Tapping Into Your Ultimate Potential

This can be a big topic. And admittedly, I don't know what your ultimate potential is because I'm still continually rediscovering what mine is. As soon as I think I've reached a limit I find a way (or life gives me a way) to grow through it.

What I can say is this:

The first step to tapping into your ultimate potential is recognizing that your potential is ultimately limited by your own beliefs about what's possible. And because we have the power to choose what we believe in and there is ALWAYS the potential for possibility, we can choose to believe in the possibility that our potential is virtually limitless.

The more you allow yourself to move beyond your own self-limiting beliefs and move more into the core of who you are, the more you will align yourself to your purpose and mission and ultimately what brings you a sense of meaning and fulfillment in life.

Once you align yourself to that and give yourself permission to pursue whatever your version of that looks like (and this will likely be the scariest and most challenging thing you've ever done because it's supposed to be or it wouldn't change you), you will begin to tap into to this deep, fundamental source of vitality that begins to accelerate your growth, healing, and ability to manifest your Dream.

Think of the difference of how much energy you have when you're doing something you enjoy doing versus how draining it is to do something you don't like doing.

And of course we must address all aspects of the system. Simply changing your thoughts won't be that effective unless you're also creating more harmony in your body and emotions by fueling yourself properly, getting the rest you need, and moving your body in ways that support your overall health and function.

Think of yourself like a very fine and elaborate instrument. If you're out of tune in any way you may just be producing noise; but when you're in tune you get to experience the magnificence of the music that only you have the potential to play.

This comes right back to being authentically yourself. Which comes down to being willing to learn to love and embrace all parts of yourself.

Nobody can be you as well as you can be you.

I invite you to take a deeper dive into this topic by watching my recent IG Live session here.

I hope this helps.

With love,

NB

Your Biggest Challenge is Your Greatest Opportunity

In my personal conception, I believe that our souls choose to come into this life to create a certain experience that provides the greatest opportunity to further its growth and evolution towards coming to remember itself as one with the Divine or ALL THAT IS.

And just in the same way we grow and develop our physical body by intentionally challenging it -- like working out at the gym -- our soul grows its experience by challenging itself with different life circumstances.

Sometimes that shows up as a dis-ease or chronic illness, sometimes as a challenging relationship(s), sometimes as an initiation into a bigger life purpose, sometimes as mental/emotional imbalances, and sometimes as just being in the wrong place at the wrong time (sometimes all the above).

Either way, this manifests as pain in some form -- physical, mental, emotional, and/or spiritual. Most of us have been conditioned to run away from pain or do our best to manage it without actually addressing the root cause. This is all okay, except that when we disengage from our challenges we also disengage from the growth opportunity that is seeded within them.

And in my experience, the greater the pain is, the more you are being called to engage with it to discover the treasures lying within.

But we all have been blessed with the faculty of free-will that allows us to make choices that may be misaligned from our soul's chosen path. (Free-will is what upholds the veil of illusion that allows us to pretend to be separate). Because of this we can choose to run away from the pain, distract ourselves from it, numb ourselves, victimize ourselves, make excuses, and ultimately tell ourselves stories (or blindly believe those that have been programmed into us) that provide us the permission to disengage from the very opportunities that are there to help us become all that we have the potential to be.

Change is scary. Uncertainty is uncomfortable. The ego (the idea-complex that allows you to uphold your sense of self and the illusion of separation) loves to keep things exactly as they are, even if that means keeping you in the same cycle of pain and disengagement. In other words, sometimes we can become so comfortable in our discomfort that it seems more uncomfortable to change than it does to remain the same.

So my question is:

What's holding you back from being all that you have the potential to be?

As a great shaman once said, "There are only two ways to heal: now or later?"

Cycles circle til you leave them.

What's the cost of change?

What's the cost of staying the same?

You always have a choice.

When you heal yourself, you transform your entire past and your entire future. And you heal the part of yourself that is present in everyone else. And you act as a source of inspiration that ripples to everyone you connect with.

Always with love,

NB

How Connecting to GOD is the Best Way to Get Stronger and Build More Muscle

Maximizing performance is all about optimizing stress management.

Some of our biggest sources of stress come from what we believe about ourselves and the world around us.

In my journey, I've experienced the greatest physical results by deepening my spirituality. And remember, by spirituality I just mean connecting to a greater whole. The reason being that the greater of a connection I've developed with myself and the world around me, the more I've been able to objectively see how much of an influence my beliefs, thoughts, words, and deeds have on the experience I'm creating for myself.

When you keep honestly asking yourself, "What causes that?" you eventually find yourself at a place where one thing is the source of everything. This is what I refer to as GOD.

And because of this, everything is connected to and influenced by everything else. So when it comes to increasing your performance in the gym -- whether that's strength, power, endurance, muscle mass, body composition, etc. -- the more you're able to recognize and adjust the many factors that are adding/adapting to the overall stress load of your body-mind, the better you'll be able to adapt to whatever stimulus you are providing your body through your training.

If you inherently belief that what can be physically weighed and measured is all that exists and therefore we are all separate beings have separate experiences because consciousness is a product of our physical biology, your thoughts, words, and actions will reflect that back to you in the results and circumstances you experience. This isn't a matter of right/wrong good/bad, but to the degree the choices you're making based off the beliefs you hold are creating experiences you say you don't want for yourself, there's a "story gap" that is creating additional stress to the system that is taking away from your capacity and resources to adapt to your training.

The more you align yourself to your version of the Truth, the more your thoughts, words, and actions will create experiences aligned with what you say you want for yourself.

One of the simplest ways to begin this process is to create a daily meditation practice for yourself so you can begin to objectively see your otherwise subjective experience.

I invite you to watch my latest IG Live video if you want to take a deeper dive on this topic.

With Love,

NB