Entrapment

Entrapment explores the world and influence of ego; how ego uses fear, belief systems and conditioning through experiences to reinforce itself and its influence throughout our lives. The hardest thing for anyone to do is to deal with their fears and insecurities, most especially to recognise and then try to understand how we sabotage ourselves with those very same fears and insecurities. Our ego is very clever at covering its tracks, which is no doubt why its often negative influence has managed to remain undetected throughout its existence. If we understand what the ego is and how it operates we can take back our power from the runaway train our ego has made our lives and begin to re-balance our emotions, in turn allowing us to re-balance our lives. No matter who we are, whether we have all the comforts money can buy, be amongst the most beautiful and admired people in the world or be one of the millions of average people living average lives, we can still feel empty and unfulfilled inside because we have an ego with a hidden agenda. Dismantle the ego's powerhouse and you begin to understand who you are, where you have come from, why you have come from there, and where you are going. And if you're not happy with where you see yourself going, you can do something about it because you no longer feel powerless or lost under the ego's enormous shadow. By understanding your ego you learn to understand yourself, and in understanding yourself you can then begin to understand others. Personal growth can't be measured but it is visible from the way in which we express and conduct ourselves. We literally become the living example of our truth and awareness, and the wonderful thing about becoming the living example of our understanding is that we become an inspiration to those around us without having to brainwash or ear-bash them into submission. We can inspire people to grow consciously and emotionally by silently expressing the energy of our conscious and emotional growth. Hello... is there anybody home? Well, is there anybody home? Sometimes that’s the feeling I get when people don’t really listen to what’s being said, or aren’t completely aware of what is going on around them as they go about their daily lives. There is nothing more frustrating than dealing with people who are not completely conscious, and yet so many people live their lives from day to day on auto-pilot. You will never truly appreciate what is around you, or fully understand the complexities of your own existence, until you become a 100% conscious individual who is 100% aware of yourself and everything around you. Emotions and fear become a part of our lives from the moment we learn about “good” and “bad”. Fear is simply part of our innate survival instinct, but when ego steps in, an emotion is created, which embeds itself in our memory permanently. Emotions remain firmly entrenched in our memory owing to the physical sensations they generate, like the terror that knots our stomach when we feel nervous or afraid, or that feeling of lightness when we experience a sense of great relief. These “feelings” are addictive, and consequently the ego retains control through distracting us by playing on our emotions. We all know how very easy it is to dwell and wallow in emotion - they feel so good even when we feel miserable! Notice also how certain emotional images or thoughts keep replaying when we are feeling particularly lost or vulnerable? That’s the ego reliving the experience, which has now become an emotion that can be drawn upon from our memory. People (rather, their egos) use emotions to control each other all the time. Easily accessed, it only takes one small incident - a word, a gesture, an action - to trigger an emotional memory and we have an automatic response. Once we react, we’ve allowed ours ego (and theirs) to manipulate us. “Love” is another of those misused and misunderstood words. Carelessly used and abused, it is bargained and blackmailed with, dished out as a reward and denied as punishment. In many instances love has become an item for trade, yet it is amongst the most sought after experiences in human existence. For many, love is the ultimate prize. To find and experience real love is to touch upon a depth of happiness which seems to be absent from the lives of countless numbers of people. If we gain or experience little else in our lives, we all hope that at least once in our life we will experience genuine love – a fulfilling love that leaves us satisfied, whole and complete. Love leads us towards an inner discovery of compassion, understanding, wisdom and truth – qualities which, owing to the powerful influence of ego, are sadly and severely lacking in the human race overall. But most of all, love is the greatest lesson humanity can learn. There are as many ideas of what love is, and where to find it, as there are people. Most of us hope that one day we’ll just stumble across it, and then, once we think we’ve got it, are faced with the problem of trying to nurture and keep that love alive without really understanding what it is. Like having a rare and exotic plant, but not knowing how to care for it, real love suffers and dies in the hands of fear and ignorance. You would think, bombarded as we are with the countless images, ideas and opinions of what love is believed and understood to be, that lasting and nurturing relationships would not be difficult to come by. We all have so much to say about love, yet there is still a great deal of confusion out there proving that most people rarely seem to be able to find or maintain that exquisite sense of perfection and completion which is experienced when we believe we have found true love.