Open your cage….

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive
of the environment in which you first find yourself.
-- Mark Caine

How often in life we get thrown a series of curve balls, that lumped together, seem to form a heavy web around us, and the more we struggle to cope with each ball, the tighter the web seems to hold onto us. These balls are often a result of things in your life that happen, or need sorting out, settling, dealing with or getting over.

All these things cling together and grow around you forming a mesh of problems that eventually close around you like a cage – making you feel hemmed in; or trapped like an animal or a caged bird!

How do you get out of this self-inflicted cage?  This “elephantine” lump of problems?

I have just read a very interesting visual meditation technique that just might help us fly from our cages …. Give it a go … what have you got to lose, except freeing yourself?

Bird flying out of cage visualisation meditation

• Sit relaxed in a chair or on a bench in the garden, or lie in the dead man's pose looking at the blue sky above you.
• Breathe in deeply to the count of four, hold and slowly breathe out to a count of six.
• Repeat a few times. Release all tension in your muscles.
• Once you're feeling completely relaxed, imagine yourself as a bird being kept captive in a cage.
• Visualise the cage - tiny and cramped, golden with intricate detail or a white filigreed pattern.
• Then see yourself as the bird inside, trapped by your lifestyle, circumstances, desires, constant needs, worries or fears.
• Now imagine the bird sitting there, feeling stressed and hopeless.
• Suddenly it looks up and sees a tiny door in the roof of the cage. It flies up, opens the door and simply flies away - up into the air, swirling joyously, in complete freedom and in charge of its life.
• It rests in the highest branch of a tall tree and contemplates the world from this new perspective. Everything looks so small, so easy to manage from here.
• After breathing the fresh air, feeling the freedom of nature, the bird returns to its cage, refreshed and rejuvenated, ready to tackle life in the cage, knowing the door to freedom is just above its head.

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Bevskins xxx !!!

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