Part 1: I’m Living Confined Inside A Box
We all live in our personalized individually creative box. These individual boxes, which we each create for our-selves, is our personalized fashioned fortress. The cost of maintaining this box as fortress cost our lives a lot. This cost is our living energy. It takes a lot of energy, a lot of life, to securely house the secrets of years of our creative gambit of stuff. We seem to be endlessly collecting plenty of it all the time. All the stuff we keep ourselves attached to keeps us weighed down and tethered to the defense of our box.
The box is where we store it all. Our number one diligence then is to protect our box at all cost. It is this unconscious commitment and devotion to the protection of our box which keeps us a prisoner inside of it. If you think sheltering in place is tough, pay attention to how you stay inside your box to protect your collection of the lifelong time of creative stuff. It is then the box that defines us leaving us to see ourselves as small and in need of the protection of the box. So, we erect all kinds of defensive devices to protect the box, which has now become our security blanket or adult pacifier. In all actuality, these protections keep us secluded inside the box and cuts us off from most all the needed means of evolving. It keeps us boxed-up and far away from the larger intuitive self, and from any evolved sense of ourselves. The self we aspire to be. Instead we are frightfully locked up in our personalize, custom fitted, seats only one box. We stay with the box when our life purpose is waiting for us to discover it where it waits on the outside of the box.
So, what is the “Box”?
The box is the of the persona, the personality with all its protective measures. Developed and formed to give an uniquely certain and special appearance on the outside of the box as its facade. While the inside of the box holds a gambit of emotional secrets and their perceived colorful stories. Mostly this box holds our secretive fears and shadows. Without these deep fears there would not be any reason for a box. Therefore there wouldn’t be anything to hide or anything to hide from. Most of all there wouldn’t be any reason to fear fear. Consequently, there would not be any reason to construct a box at all.
Our boxes are constructed from the rogue energies released from our attachments and emotional resistance created through our experiences in life. These reactive behaviors foster beliefs and it is these beliefs which make the choices for which type of box will be constructed to live life out of. These beliefs and their attitudes write the programming algorithm which determine how the world needs to view us, so it will relate to our box’s construct pleasurably. Fear most leads the construction of the box along with our idiosyncrasies, prejudices, predilections, non-evaluative judgements, and motivations and desires.
The box restrains us. It keeps us as a prefabricated desired character without any consideration for how it keeps us detached from our higher consciousness, the consciousness of soul. This form of restraint keeps us small and submissive to life, reactive to change, and change’s challenges. Learning to think outside the box gives us the ability to accept and understand life’s changes and to use them to regain our personal energy, promote personal growth, heal shadows, and evolve. Embracing change lessens the need for a box because nothing grows locked up inside a box. Things grow out from a box to flourish in the open air and in the brilliance of light. It doesn’t grow into the box.
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave – Alex Gendler (The Box is the Cave and the Cave is the Box)
