Chains of Love
Recently I gave a reading to man who was just absolutely amazing. Capable, strong, confident, attractive. The picture that I saw in his emotional and relationship space was like a Disney film – green meadow, witty talking chipmunks, the whole nine yards. It was the energy of – “everything’s great. everything’s fine. everything’s perfect.”
As a psychic, when I see a picture that seems “perfect” I get suspicious – because life isn’t perfect. It’s messy, it changes, it grows. Besides, perfection is boring and stale. 
So I looked behind it and there this man was, behind this perfect picture, and he was in a midevil jail cell, chained to the wall, knees drawn up to his chest. He was wearing rags and crying; he was a prisoner. He was being punished.
But when I looked around, there was no jailor. There was nobody punishing him. In fact, the brace he wore on his ankle was not even connected to the wall! He had, in some ways, made himself a prisoner in his own space.
So often, when we get wounded or hurt, we punish ourselves as if we’ve done something horribly wrong, or that we don’t deserve to have more. Sometimes its because we couldn’t have the “perfect picture” of what we wanted; so we feel like a failure. Sometimes we’re literally in a punishing situation or relationship because that’s what we’ve been programmed to accept, to want.
None of that is ever your energy.
When I showed this man that he could leave the jail at any time; that he could have his freedom to stop punishing himself, to stop being a prisoner in this space, his spirit was completely shocked. It was as if nobody had ever shown him that he didn’t have to suffer, that he could have so much more.
Where are you making yourself a prisoner? Is it in your love space? Your work space? Your spirituality?
The universe is such a huge place, filled with excitement, danger, love, success and failure. It’s our classroom to learn what we can while we’re here. Isn’t it time you left the jail cell you’ve been keeping yourself in and have more?
