LIFE – Let It Flow Easy!!
The reason why I started this blog was to give a platform to my journey of living from unawareness to awareness and share it with others. A perspective, which has brought and continues to bring freedom as I continue to experience my own life, through my interaction with people, things and situations around me. As I reflect back, I find that our adulthood is nothing but an experience of belief systems given to us as children. Just like the baby elephants, tied to the rope, even as adult strong elephants, they continue to be tied to the rope thinking they can never break free from them.
The story is about a man as he was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from the ropes they were tied to but for some reason, they did not. The man saw a trainer nearby and asked why these beautiful, magnificent animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,” he said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size of rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.” The man was simply but amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were.
We take birth, go through the process of life and then die one day. Holding on to rope of those belief systems so tightly that we don’t even realize that we are bleeding. And with the same unawareness we pass on the same belief systems to our next generation, and the next generation and the process continues.
When and why do we stop questioning whether those belief systems serve us any purpose or not? Why is it so hard to see our blind spots even when someone points them out to us? STOP – and ponder over yours today…see what works and what doesn’t…may be its time to spring clean your inner box of belief systems and get rid of those that are self limiting!!