You were born to be free. Freedom is the ability to make choices. It is the knowledge that you run your own life. It is knowing you are in charge of your journey. Freedom is joy.
Live in Freedom Free Your Mind
You create freedom for yourself. No one can truly give it to you or take it away. But you can choose to give it away. Likewise, you can choose not to claim it in the first place. However, only you can choose to live in freedom or not.
Earth is a planet of free will, and from an early age, we learn about action and reaction. As we grow, we learn by trial and error and later learn about cause and effect. Earth is a school of free will, the school of life. To be free, we learn to accept the challenges given in life as the path to freedom.
The Great Barrier
Our greatest barrier to freedom is the way we think of the world. Our thought processes create a sense of a lack of freedom.
Many of us abandon our freedom by not allowing ourselves to choose how to react in a situation. By giving up the choice, we may feel our freedom taken away. Without freedom, we cannot experience joy. Without freedom, we feel trapped.
Pause and take a breath:
- How free am I?
- Do I feel free?
- Have I lost my sense of freedom?
- How did I lose my freedom?
- Have I lost my sense of joy?
- When did I lose my joy?
- Why am I in this situation?
- What made me choose this?
Find Your Freedom and You Find Your Joy
As young children, we have demands and expectations put upon us. But as children, most of us have more freedom than it might appear or that we remember.
Children have more freedom to respond in new ways and to examine things with fresh eyes and a bright mind. A child can freely form opinions based on natural, spontaneous reactions, particularly in their early years. Their reactions are not based on past ideas, although there can be karmic influences.
As we grow up, we begin to lose some of our feelings of freedom. As our mind develops, it starts to form habits and looks for patterns. We see associations and start to make connections between things. When it may be better if things had been viewed as independent events and reactions.
When something happens to us or around us, the mind starts to look at things of a similar nature and begins to exaggerate things. Very often concentrating on negative aspects. By comparing a situation to a memory and associated reactions, thoughts, and feelings, we blow things out of proportion.
When we are very young, we make powerful conclusions based on experiences, perceptions, and feelings. They lead to lifetime mental and emotional associations.
Childhood Lessons
When I was a little girl, my parents were out one day, and my grandma had come to look after me. She cooked lunch. “Granny, I really can smell gas!” I went upstairs to my bedroom. “I can smell gas!” I went downstairs. “Granny, I can smell gas.” “No, you can’t; it’s just the smell from the cooking.” I didn’t believe her, but being a good girl, I went back up to my room. “I really can smell gas.” I went to tell Grandma. “No, you can’t; it’s from the cooking!” Back upstairs, I went and tried to entertain myself until my little girl’s body felt sick in my stomach and my head felt dizzy. Back downstairs I went, “Granny, there IS a smell of gas!” “NO! There isn’t; go back to your room.” I stayed close to my open bedroom window. An hour later, my parents returned. “What’s happened? Why is there such a strong smell of gas?” My dad opened all the doors and windows while my mum checked the gas hob. “The ignition light has gone out! You’re lucky we came home when we did.”
My grandma admitted she had no idea that the ignition light was out and that she was angry with me for repeatedly telling her I could smell gas. This resulted in my little girl self-thinking I had no voice; grandma did not listen and refused to hear me when I knew I was right. In addition, it was a serious situation.
Childhood Choices
In similar scenarios, children can become afraid of speaking up and carry this into adulthood. New experiences become associated with memories and lead to a loss of freedom.
At some point, most of us have felt trapped. We may feel stuck in a job we hate due to financial obligations, tangled in relationships, and even confined and limited in the place where we live. Most of us have felt sorry for ourselves at some point due to a lack of freedom. We start to become the victim and feel disempowered.
Fortunately, my parents were pleased that their little girl had the strength of character to insist in a challenging situation, and it was Grandma who was stubborn and could not see outside her expectations.
If my parents had not praised me, the sense of having my opinion dismissed in a crisis may have stuck with me for a long time. Grandma refusing to listen was frightening, as I was old enough to know that gas was dangerous. It temporarily took away my sense of freedom and my joy.
However, I learned that adults are not always right. Always listen when children try to tell me something.
Reclaim Your Freedom Now
Freedom is your birthright; it is everyone’s birthright. Freedom is an attitude. Freedom belongs to us all.
Creating freedom is embracing life in a new, positive way. Opening to accept new ideas, people, and adventures in life creates a continuously expanding capacity for joy.
Freedom is welcoming a new, positive expansion in both our worldly existence and spiritual evolution.
Pause and take a breath:
- I see the bigger picture.
- I see situations from a place of freedom.
- I am free to respond as I choose.
- I am free to feel as I choose.
- I am free to act as I choose.
- I find freedom in every situation.
- My freedom is my choice, no one else’s.
- Freedom is the way I think of the world.
- I choose to feel good.
- I focus on freedom, and freedom increases in my life.
Embrace Your Power
Other people respond to us in whatever way their programs and beliefs dictate. Your power comes from knowing you have a choice. You do not need to change other people, but you can change your reaction to them. Be the centred, balanced, and secure person you truly are, and give freedom to others.
Freedom Exercise
List at least three areas in which you allow yourself freedom.
- List areas in your life where you need to free yourself.
- I turn every area where I need to free myself into a positive.
- I give myself permission to be free in areas where I have felt trapped.
- My mind and being are free and luminous.
- Freedom is my birthright.
Freedom is paramount if you are to bring the light of your soul into your consciousness and shine it into your life and the world. To free yourself and live with joy is to embrace life’s journey with your whole being.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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