Unused And Forbidden Potential By Jennifer Hoffman

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Unused And Forbidden Potential By Jennifer Hoffman

In our process of awakening to our true selves, which is that which expresses our divinity and power, we become aware of our unused potential. These are the things we could have done, the person we could have become and the life we could have had. And it makes us feel sad and depressed. Looking at our past from the present moment we see all of our missteps, our fear and our misguided actions. Can we get those moments back? What happens to our unused potential?

There are many different paths we could have taken with our lives but the one we chose was the only one that was available to us given what we needed to learn in a lifetime, as long as we were on the path of our karmic destiny. The other options were there but at that time, we were either too afraid or to enmeshed in fulfilling our soul contracts to consider them. They were the choices that scared us, that we thought we could not do or there were too many obstacles on that path for us to venture onto it.

So many times we choose what we think is the easier path, not realizing that it is the one that restricts the expansion of our potential, that keeps us on the path towards our destiny. When we are aware that we have 'wasted' our potential we think that since life is short we have thrown those chances away and we are forever barred from discovering what treasures may have been available to us. But potential is never wasted and it takes on new forms as we are prepared for it.

The life we could have had is the one we can have now, without the burden of living through our karma. Everything that could have brought us joy in the past can be transformed into an opportunity for joy in the present moment. Our willingness to be open to the potential of this moment, while rekindling our dreams that we have let sleep within us, creates new potential from the ashes of 'what could have been.' Then we can find the joy, success and peace that we thought we lost because we let opportunities pass us by. They are not gone, they just lie waiting for us to remember who we are and to create an opening for them to manifest for us.
Forbidden Potential

Isn't it funny that the more awareness we have of the true limitlessness of the Universe around us, and therefore of our potential, the more we feel limited in our choices? How could we possibly do all of those things in one lifetime? How and what do we choose? And are we making the right choice? The strange thing about potential is that what we embrace generally does not belong to us. The potential we tend to choose is that which has been handed down to us through our soul groups, emotional DNA, and karmic heritage. Outside of that is our forbidden potential, what our parents warn us about and what, when we can identify it, sets us free.

Unless we are willing to have the courage to move out of the range of potential that has been created for us through our soul groups, the potential we are aware of and use is limited to whatever the generations before us have done. No matter how weak, ineffective, fearful and oppressed we think our parents are, unless we raise our energetic vibrations so we can see the potential that has been hidden from us, we will adopt their potential as our own. Without a shift in our own energy, it is impossible for us to be aware of any potential outside the range that we have been told is safe.

Our soul group does not deliberately limit our potential, they simply teach us according to what they have learned and experienced as safe. Unless they were determined to move beyond their parents' potential boundaries, our parents live by the rules and limitations they were taught. In some cases these limitations are good, such as staying close to your mother or not crossing the street alone, which works when we are children. But then we become teenagers and protection becomes oppression-and each time we try to step into the zone of forbidden potential we are stopped by our parents' fears. Do we strike out on our own or suppress our dreams and follow their safer, tried and true route?

And then one day our forbidden potential calls out to us and we have to choose whether we will venture in its direction. Do we dare see what is on the other side of the mountain? It's a big choice and a huge step for our soul group because if we can, then we show them what is possible and they will either embrace us for our courage or condemn us for our audacity, waiting to see whether we succeed or fail in our endeavors. Where does your forbidden potential lie? What dreams or desires do you have for your life that no one else has been able to accomplish? Do you dare step onto that path and, one step at a time, create a new range of potential for yourself? Whatever your heart's desires are leading you towards is your forbidden potential. Take a chance and see what happens, it is the only way to know.

(Note: These are two articles on the topic of potential that were originally published separately)

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