When we look
at our lives, past to the present, and then into our future; all the hardships,
all our struggles, all the pain we have gone through, our mundane routines of
getting up going to work, getting home to sit in front of a TV, going to bed just
to do it all over again, day in and day out then the question arises;
What is the
difference then between a prison and your life?
The only difference is that people in prison don’t want to be in prison. We on the
other hand want to be living our lives. That is when we start to realize how
many prisons are in our world. Any place you don’t want to be is a prison for
you. If you are in a marriage or relationship that you don’t want to be in, any
work that you hate or if you are in a body that is sick and full of pain that
is your prison. If you are around people that you don’t want to be around that
is a prison for you. If you are addicted to something, then that will be your
prison.
So how do we escape from this prisons we are in. We don’t need to get rid of our partner
or quit our jobs. We don’t need to leave the party and rather go home. All we
need to do is to want to be there. As soon as we want to be in the relationship
or job or at the party, as soon as you can change your attitude from, I don’t
want to be here, to that of I want to be here, you escape the prison.
There are 4
well known prisons of the mind we could find ourselves to be in.
- The prison of Anger.
- The prison of Fear.
- The prison of Pain and Sadness.
- The prison of Guilt.
Just as in a
prison there are also different cells in these prisons.
In the
prison of Anger there are Migraines, Peptic Ulcers, Back Pain, Hyper Tension
and Obesity.
The prison
of fear consists of Phobias and Anxiety.
The prison
of Pain and Sadness consists of Asthma, Depression, Addiction and excessive
smoking.
In the
prison of Guilt are cells like Impotency, Frigidity, Skin Decease, Obesity and
Suicide.
So if we
have these prisons there are obviously crimes that are committed, there must be a sentence and then also we need prisoners.
The
crimes committed.
·
I
am here.
·
I
am a boy/girl.
·
I
am afraid.
·
I
hurt.
·
I
love.
·
I
am curious.
The
sentence that is given.
· You
must never feel angry
·
You
are not lovable – you are bad
·
You
must not succeed
·
You
must be afraid
·
You
must not love – not even yourself
·
You
must not think.
The
Prisoners
·
Psychosomatic
disorders
·
Decease
of addiction
·
Emotional
disorders.
The most
amazing aspect of this model is that these prisons do not have guards or bars
or doors. You can walk out whenever you feel like it, but we choose to stay in these
prisons our entire lives.
The only way
to get out of these prisons is to go back to the crime scene, to understand
where/who passed the sentence. Only then can we walk out of our prison.
Lesson
number one:
·
Never
believe a prediction that doesn’t empower you. How many predictions have been
thrown at you your whole life? If you believe every prediction that is thrown
at you, you will wither and die. You will physically or your spirit will die as
you walk around like a carcass, a corpse, walking around just following the
masses. You will be given a lot of titles in your life, you will be told so
many things. You must only listen to that that empowers you. I do have a belief
that served me well in my life and that is that everyone is rooting for me to
win, even those that doesn’t know it. I am not here to tell you that I had
adversity in my life and therefor I know what you are going through. I do not
have a clue. I did not grow up in your neighborhood, I did not have your set of
parents nor do I live in your body. I did not have the events that you had to
go through. I am only an expert in one thing and that is how to be me.
The second
lesson is that you are not your condition. That is why I am teaching people in
addiction that they are not addicts. You must rise above this condition. The
only addiction is the refusal to adapt and to stay in that prison of the mind,
to act like addicts. You have to adapt to any environment you are in, even if it
is addiction. You must stop pitying yourself. The biggest addiction is
self-pity. You are not your condition. How does adaption looks like? I think it
looks like celebration. If you are around people that celebrate life you want
to be around them, you want to learn from them, you want to do business with
them. If you want to get out of that prison you need to change your attitude,
you must believe in yourself you must start trusting yourself that you can
bring value to the human race. If I believe I am an addict I will wither up, I
will be shy, I will be insecure, I will be afraid, I will act as if I need your
help and the rest of humanity will be okay with that. I choose something else.
I choose to be strong; I choose to be a leader. I know why I was put on earth.
I have been put on earth to rid humanity from their insecurities. When a human
being is insecure they do stupid stuff. When we feel that we are not enough we
chase external validation to tell us that we are enough. You are enough. I made
a pledge as a therapist to love all people, it doesn’t matter what they did
wrong. I found that it doesn’t matter what people did, all people just want to
be loved. They don’t want to only be loved by their moms or dads or partners,
they want to be able to love themselves.
Lesson
three.
Stop bullying
yourself. You cannot pity yourself, stop believing the predictions other people
lay on you. I am not good enough, I am a wash out an addict I am no good for
society. Stop bullying yourself.
Last lesson.
The real
prison is not surrounded by barbed wire, fences and bars. It is in your mind.
It doesn’t matter if you are in a real prison or live in a mansion. I know of
people that lives in mansions but they are still in prison, the prison of their
own mind. We all got it. We all have a mind that chatters, on and on, never
stopping.
Do you know
where your salvation is? It is when you drop out of that chattering mind of
yours into your heart, into your soul. There where love comes from. When you
love yourself, when you stop believing predictions, when you stop bullying
yourself, when you stop pitying yourself, when you learn to master your
emotions then and only then you are free.
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