The more I live by default, the more I live in the history of my previous decisions. Who I am and what I am capable of are two important concepts I should be revisiting fresh every morning.
Since we are the proposed creators of our world, deciding that our potential, or the potential of a person, event, idea or experience based on it's history, or mine, is a major limiting factor in our ability to experience magic- even if the history is as close as yesterday. Since magic is only magical to someone who doesn't know how it is done, there tends to be a subconscious attraction to staying out of the 'know'. If I stay in a position where my view is constantly inside the boat...that which lies within my infinite potential will continue to elude me, and continue to surprise me when it occasionally due to karmic attraction jumps into the boat for me to experience it.
Think of it like this...are you exactly the same person today that you were yesterday? Or have you evolved? How often have you experienced something twice that had an amazing affect on you the first time you saw it, and the second time it paled by comparison. Is the person you are married to, really the same person day in, day out. Can you really take them for granted? Yet every day, we do this pre conceived judgement that our day will be the same....just another day at work/school. Just another day at the office. It is this attachment to the history of these ideas that sucks the life and the magic out of them.
Now the interesting thing is, we need to have some defaults. Imagine if we had to wake up every morning, and make decisions such as ones perhaps made prior to entering this life perspective: which galaxy I will go into, which solar system, which planet I will explore, which country and culture I will inhabit and endure. Imagine if each morning I had to choose which body I would live in. It would scarcely give me enough time to figure out what experiences I was going to do with my day, where I would get them, how long I will focus on them and what I intend to get out of my adventure. So it would make sense that I would have a certain amount of continuity, with some decisions anchored for efficiency. The issue is that I have carried this on. I have have created default experiencing activities, default reactions and behaviours, default mechanisms for coping with things, and I wonder why magic is absent from my world.
The ultimate detachment, is to awaken in the morning and have to decide what sort of entity you will inhabit today. Because you will have nothing orbiting you, as nothing external will recognise you. Imagine if you are a Guy today, and a woman tomorrow, or even a different woman from the day before, then your previous friends wont recognise you, it wont be your driver's license, nor your house, or job, or car, or bank account details. Not liking that idea, we anchor this entity.
So you keep your body the same, and that kind of makes sense, but what if we went to the next level to detach. What if you dropped your conditioning. You changed your behaviour and your reactions, so that you reacted differently to challenges. You would probably come home, and instead of sitting down in front of the tv you would do something different. Instead of going to bed at the same time you might go to bed earlier and visualize or later and meditate first, or ring a friend and tell them how amazing they are, or do a job you have been putting off, or plan a pay it forward activity for the next day thus doing something different with that time. Instead of eating lunch, you fast, or you take your lunch somewhere different that you haven't been before. Perhaps instead of eating your regular dinner, you try something radically different, or you do something differently like eat left handed, or blind folded, or have a picnic in front of the fireplace, or with candles, or under the moon outside. What are you capable of experiencing tomorrow, if you got out of the boat and went for a swim in the sea of infinite possibilities?
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