The Ultimate Freedom

July 22, 2008 – 4:07 pm by admin

by Terri Ann

Ultimate freedom is something that bubbles up from inside when we finally manage to let go of fear, hurt, guilt, jealousy and resentment. Easier said than done I hear you say? The best way to learn to let go of all of those in one fell swoop is to let go of rationalizations, justifications, explanations and judgments - because these are all closer to our free will, and far easier to consciously choose to let go of. Plus these are the root cause of those in the first list.

See nothing as ‘better’ or ‘worse’ than anything else. See no one as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, and know that every human being is always doing what he or she thinks is the best choice or the only choice available to them. Be as an excited child experiencing everything for the first time with no understanding of right or wrong. Want things to be as they are, and want what you have. Enjoy that which is already yours.

With trust and innocence, just free fall. Have no ego. Never justify or defend yourself and allow all and any opinions on earth. Be fascinated not irritated. Never try to be important. Never try hard to please. Never try to be more or less than what you are. Just slowly and steadily improve something a little bit each day and keep growing, for whatever is not growing is dying.

You are a child of the universe and you have a right to be here and you owe nobody anything. Relax and just exist in peace in whatever space you feel like. For as you try to be what you think others expect you to be, you make yourself uncomfortable or nervous which makes them uncomfortable or nervous.

Find your happy space and stay in it. If you do this, you will radiate positive energy and that will put others into a happy space too. Life is really great when everyone around you is in a positive happy space. You have already felt every negative feeling, and thought every negative thought. There is no reason to re-experience them again. You’ve been there and done that and got the T shirt.

You have pondered, rationalized and reasoned all the sad, bad and painful things on earth and discovered that such pondering, rationalizing and reasoning failed to make even the slightest improvement on any of it. All it did was make you feel worse and multiply the original negativity and hurt. Every time you run the mental movie, you feel all those feelings again. What on earth for?

Step out of darkness and despair and step into light and joy and humor. Just do it. ‘Justice’ is darkness’ greatest trick and trap. Believing that an injustice has been done causes us to think, feel and nurture darkness. In the name of good things like honesty, integrity and love, we soak ourselves in hatred and condemnation, hating and condemning those who hated and condemned! Isn’t this ridiculous?

As we think about or discuss all these dark things were accusing others of doing, the darkness and negativity is in fact right then living and growing in us. In that very process we are creating it and spreading it. The suffering and dis-ease is happening in us, not the accused perpetrator. We make ourselves dark and miserable by contemplating evil, and all in the name of justice.

Do not chase after the poisonous snake that bites you and do not take up arms against the soldier or rush out with your stick against the lion to avenge the buck. Attempting to fight evil with evil only causes us to cultivate evil within ourselves. This will make us sick and angry and depressed and filled with despair and indignation - which will do us far more damage than the original offence. And it lasts so very much longer.

People are only actors on your stage. All you have of them is the pictures your eyes take and the recordings your ears take. Your brain my assign whatever meanings it likes according to your choice. You live with your choice whatever that may be. Your experience of life is created by the meanings you choose to assign to the people and events you encounter. Your feelings, thoughts and actions come from your meanings.

When we see people in a bad light for whatever reason, we will be sending them signals of dislike or intolerance. We can sense each others signals of dislike or intolerance, and we respond accordingly. So others will respond negatively to you in response to your negative signals. This is how we create our own environment and others responses to us. We teach people how to treat us.

Choose to offer acceptance, non judgment, love, light and humor to everyone - deserving or not - and you will give yourself the biggest gift life can possible offer. Love the world and it loves you back. Create the kind of stage you want to live and play in. It is entirely within your ability and control. This world is your playground, your practice field, your stage, and you can create whatever life you so desire.