Hoarding onto the Past
We are hoarders.
When we’re born, we step into this world as a blank canvas — so to speak. We’re unlimited, and we’re fully primed to be, do, go, and create anything we can imagine. As children, our only limitation is our imagination — which, as nature would have it, is unlimited by design.
However, as we get older, our capacity to imagine starts to suffer. The more free will we exercise, the more we’re exposed to the container in which we must live our lives — learning what we can and cannot do through the opinions of those around us.
Each experience & resulting takeaway/lesson is then stored in our brains. Because our brains are designed to keep us alive, it needs to know everything that may cause us harm — the issue here? We’re no longer being threatened by saber toothed tigers — instead, the threat is that we can’t jump on the coffee table — or else…
These lessons are stored inside boxes that reside in our brains, and we hoard them with all we’ve got. We protect them — and we swear by them. These boxes end up defining how we can live life — which is predicated on how we CAN’T. These boxes, crowding up the room that is our mind, is what our comfort zone looks like…limited.
Now, as we get older and start searching for meaning and for our purpose in life — as we set out to grow, we think that we have the capacity to see things for what they are — but this is a costly mistake to make.
As long as these boxes are crowding up our mental real estate, we have a limited perspective, which results in us adopting a limited reality.
We can only experience life to the degree of our capacity, and when we don’t have the capacity to experience joy, happiness, fulfillment, abundance, love, freedom, etc. — we don’t. Why? Well, in the hoarder translation, we don’t have the space for it.
This — when internalized — is the gateway to true freedom and bliss. It’s not through adding things that we can experience an enhanced quality of life, but rather through the process of elimination.
When you’re cleaning your home, you don’t add more clutter — you CLEAN. You put things back where they belong, vacuum, clean the counters, dust, take out the trash, etc.
You remove what isn’t necessary, and after a good cleaning session, you sit back, relax, and enjoy — with clarity.
The same is true for us mentally. The process of elimination, unpacking boxes, is the only way for us to gain the clarity and freedom that we crave. Each box that we unpack affords us an increased capacity for all of the emotions we desire — the upside of life.
So, it’s time we stop looking outside of ourselves to find the answers and instead finally do the work we’ve been putting off for years — unpacking.
After all, freedom can only be experienced once we free ourselves from the chains of our limitations.
Remember… It’s Me Versus Me
