You Can Train to be Anything

We often think we are limited to our circumstances, our current beliefs, our experiences, and the collection of behaviors we call our personality.

We limit ourselves deeply with our thoughts and words, giving great disrespect to the boundless nature we were given at birth. We hardly realize we have infinite access within our minds to become any way we want to be -

I tell my students often when they struggle with something, that I struggled deeply with the same thing. They would not recognize me ten years ago - and i hope to be totally different in ten years time from now.

I had limited myself deeply by describing my personality as a limiting factor - "I'm an introvert" turned into "I can't talk to people in crowds," instead of admitting the truth: "I'm uncomfortable talking to people in crowds and need training and practice." Over time, I became much more comfortable with it.

You can train anything from your body position and athleticism, to the way you perceive struggle and difficulty, to your ability to breathe deeply and regularly in cardiovascular exercise (riding for example).

You can train away fear. You can train into confidence. You can train out of irritability, defensiveness, impulsivity, but you have to stop feeding it - You can train into quiet and calm - no matter what your life has been like, you have control over your own mind, even if it starts out feebly with one second of practice per day. In the years that accumulate, these wobbly steps add up and become a whole new you.

The biggest factor is your mental resistance to the idea or not. I liken it to going out into the cold - if you brace into the cold, you suffer. If you accept the cold, it can actually become interesting: tingly, alive, the whole world waking you up. The only difference is the way you choose to look at it.

You have everything within you to be infinite - But you have to be more in love with the idea of potential, to gratitude for what you were made to be and desire to share these gifts back into the world - than in love with the idea of a comfortable, limiting, and sad smallness.