Open mind for a broader life

Sometimes our leg starts swaying in rapid jerky motions,  a grimace plasters itself on our face and our shoulders tense up without any proper volition.

We, as a result, become anxious and restless.
When we are not "awake" to the current moment, our brain tends to drift, rehashing past experiences, failures and sometimes successes.

Those remembered experiences engender all kinds of physiological and physical responses in our bodies.

We are a walking bundle of programs, thoughts, beliefs and memories.

These elements shape our world, we see what other people don't see or we fail to see what other people see because of our internal data that manufactures our view of the world.

We, humans, walk around holding different maps in our hand.

Let's imagine that through some unfortunate oversight, some maps had more roads than others. 

People who acquire the map that exhibits more roads will have access to more places, will be able to explore the environment more thouroughly and see more aspects of it than the people who hold an  "abridged" version of the map.

We need to drop our "pruned" map and adopt a more comprehensive one.

We can do that by embracing an open mind outlook that says "Not sure, but let's explore that idea", "I think it is possible, let's try it", instead of the emphatic and almost proverbial "It would not work, I know a lot of people who tried it and failed".

By adopting this attitude, we can add more roads to our map.