Will You Choose to Be Free?

To be an individual, to be true to yourself, to follow your own inner rhythm is the most difficult path to take, but it is the only path where you will find true happiness and joy.

Life is not about comfort or security, it is about growth and movement and sharing. Growth comes from listening and then following the message that comes from our soul. At each moment we know what we must do, we are given explicit instructions on how to live our life, what steps to take, which way to turn. 

But fear stops us.

We second-guess, we analyze, we discuss, and eventually our confusion drowns out the sound of our inner voice, and we run for the safety of the familiar.

We repeat lessons over and over, because we’re afraid to confront our fears.

Instead, we perpetuate the same script, thinking we’re making progress, not realizing we’re going down the same road again and again, never moving forward, never reaching a new destination. We’d rather do what we’ve always done, see what we’ve always seen, end up with what we’ve always ended up with, than take a risk and let go of what we know.

Fear is what stops us from following our soul’s path.

We have responsibilities; we have duties; we have obligations.

If we listen to our soul’s longing for growth and self-expression, our lives will, we think, fall apart. Nothing will “get done”. Perhaps, for a time things may fall a little to pieces. But a radical shift in our thinking is going to stir things up.

To go from merely reacting to the circumstances of our lives to listening to the inner guidance of our soul is going to have a major impact on our lives. It won’t happen overnight. It takes practice and it takes focus and discipline. 

Why?

There’s simply too much competition for our thoughts.

Unless we consciously choose to make this shift, the seductive and easy life of the familiar will lull us back into our old way of thinking. The thing to remember is that the cost of this old way of thinking is far too great, and the rewards far too few.

The fear, like a sentinel at the gate, is what keeps most of us stuck in a repetitive pattern.

We’ll do anything to avoid facing our fear, even if it means staying stuck doing something that makes us unhappy.

What we don’t realize is that this fear is only an illusion. Facing it and accepting it removes its power over us, and then we can move freely through the gate to our desire.

Avoiding change takes much more energy than accepting it. Our soul’s voice has to become stronger than all other voices in our lives. This is the only way to put the fear in its place.

There are no short cuts.

There is only one way that will work.

There is only one way that will lead to our deepest fulfillment and put an end to our struggling.

To grow means to stretch. It means to put ourselves in new and challenging situations. It means to give of ourselves in ways that we never thought possible. It means to become the person we always dreamed we could become.

If we live our lives in fear, we are forever held hostage by the shadows. We owe it to ourselves to choose to be free.