How many times a day or week do you feel trapped?
It’s not always a career or relationship; the feeling of being trapped can be generated by something as simple as the image in the bathroom mirror. Songs on the radio can trap you in a mindset time won’t let you forget. Walking through a department store that features unforgettable fragrances heightens the boarders that lock you side an invisible fortress.
In The Black Belt Book of Life author Richard Andrew Kings takes on the subject of having to live trapped within yourself; calling peace at any price not peace but slavery.
Artists, writers, musicians, horticulturists to ministers in a very tiny church lost in the middle of America on a dirt road leading nowhere have self taught their fears that trusting freedom is a destination worth chasing.
Richard writes, “Freedom must be fought for every moment of everyday with our will, discipline, mind and body acting as guards of self defense.”
Stop! You read the words Self Defense and right away the message sent to the brain clearly states, “Oh oh he likes to fight.” Instantly you’re put on defense when in reality those protecting freedom walk in peace.
Pythagoras said, “No man is free who cannot control himself.”
Katherine Hepburn reminded us, “Without discipline, there’s no life at all.”
King continues, “Too often people operate under the premise that peace should be maintained at all costs.”
He sharply questions that wondering why you don’t place more value in self worth.
If asked to write down every reason why feeling trapped has overtaken your dreams, goals, ambitions and fears, one of two things would happen: you wouldn’t write anything down or you’d spend the next six weeks staring at your faults rather than what makes you incredible.
Having had a heart attack at 47 has trapped me. I’m more active today than those crazy teens and twenties. Everything I wanted to do is currently being done with no respect for the two hands on the everyday clock. Sometimes I’ll go 52 hours without a break. I absolutely without a doubt don’t understand the arrival of new radio people that aren’t willing to give 300%. True Broadcasters are like comedians; when gathered in a room the tales told are never through lip service but through the windows of the soul and that requires blood and guts or according to Richard King…the feeling of being trapped.
Not too good…
King is convinced that we’ve been trained since birth that to every positive there must be a negative. If you’re having a brilliant day at work then expect a bad night ahead. If losing ten pounds has earned you compliments then looking good will inspire someone in your life to make accusations you don’t deserve. We trap ourselves only to blame it on other people.
20th Century Martial Arts Master Charan Singh advised his students to live in the creation then get out of it.
Now you know why I write everyday at sunrise.
I cannot create if there’s weight. I will not make waves if all I did yesterday was saved. I cannot be if what was to be has already been done. A green leaf on a tree knows its connection with the tree is over by mid-October. You’ll never see the collector of water and sun crying tears at the base of the trunk; it’s lived in the creation and gotten away from it. The new journey is to feed the earth, to warm the ground for a passerby worm or ant. A leaf provides a soft bed for deer bedding late at night. Leaves crunch like a scary movie sending chills through Halloween night.
Live in the creation then get out of it…
En Vogue couldn’t have sang it sweeter, “Free your mind and the rest will follow…”
I will always believe in you first.
arroecollins@clearchannel.com
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