Overcome All Your Limitations By Surrendering All Your Fears
- olivierbranford
- Feb 24
- 10 min read
Updated: Mar 2
What is holding you back from the life of your dreams? Limitations are simply fears and fears are not real. You are a limitless BEing who is only held back by your fears. In other words, only your limiting beliefs hold you back. If you could drop these then what would remain is the you that you have only so far dreamed of: This is the space of possibility. Once you transcend your fears, then you and your life becomes limitless. You then live from your soul.
'Fear' and 'Faith' are both are states of mind. Fear creates the darkest moments in our finest hour, while Faith brings the finest moments in our darkest hour.
If there is anything in your life that you are facing that you don't like or are afraid of, instead of hating it or being scared by it, love it, as it is the only thing standing between you and God. Love it to death!
As humans, our deepest fears (by that I mean the fears behind every one of our fears) are all the same:
That we will fail
That we are not worthy (because we fail)
That we are not loveable (because we are not worthy)
That we are not loved (because we are not loveable)
That we will be abandoned (because we think that we are not loved)
That we will die (because we will be abandoned)
So, our deepest fears form a progressive, logical sequence.
We were not born with these fears. Marianne Williamson wrote "Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here.The spiritual journey is the relinquishment—or unlearning—of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts."
Our parents, guardians, and society conditioned fear into us. Why? Because they were unconscious and they had the same fears conditioned into them. But you are reading this as the highest version of you is still inside you, as it is in everyone. You just need to be reminded, in order to wake up.
Our ultimate fear though, is not that we will die, but that we are afraid to truly live. Why? Because our ego lies to us. Our ego is who we think we are. It tells us that if we wake up we will die: We live (or rather sleep) in a real life Matrix. The ego lies because waking up, becoming conscious, dissolves it, and it dies. The closer you get to waking up, the more the ego screams that you will die.
Eckhart Tolle, the philosopher and one of the foremost worldwide spiritual teachers, wrote “Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there... The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist... Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “Die before you die"... You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the Earth, the air. You don’t have a life: You are life. Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves.” The false self is the ego: Awareness breaks it down like a caterpillar, which quite literally dissolves, to reveal the butterfly that is the true you.
You are limitless because you are the Universe. The question is will you realise this in this life? It really is your choice. As Tolle wrote “As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change.” You only need to see the next step into the darkness.
The vast majority of people never realise that what they were always seeking was inside them all along, or they realise it on their death bed, and by then it’s a little late to wake up to a life of personal power, peace, love, and joy. As Steve Jobs said just before dying “At this moment, lying on the bed, sick and remembering all my life, I realise that all my recognition and wealth that I have is meaningless in the face of imminent death. You can hire someone to drive a car for you, make money for you - but you can not rent someone to carry the disease for you. One can find material things, but there is one thing that can not be found when it is lost - life. Your true inner happiness (joy) does not come from the material things of this world. Whether you’re flying first class, or economy class - if the plane crashes, you crash with it." His very final words were "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”
As Colette, the actress and journalist, wrote "What a wonderful life I've had. I only wish I'd realised it sooner."
Limitations may be transcended: Your higher Self can handle anything, without fear
As Dan Millman, the Olympian, author, and coach, wrote "Tell me what God feels like: I am starting to forget."
Eckhart Tolle wrote that “Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body’s reaction to your mind — or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.” If you have fearful thoughts you take your self to Hell: If you have loving thoughts you take your Self to Heaven.
George Addair famously said “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” I would take it one step further, that your fear has actually prevented you from even imagining the possibility of your dreams of awakening. George Bernard Shaw wrote "Some people see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and say 'Why not?'"
Herein lies the paradox: Who would you have to be in order to be able to imagine what your wildest highest dreams could entail? This sounds like an impossible paradox. Transformative Life Coaching (TLC) creates the space for you to be the person that you dream of being who could imagine what that life could look like: To tell you what you know deep inside you already: But it’s buried so deeply in fear that you can’t even hear that voice: The voice that speaks from the highest possible and most awakened version of you, the real you, your true Self, your soul. You can hear it can't you? And hearing that allows you to transcend your fears and wake up to who you really are, right now. You are so, so, so much more than a bunch of molecules.
Lord Alfred Tennyson, the poet, wrote "The shell must break before the bird can fly." TLC allows the eagle chick to see the eagle flying before it hatches, so that the chick then breaks out of its shell. No one can wake you up, fix you, make you go through the door, or break open your shell for you other than you. But you won't do it until you are shown the eagle that you already are, soaring high: Not until you remember who you are. That is my purpose, as your guide to help you to see the highest you, the eagle, until you see it your Self. This is the role of an Enlightened Witness. Once you see and remember who you are, then you will know what to do, and break out of your shell. As Ralph Waldo Emerson, the philosopher and Transcendentalist, said "Every man is an impossibility until he is born." Abraham Maslow, the American psychologist who created Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs', a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualisation and Enlightenment, wrote "One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king."
Picasso said "Everything you can imagine is real." TLC helps you to imagine; to see. You can change the world from Heaven to Hell and back again in a single hour, even if nothing outside of you changes. And you do this many times a day. And you still think that you are limited? You create your world.
Eckhart Tolle said "Realise that there is a freedom within, where limitations can be transcended. Through non-judgement of the present moment, non-reaction, and an openness to what is." Peace is accessed in this way, through the acronym JAR:
Non-Judgement of one's Self or others - this is sometimes called surrender or 'letting go'
Non-Attachment to thoughts and emotions that are not based on love and do not bring joy
Non-Resistance to what is: The 'isness' of the present moment
Suffering comes from resistance toward a decision that your heart knows is right for you. Your heart is the dwelling place of your soul: Your true Self. When you resist what is true for you, difficulties ensue to try to get you back on the divine path. These will keep coming until you learn the lessons that will lead to your wisdom. Trust your heart: It knows. Your fear (the language of your ego) will try to convince you that it's better to stay put than make a change. This is why so many people become comfortable in their own discomfort. Yet stagnancy leads to spiritual dis-ease, which will manifest in disease and mental illness. Your heart will never lead you astray. There's a reason things are difficult. Life is moving you to step up into your highest gear, take intuitive action, make a change, and move forward. Trust the process. Trust life. Trust your Self. I hear you. I see you. I have walked your path. I am here to serve you. I am here to remind you of who you truly are.
Will is willpower or determination. It’s ego. It's like fighting the Universe. You will never win. Decide to turn your will and life over to the care of the Universe. Trust your intuition. It is divinely sent: That’s how the Universe will care for you and take away your fears and egocentric will.
Namaste.
Olly
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