Your Mind Is Holding You Prisoner
Set yourself free — it’s on you.
You have the ability at any moment to be a totally liberated human being. What does this mean? You are able to find happiness. Whatever circumstances surround you, you can climb your way out through the power of your own mind. If you’re living in what seems like a prison, you can adopt a new mindset and it will feel like absolute freedom. You could do this right now if you wanted to.
But generally, we choose not to. And that blows my mind.
People have the opportunity anytime to change their perspective on situations, but they hang on to them instead. They build their own walls. They construct their own mental prisons even when the world around them could seem beautiful — because it is.
Although it blows my mind, I know why they do it. Somehow, the pain is comforting. Our trauma feels like it’s part of us and it’s tempting to define ourselves by it. We know it weighs us down but we also kind of like it. Isn’t that weird?
We like to tell other people how hard our lives have been. Some of us even enjoy making it some kind of competition, as if suffering is equated to a badge of honor.
We like to feel sorry for ourselves and surrender to the idea that life sucks. This feels like creating insurance against…
