Being Locked Out

I was sitting on my couch relaxing and then I suddenly heard my next door neighbor knocking on his door, calling out loudly for his wife. It went on for a few minutes and then I stepped outside to see what was going on. He said he forgot his keys and his wife was indoors, but for some reason she was not opening the door. I suggested for him to go to the club house security and get himself the spare set of emergency keys, to allow himself inside his house, rather than being locked out. Apparently he did not want to do that and started knocking at his door again. Then I offered him my chair, to sit down in the passage way, while he waited for his wife to open the door. He smiled, became very happy and thanked me for the chair. He was silent for a while, so after 10 minutes I peeped out of my door peephole to spy on him. He was still sitting on the chair, he looked very bored and restless, seemed like he had given himself a self-inflicted punishment, nevertheless, he waited for about 20 more minutes, finally he gave up on waiting and decided to accept my suggestion. He knocked at my door, returned my chair and went to get help from the club house security officer.

Now, how often does something similar happen to us. I would say being locked out happens to all of us, sometime or another. Not out of the house I mean, but out of the things that are important to us. We get locked out of a friendship, we get locked out of a relationship, we get locked out of a job promotion, we get locked out of our family, we get locked out of a healthy habit, we get locked out of our spiritual growth, we get locked out of our business, we get locked out of our luck, we get locked out of being loved and so on so forth. And generally what is our response to that, we keep knocking at the door, keep waiting, get bored and restless and in many cases eventually start to develop resentment, anger and hatred towards the world and those around us. Sometime luckily we may find a friend or neighbor to lend a helping hand or a chair to rest for a while, but that does not quite guarantee for the door to open, does it?

Needless to say, when being locked out, the best thing to do, is to seek help from those in position to make a difference. So, how to ensure that the help we are receiving is genuine and will work? The first thing to check is, if the person providing us the help is doing that for everyone else too, or just making an exception for us. If they are making an exception especially for us, is that because we are their trusted loved one and have developed a strong friendship with them from before, or are they looking to exploit our situation. Of course, when we are locked out, there is not much time to evaluate everything that may seem promising to change our situation, however, doing the proper due diligence is prudent, as it has been said many a times before, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.

The next thing to do, is to make sure that we actually follow the directions on what has been recommended to us. Often times, if the recommendation does not make sense or does not feel comfortable, then it is either completely ignored or performed incorrectly. Most likely, we will still be locked out and when that happens, the initial trust towards the process is abandoned, and the familiar knocking at the door is resumed, in the hopes of the door getting opened up on it's own. At times, the door might just open up and the case is closed, however, the next time we get locked out, the expectation will be to keep knocking at the door vehemently, until it opens on its own and this time the outcome might be a very long and painful wait.

Instead, once we get the keys to the door, then no matter how many times we get locked out, we can get ourselves back in effortlessly and at will. No door will dictate our emotional state of being and we will have the freedom to be on either side of the door, on our terms and timetable. Let us use the occasion of being locked out to find ourselves the keys and develop the skills we need in order to have power in our own hands. The abilities we develop while being locked out will be with us forever and no one will be able to take that away from us. Look at being locked out, as an opportunity to learn, explore and master areas of our life that we are struggling with and let go of all the inner resistance. Meditation helps in finding the keys and solutions to open all doors. Let us practice daily Meditation Routine to become the master key of our own life. We Love Meditation.