We have capacities within us that we do not recognize; for example, as we are riding a bicycle, we are engaged in a multitude of movements that we cannot explain nor understand.
Have you ever experience your unlimited potential? Or let us put it this way. Have you ever done something extraordinary that you could not explain the reason behind it?
I am going try to explain what is this unlimited potential that frankly, on one level, I do not understand, but on another level, I feel I had known it all along.
A few years ago, I went with my friends to the skeet shooting range. At the skeet shooting range, we have to shoot twenty-five ejected targets of a flying clay pigeon from five different positions.
Usually, a professional shooter might hit twenty-three out of twenty-five targets, so hitting 12 targets in itself is an excellent score for a beginner like me.
I started shooting and moving from station to station, and by the time I reach twelve, I had hit all the twelve targets. I hit target after target- fourteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-three…, with no distraction.
I was about to shoot the twenty-fifth targets; then, my friend turned to me and said: “You have got one more to shoot a perfect score.” At that moment, I started trying, and I missed the last target.
While I was shooting the first 24 flying targets, it felt that my target was fixed or moving in slow motion. I was in the motion with my target, my target and I were inseparable; until I started to rationalize, then I started missing.
Jackie Stewart a famous a former formula one car racing describes in his journal;
Driving at 300 km/hr and passing another car around corners require a high level of skill, but there is far more into it than that. There is something that is happening that few drivers have the language to describe.
While we are driving at this very high speed, we have an extraordinary focus and concentration that we feel that the race is slowing down, as if everyone is moving in slow motion.
We feel that we are in motion with other cars and one with our car and the environment. This feeling will allow us to make a maneuver that will never be able to make when we are in our ordinary state.
Bill Russel famous NBA Celtic players describe in his journal:
When the game would heat up, the game will become more than physical or mental. That feeling is very difficult to describe, and few can talk about it.
The player and the whole team play at a new level that could last for a whole quarter. While the game will be moving so quickly yet, nothing could surprise the player. It feels Like the player is playing in slow motion. The player could anticipate what the next moves will be and where the next shot will be taken. The players feel they are in the Motion one with each other’s, with the play and with the court.
We can recognize the shooter becoming united with his target, the driver becoming one with his car and surrounding, and the Basketball player feels the union with the other players and the play.
What makes them all perform at this high level is their detachment from their thoughts. When detached from our thoughts, we are in touch with a higher level of intelligence that helps us to break through our limitations and navigate into our unlimited potential. When we are detached from our thoughts, we sense the oneness with others and with our surroundings.
What they are truly doing is that they are breaking the chain of their thoughts, and they are letting the motion happen through them and not controlled or initiated by them.
When we are in the motion, we feel united with the whole; we become part of the Uni-verse that is always seeking comm-union.
The mind cannot comprehend and explain this unlimited potential; this unlimited potential is felt, sensed, remembered, and experienced.
When have you experienced the oneness?
What would be you when you are in union with your environment?