Expander and The Little Box

One day a large segment of the population- all of whom, each of whom are more like the Wind and flow like Water- silently agreed to think similarly about lots of things in life. While they were each and all collectively, Infinite and flexible, they unknowingly agreed to box their windiness and to contain their water’s flow.

Even while being eternal, with total expansive capacity to the point of infinity, they pared down their abilities, dialed down their perspectives of themselves as Eternal Life Energies and got into “The Little Box”together.

Why? you might ask, if they were infinite free and flexible beings who could live freely and lightly in joy upon the earth, doing whatever felt like “life” for them in the moment, would they curtail that kind of experience to live in a box?

Security- They felt more secure when they played to be “finite” beings. There seemed to be too much spaciousness; they did not know what to do with such vast freedom and joy, living in love. So they chose to create some delimiting beliefs into their own internal thoughts and practiced them into being. Focusing on how secure it was to have only a few beliefs… to also have other people who were more comfortable being expansive and free to tell them what was “right” and “wrong” and to generally give them direction from outside themselves…they had some warm sense of security within.

Then little by little a few “boxed” humans began to feel somewhat antsy, like there had to be more to be experienced and they looked around inside the box where all they found was too few things for a “Wind blowing freely” and “Water flowing fluidly” kind of being to be able to enjoy living.

So what some of them did was to jump outside the box, just on the other side of the thin cardboard wall, to see what else there was to experience. There! There were some more things to experience outside the box that were better and more numerous than what was just on the inside of that box right next to where they were standing. Yes, they were breathing a bit more; experiencing a bit more. They were OUTSIDE the Box!

When they looked around the exterior of the perimeter of the box, they found that there were a few more things, that were of more plentiful, colorful, enjoyable variety than what was inside the box. The more they walked very closely to the outside walls of the box, remembering what was inside the box, they were experiencing a bit more newness, a bit more numerous ideas, experiences, people and opportunities than what was inside the box.

Then, after a while. The perimeter around the outside of the box got old as well. There needed to be something new, again, More new stuff. “But I am already outside the box, what else is there to do? where else is there to go for more exploration? It’s a bit scary to look out there any further away from the box. Maybe I need to try getting back inside the little box to see if there is anything new to do inside there”

So some of the humans who had gotten out of the box to explore it’s closest perimeters, went back inside the box to check out what was going on. “Whoa!” One humans said. “How stale the air is back in this box. But is feeling warm and secure…. But it’s sickening how old and musty this place is. I think I’m going to puke”. Then, that human and a few others climbed back over the box walls to the closest outside perimeter again.

“Now that we are out here again, now even THIS feels old and musty! What are we going to do now?”

One person standing out just a few steps further from the box was faced away from the little outside group, looking out into the expanse. What was there? “Nothing. Nothing but Air”.

That one “Expander” human started taking very, very slow steps toward the empty expanse. Silently she kept stepping forward. Feeling the discomfort of the total unfamiliar feeling of the vastness of what seemed like Infinity, some little something within her was in harmony with whatever was “out there”.

With every step, Expander felt a bit more free of the “containment” in which she had sequestered herself to in the box, then around the exterior of the box. Now she was vaguely recalling that there were a few humans out there who were in some way “comfortable” out there in the expanse. They were the humans to whom Expander and the other boxed humans had looked to for what to think and believe and how to act and….Those were the humans who were already recognizing that they/we/ all humans really belong to the Expansive Infinity.

Expander, walking forward, still slowly and with a tiny increase in momentum, keep focused forward.., willing to be willing. She was willing to see what seemingly few other humans were already seeing with their non-physical eyes and hearing with their infinite ears (which she was unaware she and everyone else has,until now).

“Creators”, That word came to Expander’s imagination. “Creators” what does that mean?”, she thought. The word so resonated within Expander, it began to feel like it was filling up her body with some sort of energy. “Well, I, I, I FEEL so in harmony with that word. I feel like a creator myself”, she thought almost outloud, as she moved a little faster.

The farther she went into the open air of the unending expansiveness, the more she felt the spaciousness, the freedom, that she at one time felt and shed most of back when she knew she was that which was more like “Wind” and which “fluidly flowed like Water”. Now, she was feeling like who she really was meant to me. It was almost a “solid” feeling, but solid didn’t quite fit the feeling…..”Substance; I feel like a living animated Substance of Value”.

Expander knew,after walking so far into the seeming nothingness that she was not really going anywhere in particular. She was just out, experiencing the expansiveness…”The Wind, the Air, the Infinite Energy that is so in harmony with who I really feel like is me. I really feel alive. Even though I don’t now know where I am; I know that I can be the real me”. I feel like…no…I know, I have everything I need because I am beginning to see and feel like who and what I Am”.

After sort of feeling around in the feeling of that expansive Infinite atmosphere, Expander began feeling more “at home” in the openness, where things were not so defined and confined. “This feels unfamiliar and while I am tempted to feel scared, I somehow can get in touch with that harmonious feeling inside me that tells me that I am the substance of Life and Wellbeing. I am a creator”. It was then that she “turned another corner”.

Expander became more fully aware of who she is as sort of, sort of…well, the molder of her life. Acknowledging that she is a creator prompted her to feel like doing something. She felt good enough and comfortable enough in this environment that she began to sense a warmth within that was also detectable around her. Closing her eyes for a minute or three to feel this warm, wellbeing feeling that was primarily within her, she enjoyed it there as well as around her. Standing still, it felt like “whoosh of fresh breath and an internal shower all at the same time”. Energy rose within her body. Clarity of thought and emotion sort of “happened”, as she was standing there.

Now, this was beginning to feel like “home” of sorts, to the happy one. “This feels good,”, Expander said. “I can be my wind-like spontaneous self, my water-like, flowing self, which can allow the Wisdom in the expanse that is filling me all the time, to give me insight on what I want to do and inspiration on how to do it. I just have to pay attention to it”.

Creator. Expander began realizing that the warmth she was noticing within that was also surrounding her, was the Life Energy that is there for every human. The answers to the questions, the “solutions to the problems” was all in the Energy in the Expansive Infinity that seems like nothingness and nowhere. In fact it is full of Life. Life of which Expander was a part. She is an expression of the Infinite Life Energy, as is every human, even those who forgot who they were and hung out in and around The Little Box (ugh, the thought of that brought up nausea that made Expander feel like she might upchuck right in that spot).

As Expander stood there, feeling like herself, other humans who were also wandering, exploring and learning about who they really were, began to show up as well. As they began to talk together about the little that had discovered so far, they realized that they could, together begin thinking about similar things that would be fun, helpful to others, and effective in clarifying for any humans who were feeling like they had been after stepping outside the box.

They individually began to realize that whatever they thought, along with clear emotion, began to swell up inside themselves and become something that felt good to them. As they continued to attend to that good feeling, swelling “thing” inside them, they soon were able to experience that in life. They could each look throughout their lives and realize how they had played a role in formulating their lives along the way. Not that they would have chosen everything that happened, had they known how all of this works, but it did show their ability and capabilities. They are each creators.

Realizing that as creators, Expander and her newly forming community, could begin to create a group, a neighborhood, maybe a new City, or ….in which everyone realized that they/we humans are Infinite Life Energy in a body on the earth and that we each are capable of internally making energy changes in ourselves, that begin to mold the energy around us into the shape we have been shaping within ourselves.

They soon learned that what they were doing by focusing on what they Do want, they were allowing the biological brain neurons of the old thought patterns/ways of living to disconnect as the brain neurons also began to reconnect in the new different ways to make what they wanted.

It was clear to Expander and her new similarly-minded friends, that the first step in experiencing this new model for living and loving and assisting others in a totally different way….they had to not only get out of the old confining box, they had to walk from the box into the unfamiliar unknown, which appeared to be nothingness but is where everything that is Life and Love actually is.