It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years -- we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

Domestication by definition means:  to train or adapt (an animal or plant) to live in a human environment and be of use to humans.  In reality domestication is not just for pets and animals trying to co-exist with humans.  As humans we are raised through a system of domestication, our parents, peers, politicians, bosses, partners, siblings, and many others have taught us and play a major role in our behavior and reactions to life itself. Think about how many of your reactions to people and events are the result of beliefs and agreements programmed into your mind by others?

Like the matrix movie, we are plugged into what is called structure of thought, which ultimately consists of our beliefs, learned knowledge, and formulated ideas. Many individuals are held prisoner to their own thoughts, they cannot see past their own beliefs and learned knowledge. Our beliefs are our reality in life, all actions and reactions are generally derived from what we believe in and what we feel has meaning in our hearts, but one reality can be very different from another’s, so there is no better or worse belief. 

Those who do decide they want to change their beliefs or become more open to understanding the beliefs in others must learn to grow spiritually and evolve, embrace change in your life and be willing to shed those beliefs that are set in stone in our minds, that have ultimately prevented us from changing. You may even have beliefs that prevent you from learning how to change your beliefs, the kind that tell you to fear the unknown. 

I read this somewhere and found this statement fascinating, I thought I would share. “The word Familiar”, which often times is related with comfortable or safe, notice how the word ends in "liar". We are accustomed to safe, and we fear change naturally, that is what we are domesticated to believe! Change is BAD! At times we may venture out into the unknown, but at the first sign of change or fear we come running back to safety, where its comfortable and everyone knows our name..so to speak. 

They say that horses will run back into a barn, even when its burning up in flames, because it’s the only safe place they know. The only way to get a horse out of a burning barn is to blindfold it so that it can no longer see where it is, it is at that moment the horse will trust you enough to lead it into safety. In the same essence, as humans we are trapped in the burning barn of our own fears and beliefs, the world is full of suffering because of this type of domestication from birth, our beliefs prevent so many  from reaching their ultimate life potential, from seeing how great they truly are, from changing their lives and being able to create change in others.