I had been trying so hard to make money through as many different ways as I could including metaphysically through appreciation, and attracting it. The issue is that I would take that money and then try and make more with it. The fastest way to make money is currency trading. It is an incredibly exhilerating experience, when you are successful, and it is the worst feelings you can experience, when you totally believed that the Universe was on your side, and then suddenly you are completely wiped out with no hope for success in the forseeable future. It is a very lonely feeling. Well, with all that off my chest, now I believe I have a new pathway before me. It is about letting my life manager do their job....take care of things. That includes getting everything i desire from soul. I cannot have it both ways, I will be able to serve one master I believe is the saying...but I have this as a proposal...there are two entities that have the opportunity to manage the life that I experience through. One is the mind of the vessel, the other is my life manager with imput from me in the way of requests. The personality manages by being autonomous and seeking complete control. Most of the ego's requests revolve around the most important thing it lacks....control over it's environment so that it can create for itself anything it wants whenever it it wants. The other is of course my most trusted friend...my life manager. He sits awaiting for me to give him instructions, but due to me living most of my existance through the eyes of the ego, I barely even give him a glance let alone instructions of what I desire. In spite of this he works tirelessly in the background still managing my affairs towards whatever goals I do make. The most important goal I have ever made, was a desire to understand the creative process. This has therefore occupied most of my life manager's time as all other goals went through the ego, and therefore bypass him. Due to my focus being on this on a daily basis, I am getting more and more aware of my life manager's handiwork. This results in a greater level of appreciation as I can see who to direct it to. Onward to tomorrow, the great letter box of the universe where my life manager the postman is on his way with my souls desires.

Monday, December 8, 2008

The management plan

Leadership of the voices

We all have them; we justify them in different ways; we interact differently with them but don't involve others in that interaction for fear of being put away. I speak of the voices. Some call them conscience, some intuition, some call them fred and sally(imaginary friends) some call them angels. It is a curioius thing when you analyize what they are to you. In the beginning I created an idea that someone else was looking over me. I called this entity my life manager. This has very much stuck for quite some time. Now I am at a point where I need to reassess because as I have become more away of myself, I have found there seem to be more than just the one; and I don't think that is what the wise men refer to as group consciousness. What this topic is about, is the belief that my goal, indeed quite possibly a life lesson for us all, is to develop a leadership role of these voices or life managers. To be able to do this, I think I first need to be clear about who I actually have on my team, and what exactly their role is in the scheme of things. Now you will have to bear with me here, as I am learning this as I go, so somewhere down the track I will be clear, but no skipping to the end to find out. First of all we have the advisor. That seems fairly clear. A quietly spoken entity, that has infinite patience, and detachment and only speaks when asked or when I am 'open'. Here lies the truth of what is, beyond what can be seen, and is the most difficult todate to follow, because of the non dominating nature of the voice, and my lack of openness to it. It is clear to me when I have been heard the suggestion to act and do not, the painful awareness of the opportunity for success that was gifted to me by this voice. This is my intuition, or life manager as I have affectionately called it. The next is the culprit. This is an agressive, lusting native that resides in the forefront of m consciousness. This is the one that has had the most influence in the past. This one is able to get me to do things that I invariable regret in one form or another. This I call my ego. For now we will keep it simple, as just the two, and see if it is so, for i feel the ego has quite a personality, and is therefore able to front as many guises when it seeks to move me. Interestingly enough it seems the ego is focused on the now, but in a very much self gratifying way, that results in a cost to me in the future. The ego does not use the metphysical creative process to create things. It uses something from within my world that is already there. It uses my time, or my energy that was manifested in abundance to my needs, or it steals energy (debt) and cares not of the consequences. It cares not about feelings nor investment other than for it's own devices. This is the character I have listened to for most of my life and followed without much question. Pretty sad really. In my world the sign posts have pointed to a need for better management. I feel I have not been managing at all, but rather that I have been "used" by the ego. This has been demonstrated by me being used by others around me. I have not been working for myself as I may have thought, I have been working for the ego. This will now stop. My focuse here is to establish a best practice management policy that will result in a change of behaviour that results in all action and decisions falling into line with my metaphysical strategic plan. These two 'helpers' are there, I must learn to manage them better in order to move my life forward in the direction I want to go. If I cannot see the need for the ego at all, I will sack the ego for good, and stick only to my life manager as my advisor. This I think is going to be the way. What I am going to do however is give the ego a chance by doing a performance review. Lets start with that: Where am I currently on the physical plane, as far as wealth goes in the eyes of the ego? I have enormous debt, I have no assets, and I live from week to week with no savings barely able to scrape together enough to meet my debt obligations. All of this after at least 24 years of being in control and more importantly, with the potential that existed before me. You have proven yourself beyond measure you are completely irresponsible, and incapable of the being a success. You have caused me to look in one direction when I had better potential in another. You have caused me to feel sorrow and pain. You have absorbed my time with meaningless activity which wasted potential appreciation time. You have added no value to my life nor that of anyone around me, and have accumulated only things that have lost their value quickly. You are not a disappointment to me, for I recognise that in the absence of quality leadership from above, the workers will fill in the gaps as best as they can; rather, you are now obsolete. I have a strong desire to lead effectively, and to do my job well. You will be forgotten in time. Now lets look at how I am going manage my life. I will put this in the next post as I am trying to avoid having ones that a too large to make reading each one easier. Here I will detail my management plan, which will include routines to create new habits of behaviour that I believe reflect my reality. My plan includes a number of changes in routines and behaviours that relate to management style of the ego. Everything from how I get up in the morning, and go to bed, to how I interact with every aspect of my life, seeing the potential in everyone and everything and pouring appreciation into it, in advance. My management plan will connect everything to truth, my goal, and appreciation. Lets begin.

Energizing what we have

It has long been a tradition in many particularly religiously leaning households to have grace before you eat. This is a curious exercise for the rest of the population who generally can accept being at a table when grace is said, but are not that comfortable with it due to the conitations that if you were seen to be doing it, then you must be the religious type. This got me thinking. For every action out there, there is a metaphysical purpose behind it. This is undenialable to the initiated. Looking carefully at the concept, what you are doing, is something similar to an activity that is done at the top end of the sports performance spectrum. You are using a mental routine to create a behaviour, that in sport is designed to set you up into a state of peak performance. Using two examples from badminton there is a pre game routine, and a serving routine. Both are repetitious steps, that are designed to start you at a peak mental state, and enable you to perform the task a head with precision. The service routine will result in a perfect serve being executed every time. So how does this all relate to grace you ask? Well I think grace is a routine that is designed to prepare your mind in the same way for the task before you.....eating in this case. But it routine isn't designed for you to eat.....it is there to ensure you "perform" during eating...that is...that you appreciate while you are eating. The task in badminton isn't to serve, anyone can do that. The task is to serve perfectly. This way you gain an advantage. The task is not to eat, nor is it to say thank you before you eat....for that would be the same as having a practice serve before you start the game....as your total preparation to serve well. The idea is to be greatful throughout the experience, living each moment in your mouth exploring the sensations etc. This would in effect make a meal a very good opportunity to produce a wealth of appreciation energy. On a very slight twist, I have another proposal I am experimenting with. The concept that food and drink well well be batteries for storing energy. This is the idea that a context can be "energized". We have seen thanks to the "what the bleep do we know movie" what can be done to water. Well, who would want to put their hand up to drink that water that has had hate thoughts poured into it? Sure as heck not me. But I would of the water that was blessed by the monks with thoughts of love. So, I have begun to do this myself. Here again we come back to the proposition of the meaning of Grace. If I were to spend a day, hr, minute (however much time you have and of course depending on the food type) energizing my about to be experienced food with appreciation energy, I definitely end up focusing on it when I experience it, and it makes me feel really great as well. Also, I am of the belief that this only works for live food groups. If it is dead food, or manufactured from chemicals, I do not think it holds the "apprecaition charge" very well if at all. I also believe that if I am doing this my desire to eat junky style food is not there. I some how know that it will have either no value if I consume it, or negative value because of the side effects. I have discovered that I am naturally lazy, and wont always do it, especially when I am first starting out. But i do also notice that when I do instead just 'consume' food without appreciating it first, that I am acting against my nature, virtually lieing to myself. Putting my head in the sand so to speak, and I am very aware of the consequences when they come. So this is my task. Of course in the whole state of things, it doesn't just stop with food. We can have a routine for entering every aspect of our life. What would happen if we had a routine for entering our home. It went something like this: Arrive home and sit in the car a moment, or at the front door if you walk. Focus on the home before you, and set yourself in a frame of mind of gratitude for what you have before you. This may include everything that is inside, it may include your wife, or husband. The appreciation routine, may include one thing that you pick each day. So it is actually a different thing. You may pick your relationships separately, and therefore pick one thing about your partner or parents or siblings that you love about them. If you do this, when you walk through that door, your whole energy is different. You are a different person when you are around them....you are a person they will want to be around, and you will see them as a person you want to have around. This leads into far more things, but that is all for now.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Defining Potential

I have long held the belief that my potential was out of this world. I saw my potential to win lotto like it was a guaranteed thing to happen to me. I saw my potential to win at anything or gain on the sharemarket or currency trading as a guaranteed thing. Whenever I didn't win, I would find a justification such as a lesson that needed to be learnt, or a direction that needed to be changed, so as to never actually challenge my perception of my incredible potential. Today I feel I have reached a new perspective of my potential. One that I find acceptable to explore, and that even if i am wrong, it will provide me with a win win situation. I have decided that sense of potential is different from my potential. My sense of potential is my awareness of the context of potential that exists. The context being the space in which something exists. So I am recognizing that the context to win lotto exists. This is a fact. But the difference between this sense of potential and my actual potential is the problem. My actual potential is the amount of energy via appreciation I have put into my context. Contexts can be anything from transport, to accomodation, to relationships to wealth, health and contentment. When I focus on my sense of potential which is the cool car, or gorgeous wife to be ( ooh yeh, lucky me...already manifested that one) or whether it be the lotto win, or luxury lifestyle etc, I am creating a gap between what I have and what I am trying to create. This creates debt, and unhappiness because I simply don't appreciate what I have while I am busy drooling over what I want. If I focused on what I had and appreciated all of it individually, the appreciation energy would be overflowing in all of my contexts, therefore I would have plenty of creative energy, the universe would automatically manifest the ideas it knows I want or better, and the balance/surplus which is abundance would be manifested as money. ie a lotto win. I have always known about appreciation, but this is making a lot of sense. I think the key is be proactive now and put this into practice enough to give it a chance. This of course means, having a time of now wanting....just appreciating. If I haven't already mentioned it, the way to appreciate what you have is to look at it from a different perspective. Usually we look at what we have from the perspective of what we want. Try to look at what you have from the perspective of someone who would love to have what you have. It does wonders. Also remember what you loved about it when you first got it. Also do something new with it. Do something different with it. This applies to everything whether it is your current car, home, relationships, job, or leisure. Even your current wealth/ income. Do something different from what you usually do...it puts a great deal of life back into what you have. On another note I have truly discovered for myself the value in karmic cleaning. To have money and want to invest it to make more or to invest it in removing debt, is a tough but necessary step to take.