An elephant can easily pick up a one-ton load with its trunk. However typically, at the circus, these large and majestic creatures stand in place teathered by to a small stake in the ground, by a light rope or chain. This could easily be broken by the elephant's massive strength. So why is it that the elephant stays calmy in place?
When the elephant is young, and not so strong, it is tied with a very heavy chain to an immovable iron stake. It tries over and over again to break the chain, but finds that no matter how hard it pulls and fights and tries, it cannot break free. As the elephant grows and becomes strong, it no longer tries to break free because it remembers what it learned when it was small, and it believes it cannot be free.
The lesson here is that many of us remain bound by chains of our past, even when they are no longer physically there. What is it in your life, that you need to take another look at and see if the chains that are holding you back only exist within your mind?
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