Are You Still Trying To Get Out Of Your Box?

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Are You Still Trying To Get Out Of Your Box?

I just love the start of every financial new year... everyone is excited about all kinds of possibilities, new opportunities and the chance to be different, to do something differently... make a difference and hopefully achieve a different result than previous years.

Sadly, now that the year has started... most people will be in the same place, or even worse off than when they started last year.

I know that sounds like I am being a bit of a?"wet blanket", but hindsight?ALWAYS?gives you 20/20 vision... and the majority of you prove this to be the case... year in and year out.

I saw this graphic and I felt compelled to share it with you because it reminds me of one of the most profound lines in the first of the Matrix movies....

"...there is no spoon (box)!"

Constantly people are telling you to?"think outside the box"… very few of them show us how to do that, and I suspect that most of them don't even know how.

These so-called boxes that you are supposed to have… that are apparently restricting your ability to be who you are… ?are totally in your control...?

Now I didn’t say they were of your making… in fact the box that psychologically and metaphorically surrounds most of you, has actually been created and influenced by society, your parents, education. religion, governments, your peers etc...

Most of the things that you have been taught from infancy have been put in place and around you largely for your protection, particular from your parents perspective.

Once you get out in the world all the other influences that add layer upon layer around you, making the walls of this box thicker and thicker as time goes on, are forms of control that are supposed to teach you how to behave and comply in a society outside of your family.

BUT YOU HOLD ONTO THE BOX THAT RESTRICTS YOU, so you are the only ones that can create any change.

Let me explain it this way…

“Every time anyone tells you what to do, and you choose to comply... a very thin layer is added to one of the walls… the ceiling… or the floor… of YOUR box. Once that layer is in place… a thin gossamer thread goes from that layer and is placed in your hand, and you are told that you need to hold onto this thread to keep the box in place… to stay safe and secure... so you hold onto each and every thread that is handed to you”

Over time, hundreds of thousands of layers have become the walls, floor and ceiling of your box… and hundreds of thousands of gossamer threads that are now bundled into this massive ball that lays in your lap and has become the control mechanism which has become your prison (and I use this term advisedly)…

Whether you think of this prison as physical, psychological, metaphorical, spiritual… it doesn’t really matter.

What does matter is that in many ways most of you walk around with this invisible box around you that acts as a massive filter between you and the world… you and other people… you and your dreams and aspirations for a better life (no wonder you all have difficulty with the many relationships that come to you in your life).

?So may I suggest a different way of thinking…

• Understand that these boxes are an illusion.
• Stop trying to think outside of a box that doesn't exist, you are only wasting your energy and your time.
• Believe that in fact... there "IS NO BOX!"
• And the best way to free yourself… is imagining yourself being inside of your box… holding your oversized gossamer ball… and seeing yourself actually letting go of the ball and letting it fall completely away from you... watching the gossamer threads unravelling… and then slowly… at first… the walls, floor and ceiling of this all too powerful illusion will start to fall away and then… THERE WILL BE NO BOX for you any longer.

Simple... but not easy... and you do need to practice this 'release exercise' until you start to feel truly free and alive and then you can actually start to breathe again...

Like our little ratty friend in the picture… you will start to realise that attaining freedom only occurs when you make the effort to shift your perspective and change your reality.

If you want to play in a "no box" space… you will have to make the decision to do so… and when you do… you will find others that have found real freedom... and then you can start to create the real relationships that will impact successfully on and in your life.

I’m cheering for you…

Quote of the Week

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” — Joshua J. Marine”

(Challenges are what get you into a state of flow, and flow makes life worth living, so look forward to them.)

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