If you can wrap your mind around the science that states that all energy is either potential or kinetic*, and if humans are energy, we are in fact, potential. Not only that, we can create energy therefore we are creating potential. The only thing that limits or puts boundaries around our potential are our thoughts about it!
When we come into this world, healthy or sick, there is potential because there is an energy that we create around and within that tiny little being. We can see this energy as the infant grows everyday without having any consciousness about what it's doing. The infant continues to grow through the metabolism of the energy it consumes. All potential exists because energy exists, you can not destroy energy, it just changes form, therefore potential is the expression of energy in ALL forms.
*Taken from Physics Website https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/389496/is-potential-energy-a-type-of-energy-at-all?newreg=d25dd96a5c754e6da75bb039faed1db4