The Box

Most of our episodes have the same jumping off point: MINDSET

What do we mean by it?

-The Box (a mental construct that we use to define ourselves and our relationship to other people and to the society that we live in.

-In the book, “The Four Agreements” Don Miguel Ruiz, he calls them our “agreements”

-In the Avatar course by Harry Palmer, he refers to them as “our beliefs”

-In psychological literature, it’s called our “conditioning”

We can also think of it as:

1. The confined thinking

2. The usual way

3. The old trend thinking

4. The habitual action

5. The repeated norm thinking

6. The adapted behaviour

Where does “the box” come from?

What are the benefits of being in the box?

What are the negatives of being in the box?

What good can come from breaking free from the box?

What can break us free from the box?

-Become aware of your beliefs in order to shed light on them (and possibly to blow them up).

-Harry Palmer “The Avatar Course” has some neat tools for becoming aware of our beliefs.

One exercise is to share in a safe space, a viewpoint on a particular topic. Then keep going back and forth to look at the many many viewpoints that can exist about that topic.

When teaching kids, make sure that they know why rules exist and, where appropriate, that there are other ways of thinking about things. Try not to stifle their creativity and curiosity.

Build a community of “like-minded” outside-the-box thinkers. Ideas can spread like wildfire.’

Ultimately, it can be empowering to know that it is possible to live between two worlds – to be able to actively choose when, where and what aspects of the box we want to move into (and then out of, at will).