The Cuckoo Mind and The Root Cause of Restricted Potential

What causes us to long for greater and more fulfilling lives but to become increasingly frustrated at not being able to do so. On my own quest to answer this question I came to understand it by coining the term the Cuckoo Mind. If you can remember the story of the Cuckoo, It flies in from Africa and Spain and spends a short time finding nests of other birds to plant it’s eggs into, and then gets the other birds to do the rearing for her, the mother bird of the nest has no awareness of what has happened and proceeds to nurture it’s young as well as the cuckoo chick, who, we know kills the natural brood by pushing them out of the nest while the mother continues to feed that which destroyed the natural.

In many ways our minds follow a similar story, where is the comparison? Our infancy and early childhood, the formative years, equates to the unprotected nest, we like the mother bird have no real awareness of what is being planted in our minds , by the time we do have the awareness to notice, the Cuckoo is well gone and in our ignorance we like the mother bird begin to feed very often a false belief system that creates a small lens for us to see the world through, and prevents a huge amount of potential to be seen and flourish, fortunately our potential unlike the young natural fledglings never dies but is hidden from us. We are greatly controlled by this parasitic vision rather than the the true vision of our potential. This hiding and ignorance of healthy potential is cultivated by our shame, because we are not aware of the parasitic vision we believe it to be who we really are and we cover it up with our masks and personas. But if we could begin to become aware of the spell we have been put under and understand how it got there we can liberate the natural restricted potential. By operating out of a growth mindset we can become curious about this alien part, identify it and it’s alien planting, Rather than unconsciously identifying with it we can begin to transform our minds from repeating small visions and past mistakes, to a mind that begins to fulfil our natural potential. So in truth most of us are being controlled by a Cuckoo mind, in order to change this, it is essential we become the leaders of our own minds, The first step is to become AWARE