Recognizing your cage
"The secret of happiness is freedom.... And the secret of freedom is courage." - Thucydides.
Most of you reading this guide are probably living free lives. You are not trapped in a physical cage or cell. But if you feel constricted, if you feel like the walls are closing in around you and you can't breathe, then you are most likely trapped in a mental cage or prison. Your mental cage is exactly what the label says: it's all in your mind. Your mind is trapping your thoughts and your physical body from the inside. It is literally poisoning you from the inside out. The truth is, even though you live in a real cage, you can still be happy and free. How? By breaking away from the suffocating confines of your mind, from the negativity, from the various stressors in your life.
Unlocking the cage
The first thing you have to do to achieve freedom is to unlock your cage. But this is much more difficult than it sounds. First of all, do you even know where the key is?
You can try to look for it in your environment, in your relationships, in your workplace, everywhere really, but you're not going to find it there. Instead, you have to look within yourself. You hold the key to your freedom. You can get out of your cage whenever you want, but for some reason, known only to you, you don't want to or you can't. You're trapping yourself inside. You are trapping yourself inside. Is it because you feel safer there?
