The Palace of Possibilities 2--The writing on our walls

We live in a Palace of Possibilities.

It is an ever expanding structure and is filled with awesome rooms and annexes that are loaded with achievements and joy.

These rooms are open to everyone, although most of us only visit a few of them. It's not that we are barred from any of the rooms.

No indeed!! They are our birthright. Rather, it's that we choose to dwell only in those rooms within which we are comfortable.

Somehow, we don't "belong" in those other, more expansive rooms.

They are for others. They are for richer people and more privileged people and people with more talent than us.

We stay within the familiar (our comfort zones) and don't venture beyond the walls (limits) of the rooms we have chosen.

Why? Because our cans and can'ts are written on those walls and we obey those dictates as though they were real.

Our incomes reflect those limits.

So does our self image.

In fact, there is scarcely any part of our makeup that is not affected by what's written on those walls.

The words on our walls are metaphors for our self talk, of course.

They represent the attitudes, opinions & beliefs that we have accumulated over the years.

Many of them are hand-me-downs from our parents, grandparents, teachers, coaches, religion, peers, books, TV and an endless list of other "authorities" in our lives.

Upon inspection (which we will do) many of them are laughable. Nonetheless, they still seem to have a hold on our progress.

We all have different words on our walls. '

That's why we appear to have different limits.

Your limits are different from mine because the "truths" written on your walls are different from the "truths" written on mine.

However, they are not really "truths" at all.

They are just the guidelines we have adopted for getting through life--AND--many of them are fictions.

They are hand-me-down beliefs that were written on our walls by others and we have been dutifully obeying them ever since.

This need not be.

This brings me to a foundational concept upon which The Palace of Possibilities is built.

It is of critical importance and underlies just about every idea we are going to explore in this series.

It should be tattooed on the insides of our eyelids so that we see it every time we blink.

Its truth is undeniable, yet it is so subtle that we tend to ignore it. Here it is:

"We constantly consult the writing on our walls."

That writing is our most prominent advisor and we consult it all day long. And why not?

It represents every experience we have ever had.

It contains all of our "how to's".

It contains our cans & can'ts as well as our shoulds & should nots.

It contains our musts & must nots as well as our sense of fair play.

It contains our version of proper behavior as well as what is right or wrong in this world.

It contains our judgments, our successes and our failures.

It's all there--everything we hold to be true--written on our walls.

For example, we eat soup with a spoon instead of a fork because our knowledge base (the writing on our walls) advises us to do so.

This is subtle, I know, but it's as if we ask the question, "How do I eat this soup?" and the writing on our walls says, "Use a spoon."

This is why we wear jeans on some occasions and black tie or evening gowns on others.

We constantly consult the writing on our walls for what to do.

Those words represent the "truth" as we have learned it.

We consult those walls for just about everything.

Those words tell us about our opportunities as well as our limits.

Often they conflict with each other.

On the subject of finances, for example, they may tell us, "This is America, the land of opportunity--go for it."

But they may also tell us....

• "You are too young (or too old) for that."
• "You don't have enough education."
• "You are a woman and are limited by the glass ceiling."
• "You are a minority."
• "People who take risks end up broke."
• "Getting ahead depends on who you know."
• "Rich people are dishonest."

This fictional list of limits goes on indefinitely, of course.

Are any of them written on your walls?

If you believe any of them--or if any of them rings true--I suggest that you have bought into an expensive "limit" that need not be there.

There is nothing inherently good or bad about money.

It is a form of energy. It can be used to finance wars and destruction OR it can be used to ease love into the hard to reach corners of the world.

We can build our own barriers to it or let it flow through us as a sign of our birthright to abundance.

All of this is dictated by the cans and can'ts written on our financial walls.

Eventually EFT will be used uniformly in business, sports, academics, spirituality and human achievements of all kinds.

This is inevitable. Accordingly, healers need to expand their visions.

They must move outside the walls of their previous rooms in the Palace of Possibilities and dwell in rooms that allow their own emotional freedom to expand with that of their clients.

I see a day when the proficient healer will engage clients and take them from the dungeon to the Palace Penthouse and beyond.

Further, I see the healer leading the way by example.

What better way to teach abundance, joy and emotional freedom than to develop new levels of it for ourselves first.