03 Jan How Do You Like Your Cage?

Believe it nor not, we all live in our own cage. We get to choose how big the cage is by our belief system. The question is, what do we believe our cage is for? Most of us create a cage to provide us safety from the outside world, but it ends up limiting our freedom. We don’t see it as limiting us, but as protecting us. Some of us have larger cages than others, but it’s still a cage.

We can decorate this cage, make it look pretty, include all the latest fashion and technology, but it is still a cage. It keeps us from living an expansive, free life, greater than we can even currently imagine.

What is this cage? Some people call it our comfort zone. It’s where we feel safe. It’s where things are predictable. It’s the stories that we create in our head, the model of how life should be for us. It’s the rules and programming that we received from our parents and friends growing up, from our education, our country, our religion, our government and the media. It’s the things that we were taught were ‘normal’ and ‘acceptable’.

In order to expand the cage, or even eliminate it, we get to push the boundaries of the cage. We have to become uncomfortable. When we realize that the freedom found outside of our current cage is so much greater than the illusion of safety where we are, we will choose the discomfort of expanding our boundaries for greater freedom.

Is there something you see that is currently outside of your cage? Is the only thing keeping you from it your fear? If your fear were not there, how would you achieve what is currently outside of your cage? That’s the thing you should do.

The only limitations we have are the ones we place on ourselves. That is our cage. Choose to get uncomfortable, test your limitations, and overcome them.