Red pill or blue pill?

The symbolism of the 1st movie The Matrix parallels my journey to understand the mind and the rabbit hole that I had been following prior to becoming a Mind Health Coach.

"You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."―Morpheus to Neo

The power of the mind is incredible. We know when something is off. We can’t explain it, but we can feel it, but to change we must ‘see’ it with new eyes ourselves. We don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in our mind, driving us mad.

We don't like the idea that we’re not in control of our lives. Yet, we choose not to create something different from what got us to where we are in the first place.

I found out that to free my mind, I had to be the one that had to walk through our mind’s door that was keeping me stuck in my old self verses stepping into my future self.

Morpheus: If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. These old signals are familiar, and our mind pulls us to the familiar.

But I soon found out that there is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

The "red pill" put me in a constant battle between my willingness to learn the potentially unsettling or life-changing truths myself or remain in contented ignorance with the “blue pill”. We choose daily whether to stay in our past self or move into our authentic self where we can recognize and reflect on the moment, reframe those things holding us in the past and refocus them by bringing our future into our present and then reference ourselves with encouragement and progress.

I can only show you the door and offer the “red pill experience”. Now it is your turn to choose.