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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 84 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
There is a study that scientists conducted which was quite interesting. What they wanted to do was put fleas into a glass jar and see what they would do. Well, of course, as soon the fleas were put it into the glass jar, they would fly away. Then what they did was put a glass lid that you could see through, on top of the jar, and they closed the jar. So, the fleas kept on trying to escape and every time they tried, they would hit the glass and they would come back down and hit the glass, and come back down, and hit the glass again.
After a while, the fleas understood what they were doing and they kept flying to the top but they stopped slightly below and did not hit the lid. Then what the scientists did was remove the lid so that the fleas could now be free, and guess what happened? The fleas would fly all the way to the top but not escape.
You see, the fleas learned to limit themselves and stopped thinking that they were free, and they were actually trapped. They became imprisoned to their own limited belief, and then would not come out and just died.
Isn’t that what we do sometimes to ourselves? We try to escape, we try to enhance, we try to broaden ourselves, or make things better, and we find an obstacle and another obstacle, and yet another obstacle, until then we think that now we are limited and therefore, do less than we can or than we should, and this is how we react, and what eventually happens, we now live in desperate life. We limit ourselves and we become imprisoned to our own thoughts. We don’t believe we could do more even when the lid is removed and we’re given complete freedom. We don’t use that freedom. We stay below and we learn to live that way, and in a constricted, limited way for no other reason than the way we’ve created for our own life.
Why not remove the lid but not only physical lids that we live by or physical limitation, but also the lid in our minds, our hearts and our emotions? To know that we are free, free to be who we want to be, and free to be whatever we need to be. We were designed with limitless bounds and unlimited potential goodness. Use that and know that you got it all within yourself to do what you want to do at any given time. Use this knowledge and grow, and live happy wherever you go, at any given time.
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