Breaking Out of Shells

A few years ago, the cover of a prominent religious journal showed a picture of a chick just having burst out of its shell. Many people wrote to that journal to say that it was not a religious enough picture for the Easter edition. But what could be more relevant and religious than a small creature having grown and strong enough breaking free of the shell which had housed and protected it while it grew and had given it strength in the struggle to be free but which had now become a restriction to further growth. Is there a shell you need to break through today? Old negative habits?, out of date and restrictive belief systems?, your comfort zone?) Sometimes these shells are caused by physical limitations, sometimes emotional limitations, sometimes spiritual limitations and sometimes a combination of any or all three. The fertilized egg begins to develop a baby chick. By positive inner action, growth and development, the chick begins to grow. It begins to pick at its shell until at last it breaks and the chick is free. We have within our mind the ability to grow and develop beyond what we may have thought possible. By your mental unfolding, and with the help of hypnosis, you can leave your hurts, disappointments and failures behind and break through your shell into a brighter more positive future. Think again of the chick breaking out of its shell: a soft, helpless chick begins to pick at the fixed and rigid limits of its world and keeps picking until those limits give way and it is able to stand erect and free. You may have seen a butterfly working hard at releasing itself from a cocoon. Again, it does not give up until it is free and the struggle is necessary to strengthen the butterfly's wings for flight. Without this strength it could not fly or survive. If a little chick can break through such a tough shell...if a tiny butterfly can break out of a cocoon....then you can break through your perceived limitations and restrictions and fly free.