There are many definitions of freedom.  Some believe that simply having the choice to put your two feet on the ground in the morning is freedom.  After all, you have freedom of choice throughout the day, right?  You chose that toothpaste that is fluoride free because you have learned of the ill effects of flouride(!).. You chose that dark roast coffee because you know that is what you enjoy.. And what about the job you are about to head off to? You chose that as well? Well, you say, it pays well and I have the necessary qualifications so it seems to be a good fit.  It is not really what I enjoy, but as we know, we all need to earn a living.

Really think about that statement for a moment:  ‘earn a living’.  Try to explain this concept to a member of an indigenous tribe for example, i.e. that in order to LIVE comfortably on this planet and keep a supply of your basic survival needs, you need to EARN that privilege by conforming to a set of duties that are dictated by an authority figure that rarely, if ever, has your best interests at heart and/or encourages creative expression.  Does that sound like freedom to you?  Granted, there are some fortunate people who are doing a job they love and/or own their own business that is conceived from their passion and creativity. But even they feel the constant pressure of keeping the money coming in.  And  wasn’t it these people that suffered the most economically as the government 'protected' us from the deadly plague?  Do you see that what freedoms we do have are eroding very quickly?

I bring this all up to illustrate a very basic point.  We are not born free.  Although some parents are good at encouraging creative expression in their children, as soon as these kids enter the school system, or start playing Pee Wee football, they are conditioned to be competitive, mentally driven and successful.  And unfortunately it is not the child who determines what success means.  We live in a world of extreme conformity. And even more so as we continue into adulhood.  There is even a definition of slavery that rings eerily true for many of us: “a situation or practice in which people are entrapped and exploited”.... Hmmm…

Once we have this objectivity and  awareness that we are not truly ‘free’, we can start to reclaim what I and others describe as personal sovereignty.  This is a foundational birthright that IS attainable and what I will expound upon, as it is my passion to help others experience this.  It does not mean freedom from having to earn a living (except for a very few) since this is still the construct we live in.  But it does mean freedom from everything that is blocking you from expressing who you really are.  It also means freedom from physical and mental pain and stress which all have an underlying emotional cause that CAN be addressed and healed.  When we start to feel that freedom in our bodies we naturally carry that into our daily lives.  This might mean re-evaluating everything: job, relationships, living conditions, etc. and possibly making some very big changes as you literally move into a different frequency and state of being. 

What are these chains that keep us shackled?  I think they are the be-LIE-fs that our wounded inner child took on, many of which remain in our subconscious.  I do not think traditional psychotherapy helps to free you.  Although it does help you to identify many of the traumas by digging with questions and other methods, it tends to keep you there, and even reinforce a victim mentality.  The focus is much more on what has been done to you rather than taking accountability and learning to forgive and transcend the experience.  What if you truly understood and could empathize with the pain and trauma that your parents experienced growing up?  So much of what they experience is handed down to us.  This can apply to siblings as well since we often do not know what pain they internalized (even in the womb!) and then projected onto us.  One of the greatest breakthroughs I experienced in my healing  was when I started doing meditations about my father.  At first they were guided (I will provide a link for these), but it was not long before I could no longer hear any words and was completely overwhelmed with emotion.  My chest started heaving and I was literally sobbing for at least an hour.  Now I'm not saying everyone will experience something this dramatic,  but the emotions needed to be released!  It felt so freeing to forgive my father and myself! This did not mean that I condoned his behavior, but it did mean that I could understand and empathize at a deep level.  Forgive and let it GO! 

Watch out for the saboteur..  the most important person to forgive is yourself.  Even when we free everyone else from our consciousness, we keep ourselves in prison. There is that voice again saying 'it was your fault you were treated that way".  No!  It was not your fault!  And it was not their fault either!  We have been repeating these traumas (that did NOT originate from us) for eons of generations.  Not anymore.  It is time to break the cycle.  This is the Great Awakening.  We are breaking through and breaking FREE.  What a glorious time to be alive!