Are you open to all that is available to you? Available to what you might ask?
If someone text you and messaged are you available to go to the movies tonight you might respond – sure, I am free! Or perhaps – sorry booked up tonight. Limited availability.
What is covered in this blog: |
Understanding Availability: Time and Commitments |
The Inner Struggle of Limited Thinking |
Breaking Free from Limiting Beliefs |
Expanding Consciousness Beyond Limits |
Reflecting on Your Current Reality |
Making Intentional Commitments |
Acceptance of What You Can’t Control |
Going Inward: What Do You Choose to Be Available For? |
Becoming Fully Available to Life |
Understanding Availability: Time and Commitments
In a concrete sense, particularly with the concept of time, we tend to focus on the limited availability. You put schedules in your diary to block off time, to book in time, to make time, to ensure you have enough time to get to an appointment.
If you have a fully booked schedule, then you may have no time left for other things. Works fine if the things you are engaged in are things that matter to you. No time for anything else and yet fully available to what you have committed to.
The Inner Struggle of Limited Thinking
An inner struggle may arise if you have a sense that you have limited time:
To do what you want to do,
To be engaged in things that matter to you,
To have unstructured time,
Free from having to do anything.
You may have limited time due to a thinking that you have to, need to do, must do, should do certain things. The struggle will arise from a mindset. A mind limited in some way.
Breaking Free from Limiting Beliefs
What limits a mind? Limiting beliefs, values, expectations, conditions that have been set. Set by whom? A mind that was set early in childhood, influenced by everyone around you. A mind that can be reset, reframed and cleared by you, when you are open and ready to.
A mind set is limiting because there is a holding of something in mind and that thing is fixed. It is a frame of mind that has a parameter around it. In a sense it is like you put a fence around an aspect of your consciousness. It is a conceptual boundary.
Expanding Consciousness Beyond Limits
And yet in terms of pure consciousness, there are no limits, other than those you put on your subtle self. To shift a mind set, is to become aware of how the mind is currently set and then reflecting on what you are open to, available to, and ready to give yourself to. Including checking if you are ready to look beyond the limited aspects of the subtle you.
Reflecting on Your Current Reality
What is true for you? Is there currently a struggling in mind. A sense that there is a limit to what’s possible for you? Of time available to you? Of energy within you? In your life more generally?
As you look at the struggle, is clarity available to you? Are you seeing the how you may be making this personal about you?
As you think about how your mind is set, is there something happening inside you? Does it seem that this is happening to you?
Making Intentional Commitments
Notice too that when you choose to say yes to something, you are making a commitment to it. In the example of time, the limited time available to you, is due to you. The subtler parts of you.
And perhaps you are saying you don’t understand I have work to go to, kids to look after, an elderly parent to check in on daily. That is heard too.
Acceptance of What You Can and Can’t Control
So, what else? Well, what is also available to you, as a possibility, is to see reality as it is, rather than how you want it to be. To see clearly what you can and can’t control, to take responsibility when you say yes, realising that yes means I choose this, as it is aligned with my highest intention, and/or yes simply a knowing as right action in the moment.
Beyond that, for things you can’t control, what is available? What is available is the possibility to bring acceptance to reality. It is what it is. Situations happening now, not necessarily for always.
Going Inward: What Do You Choose to Be Available For?
So, what else? Going inside is available to you. Going inside, inquiring into what really is really going on here? What matters to me? Sitting with the question, what is it that I choose to be available for/to?
Becoming Fully Available to Reality as it is
And then, in choosing yes, checking in, am I giving 100% of myself, fully committed, fully available to the task at hand, to the conversation happening, to daily sitting practice, to all that is available to me? Am I open to reality as it is?
As you deep dive into what’s true for you, what is available? What’s opening up for you?
You are opening up to your natural expression as being you.
Eimer Boyle
Conversational Coach & Teacher of Human Development
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