Possibilities & Responsibilities 

This picture I took one morning on my walk with the dogs. I thought it so beautiful, a frozen dandelion, just waiting for the thaw so it could once again spread “possibilities”

I went to a conference recently and met some beautiful people. As in most conferences or courses you might attend you always come away with some new information and learn a few things. This was no different. I learned so much but one take away was as a notion of “possibilities” but not perhaps as you might think…

We did an exercise, called building connections and well, to say it simply, it was similar to speed dating…

I sat across from someone and got 5 minutes to tell them about my business using 5 reference questions. Then rolls reversed for 5 minutes and I listened to the person sitting across from me. There was 1 minute at the end to exchange business cards if there was resonance.

When all was said and done, I “dated” 8 different businesses.

It was a fun process and since, to my surprise, most knew what osteopathy was (refreshing!), I focused on sharing about our brain balancing technology. Through discussion I realized I was very limited in my thinking about possibilities.

While studying osteopathy one thing that the instructors would always say was “anything is possible!”. Any time a student would ask if a particular lesion (area of the body that is not moving as it should) was possible, the answer was always… “Yes, anything is possible”. Regardless of how impossible it seemed that the lesion would be, it was always the same answer.

I have seen some things I would never have thought possible until it was in my hands. I have come to learn that the statement is quite valid; anything is possible in the context of the human body.

However, I had never really considered there was a different level to the concept.

On the surface I believe it….

My conversation with my son is always

Me: “Son, anything is possible”
My son: “No it isn’t mom, I cannot jump to the moon”
Me: “YET!”

But the weekend demonstrated to me I was not thinking as comprehensively as I could.

This thought offered me a few realizations about possibilities.
I have a self-limiting belief about possibilities. Despite me thinking I believe anything is possible based on my experience with the human body, I have not received this same experience in the bigger picture of my life…thus somewhere in deep in my subconscious I believe the contrary.

I need to dig deeper.

I am thinking way too small. If anything were possible, they why am I not dreaming bigger!

We are all made of the same stuff, us, and all things in the universe, so why, if anything is possible in the human body, is it not possible in the rest of my world? And if I think about it was not really all that long ago that a 10-minute mile wasn’t thought possible and yet people are now running it in less that 5.

I need to dream bigger.

Sometimes what is possible is not the positive thing I have always looked at it to be.

To help you understand what I mean by this…

A while ago the town of Olds dismantled their recycling program. Although understanding the reason behind the decision to discontinue the program, I was put off. It wasn’t the town itself that put me off, it was the fact that the recycling had been going to the dump.

It felt like I had been lied to for decades! Since my school days the 3 R’s (reduce, reuse and recycle) was a mantra we were taught in school. What else had I been misled to believe?

How could I have been duped all this time? How could all my time and energy all those years have been for nothing…. (nothing is not nothing – it is a lesson!).

More than that though, was the feeling – I felt as though I as doing my part as a human on this earth to protect her. I felt a little powerless.

But was I even told where the recycling was going? Or did I simply assume?

Perhaps I simply believed it was going to a recycling depot because I placed recyclable material into the appropriate box that said recycling.

The truth is, I blindly believed based on a word over a container due to my belief system.

I need to re-evaluate my assumptions.

What I believe is my responsibility.

Ultimately, I had never even remotely considered that any recycling was going to the dump. I just assumed it was being recycled.

My subconscious mind believed what I was taught in grade school, but I never did my due diligence on this matter, I never did my research.

But this is where responsibility kicks in. It is not anyone else’s responsibility to do the research but my own. It is my choice what I choose to believe. My responsibility to determine what is Truth.

I need to determine for myself what is truth.

Moral of the story I suppose is that I do believe that anything is possible, but I was thinking too small.

Sometimes what is possible is that we are misled, intentionally or not, simply by our lack of effort to seek truth.

Sometimes we limit ourselves, stay small to live by these assumptions we have about the world in which we live.

Sometimes we have given our power away unknowingly through our beliefs and we need to re-evaluate our own belief system and see how it is limiting us from our own potential and realizing our own possibilities.

Ultimately my mind has been blown…. I hope yours has too.

I am going to start considering the world around me and trying to see if other possibilities exist, maybe things I did not expect to see. I am going to dream bigger!

– Christal Geier