FEELING BOXED IN?

Feeling Boxed In?

By Maureen Browning

Three Mirrors Healing

July 29, 2016

Have you ever felt like you were boxed in and needed wiggle room to create some forward momentum?

That is how I felt recently so I wanted to share this story of how it happened to me and the learning opportunity it created...

Twice yesterday on two separate times on two different streets I got into my car to pull out of a parallel parking spot by a curb on a busy street, looked behind me to back up as I put the car in reverse, saw no car behind mine and proceeded to back up and each time a car would pull up close to my rear bumper and park, right away the drivers got out and walked away not looking back when I honked to try to get their attention! Wow!

Each time I thought I had left enough room to get out from behind the car in front of me

but with someone so close behind me it was very tight. After many tiny movements of the gas and brake, back and forth, turning the steering wheel a little bit each time I was thankfully able to get out each time and go on my way without being late for my next

appointment.

I wasn’t feeling angry, just perplexed and wondering how people could pull up so close to

another car with their reverse lights on without thinking about how the other person would get out from being sandwiched so closely between two cars, especially since there was plenty of room behind them that made it unnecessary for them to pull up like that.

This morning as I was telling my daughter about these similar back to back experiences, I realized that the meaning was my "ability to get out of tight spots"!

That even though it may have seemed almost impossible to get out of some really “tight spots” we all have the capability, means and knowledge to get ourselves out of these

situations.

It may take a few tiny back and forth motions – a couple steps back, adjust slightly and then few steps forward...and then repeating these steps over and over again – with lots of patience before we can gain the momentum we need to get going.

Maybe the universe is sending a message to let me (and all of you) know a way to prepare for any “tight spots” that I may need to get out of and that yes, I now know that I can get out of them easily with some effort by keeping calm and focused on the direction I want to go in.

AND to remind myself to have lots and lots of patience….right?!