“The most important thing to remember is it’s not what you think – it’s the fact that you think. Thought holds the secret to all our happiness, all our sadness. Once you realize the power of thought, I guarantee your life will never be the same again.”
Sydney Banks
Philosopher, author
I’ve just finished delivering the final weekend of the Certified Clarity Coach Training Programme, and it was incredibly heartening to see how far people had come in their journeys. I reflected on the fact that, while everyone in the room has had powerful realizations and liberating insights over the past year (including myself), we also had something even more valuable. In this article, I’m going to reveal one of the most powerful distinctions you can realise.
DISTINCTION: Having an insight VS The power of insight
We’ve all had insights and realizations. Your ability to walk, talk, ride a bicycle or drive a car is a function of the insights and realizations you’ve had about the nature of those activities, and about life in general. Similarly, in any aspect of life, the results you’re able to create are a function of the insights you’ve had. Insights and realizations bring you more closely into alignment with the reality of life. You’re built for reality, so the more aligned you are with it, the better your ability to navigate life effectively, create the results that matter to you and enjoy the process.
We intuitively understand this, so we love having insights and realizations. They’re often so enjoyable and liberating that people innocently develop “insight-fixation”. They start doing a “whose is bigger?”, comparing the “size” of their insights with those of other people. Or they get “insight-dissatisfaction”, comparing their recent realizations with the insights they themselves have had in the past. They sometimes even get a case of “insight-itis”, falling into the “I’ll be happy once I get that big insight” trap.
Whenever we’re fixating on an insight (the one we’ve had, the one we want, the one the other guy’s got), we’re innocently overlooking something far more valuable: the power of insight and realization. The fact that you’re able to understand this sentence means you possess the extraordinary power of insight and realization. Literally; without this power, you wouldn’t have been able to develop the ability to read. Here’s another way of saying this: you’re built for reality. You have the innate capacity for realization; to fall out of non-reality and have your understanding of life brought more closely into alignment with the truth of life.
Your capacity for realization and insight is far more valuable than any one insight you can have. It’s always with you, and you can rely on it. After all, it’s got you this far, so it’s going to be with you for the duration. Isn’t that nice to know?
To your increasing clarity,
Big love
Jamie