Above And Beyond

Walking this Path to Freedom is all about us continuously allowing for ever greater and grander versions of who and what we are to emerge from within.

A major key to this eternal expansion is us living in the field of Above and Beyond, or in the field of Excellence as it is also sometimes called. What this means is simply that we become very mindful of how we are showing up and that we seek to always give it our best, so that we may eternally graduate from who we used to be into who we are becoming.

I invite you to join me as we explore this wonderful idea of living and moving Above and Beyond.

Transcript

Blessings and welcome to the path to freedom in this beautiful space where we continuously get to set ourselves free to forever allow for greater and grander expressions of who and what we are to forever soar and shine and glow beyond imagination where we get to set ourselves free to transform our lives over and over and over again when we get to set ourselves free to be in that ever-expanding love and joy and peace and harmony and wholeness and beauty and abundance and creativity and bliss and intelligence and all these amazing qualities where we get to set ourselves free from fear and worry and doubt from a sense of not being enough from a sense of not having enough from a sense of lack and scarcity and separation and I mean the list goes on and on and on as to what it pertains to be moving this this beautiful path what it means to be moving along this beautiful path doing the inner work of challenging becoming aware releasing and letting go that which no longer serves so the topic for today is above and beyond above and beyond and this has to do with I was reading some evaluations of a class I taught and one of the beautiful reviews by one individual said something to the effect that this class delivered above and beyond by far I may not remember the details exactly but it said something to the effect that this class was above and beyond their expectations by far and reading that review and obviously I was very happy and I was very grateful that this was their experience that this class delivered what I had said that it was gonna deliver and that it was beyond and above and beyond their expectations as to what it was gonna deliver and how it was gonna affect them and their life but I I was also very grateful to acknowledge that this is not an explicit and not always articulated intention of mine but it is it is my intention to live my life above and beyond to always go above and beyond what is required in the moment what is asked of me and he brought me to to such beautiful space of gratitude for teacher mine who taught me this a long long time ago and he would always say that and I'm paraphrasing here but he would always say that expansion happens when we graduate from who we are when we go beyond who we are today in other words when we live in the field of excellence and excellence to many individuals means that we are excelling over someone else that we are better than and that we are more capable than someone else that we are performing better than someone else and while that may be the common definition of the world excellence excellence to me simply means that I it doesn't mean that I'm living in comparison to anyone else but it simply means that I'm continuously in the state of and space of wanting to allow myself to expand of continuously allowing for who I am and how I show up to expand to progress so that every single day as I go to bed I want the version of me who's going to bed to be at least slightly more expanded more elevated than the version that woke up that morning and this is such a beautiful way of life it is not always easy it is not for the lazy parts in us that want to just kick back I want to just chill out that want to just live in the space of mediocrity just doing what is absolutely necessary what is absolutely required of us but nothing more no more than that but if we want to if we want to graduate if we want to live in that in that space of continuously allowing forever greater and grander expressions of ourselves to emerge in that space of ever-expanding peace and love and joy and harmony we cannot stay the same we cannot stay the same the principles of transformation are very very clear on this the second principle states that unless we change nothing is ever going to change so living in the the field of above and beyond living in the field of excellence allowing these to lead it means that we continuously change that we continuously change we're not asking for anyone else to change we are not asking for conditions and circumstances to change but we step up we own up we assume responsibility for ourselves saying that hey I'm gonna show up in the highest possible way even in this condition that perhaps my mind is having judgments about perhaps my mind is having opinions around perhaps my mind is feeding me stories as to how this should not be it should be something completely different but we're releasing these we're going beyond these saying that hey I am going to show up in the highest possible way this is how I want to show up and I'm gonna be that I'm gonna be that expression I'm gonna be that version I'm not gonna wait for excellence to just fall into my lap but in every single moment to the very best of our ability we want to show up in the highest possible way that we can show up and that is how we it's like whenever I work out and obviously I have days when my best is not as good as I perhaps would want it to be but whenever I work out I always do it to the very best of my ability which means that often when I work out when I'm done working out I am exhausted I mean I'm I'm drenched with sweat and I am panting and I am you know I'm physically exhausted and I know that there are individuals who sometimes ask me why is this like compulsion is this like an obsessive behavior that I want to you know that I'm into masochism and into hurting myself or that I want to experience pain or something like that but obviously not but for the muscles for for my physical state to improve I need to live in that expanse I need I need to live on the edge of expansion I need to live on the edge of and this is not it's not compulsion it's not I'm not coming from a space of not feeling good enough if I don't perform in a particular way that's not it at all I'm not doing it for anyone else to be impressed I'm not doing it for for my for the sake of my self-worth or self-value I only know that if my boundaries are gonna be expanded I need to push them so there's always that space of moving into the uncomfortable there's always that space of leaving who we used to be behind and stepping into the new allowing that and choosing from that choosing forgiveness where we perhaps used to choose righteousness or victimhood or blame choosing peace where we perhaps would have chosen drama and conflict choosing excellence where we perhaps would have chosen mediocrity an average but average does not expand doing the same things over and over and over again it does not expand the caterpillar needs to die it needs to dissolve it needs to be dissolved for the butterfly to emerge so we want to continuously allow for who we used to be to be released to be dissolved so that the next great and grand version of whom we are to emerge and the next great and grand version of whom we are to emerge and the next and the next and the next and the way to do it is by living moving in a space of above and beyond above and beyond not what others are doing or how they're doing it but above and beyond who we are above and beyond who we used to be so that every single day there is expansion happening we are allowing it we're midwifing it we're facilitating the expansion not because we have to but because we choose to because we choose to continuously going beyond above who we used to be continuously allowing for the next great and grand and great and grand and next great and grand and next great and grand version of who and what we are to emerge and as we as we move into this this becomes a way of life it's it becomes habitual it becomes automatic to the point where we're not even realizing that we are showing up in a different way every single moment perhaps not every single moment we are wise and we are all invited to be very self-loving and very kind and compassionate with ourselves so there are moments when expansion is not on the table there are moments when just doing what we do still very present doing it still very grounded centered anchored in the nowness of this moment still very conscious doing it very mindful doing it but when just doing what what is required of us it's all right so we we do not need to beat ourselves up or beat ourselves over the head being in that space of above and beyond of excellence all of the time but we want to have that as our way of life we want to have that as our way of moving above and beyond who we used to be excelling over our previous versions so that expansion continue continuously happens so that we give progression permission to continuously flow through us and this is such a beautiful way of life it is such a rewarding way of life and it is the only way that I know of when we get to be in ever-expanding self-love when we get to because there are moments I mean I absolutely have these moments when I am choosing not to show up at my highest self I'm choosing not to show up as the greatest expression of who I who I am but these are always I'm not gonna say always but sometimes these are accompanied by a sense of not feeling good about myself because I know that I could have chosen differently I was just too lazy to not choose differently this is not saying that we are to judge ourselves but we're wise to acknowledge we're wise to become aware we're wise to witness and observe when we're not choosing the highest when that highest choice is available to us and then there are moments when that higher choice is not available to us that we are not able to make that higher choice so there's this there's like a scale here but witnessing and observing becoming aware of what we habitually are choosing and how we are how we habitually are moving through life that is what this is all about so that's the invitation for us to begin to to turn within to begin to become aware of how are we showing up are we showing up above and beyond who we used to be or are we walking lockstep with who will who we've always been leaning into mediocrity leaning into average living leaning into staying the same are we allowing expansion to happen or are we allowing stagnation to happen so just to become aware so that's the invitation the invitation is also for us to set the intention to live in that space of above and beyond to live in that space of excellence and the questions obviously are where am I living how am I showing it right now yes these are the questions so as always thank you so so much for tuning in for participating if you know of anyone that you feel would benefit from hearing this or being in this field please invite them the more the merrier and the more we are who are participating in this this field the more powerful the field becomes so we're all we all benefit from more and more people joining in I'm about to sneeze until we meet again with much love many blessings