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THERE IS NO CHAIN! 

Elephant and Chain 

 

I spend a lot of time with people exploring their ultimate desires and what they dream for themselves in this miraculous life. It seems that after a certain age - usually around 10 or 13 years old - the answers to the question, "What's YOUR dream?" become quite boring.

See, by that age, we've been conditioned to believe certain things about our dreams and desires that just aren't true. That they're out of reach, for example.
 
I'm reminded of a story I heard once about circus elephants.
 
Elephants have amazing memories, which serve them well in things such as migratory habits. But in other cases their remarkable memories imprison them.
 
When a circus has a new baby elephant, and it needs to be kept somewhere, the trainer ties the elephant with a chain to a stake. After a while, the baby elephant learns its limited range - the length of the chain - and it no longer attempts to wander beyond that. It's learned its limitations. When the elephant is older, it's been said that the trainer no longer even needs to affix the chain anymore, because the elephant already "knows" the range of possibilities, so to speak.
 
Metaphorically, we are those elephants. And the chains are our conditioned beliefs.
 
There's a great mantra I like to use to remind myself of this:
 
"I use history, but I don't permit history to use me."
 
 
The truth of the matter is, the only limitation we have is the belief that we have a limitation. And the good news is, we can discard that belief.
 
 
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