Throughout my years of coaching clients, I have noticed when clients feel stuck, it is usually because they are in a box. In my previous post, Irony and the Box, I wrote about my experience from within my box.
A box refers to your beliefs, thoughts and ideas about ’something’ and how it confines your forward movement in your life.
For example, the “Business as Usual” box is pervasive among our society. In general, it refers to how things get done. The status quo of life….Wake, work, strive, home. It often promotes a rote response versus an “in the moment” determination. This is often the case when we are operating from within a box. It disables our present moment awareness and keeps us unconscious. When we are unconscious we are awake but responding from a place of old ideas of what “should” happen versus from a place that is authentic to the current situation.
There are all sorts of boxes that are constructed throughout our experience. Once a box is constructed, it alters how we perceive or view our experience. Another common box in our society is “life is hard”. Each time an event occurs, it is collected and stored as proof that life is hard… Flat tire, rainy day, break-up, unrelenting boss. We pack the box with evidence and store it in our experience. A box is a container that is taped together by our agreements. We make agreements by saying “yes” to ideas that resonate in our experiences, whether or not we are aware of it. Boxes hold the contents of our unchallenged thoughts and false beliefs. “Life is hard” and “Business as Usual” continues until we stop living with the box.
Once we are aware and willing to examine the contents of our box the automation of our life begins to dissolve. We begin to experience life as more fluid with a renewed sense of energy and freedom.
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