Limiting Ourselves In Comfort Zones

We are basically unlimited beings. But we limit ourselves in many comfort
zones. We have a lot of conditionings which, in reality, are mental.

Some mosquitoes were put in a box and they kept jumping a lot. The box was
covered from the top and each time they jumped they hit the top of the box,
and when they jumped too close to the right or the left they hit the sides
of the box. Slowly, to avoid harming themselves, they learned to jump just
under the cover and without reaching the sides of the box. One day all the
four sides of the box were opened. The mosquitoes were free, but they kept
on jumping as far as the limit they had learned. The physical limits were
no longer there. But they had become conditioned mentally. The same thing
happens to us. We have to open the sides of the box and take off the top,
or we can continue to live inside the box created by our own mind.

Given below are some conditionings under which we work, because of which we
do not experience complete freedom.

* *Beliefs*, acquired since our childhood, which limit us.
* The *negative images of low self esteem* that we have created of
ourselves.
* The damaging *thoughts of doubt*, which does not let the highway of trust
to build up inside ourselves and does not allow the creative energy of
positivity to flow from inside us to the outside.
* The *fear of failure* or not being to able to succeed completely. A lot
of times the fear exists due to past experiences of failure or not having
succeeded as much as you would have liked.

We need to become aware of what our pattern of thoughts is, which brings us
under the negative influence of mental conditionings. When that happens, we
will be able to become free of these conditionings. While we do not become
aware, we will continue to remain under its influence.