Are You Restrained?
(And here is something I wrote this morning!)
What if you held your hand in front of you and gripped the wrist with your other. Theoretically if you then made that hold a bit tighter, would you say your hand has been restrained? The feeling is being caused but your other hand yes, but ignore that hand for now. Just focus on the one being held out. On that squeezing feeling circling around. Where is it tightest? The top? Bottom? Left? Right? Maybe evenly spread holding your wrist right there in place. How does that feel along your hand? As well as up your arm? Do you feel the circulation being restricted? How that tightness is spreading down your upper arm? How tight and restricted your wrist feels being held right there in front of you. Unmoving. Is that not how it feels to be restrained?
What if then we say while being held in place the tight feeling on that wrist suddenly felt so much heavier. As if a weight has been attached, becoming heavier every second. Pulling on your wrist causing it to start rapidly fall downwards. Down your Torso Chest Stomach Waist. Pulling harder and harder on that hand forcing it quickly to sink as if a weight had been attached. Dropping your attention down and allowing your whole body to feel a heavy pull right from your wrist. Suddenly heavy Suddenly falling Suddenly dropping Your wrist, your body, your mind.
What if that feeling pulled the rest of you with it. Pulling you all the way down. Slowly bringing you to the floor. Stuck in place as the heavy weight keeps making you sinking in. Continuing to pull at your mind's focus as your body is dragged down. Even as your hand stops you just continue to fall. Wrist moving slower. Body dragging deeper. Mind sinking further.
What if then everything started feeling that tight restraint? The heavy feeling spreading out up your arm Across your shoulders and neck Over your head Down everything else. Just a restricting squeeze with heavy weight coming from your wrist, covering your body, and spreading into your mind.
Continuing it's pull. Continuing to sink. Ever deeper. Ever further. If that was the case, would you feel like it was restraining you? Restraining your wrist. Restraining your body. Restraining your mind. Not allowing a single movement. Not a twitch, a thought, a word. Nothing more but the realization of how little control you've been left with. Realizing you can't move. Realizing you can't think. Realizing that you've been caught. Would you then say your own grip has made you restrained? Would it force you to nod that head and agree? Would it?
… That's good to know. Of course that is all hypothetical. There is no weight, there is no tight grip. You are free to move and to rise up. To stretch, to breathe, to smile. Able to continue to think as much as you desire. Because wouldn't be that easy to capture you! Wouldn't be that easy to restrain you. Right?















