Leaving the Cave

It is unprecedented times and we are the ones experiencing this time in history. It’s as if we have all been sent back into the cave. To wait until the danger has passed. We may well have become accustomed to going ‘out’ when we sensed danger. But the ‘danger’ was perhaps a feeling, an uncomfortable feeling, a sense that not all is right in our self. We might head to a café, the bars, the theatre, the ice-rinks, the basketball courts: to seek out others; to hear noise, music, conversations, something that will cause our feelings to change for the better, if only temporarily. We seek distractions and out we go. However, here we are in a state of uncertainty that is dismantling so much of what we know to be ‘reality’, and we are told to stay inside.

When we hit rock bottom, we might find it hard to ask for support. We go into our cave. A burrowing away of our selves, with our sad or frightened feelings and with that comes isolation. This makes the experience harder, as we are both physically and psychically in the cave. The cave where our thoughts reign.

When you feel uncertain, scared, it is smart to ask for support. It makes you wise to ask the right person for support. To recognize that you need to have the ear of someone who will not judge you. Will listen and guide you. Not because it is what they would do, but because it is what you need to do, for yourself.

Then you will come to see that you are able to leave the cave, because the cave contains a pattern of thinking that keeps you in the dark. Then you can feel free, wherever you are, whatever appears to be happening, out there. The thoughts that keep you scared of imaginary tigers, or worst-case outcomes.

But what if you knew that you are okay. Your innate wisdom will carry you through the hardest of times, if you are able to leave the cave and walk into sunlight that the clarity of a calm, receptive mind will give you

Leaving the Cave

Saren Dobkins
mindthismoment@gmail.com

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