From time to time I like to share with you great articles to assist all of us in our pursuit of creating a better life. I came across this article from a personal development coach named Melani Ward that explores how what goes on between our ears often prevents us from becoming our best.
Ward's article is entitled, "The Myth of Prison: The Truth of Freedom"
There's
an old story that goes something like this. There was a man who had
been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. He was determined to get
out so he attempts to dig his way to freedom with a spoon.
(Think ancient Shawshank Redemption). Anyway, he digs day and night and
after years of bone-wearying struggle, his hands all calloused and
bloody, he finally realizes his efforts are worthless and he gives up.
With a face full of tears and constriction in his throat as he
imagines living out his days in prison, he leans back on the door of
his cell, only to discover it was unlocked all along.

Why do I bring this up today? Well it seems very timely
considering where everyone's minds seem to be taking them these days. I
hear clients, friends and family changing their language and changing
their thinking based on what they hear in the news or read in the
papers on a daily basis. More than ever I hear "I can't do this
because....". "What if I do this or that and such and such happens?" "i
have to get out of this situation or i'm going to..."
The reality is that we cannot have an idea unless we also have the
capacity to realize it present at the same time. That's true freedom.
The only limitations we put on ourselves or on our life come from
within. They come from the thoughts we have and the stories we tell ourselves about the thoughts.
But when you really become aware of what your mind is doing, while you
are still going to have certain thoughts that create some unpleasant
emotions, the difference is that now you are not going to believe the story your mind generates to accompany the sensations you're having to be your or to be true.
Most people operate at an unconscious level as though their
thoughts choose them...as though they "can't help how they think" but
this is actually not true. Thoughts may pop into your head that aren't
that "great" according to you but YOU get to decide what you will do
with that thought, just as you get to decide how you will react to
everything you experience in your life.
Your thoughts, and more importantly
the stories you tell yourself about them, have the ability to impose
profound limitations as well as infinite freedom.
Which do you choose?
I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside!
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More later...keep Cellercising!
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