Want to know how free you really
are? Good! You're about to be presented with a unique opportunity to
learn all about your individual level of inner liberty.
As you review each of the inner liberties on the list, just note
mentally whether or not that particular freedom belongs to you. Our
intention is simply to learn what's true about ourselves, not to prove
anything about ourselves. Allow these forty freedoms to awaken and
stir that secret part of you that knows living in any kind of bondage
is a lie. Then follow your own natural sensing all the way to the free
life.
You're Well Along Freedom's Path When:
You have no desire to change places in life with anyone else.
1. You step over setbacks without stopping or looking back.
2. You accept and appreciate praise, but never take it to heart.
3. You don't overeat or feel driven to diet.
4. You don't think about your sex life.
5. You meet and do what's true without fear of the consequences.
6. You really don't want anything from anyone.
7. You stop thinking about how much money you may or may not have.
8. You don't carry any upset from the last moment into the present
one.
9. You have no interest in old resentments.
10. You start spending more time alone and enjoying it more.
11. You stop dreaming of the perfect vacation.
12. You're neither frightened nor shocked by the evening news.
13. You stop making deals with yourself.
14. You dress for comfort, not for compliments.
15. You lose all interest in trying to win mental arguments.
16. You don't blame anyone else for the way you feel.
17. You forget what it was you didn't like about someone.
18. You are awake to and you are spontaneously considerate of the
needs of others.
19. You see beauty in life where you never could see it before.
20. Your life gets progressively simpler.
21. You see where you're wrong sooner than later and stop defending
yourself faster.
22. You do what you don't want to do, and you do it with a lighter
spirit.
23. You're not afraid of having nothing to say or do, if that's your
true condition.
24. You can take criticism without cringing away from the truth it may
hold.
25. You have no concern for what others may think of you.
26. You stop trying to make others see life in your way.
27. You enjoy the sound of silence as much or more than the sound of
your own voice.
28. You see the same unpleasant traits within yourself that have made
you shun others.
29. You say what you want and not what you think others may want to
hear you say.
30. You actually enjoy hearing about the good fortune of someone else.
31. You see more and more just how unfree you and others really are.
32. Your moods are fewer, lighter, and move on much quicker.
33. You see society is destroying itself and the only solution is self
change.
34. You can listen to others without the need to tell them what you
know.
35. You don't find a thrill in any kind of fear.
36. You know that forgiveness of others is the kindest thing you can
do for yourself.
37. You realize that the world is the way it is because you are the
way you are.
38. You'd rather not think about yourself.
39. You can't come up with one good reason why you should ever be
anxious or frightened.
There's one more important point to bring to our attention: never be
discouraged over your present location!
Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its
dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in
the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by
daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. Who you
really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person
you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.
Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no
more reality to it than the picture of a castle on a postcard is made
from stone. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself
standing today.
It may not seem so at first, but your new findings are a great start.
Now keep going. Use this list and your new discoveries to help you
ignite your wish to be free. Then step back and welcome the spiritual
firestorm. Watch as it burns away the ties that bind. This is what it
means to let the Light fight for you.
by
Guy Finley
