Freedom means
anything is possible, so our sense of choices expands. Our jobs, our titles,
our what-evers can develop a sense of loss of freedom. We think and imagine
that not enough money, education, support, love, the family dynamics etc., etc., limit the choices.
It also can include
confusion, chaos in our worlds. Things disappear and show up in unexpected
times and places. As Self we create Order with its control function into a reality
out of a personal bias and miss the spectrum of information, the choices, in all directions
and influences.
What we create
has a certain level of consciousness present whether it be pencil, book or
illness. When we engage as Consciousness and free of our
limits imposed by Self we can connect with these supposedly non reactive, non
responsive, non human, non living materials as if they are real. Maybe not as verbal
conversations but in some layer of sensory expression.
I have these
conversations all the time when I realize, in the moment, that they are
possible and would be helpful. It makes my life interactive and participatory
and not just a repetition of a stuck place. When you realize that EVERYTHING Is
SOME THING and there is just a blink of the eye between being SOME THING and
NOT SOME THING your sense of freedom is present.
We are free to
think what we want. We can have these conversations from within
different perspectives all the time. We can be in prison on physical, mental,
emotional, psychological, psychic and spiritual levels. These encompass the
human experience. And, we are still free to think what we want. Ask the spirits
of Nelson Mandela, Senator John McCain and others still in body who have been incarcerated.
What did they, what do they think while they were and are in their situations
dealing with the stresses? They are free to use the time and space to get
creative and aware or hold onto the old.
We can be told what
we are feeling, and it is not true. We can feel what we are feeling, and it is
only a moment and not a lifetime unless you have habituated your current feeling
sensation to be your reality state.
Freedom comes not
from denial but from understanding that we are much more and much less than
what we think we are in any one moment. How our relation to Freedom shows up
for each of us is individual and collective.
It is helpful when
we are free to make mistakes. That is how we learn and refine. It is helpful
when we are free to feel and express our emotions in useful ways in the moment.
Not those stunted, shunted to the buried graveyard of unexpressed rotting
powerful hidden agendas that get created.
It is helpful to be
free of our burden of thinking, to break the important and powerful ability of
mind to make habituated reactions into fresh responses.
It is helpful to be
free to laugh at oneself and join in with God Laughing.
Janet Barrett
Podcast Host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
