What has you imprisoned? Now you may scoff and say, “Nothing has me imprisoned. I am a free thinker from a free country.” But, if we are honest with ourselves, we all have the things in our lives that imprison us. And usually, we don’t even realize this fact until usually some life crisis or a big change in our lives happen that makes us do a whole lot more self examination than we typically take the time to do, on a daily basis. (This is the hidden blessing of crises. Crises make us get really real with our own selves, if we want to rise out of our crises, like a phoenix from the fire. Otherwise we just succumb to difficulties and wonder “why me?”)
What is imprisoning you? Your financial obligations? Your lifestyle? Your daily habits or even addictions? Your need to please others? Your concern about image and what other people think about you? Your religious/political beliefs that may have been imposed upon you as a child – have you ever really examined these beliefs to see if they really are truly your own beliefs? Your sense of duty? Do your fears about the future, or your regrets about the past imprison you, keeping you frozen and catatonic? Your need to be “right”? Your beliefs about “others” and what they think and do? What about your beliefs about yourself, do they imprison you by making you stay in a certain “mold”, a mold that maybe you never intentionally created, but was fitted for you by someone else, or even by society?
What has you imprisoned? Where do you feel free in your life, and where do you feel stuck? Are the choices which you are making in your life, truly the right ones for you? You are the key, to get out of the prisons of your own making. We all have prisons that we have created for ourselves, and we all have the keys to get out of them. However, it is impossible to escape from a prison that you don’t admit that you are in, in the first place. Don’t be your own jailer. Make the changes in your life, that you need and want to make. These changes are your keys out of prison. Self awareness and courage will bring you to the ability to make changes, which will ultimately bring you to your freedom – your freedom to be the ultimate expression of your own true self.
Are you passing on love or are you passing on pain? Heal your pain and pass on love.
Yep. Been there, done that, didn’t buy a t-shirt!
I’ve spent the last 3 years doing hardcore self-examination, checking my reality, and busting the myths of my own life. It was excruciating. But so, SO worth the effort!
I assume that you are asking such in-depth questions because you are embarking on a little myth-busting and reality-checking of your own. Go for it! Just do it! And share your insights with us. It’s what we count on you for. We are all here to support you during this time of transition, and we are sensitive to the foreshocks that are already shaking your world.
As your daughter graduates from high school and immediately embarks on college, you are experiencing a series of little earthquakes. You seem to have a pretty solid foundation, which alleviates a lot of stress, but that won’t stop the china from falling off the shelves when the quake hits. As the saying goes here in California, stop – drop – and cover! Or some people replace cover with hold on. Do whatever works for you. We’re here for you.
Thank you, Kelly. This I know! I appreciate you!!