Consider this, one will never receive, what he or she inwardly feels unworthy of.
There was a man who had a lofty dream of living on the ocean someday. Well, the temporary challenge was that he neither had the means or the conditioned belief necessary to realize said dream. Because of this dream, and the emotional distance that separated him from its reality. He coined the practice that he calls, ‘touching the dream’. By this, whenever he and his wife, had a good month or two in business, they would rent a room at a hotel that was ocean front property. Over a course of time, what began as a dream perched perhaps out of reach and unattainable, was through exposure, becoming more common, fitting and within grasp (emotionally).
Through the proper use and exercise of the mind; we can design a reality that our senses currently deny. It is not what you think you are worthy of (intellectually), that holds sway over you, it is what you feel (emotionally, that either allows or resists the better that you think possible (intellectually). It is the integration of mind and heart that yields our personal experience.
Choice or preference without fulfillment is frustration, and power or ability is void, even wasted, without direction. As observed in the above story, the mind can be, and arguably must – be trained to ‘see’ possibilities not yet apparent.
The soul never thinks without a picture. – Aristole
We see through our eyes, but with our mind; Now renew/train your mind to see.
–George Stewart