Each moment is alive with infinite potential. It is only my awareness of the potential in the moment that potentially limits what's possible in that moment! Meaning, what I am aware of is possible -- what I am not aware of is not.
To increase the possibilities in any given moment I must increase my awareness in that moment. Increasing my awareness is accomplished through exercising my attention, which is currently a weak psychological muscle. As GF says, as goes our attention, so follows our experience. If my attention wanders to a negative memory, my experience of that moment is confined by and seen through that negativity -- and thus the moment's possibility is limited by the negativity. I must practice keeping my attention on the one thing that is not limited by any pre-existing or defined outcomes -- the present moment. Only the present moment holds all possibility in it -- not the confines of the past or the rigidity of an imagined future. Awareness in the present moment allows me to choose from all possibilities, which determines the path I take through experience.
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