40 Ways To Determine Your Level of Inner Freedom
Want to know how free you really are? Good! You're about to be
presented with a unique opportunity to learn all about your indi-
vidual level of inner liberty.
As you review each of the inner liberties on the list, just note
mentally whether or not that particular freedom belongs to you.
Our intention is simply to learn what's true about ourselves, not
to prove anything about ourselves. Allow these forty freedoms
to awaken and stir that secret part of you that knows living in
any kind of bondage is a lie. Then follow your own natural sensing
all the way to the free life.
You're Well Along Freedom's Path When:
1.You have no desire to change places in life with anyone else.
2. You step over setbacks without stopping or looking back.
3. You accept and appreciate praise, but never take it to heart.
4. You don't overeat or feel driven to diet.
5. You don't think about your sex life.
6. You meet and do what's true
without fear of the consequences.
7. You really don't want anything from anyone.
8. You stop thinking about how
much money you may or may not have.
9. You don't carry any upset from
the last moment into the present one.
10. You have no interest in old resentments.
11. You start spending more time alone
and enjoying it more.
12. You stop dreaming of the perfect vacation.
13. You're neither frightened nor shocked
by the evening news.
14. You stop making deals with yourself.
15. You dress for comfort, not for compliments.
16. You lose all interest in trying to win mental arguments.
17. You don't blame anyone else for the way you feel.
18. You forget what it was you didn't like about someone.
19. You are awake to and you are spontaneously considerate
of the needs of others.
20. You see beauty in life where you never could see it before.
21. Your life gets progressively simpler.
22. You see where you're wrong sooner than later
and stop defending yourself faster.
23. You do what you don't want to do, and
you do it with a lighter spirit.
24. You're not afraid of having nothing to say or do,
if that's your true condition.
25. You can take criticism without cringing away
from the truth it may hold.
26. You have no concern for what others may think of you.
27. You stop trying to make others see life in your way.
28. You enjoy the sound of silence as much or more
than the sound of your own voice.
29. You see the same unpleasant traits within yourself
that have made you shun others.
30. You say what you want and not what you think
others may want to hear you say.
31. You actually enjoy hearing about
the good fortune of someone else.
32. You see more and more just how unfree you and
others really are.
33. Your moods are fewer, lighter, and move on much quicker.
34. You see society is destroying itself and
the only solution is self change.
35. You can listen to others without the need
to tell them what you know.
36. You don't find a thrill in any kind of fear.
37. You know that forgiveness of others is
the kindest thing you can do for yourself.
38. You realize that the world is the way it is
because you are the way you are.
39. You'd rather not think about yourself.
40. You can't come up with one good reason why
you should ever be anxious or frightened.
There's one more important point to bring to our attention: never
be discouraged over your present location!
Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick
up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally
dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such
sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of
the unconscious mind. Who you really are, your True Nature,
is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind
is tied to the skies through which it moves. Your past is just that,
the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it
than the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.
You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself
standing today.
It may not seem so at first, but your new findings are a great start.
Now keep going. Use this list and your new discoveries to help you
ignite your wish to be free. Then step back and welcome the spiritual
firestorm. Watch as it burns away the ties that bind. This is what it
means to let the Light fight for you.
Freedom From the Ties That Bind
By Guy Finley
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