Monday, January 7, 2013

The Tiger

Well here we are on the other side :)

My last post was about trusting the flow of life, whatever it may bring your way....

I just got back from a week-long trip to California over the New Year.  And while I was going, coming, and while I was there, something really hit me hard...

TRUST.

Isn't it great to be able to trust no matter what? Like each time your plane takes off....or you hand a stranger your camera....or when you get hurt in a relationship but then realize you can still trust again? Or when you get sick and you know you'll be alright....even if you're not alright?

I believe that trusting is adapting, sort of like growing up but all the while feeling like you're getting younger because you're slowly liberating yourself from fear. Because isn't part of growing up letting go, breaking free of the cage you've built around you?

"When the cage of the psyche gets rattled, you fix it so that you can be comfortable inside....You have set these limits on yourself.  If you don't stay within them, you get scared, you feel hurt, threatened...that's your cage.  The tiger knows the limits of his cage when he hits the bars.  You know the limits of your cage when the psyche starts to resist.  Your bars are the outer boundary of your comfort zone.....go beyond those borders.....eventually you'll end up loving your edges because they point your way to freedom...all you have to do is constantly relax and lean into them."

~Michael A. Singer.

Traveling really does wonders...I think I'll venture more outside of my cage.

~ L ~