MAKE MY DAY

Life is a journey. In this travel, we help others in some way in certain days. Many days, we need help from others. Like ‘guardian angels’, people show up in our life to uplift our spirits. It could be a simple hello from someone, stranger helping the grocery line, a driver yielding for your turn on a busy traffic, etc. We may consciously feel their effort and appreciate back. We may simply ignore the gesture if our mind is preoccupied with something else.

‘Make My day’ is a series of blogs and pod-casts that gives you a break from routine day. Take a break from your hectic mundane day and smell the roses! The roses here are distributed like twice or thrice a week. After reading or listening to these, drink fresh water and bring a great smile in your face! You deserve this!

Today’s episode: Elephant’s story

Limitations only exist in our mind. Except breaking the laws of physics everything else is achievable.

Story time: "As my friend was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from the ropes they were tied to but for some reason, they did not. My friend saw a trainer nearby and asked why these beautiful, magnificent animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away.

“Well,” he said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size of rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.” My friend was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were."

Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something. The limitations are only in our mind.

Interestingly, have you ever wondered where your mind is? It is not the brain and not in part of the body. It is not certainly the heart, because heart says something from your mind! Simple answer could be, mind is a bundle of thoughts and emotions embedded in your aura around the body. Something to deeply think about it today!