What is it about Freedom and Liberation?

[Rhea Dopmeijer]

What is it about freedom and liberation?

 

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. (Aristotle)

 

When we speak about freedom a lot of different aspects come to mind to talk about, freedom of speech, freedom of mind and thinking, freedom of choice to name a few.

 

 

The first quote that stuck out to me is the quote by Aristoteles for this sounds right to my soul and heart. All our lives we are encountering our fears, even as a toddler we learn through experiences life isn’t always happy and free. We have to adjust to rules, have to learn what is safe and what isn’t and sometimes these come in a very hard and sometimes abusive ways as well. Is it in those experiences fear starts? I believe not.

 

Of course as a new born we are not aware of the innate Nature of our Being, or are we the most connected in that pure state. Yet as we all know, if we deprive a newborn from shelter and food, the basic fear we all know is immediately triggered, to be safe and have a roof over our head, food on the table and a safe place to stay. Pain inflicts fear as well as does our senses learn that out of balanced sensations are to be feared, something too hot to handle, of the cold to pick up.

 

Growing up isn’t always an easy task and going through our childhood we come across situations we find ourselves caught in the emotion of fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of change, fear of not belonging to a group, family, friends, fear of being left out, fear of not being validated. To name a few. It is not always just the outside appearances that create fear.

 

We can come across situations we are sensing this fear and yet not ever been in such a situation to explain the instant rush of fear from deep within. Even panic as a result to it. Now as a human being we are built with all these different layers and maybe we don’t have any knowledge about past lives or disagree with even the idea, it still doesn’t explain why you are having this fear filled moment with nothing to explain how or why you should feel it this strongly.

 

You might say this is instinct, yet I cannot explain my fear for deep water as a young child diving or what has to be an attempt of diving into our swimming pool, 9 feet deep and freezing by fear. Now the only thing I ever experienced was our shower as far as it goes for my water experience.

 

This asks for exploration and the need to know how it came to be. To me it was about regaining my freedom from fear as the main task in this lifetime. Because in every situation that I was feeling this anxiety or fear, I wanted it to be cleared and healed so it would no longer stay in my way of feeling any sense of freedom.

 

This also applied to health issues, especially those that have a profound impact on your well-being and can as far that it will cripple or disable you and bring in different types of fear into the situation. To me the most important journey was to be free from my fears.

 

To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle. (Carlos Castaneda) Don Juan: the Sorcerer…

 

If you want to learn about freedom and liberation then you have to learn about the counterparts, all the situations you didn’t feel free or you had to fight for your liberation out of a bad situation. We all know all these scenarios, not all of us have to deal with the worse experiences where body, mind and heart are being damaged in such a way love cannot exist even more, just as a little sparkle beneath all the fear that has been piled up over it.

 

It will be the hardest at times to release ourselves from the circumstances that have been part of the violation and limitation to be free to speak your mind, to have the liberty to have freedom of mind, to be free in any way you want to be in a love relationship, free to follow your own heart’s desire without all the social and religious limitations to prevent it.

 

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. (Albert Einstein)

 

So when we make a conscious decision to conger our fears to find some freedom and feelings of liberation how do we go about that and what enables us to gain our own inner freedom again. For where fear exists Love cannot.

 

So we can seek for help, ask for advice, sometimes have to fight for our right, and what is ours to begin with ultimately as our birthright, love and peace, safety and shelter, food and nourishment. Being denied of our basic birthright it will cause a lot of heartache as well next to fear, yet is it not so, heartache is lack of love therefor fear is the cause of it?

 

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me. (Paulo Coelho)

 

We can reach out and if we are lucky, we are heard, we are being loved, and validated, so fear will not be a constant trigger, yet it still is lingering under the surface, ready to be come forth once triggered again. So it might seem we have found some freedom and liberation, or is this just another illusion?

 

Aren’t we all part of the same Universe, humanity, creation were there shouldn’t be any lack or fear, abundance and wealth, for everyone and all. Still this isn’t reality yet, although I believe we are well on the way to become at least more aware of our possibilities when we join together and create a world where differences are no opposites, so we don’t need to fight. In that case fear can and will resolve.

 

Where does that leaves us personally? What is it we can do about our own internal fears and how can we make a shift and change within our own inner emotional, mental and physical world?

 

No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you… The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak; it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. (Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

 

Reading this quote I was wondering how this applied to my own life and of those around me who are struggling to be free of fear and fighting against the emotions, repressing them whenever they come up, dragging and pulling you down if you would enable them to come to the surface for there is this fear that you could drown when it is to overwhelming and because of this it is easier at times to ignore the cause of the fear and just keep adjusting to each situation.

 

Yet never is there a moment of freedom or feel of liberation as long as we haven’t addressed the root of this fear. We fear there is nothing to be found, that love is an illusion, yet each and every one of us wants this connection to be felt deep inside, for there is your fundament to stand upon and the bigger and wider, broader it is, the less fear we will experience and love is the cement between all the blocks that created this fundament.

 

Who you are is what you have been. Who you’ll be is what you do now. (Gautama Buddha)

 

Self-love, self-awareness, self-worth, all qualities that enables you to stand tall and bold, speaking up your own truth and trust in this innate sense of Freedom within. We can receive help and assistance, yet we all have to make the necessary steps by ourselves to achieve any kind of change and shift of perceptions in order to obtain this sense of liberation of fear because Love will be there to heal.

 

The more we become aware and conscious of our possibilities we then will be able to see that the door we thought was closed was actually open all the time, yet when you push instead of pulling, it won’t open. It takes effort to be aware of these answers we receive on the questions we ask ourselves.

 

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. (Rumi)

 

And so it will be

 

High Self @RheaDopmeijer ©

Heartfelt Messages 9-4-2015