The Trapped Bird
Author: Robert Elias Najemy

One day a bird flew into a room in our house. (It could
have just as easily been your house). We wanted to help it
to get free. But it was afraid of us. It did not trust us.
It had been programmed by his species' previous contact
with ours that we are dangerous and that we kill them not
only to eat them, but for «sport».

It was so deeply programmed that it was unable to
distinguish between those previous contacts and our present
very kind and well meaning motives to help it get free and
save it from harm. Its fear would not allow it to perceive
our good intentions. Every time we approached it, it
frantically flew away banging into walls and various
objects, proving to itself its original belief that we were
dangerous and wanted to harm it.

We, however, in truth had no intention to harm it. If it
could only have perceived clearly the present moment; and
not distort it through its previous conditioning, it would
not have been harmed at all. Its own ignorance and
misconception of reality are the cause of the harm that is
happening to it. Its lack of trust in the hand that is
chasing it to help it get free is causing it to fly blindly
into objects which harm it and cause it to suffer.

We are all very much like that trapped bird. We are caught
in the room of our limiting beliefs and attachments which
limit our freedom and happiness. The hand of life comes
with the motive of love to set us free from our attachments
and limited perception of ourselves and the people and
events around us. We do not trust that hand. We are afraid
of any type of change.

We do not trust the flow of events, and try to prevent any
type of change so as to feel secure, even if the
environment in which we feel secure is in reality a painful
one for us. We prefer to stay in our room of suffering
rather than trust the hand of life which comes to free us
with some type of change.

This process of freeing us from our self-created room of
limitation and suffering often entails removing one of the
walls or even the foundation of that room, resulting in
events such as the loss of a job, or of some valued
possession or (that which we all fear the most) the loss of
a loved one. In what other way can we discover inner
security, inner strength, or the truth of our real
spiritual nature without occasionally having some of the
walls removed so that we can see ourselves and life more
clearly, more objectively and more deeply?

Are you afraid of the hand of life?
Are you afraid of change?

Or do you believe that life really loves you and wants only
whatever is for your best as a soul in evolution?

Can you flow with the changes which you cannot change or
obstruct?

Or are you like the bird trapped in your own room of
beliefs and fears?

It is your choice.

Robert E. Najemy, author of 25 books and life coach with 30
years of experience, has trained over 300 life coaches and
now does so over the Internet.
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