Are you a prisoner in your life?
By Amir Zoghi
When an elephant is born into a circus, it is trained from an early age what its limitations are so that it can be controlled. From an early age an elephant gets one of its legs chained to peg in the ground. The elephant then explores its boundaries and notices it can only go as far as the chain will allow. It’s boundaries are now set and become its limitation. As long as it is chained, it knows that is can not go beyond the length of the chain.
As time passes and the elephant grows to become full size and full strength the same chain used to peg the elephant into the ground is used to create the limited boundary for the now full sized elephant. Now, we all know that a full size elephant would have no problem in pulling the peg out of the ground that it is chained to so why does the elephant not just break free from the chains that are imprisoning it? The same reason why people do not break free from their emotional chains that are holding them back. People’s emotional chains have become a condition of their life. The limitations of their emotional chains become so much their identity that they are not even aware that they are a prisoner in their life. Their limitations have become who they are and therefore they are not even aware of their emotional imprisonment.
It’s just like how a fish does not know it is in water as it knows nothing more than being in water. As a fish only knows its self in water, human beings can also be only be known to themselves as their identity of being imprisoned by their emotion chains. When you only know yourself as your emotional chains then you will not know beyond your prison and therefore will not even know that you are imprisoned.
Another word for your emotional chain can also be your judgements. In other words, it is when you are in judgement that you are imprisoning your mind and therefore imprisoning your life experience.
Maybe you should ask yourself an important question; are you free to be, do and have what it is that you love in your life and if not then maybe there is something from the past or some hidden addiction to a future ideal that you are chained to. Otherwise wouldn’t you be free to do what you love in your life? If you are going to answer that question with a justification of your life circumstances then may I just remind you that you are only pointing out what your chain is tied down by.
These emotional chains can become such a part of your life that it can be the only thing you will take with you six feet under. I know that may sound harsh but really think about it? None of your material possessions, status or credibility will be taken with you when you are faced with death…then why do people make it all about their material possessions, status and/or credibility? Why not make life about what you love, who you love and doing what you love. Why not make it about what you can give instead of making it all about what you can receive. That’s the only way that you will be free from your emotional chains.
Did you know that the full size elephant that is chained to a peg in the ground does not know that it can pull that chain out of the ground and be free? Even to the point that if there was a fire in the circus, the elephant would not pull free from the chain and will ultimately burn to death. All because it does not believe that it can. You and I know that the elephant would be strong enough to pull a peg out the ground but that does not matter because the elephant needs to know that it’s self to break free.
Did you know that you have the power to be in free in your life? What you need to have acknowledged first is that if you are currently imprisoned in your mind by your emotional chains? Let me help you with that, if you have to think about it then you are imprisoned because if you are free in your mind then not only would it be reflected in your life but you would know it to the point that you would not need to think about it. Secondly you have to become free from the need of the things that you are attached to, as each attachment is one chain that is limiting you in being free.
How do you free yourself from your life attachments? Well, again you have to first come to the point where you are prepared to acknowledge that you have the attachments. Secondly you have to know yourself. It is the only way that you may be free from your attachments. Do you think if the full size elephant knew it’s self that it would know its power and strength and free itself from a chain that is pegged into the ground?
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