What is Freedom?

freedom / n. 1 the condition of being free or unrestricted 2 personal or civic liberty; absence of slave status 3 the power of self-determination; the quality of not being controlled by fate or necessity 4 the state of being free to act.

Humans have a tendency to define freedom by their circumstances. If you are imprisoned - you are not free (you're restricted by walls). If you are in relationship with others - you are not free (you're restricted by obligation, responsibility and duty of care). If you are sick - you're not free (you're restricted by the limitations of the disease) and so on.

It is an absolute truth of human nature that we can experience life from two perspectives - that of our perception, and that of our expanded infinite selves. Your perception is created from your thoughts, your feelings and unconscious beliefs formulated in childhood. It's a limited way of seeing the world, based on past experience and what you 'know'.

Your expanded infinite self sees everything from innocence, a state of not needing to know, of apprehending the truth about things before the mind gets in and casts perception over the top of reality.

What does this have to do with freedom you might ask? If you measure your freedom based on your thoughts and feelings and what you perceive as reality, you will often feel restricted and disempowered. In truth, freedom is a state of being. easily experienced from your expanded infinite self. It has nothing to do with your circumstances.

Freedom is knowing that you always have a choice - in how you behave, in how you respond to your circumstances, in what you act in favour of, in what you say and how you live.

You are always free, regardless of circumstances. To believe otherwise is to become a victim of circumstance and to place the power of your consciousness outside yourself. When you rest in a state of innocence and connect to your expanded being, your infinite freedom is obvious, accessible and delicious!

It's easier than you think to experience that innocence and freedom. Freedom has a vibration which each person will experience in their own way. When you consciously choose to be in innocence, let go of any need to know and imaginatively embody a symbol of pure innocence, your perception falls away and you experience reality from your truth. In this space, you are always free - it is the true nature of your being.

You always have a choice about how you experience reality - from the limited viewpoint of your perception or from your infinite expanded self. That is freedom.

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