How The Matrix Of Fear Keeps Us Under Control

by Vera Ingeborg

More and more people feel somehow unsatisfied and uneasy about their life, their job and/or their relationships. Must there not be more to life than that?

We work hard, we have earned material benefits for our immense efforts, we can afford lots of nice things. And actually, we think that we should be very happy.

But instead, we feel this void inside ourselves and no matter how many things we treat ourselves with, how many steps we take on the career ladder – it just never seems enough to fill that void. So it continues.

A bigger car, a bigger house, more clothes, another vacation, more toys for the kids, a bigger TV, the latest smartphone etc. We enjoy these things for a little while but then it is back. This void inside of us.

We feel guilty, because we should be happy and yet are not. We think back to times in our childhood, when we were just enjoying life, not having to think or worry about anything. How nice would it be to be that free again!

We feel trapped but don’t see any way out. Because the world is just working the way it is. We need this job to pay for all these things we own, to be safe when we are old and to offer our children a good life now and a better future than we had.

And so we tell ourselves:

Once I retire, I get to do all the fun things I am dreaming of now. Then I will be free, then I can do whatever I want.

We are caught in this treadmill. And somehow, although our head says: ‘Accept it this will keep you safe’, there is this other inner voice whispering ‘Break free! You want to do something else, so go for it!’

But for now, we are caught on this treadmill. And somehow, although our head says:

‘Accept it, this will keep you safe,’ there is this other inner voice whispering ‘Break free! You want to do something else, so go for it!’

Do you recognize yourself?

Congratulations! Although it does not feel like this right now, this is a very good thing. Because you have received the wake up call. And by reading this – you know now that you are not alone.

It is time – Wake up!

Waiting for retirement cannot really be the serious answer. Life is not about suffering, it is about enjoyment. It is an experience to be lived and we should make the best out of it.

But we were programmed to believe that suffering is necessary to enter paradise after death. Guess what? You can have your paradise right now.

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