Are you free from the clutter of too many belongings you do not need, use, or love?
Are you free from toxic, silent shame?
Are you free from a chronic anger reaction to people, places, and circumstances?
Are you liberated from unhealthy habits?
How free are you?
Are you free and breaking your silence about what happened to you that was horrible?
Are you free to be candid about your direct experiences?
Are you free to love who you love and be genuinely joyful?
Are you free from the thorns in your heart and festering resentments?
Are you free of boxes, baggage, luggage, and your bell-bottom jeans from your past?
Are you free to create a life you love living?
Are you free from familial and/or cultural expectations that you consume more, more, more?
Are you free from addictions and obsessions?
Are you free to think new thoughts and see things from a variety of perspectives?
Are you free to cry and laugh simultaneously and spontaneously?
Are you free from the compulsion to control and criticize other people?
Are you free of hateful, hellish, and violent thoughts?
Are you free of night terrors, nightmares, or night sweats?
How free are you from self-betrayals, deceptions, and white lies to survive?
Are you free to be your Self and to love and accept your many selves?
Are you free of financial debt?
How free are you?
Are you free to leave a suffocating or violent marriage, a twisted love relationship, a job you hate, habits that suck your soul?
How free are you?
Are you free to say what you think, feel what you feel, do what fulfills your heart and soul, and be the person your dog loves?
Are you free to live aligned with your deepest values?
Do you live independent of the good opinion of other people?
How free are you?
Perhaps we don’t need to say anything. If I experience someone giving me a bad time I can just walk away. While I have the ability to say what I feel, do I really need to?
Silence is a powerful equalizer. If someone can’t push your buttons it makes them uncomfortable. Once you take away their narrative they become speechless. Many years ago when I was a biker I might have behaved differently, now I will peacefully engage or walk away. However if we can say what we feel we may not have the desired results. Kind of hard for me to say what I would do. I live a quiet life and only engage a few friends
Very thought provoking. I do believe I have the capacity and ability to say and do what I think. However, I can’t say and do what I think all of the time because I consider the feelings of others and don’t want to hurt anyone so I am judicious with my words. I also don’t do EVERYTHING I want to do because of consequences that I might experience that may not be worth it.
Hard questions. I doubt that anyone is free to say and do what they want all the time. There are often other people to consider, feelings to be bruised, reputations to be dirtied, and enemies to be made. Facts that we can’t escape.
I love this my friend, you make us dig deep into who we are. I am lucky to life in the country everyone is so kind. It seems there you are free. When I go into town everyone seems angry. Thank you for sharing this.