Are You Motivated to Be Successful or Do You Feel Life is Stretching You Like a Rubberband?

The Principle of the Rubber Band:

his principle explains that being stretched can turn out to be extremely positive. Say you hold one end of an elastic tie in one hand whilst stretching the opposite end with your other hand. The more you stretch the elastic band, the more it wants you to let go of it so it can come back to its original position. It just wants to revisit its place of comfort. Yet if we continue stretching it, that elastic band will ultimately grow into a new size. When we let go of it now, it'll come back some, but not the complete distance. Essentially , it's developed a new dimension.

Now imagine that you dip this original elastic band into hot wax and remove it quickly. You then permit the wax to dry. At that point, if you repeat the stretching exercise you can notice the wax caked around it cracks and crumbles, as you extend the elastic band.

Then it falls off. The same dynamic happens with humans.

We do not want to get stretched, as it will involve letting go of some external layers. We are cosy within those layers, and they may even appear to be safeguarding us. Yet, in truth, they are getting in the way of the new, developing being who we already are on the inside. They are an obstacle to our expansion. Like that elastic tie, we must momentarily experience being uncomfortable when we stretch and grow. In the method of turning into the butterfly we were metaphorically supposed to be, we are outgrowing a cocoon. The butterfly does not snip off its wings and re-enter the cocoon. It knows of no such thing. But we, as people, have a tendency to snip our own new-grown wings so we are able to retreat to the cocoon that represents our old area of comfort. Sadly , the section of comfort is barely the territory of accomplishment.

The butterfly has little choice. As humans we've the facility to make selections. Next time you are feeling stretched and uncomfortable, pat yourself on the back and say "Good for me. I must be growing!" really, if you aren't stretching, growing, and developing, then you're possibly too attached to being cosy. A real lesson of life and a higher level of knowledge will both arrive when you instead respect The Principle of the elastic tie. It is completely vital that you must not judge, criticise, and compare yourself to others whilst you are being stretched.

To do so will only make you're feeling stuck. You will target the discomfort of stretching, and wish to go back to your old cocoon. Instead, treat yourself as compassionately as you would a kid who is learning to ride a bike without coaching wheels. Give yourself additional nurturing. Drink a cup of hot tea, go for a stroll, read a book, take some deep breaths, and above all show patience. Coaching wheels have permitted that kid to develop a feeling of balance, to understand the way the bike is ultimately going to feel under their control. But if that kid does not ultimately ride without coaching wheels, they'll never experience how quick they can actually go, how sharply they can maneuver around obstacles, and how self-confident they can feel. Therefore, always attempt for the bravery to take the additional wheels off.

And one day you can do it. As you understand that remaining in the "training wheel zone" will stop you from reaching a different level in life of manifestation and creation. Now imagine that you may be a gardener who tends a rose bush. You notice a new green bud that would appear, but as the days go by it is still closed. It's terrified of opening up. It is resisting the techniques of blossoming, changing, and stretching.

Alongside it there's another new bud, one that has made a decision to open up and - regardless of the probability of cold rain, tornadoes, and hurricanes - it's further made a decision to blossom. Once it's opened, folks passing by are moved to notice its beauty, smell its perfume, and touch its silky pedals.

When ultimately that rose dies, it's petals fall all round. Folk who walk close by spot the pedals on the ground, and they know a totally blossomed rose once existed. In the meantime , the unopened bud also dies. It shrivels, crumbles, and falls away. No-one but the gardener ever spotted that it was alive or notices now that it's gone.