True Freedom

<p>We’ve heard stories of people that have taken prison sentences and transformed them into opportunities of spiritual development, or those who have taken extremely challenging life circumstances like tragic deaths and came out the other end, and people who don’t have the financial freedom to travel or not worry about paying the bills, but who feel joyous and free on the inside.</p><p>How is that possible?</p><p>While there are certainly many inalienable human rights that can help to define what freedom is, that’s not the freedom I’m talking about here, because I’m sure you can think of plenty of people that are privileged to have those rights, like people who travel freely, work freely, have freedom of speech and freedom to go to school, and yet they feel suffocated and stifled.</p><p>They might feel like like they will never know their true self, or live their true life.</p><p>They feel anything <i>but </i>free - even though on the <strong>outside </strong>it <strong>seems </strong>they are.</p><p>Some of the first things my clients say when I ask them “what does a life of freedom look like?” is that they want:</p><p>:: a location-independent lifestyle</p><p>:: to be their own boss</p><p>:: or have enough money to do what they want and not stress about finances.</p><p>But what’s interesting is in all my years of working with people to create more freedom in their lives, they are surprised when they finally achieve those things yet they still find themselves...<i>wanting</i>.</p><p>They feel anything <i>but </i>free, even though everything is lining up with what freedom looks like on the outside.</p><p>Here’s what I want you to consider: for the work we’re doing here on our minds, I’m talking about <i>internal </i>freedom. Emotional freedom.</p><p><br /> </p><p>And this Freedom – <strong>the kind of freedom no one can take away from you</strong> – is a feeling.</p><p>When it comes down to it, <strong>feeling </strong>free actually has very little to do with what the world looks like on the <strong>outside</stro