Hello Higher Self. Could we talk about freedom? I’ve been hearing some songs about freedom and I’ve been feeling the energy of freedom a lot in the last few months. It’s a great feeling. I want to explore it more as an ethical value. I’m striving to feel more of it.Freedom is the blessed release of all attachment. Attachment is a symptom of the physical longing and sense of need to have something, to feel something, to attain something that pulls you, draws you in ways that are not supportive of happiness. Maybe you feel an attachment to a relationship, or to an emotion, or to a place that you feel the need to go to.
Feeling attached to something is perfectly normal in the sense that it is a feeling that has allowed us to contemplate freedom. Attachment is the opposite of freedom. So as you feel attachment, you let go of freedom. And as you feel freedom, you let go of attachment.
Freedom is an ethical value. It is one of the thirty-three primary ethical values of your spirit consciousness. It is a very significant ethical value because it defines an attitude of the soul that contributes to your daily demeanor. If you are feeling freedom, you feel a measure of happiness infusing all aspects of your life.
During your time with J, you felt a distinct loss of freedom. You felt that he tried to control your thinking, that he tried to control your emotions. Indeed, when anyone is trying to control someone else in any way, they are trying to control themselves, but they are externalizing it onto another person. J was trying to control his loving emotions because he believed that if he felt love it would be a sign of weakness. And so for most of his life he has had a commitment to avoiding anything that would stir his loving emotions.
As he tried to control your loving emotions by not wanting you to feel them, this reinforced his own stance toward himself. He did not want to love himself. And yet he is a loving being. But the presence of love would challenge his sense of self and his belief that to be a man you must not show any sign of weakness.
So this control – this energy of control that was pervasive during your time together – gave you the feeling of no freedom to love, a loss of freedom to express and to be who you wanted to be because in your heart you are all about expression. It is the human nature to express, to express fully and with love. Indeed, these freedoms that you felt were compromised were what caused the relationship to spiral downward and to come to a halt.
Is it any wonder that as you regained your freedom, you began to feel joyful and happy and excited and enthusiastic about life again? Your freedom is essential to your happiness.
Now, freedom can be taken from us through many, many different kinds of dramas. We can feel a suppression of our loving emotions in a relationship. We can be incarcerated and feel our freedom taken from us in that regard. We can be constrained in how we are living abundance, that is, perhaps our bank account is not what we want it to be; perhaps we do not live in the big palace that we feel we would like to. These are feelings that speak to freedom and to attachments. Perhaps we feel that someone who is our partner is jealous, and we feel a lack of freedom to express. There are so many ways and dramas that help each of us examine the energy of freedom, or the lack of freedom, in our lives.
An important point about the expression of any ethical value – freedom or love or truth or equality or independence, etc. – is that we create these dramas and these life opportunities so that they gain our attention and so that we learn about what is important to us.
You were never a victim of J, and J was never a victim of you. You both played roles for each other, however unconsciously, so that you could learn.
You see, you are learning about freedom. You are learning how important it is to you. You are learning that you do not need to have a partner in your life in order to be happy. You are learning that you do not need someone else’s money in order for you to live in the way that you want to live. In fact, you are seeing that money is not the source at all of your happiness. Rather, your happiness IS your blessed freedom from all attachment, including the attachment to money.
But we do live in the physical world. We must provide for ourselves. We must understand our survival needs, our needs for relating to the society we live in and to our families, and we must be personally responsible for our behavior and our attitudes and our personality. But in doing so, we can strive to achieve freedom in as many ways as possible. We look to achieve freedom in the energy that we have within us and around us.
In our society in the United States, we have a central tenet that defines freedom as a right of all of man to happiness and to good welfare and to health, and to speak freely and to write freely, etc. In truth, some of these freedoms are not protected by the government because of greed. So it is the personal responsibility of each and every citizen to speak up for the freedoms that should otherwise be protected. Ultimately, you are responsible for your own freedom in its myriad forms of expression. You cannot expect your government or your city or your society to give you what you are not giving yourself. Begin with self. Begin by honoring the many ways in which you can be free in your thinking mind, and in your pursuit of personal health, and in the freedom to feel and BE the loving emotions that are part of your soul.
Freedom is the right to be who you are as the Creator created you as an expression of Divine Self. You are a spirit consciousness and there is no society on earth, or government, or man, woman or child who can deprive you of your freedom to be a spirit consciousness. It is who you are and you cannot be separated from who you are.
So you start with this idea and then work upward and outward, from your heart to your thinking mind to your entire physical body to your home to your town to your city and your world, and think about the many ways in which you can live the freedom that you are, and be in service to others to help them live the freedom that they, too, have as their inherent birthright by virtue of being human. Your cells have the right to flow freely, your mind has the right to think freely, and you have the right to live your evolution as is perfect for your own soul and spirit. This is freedom – to be who you want to be.
Never allow anyone to take your precious freedoms from you if you can help it. Work with all your heart and soul to respect, value, appreciate and honor the freedoms that you have, because they are all representations of the freedom that the Creator imbued you with as an essential component of your Spirit Consciousness make-up.
As you work to protect and cultivate and nurture your ethical value of freedom, do not compromise other ethical values in the process, if you can at all help it. For example, to kill another human being for the right to freedom is a compromise to avoid. Live as ethically as possible. But know that you must learn, and learning is sometimes difficult. Every learning situation, every life circumstance is designed to teach you about your ethical values. There is no exception to this rule. Invariably you are learning to be all that you can be, and your ethical values are the essential you.
So look to freedom to be a path to happiness, enthusiasm, excitement, joy, passion, ecstasy and bliss. Freedom to feel, freedom to think, freedom to love, freedom to express, freedom to be a friend, freedom to be a mother or a father, freedom to share, freedom to love animals, freedom to soar as a Spirit Consciousness learning to be human – these are all the wonders of your life as you choose to focus on them. Not all are for each person in each life, but all are a part of learning that may be chosen as expressions as you climb the stairway to Heaven.
Freedom was given to you by your Creator for the purpose of better understanding who you are. Look to self; feel the freedoms within; feel freedom to be free! And love will be there for you. Love is the embracing of all the ethical values, and freedom is one of the most important. Work toward freedom and see how happy you feel inside, and how happy your life will be. Share your freedoms and help cultivate them in others. Truly you work together as the family of man to evolve your spirit in all its creative expression. The spirit is free to evolve and it is your right and your privilege to seek this freedom and to reap its many rewards.
