Get out of the box!
YOU, not the cat. The cat should be in the box. As for us humans, there are only two reasons to be in a box.
- Your name is Jack.
- You are dead.
This is a whole new meaning of cat “box” zen!
Cats like boxes, humans like cats in boxes. Us humans should not be in one. Although, I am of the cremation mindset as I don’t like boxes or a vault which is basically what you are put in….
Anyhow, that is another topic all together.
Why do we fear sticking out neck of our comfort zone? We will do the same thing over, and over and over again (get the point?) even though we know there IS a better way. I realize the box is comfortable. Even the cat agrees. The box is safe. You echo from your box,”you can’t touch me in here!”
I see you closed the lid…nice.
Maybe I should put a stamp on you in the box and send you through customs. They will drag your sorry butt out of the box. Ha!
The safe box keeps us from thinking outside of it. It prevents us from expansion and from meeting others who live outside the cozy box. The box keeps our excuses gift wrapped in a tight package. Put a bow on it and you will never leave! Right?
It’s still a friggin box!
Now, if you allow yourself to open the other side of the box, at least some fresh air will spiral through which might give you another perspective. Perhaps an eye opening one, or at least a lid opening one. At least your butt will be cool.
So, let’s crush that box!
Be brave my little one, even the cat moves outside the box once in a while, albeit to jump into a smaller one, but I think you get the point!
- Change things up. Start small. If you like crowds, do something alone. If you like to be alone, do something with a crowd. If you go left, go right. Do something completely opposite then what you usually do.
- Use your intuition to guide you. Feel change in your gut. don’t analyze it, just feel it. It will tell you what is right or wrong. Feel for expansion or contraction. Expansion is good, open, contraction is closing, recoiling. You will learn to judge which is right or wrong. Trust YOU. Just keep in mind fear and excitement can have a similar feeling and if you over analyze you are not in your gut. Instead you are in your head.
- Make a list of all the reasons good and bad to do what you want. Now once you make a list…circle all the good stuff. Do you have more good stuff then bad? Are the ‘bad’ things listed out of fear or are they real?
- Trust the universe to provide direction for you. Remember once you get out of the box, the scenery changes including the people in it. New ideas and opportunities can move towards you from all directions. Idea’s can’t open a closed lid.
- Ask someone who lives in a bag, not a box. They may have a better perspective.
- Be an inquisitive cat. Being inquisitive is looking at things in the present, with new eyes that just explore, nothing else. No thought involved.
- Above all, have fun and go with the flow. It is as scary as you make it.
Trouble Cat likes to close the lid on things. Cats included.
Disclaimer: If this is tough and you decide you can’t handle it, rest assured, you can always get a bigger box and go right back in it again. You can even share one with your buddy!
Recycle right?
So tell me. what do YOU do to think outside the box?
Love, Peace & Paws…KT!
P.S. When you move out of your box, leave your old ways behind, don’t drag em’ with you.
