How to Be Free and have Freedom

You only have one freedom that matters,

freedom of Your mind.

Freedom

 

Why does this matter?

Let me explain

People have many ideas about what freedom is and what it means.  Almost as many ideas exist about how the mind works, how much control you have over your thoughts and if your thoughts do or do not create your life.

 

What most people believe about how their mind and life works:

Most people get caught up in what is happening in their life and believe that they have various amounts of control about it.  It is common for people to believe that they can control some things and not others.  They spend all their time, energy and money trying to control and change what is happening around and outside of them.

Your mind is a big filter, it filters information coming through your five senses and then makes representations of that information inside your mind.  It filters information so that you can understand the information and not get overwhelmed by it.  Your filters operate according to your thoughts, beliefs, experiences and conditioning – which is what they have been programmed to filter from your parents and important people in your life.  

 

What this means 

Is that you see things that make sense to you.  You are physiologically designed to delete and ignore things that do not make sense to you and have no meaning for you.

When something happens to you that does not make sense or you do not like, you will try to control the situation so that it does make sense to you.  

Remember that what you believe is happening and what thoughts you have determine what you see, hear, feel and believe, regardless of what is actually happening or anyone else’s reality of what is happening.

In other words you see your thoughts and experience your thoughts, rather than what is actually happening.

You probably have experienced this during an argument with your partner, boss or someone else who is important to you.

 

Lets use an analogy:

If your mind was a projector at the cinema, the projector machine would be the filters of your mind (projectors only use specific reels of film and specific light bulbs) , the reel of film would be your thoughts, the light bulb that enables you to see the film on the screen would be your consciousness and the screen would be your experiences, which you probably believe is your life. 

Therefore, if you have frightening thoughts, you will see frightening things on the screen of your experience and experience frightening emotions.  If you have peace thoughts, you will see peaceful things on the screen of your experience and experience peaceful emotions.

As I have said above most people get caught up in what is happening on the screen.  They try to change what is happening out there on the screen not realising that the whole thing is being projected from the filers inside your mind – from inside out.

Does this mean if I change my thought, my life will change.

Yes most probably, however you are still believing that your thoughts are you and are the most important thing, in other words you are identifying with your thoughts.  Identifying with your thoughts keeps your attention and energy in your head and separates you from your body, your true self and separates you from life. 

 

Your experience of life and your emotions are created from your thoughts – from inside of you.  

 

Rather than what most people believe is that their circumstances create their experiences and emotions – from outside of them.

 

The Bigger picture of what is happening:

What powers it all?  

Just like electricity powers the projector, your life is powered by Universal energy which is Consciousness – the one Consciousness of all that is.

 

So what difference does all this make to ‘your’ life:

Instead of being caught up in the drama on the screen and trying to change all the characters in the film of ‘your’ life; which gives you the emotional feelings of being isolated, separate and limited.

You understand that emotional feelings of insecurity, vulnerability and defensiveness, for example, are a direct result of your thoughts.  You feel secure because you no longer misunderstand where your emotional feelings are coming from.

You can rest in Consciousness and be guided by Consciousness.  

Resting in consciousness is simply not reacting or identifying or judging.  It is being with things how they are – being with what is.  

You are still responsible for your actions; the difference is that you do not Automatically react anymore from past conditioning, thoughts, beliefs or experiences.

You are than free of the limitations of your judgments, your criticisms, your can’ts, your shoulds, your have-tos, your labels, and your beliefs of what is or isn’t possible for you.  As you realise that you are much greater, more, than ‘yourself’ you open to all that is possible. 

You understand that you are Life, you are the Life Force and you are Consciousness – which is oneness and unlimited.

Then you are Free to create a life you love to live.  

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