What is “freedom?”  Often times, we use the word “freedom,” which has many different meanings.  Today, we are going to talk about the use of “freedom” in the context of “within yourself.”  When  you are “free” within yourself, you have the capability to think and act from your place of “truth.”  When you are acting from a place a fear, anger, resentment, or the like, you are not “free.”

What do we mean by this, you might ask?  Let’s take an example to help illustrate this concept.    Suppose a young man is courting a young woman.  He is trying his best to be polite, and to impress this young girl.  In the process, he realizes that he is “acting” as though he is someone else.  Sometimes, he pretends to believe things that he does not believe.  For example, the young girl likes to shop.  The boy pretends that he likes to shop as well.

The boy continues, to adjust his behaviors a bit in order to do the things that he thinks might impress his girlfriend.  However, the girl, is doing much of the same.  As a result, the young man finds that after a while he grows weary of the “acting.”   At some point in the relationship, the man may “snap” and his “truth” is revealed.  Unfortunately, his “truth” is not how it may appear at that moment when it is revealed.

His “truth” is genuine, and “good.”  However, the acting that has been taking place for so long cannot be maintained, and the young girl grows confused.  She may have liked the genuine person before her, but she did not ever get a chance to make that determination, since he was always putting on a “front.”   When we are not our genuine self, we are not “free.”

Freedom of actions and behaviors means that we are still being polite, and socially “acceptable,”  however, we are being “genuine.”   We are letting ourselves be “who we are,”  without any kind of alteration or “mask” that we may have once put on.   We are free to be who we are, because we understand that who we are is our “truth” and that who we are, is “real.”

When we are “free” we have the confidence to let ourselves “shine” in the world without worry of validation or judgment.  We have the confidence to move forward as our own person, without taking on the persona of society.  We understand that our real “persona” is perfect just the way it is.

Sure, we all have “flaws” or areas for which we are working to develop, but we also know that those “flaws” have their own beauty if we embrace it rather than attempt to cover it with the “make up” created by others.  We understand that our “flaws” can be developed into beautiful characteristics that others may or may not enjoy.  However, we understand that we are who we are, and that is perfect in its own right.

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Freedom is about life, and living without the constraint placed on us by others.  Let yourself be “free” and encourage others to do the same, by your “freeing” actions.

Written Tue, Jul 1, 2014, 8:03 – 8:15 AM MT