Brought to Tears

As I write this I have tears in my eyes after watching a simple short video, not even 4 minutes long of an old high school acquaintance climb this amazing, stunning even, snow covered mountain with her husband.  Their faces were filled with pure joy as they reached the peak and could see the entire world it seemed from up that far.

As I watched this video I took myself there, to talk in their shoes, to feel the open air on my face, to breathe the crisp air into my lungs and bask in the beauty of mother earth all around me.  I felt free, I felt wonderful, I felt refreshed, rejuvenated and nourished by nature moving through me.

Not even being there in “real” life I was able to mentally take myself to that place in that exact moment and feel nothing but FREEDOM.

So often I feel trapped, that the world around me can close in hard and fast with no where to turn, when really that’s so not the truth but only a deception of life that I have total control over.

Perceptions of Life

It’s so much easier to walk around with an entitlement attitude, that the world around us, that people around us-owe us something.  That it’s not our job to make ourselves happy or find freedom…

It takes energy, will power, determination and a conscious mind to change that perception of entitlement to a mindset of personal responsibility.

For me my soul is yearning right now to feel freedom, space, love and peace in all that surrounds me…even when there is turmoil my knee jerk reaction is to defend, to perceive that someone or something should act a certain way-when really I have no control over anyone but myself and my own thoughts.  I have to take responsibility for my own life in finding the eternal freedom, because it’s already there…it’s really just a process of uncovering the “muck” of life that’s clouded what the soul contains from birth.

“The amount of happiness that you have depends on the
amount of freedom you have in your heart.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Going Within and Without

Freedom to some is living with lots of money, big houses, fancy cars…to me freedom is that place I find every now and again within me when I feel connected to something that’s so much bigger than me-to Source.

That connection is always there, all the time…for me it’s just a matter of fine tuning my life, my soul, my mind to feel that connection more and more.

I can go into my eternal seat of wisdom, into my heart and feel the purse essence of love and joy, total freedom-so I know it’s there.  I find that the more simply I live and clear my life of materialistic things, I go “without” I actually have more of the feeling I crave so much.

I love going within to find more than I ever could on the outside.

We Have Everything We Need to Fulfill Our Hearts Desires

As I close out this post for today, I have to remind myself that even in my darkest hours, in trials and tribulations that I may face that I have EVERYTHING I EVER NEED to BE WHOLE, to live a FULL and PROSPORUS LIFE.  That boiling within me is a strong, vibrant, beautiful woman who can accomplish everything and nothing and I’m still a Divine Child of the Universe without question.

That this journey I’m on is nothing more than a huge university and my job is to learn what I can, while I can in this carnation and enjoy every moment of it.  That FREEDOM isn’t free there is a price to “pay” of taking full responsibility not blaming others outside of me for taking me away from  freedom.

NAMASTE

(The Divine Light in Me, Sees and Honors the Divine Light in You)