How Your Lowest Point Is Your Greatest Potential
Hello, beautiful human being. I hope you’re feeling amazing today. And if that’s not the case, you’re either feeling even better or (a lot) less than amazing, that’s all okay. You are human, you get to experience a thousand emotions throughout your life. Some of which you don’t wish to feel or that you can’t get a grasp on: why in God’s name, you may wonder, or: when do I finally get out of this hell?
So, here is something I like to say to you, my dear friend. And that is this:
There can’t be light without darkness.
There can’t be heaven when there is no hell.
Where you see impossibilities, there’s also possibilities.
You can’t see order when you haven’t met chaos.
Life in polarities
Every single thing you encounter in your life comes with a polarity. Let’s have a look at an example, like the mental emotion we call anger. If you take it from a basic point of view, you’re just angry about something, you feel that rush of resentment, but if we ask ourselves the question why we’re angry and we think this through, it’s far from just anger.
This is the time you realise you were angry because you cared, as anger is a deeply-rooted emotion that stems from love, affection and emotional devotion. But the way we express anger shows otherwise in a lot of cases and it’s prone to be interpreted like we don’t care and just want to hurt people. While in those moments, anger points to a deeper, psychological reason: genuinely caring about something.
It’s the becoming aware of your emotions having layers as to why they occur that unlocks the power to utilise emotions into something far greater. By becoming self aware, you open the door to potentiality of all there is in life.
And Carl Jung can inspire us all with these powerful words put together:
“No tree, it is said, can grow to Heaven unless its roots reach down to Hell.”
What Jung states, is that – in the path of becoming the greatest version of yourself – one must see the evil, bad and negative within the Self.
You should realise and come to terms with the fact that you, too, hold that potential within you to go down that road.
As Jordan Peterson would say: it is not enough to just acknowledge, it is necessary to truly comprehend that capacity within you. You could be anything that you put your mind towards and where you direct your attention to.
You could fall into the traps of your greatest weakness and have it conquer you, or you can decide, consciously, that it could just be not a weakness, but a means to ignite the good, a strength; a potential force you can breathe life into.
The transmutation of your mental
For you to then being able to embody the greatest good – as goodness stems from a true understanding of its polarity (that is evil, wrongness, immorality, etc.) and to then choose to act well in the face of suffering and adversity – is when you’re intentionally channeling your thoughts, as your thought energy is the engine of how you feel and, as a consequence, how you will act. All is mental.
The latter of above reminds me of my studies of Hermetic Philosophy in the book The Kybalion (a study of the Hermetic Philosophy of ancient Egypt and Greece), something I’ve recently started getting into.
I’m more than intrigued to be sharing the knowledge – or more accurately said – its ancient knowledge. I’m convinced its content deserves to be worded out and passed onto those who feel there is more than ‘Modern Science’, as I hope, too, that I can trigger the curious among us.
I am to be dedicating its principles (there are seven) in detail in another moment of time, but as for now I would like to give you a glimpse of my studies so far, in which I’m going to touch on the (fourth) Principle that is Polarity – as I’d say it would suit the theme of this article.
So, in the Principle of Polarity, it is stated that:
“Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.” – The Kybalion.
To put this in a more simplistic way, there are two sides of everything. Poles are only the two extremes of the same thing; they are related; they simply indicate varying degrees of the same thing, like in Heat and Cold, in Hard and Soft, in Large and Small, in Black and White, in Light and Darkness, in High and Low, in Self Criticism and Self Empowerment, in Strength and Weakness, and in Positive and Negative.
Where does one side leave off and does the other begin?
All are simply degrees of the same thing when you think for a moment. And, considered of more importance by the Hermetists, it is possible to change the vibrations of one to another, as they all operate on a mental level; it’s in one’s mind. And the mind is limitless.
It would be difficult to imagine this with Large and Small as one of the examples, but if you take a look at Love and Hate – as these are without doubt mental states – you may remember experiences of the transition from Love to Hate and the reverse, that is in your own case and that of others.
Changing the vibration
To change the vibrations, if you put your intention into making this shift – and let’s say this now with from going from your Low to your High – you’re making use of your willingness (The Will in Hermetic Philosophy) to transmute a mental state. Consequently, by understanding The Art of Polarization in your personal life, you will enable yourself to change your own Polarity, as well as that of others. You will then possess the key to learn to master your mental states.
The Ancient have left us with very little about the answers on how to apply this in our daily lives, but I’ve come to realise that it’s the understanding that will open the curtains to its application: it will be like the eyes are not only there to look, but to see what’s underneath the veil.
“The Lips of Wisdom Are Closed, Except to the Ears of Understanding.”
The kybalion
He who knows the principles, understandingly, possesses the key, and with a touch, all doors fly open.
And whatever you may perceive as one of your greatest weaknesses, the other side of the coin is your greatest potential. See beyond, expand your self awareness, start facing your fears, find your purpose, meditate on your thoughts, embrace all polarities for you to intentionally change the vibration and become the master of your mind.
Your lowest point is your greatest potential.
A person is limited. The spirit is unlimited.
I hope to have inspired you.
Anne
Source:
Three Initiates. (2018). The Kybalion: Centenary Edition.
