CAGES

It has been awhile since I have written about this topic, and I was reminded it of it in a great book I am reading, and I felt I would remind whoever needs to hear it too:) We live in cages through most of our lives without ever realizing it, and in some cases never even fighting it, or being mindful of it.....just climbing in the cages and closing ourselves in them.....and the cages we close ourselves in are comprised of the words we speak....the beliefs we hold......the truth we believe......the things we say and do.....and our words have POWER......I have believed that for so long.....and this time I am not meaning the words we say to others.....although that is important too......I am speaking about the words we say about ourselves, and our lives to OURSELVES.....they hold ENORMOUS power.....and put limits on our lives, plain and simple......it is paramount to living a life you love, and a life you are meant to live, to challenge any and all beliefs that come to you.....and that you hold dear, and ask them if they are real or true or any of the rest???? I do it so often in this chapter but still have SOOOOOOOO much more to challenge in me......I am a conclusion person.....it is how I am wired....I like to seek conclusions, and finality, and explanation, and leave it there.....all tied up nice and neat......but life is not like that......so while I will never battle that part of me away.....I seek to stay open to more beliefs.....expanded ones.....possibility....hope.....dreams taking flight.....and reopening those conclusions over and over.......and as I have challenged all of that in me......my life has done just that:) Most of the beliefs or things we say to ourselves.....don't even belong to us......they are things other people in our lives have believed, or do believe, and we have just absorbed them......but most of it is BS....if you will:) Like total BS......the truth is.....life and our living of it is limitless in a certain sense.....and that may sound CRAZY lol:) AND please do not think I am crazy, I am sane, I promise:)....but what I mean by saying that is that the things we can go after, and seek to accomplish, or experience in this life, does not have limits......the limits to all of our lives reside in our minds.....one of the mantras I said over and over for YEARS......"I can never do regular exercise.....I don't have time.....I will never be fit......I am too tired to exercise, I am a busy mom, busy mom's can't exercise.." and that is just one small group of words that put a cage around me......one I no longer hang out in;-) And adopting some solidly positive and wonderful mantras, and saying them to myself till I have believed them has also freed me to do so much.....but I have just scratched the surface of that, and reading this book reminded me of how much more I need to do......if I want to achieve the dreams I do in this life....and well....I do:) SO get believing! In the GOOD stuff....and in YOUR potential and in the LIMITLESS possibilities that await you:) Happy Wednesday!:)