Better Than Your Best

Have you ever experienced Déjà vu?

It’s that mystical moment where you suddenly become aware of knowing exactly what’s going to happen just before it actually occurs. Everything is familiar and what happens next is not a surprise – it is expected. I say “expected” rather than “predicted” because you’re not intentionally thinking about the future and what it will be like; instead, you’re “in the moment” marveling at the fact that the normal dimensions of your existence, space and time, seem to no longer apply. You are “out of time and space” and experiencing something otherworldly.

Déjà vu seems to be an experience of a “future memory” – of remembering something that has yet to happen – in this world. Could it have happened in another world?

The actual content of these experiences is not as important as the fact that they happen at all. These moments, even as rare as they are, point to our inherent power as human beings to catch a glimpse beyond our normal sphere of experience of a realm that unites the apparent fragmentation and accepted “natural” divisions of this world.

Perhaps we live in two world simultaneously. After all, what we think doesn’t have to be bounded by the bodies we have. We can go beyond our physical circumstances and imagine a world where “normal” rules don’t pertain.

There are rules we cannot ignore or overcome simply by imagining that they don’t (or shouldn’t) exist – like gravity, for example. But the power and significance of your life really is shaped by the boundaries you choose to set for yourself and abide by – especially when you don’t really have to and even when it might be easier for you not to.

These intentionally designed boundaries, rather than narrowing, actually open up dimensions of experience that cannot be encountered in the open spaces of limitless freedom. Such conditions soon descend into anarchy and the failure of purpose, passion and accomplishment. Unbounded freedom is like an unchanneled river that dissipates its power and wreaks destruction by moving in all directions at once.

Your life is more than you think; it’s more than what you’re aware of; it’s more than you allow it to be. But you can enter into another dimension by setting beneficial boundaries and directing your energy flow and purpose toward your worthy aspirations.

“Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
- George Washington

“When leaders become worshiped because of their perceived eloquence and “reasoned” approach to the issues at hand, then the force of their persuasion is soon translated into the force of tyranny and the servitude of the easily led.”
- Ken Wallace

Provided you actually believe that the future can be better than the present in any manner you desire, the question you face today is: In whom do you place your faith to provide a better future? The answer is critical to determining how much effort you’ll expend to make it so.

Freedom is the requisite circumstance that offers the means to materialize worthy aspirations and noble endeavors. Without it, nothing improves; everything becomes weighed down with the growing sense of futility. Why bother living when soon you’ll be dead? Such is the prevailing attitudes of a nation led by platitudinous, vacuous and self-important “leaders.”

We suffer at the hands of politicians. Where are the leaders? A leader doesn’t have to be elected in order to lead a nation effectively. Please, leaders, let us hear from you so we will finally have someone to follow rather than worship.

No, I’m not talking about thin skin or pet peeves. I’m talking about those moments in your life where the past, present and future all seem to merge into a single experience. Additionally, thin places are those times where the immanent (the physical elements of your present environment) and the transcendent (the non-tangible elements of the present situation) combine into an “other world” encounter.

Furthermore, the veil between this visible world and the concurrent invisible world is so sheer at these “thin places” that it becomes easy to oscillate back and forth as if to live in both worlds simultaneously. Where are your thin places? Where in your life do you experience a wholeness and an unequivocal unity of the strands of your self into “at-one-ment” (atonement)?

Atonement is a reconciliation and harmonization of all parts of your being that are not “in sync” or that are not in a peaceful interrelationship. You know how it is: everything seems to be going well but there’s something at the back of your mind that seems out of place or out of time or like it just doesn’t fit in to everything else. It lurks somewhere deep in your conscience and claws at your consciousness insisting to be acknowledged. This sense of dis-integration distracts you from purposeful activity that results in satisfying accomplishment.

Could this be a thin place for you? Could there be much more possibility and opportunity for you to do great things at times like these? The infinite always intrudes on the finite in specific and definitive ways. It is knocking on the door of your awareness right now. Invite the infinite into your awareness today and watch your previous “best” pale in comparison to what you’ll do from that point on.

Simply put, you’ll be living not on the edge but well within a realm of abundant possibilities.

Go for it!
Ken

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What does it mean to be or do better than your best?

I recall seeing a little red line on the 70 mph mark of the speedometer of my uncle’s car. I asked him about it and he told me that it was a “governor,” a pre-set limit faster than which the car could not go. Whenever he got to 70 mph, no matter how much he depressed the accelerator, the car would not go any faster.

This is exactly what happens to us: we impose a pre-set limit on our abilities and dreams in our minds by the thoughts we have continually entertained.

What is your best? Do you think it’s really possible to reset it? If you don’t reset it, you will never be able to exceed the speed you’ve always limited yourself to. Can you go any faster than you have been? Do you really want to?

Keep in mind that speed limits are always set to govern the least capable drivers on the road.

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Technology can be so liberating – and enslaving! I write and my computer records without question, comment or criticism. I save and it remembers everything exactly as I entered it – that is, if it doesn’t decide to lose everything it’s already received and stored.

The back up activity that you hear so much about is a vital function of everyday life in the digital age. It is also important in any of your relationships. You need to “back up” your contacts with people in your memory bank and in your heart. Treat every interaction with everyone you meet during each day as if it were the only one that day. Every one with whom you come into contact will sense that they are the most important person in your life. Try it. You’ll see what I mean. You’ll also see what such treatment of others will mean to you at the end of each day. It’s wonderful!

What you give to others as you relate to them in everyday activity returns to you in abundance to help you manifest your worthy aspirations.

Ken

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There is a thing called “reflective consciousness” that only human beings seem to possess. Animals and other living creatures can’t reflect on their existence and the contexts in which they live. We can.

We can know that we don’t know and accept that we will not be able to know everything that can be known. This can be either enormously freeing or enslaving. Knowledge is not all there is to human knowing, however. Our innate ability to reflect gives us the capability to intuitively understand contexts and environments. In other words, we can be aware of our “being” in the world and aware of our limitations by being in the world.

Hone your awareness by honoring your intuition. Listen to it. It has something important to say to you. Can you hear it?

Ken

Every speeder crashes eventually, especially at 174 MPH!