The Paradox of Freedom

Freedom is what’s left after all attachments are gone. It is the experience of knowing that you are complete unto yourself. It is the understanding that freedom is a product of ‘aloneness.’ Aloneness, in this context, expresses true authority sourced from your own being. Nothing is needed outside of yourself for your ‘identity,’ needs and wants subside as you bask in the completeness of your essence.

Freedom can sometimes be understood as the ability to choose what you want and to act in accordance with those desires. It can also imply freedom from external things, as well as a feeling of free will. At a more expanded level of Being – in that aloneness where you are not ‘alone’ but a part of the interconnective weave of creation – freedom calls for a greater maturity in its experience and understanding.

As you free yourself from all the ‘identity’ perceptions of YOU you come to know that freedom is your very nature. It is WHO you are, nothing to do, nowhere to go. Only your awareness of it is the gap. So . . . how to come to this understanding?

1. Allow the ‘not you’ to drop away. Just notice all the ‘things’ that seem to matter and smile, breathe, relax and open. Allow the attachments to unmoor from your being.

2. Keep noticing the spaciousness and movement of your inner being. How everything moves through you and is a come and a go. Nothing external stays forever. Notice what remains.

3. BE the movement and allow yourself to experience the come and the go. Notice that YOU are still here. That underlying constant, unchanging, expansive presence is what is really YOU.

FREEDOM is already here, it has always been. As you experience the TRUE of YOU it will ripple outwardly into your world. As we ALL dive into this collective dance of alivening awareness we change everything. It’s a done deal.

Happy Freedom Day, wherever you are! May you celebrate it in your inimitable style.