UNCHAIN THE ELEPHANT

You might have seen a captivated giant elephant submissively standing, held back by a feeble chain. You might also have thought how such a potent, massive animal kept in check by a skimpy chain around its ankle? You know why, it’s tuned that way. When an elephant is a calf, it is tied firmly to a big peg with a sturdy chain to prevent it from roaming around. It edgily forces itself to break free and sooner or later it gives up all its efforts and fixes its mind to stay put. This conviction of vulnerability lasts throughout it’s entire life. Even after the baby turns into an oversized adult elephant, it stays right where it is. This is what we call the ‘Baby Elephant Syndrome’.

Same way most of us are living on invisible strings. Our self-defeating preserved beliefs and someone else’s limited opinions are not letting us free from the ‘Vulnerability Syndrome’. We are absurdly allowing the flimsy strings of cluttering fears and beliefs to bind us. We are very much convinced that we are incapable. And the invisible strings which are limiting us are not around our ankles, but are in our minds. We can break those factually feeble and functionally powerful strings and embrace freedom. For this we don’t have to forge multi-layered hammers, a simple revelation and shift in focus make us liberated.

Nothing is really real. Life here is a never-ending hologram. The reality of someone is not our reality. We can see what we want to see. Our coffee could be bitter one day. Our house can be untidy for someday. I need not be so perfect like my sibling. You are not a singer, but still you can sing. The dresses you choose need not match my mark. I am not a good cook, so what? It’s ok if somebody’s life is not ideal. Don’t tell yourself not to take a break till you complete your work. Get up take a stroll. No problem if he fails attempting something. His failure is part of his learning honey. We need not suffer from someone else’s ego politics and opinions. Or all these invisible flimsy strings get tangled and toughened to pull us more inside our slavery periphery.

Staying in psychological prison is not at all fun. Some memories keep us with the flow of life; some hold us stagnated to stale. We can use our memories and thoughts intelligently without being trapped. Like the elephant, if only we are not convinced that ‘we cannot’, it’s hardly a task for us to break the invisible strings of false norms and go free from the prison that we have created in our minds. Let the experiences of failures not limit us.

We don’t create our freedom, it’s there in us. Let’s look in and unearth our freedom and move beyond the slavery periphery. Let’s not accept the bogus boundaries. Let’s not count upon the past and future. Let’s pull the power of NOW and tread past the mental suffering. Let’s cross our boundaries with all our gifted natural power, like how we emerged from our mothers’ wombs. Let’s build some intellectual scissors to cut off our psychological chords!! Let’s align us with NATURE!!!

Thank You. Love!!

Shaila